Past Projects - past successes...

Luminary has an outstanding heritage and track record. The team are both individually and collectively well known in the IT Services marketplace and have contributed to numerous complex system integration projects, delivered to time and to budget. Over two hundred in fact, from a one week individual assignment to a ten developer managed build project. These have been cross sector, encompassing Retail, Logistics, Utilities and Finance.

While there are many examples, some of the more notable ones are detailed below:

Office of the Revenue Comissioners - Management Information Framework

The Office of the Revenue Commissioners is responsible for the collection of taxation revenue in Ireland. The constantly changing data, data sources and targets within the revenue made it impossible to see one true, up to date picture in terms of management information that could be reported to the Irish Government. The imminent de-centralisation of the department added to the complexity of gathering the required management information.

Luminary delivered the Management Information Framework (MIF), an implementation of Luminary's Corporate Performance Management Solution, as a phased system integration project, combining the existing data sources and applications. It is 'meta data' driven and allows browser based access to management information through a simple and easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI). more

Indesit Company (UK) - Enhance existing service engineer support systems

Indesit has a vast post-sales support organisation that ensures prompt and efficient customer service for kitchen appliances. Service engineers are supported by state-of-the-art wireless communication applications that ensure efficient allocation and processing of customer service calls.

When Indesit needed a new service engineer support system for their business in Italy, Indesit decided to adapt and re-use their existing UK systems. This would avoid the costs of a new development by exploiting systems that had proven to be flexible, robust and scalable. However, the Italian business had a wide range of different requirements to the UK.

Luminary provided a managed team that undertook a range of enhancements to the existing service engineer support systems. These enhancements delivered new functionality and integrated closely with the existing Italian SAP systems. more

DS - Strategic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

DS Limited, member of the Dokimas group, is a leading supplier of technology to libraries, archives and museums in the UK. Although a prior project to upgrade the legacy ingres ABF applications to OpenROAD had been well received by customers, the Development Director was looking for a new strategic architecture that would form the basis of future development and enhancements. This architecture would need to streamline costs, remove duplicate code streams and simplify software delivery.

Luminary proposed and built a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that could be updated incrementally, allowed for code reuse and the integration of multiple technologies and user interfaces, and also exploited third party services. Luminary went on to deliver a Proof of Concept system, demonstrating a common set of Services being used by a web application, a PDA-based application, and standard Windows clients.

US Defense Agency - Migrated legacy applications into the 21st Century

User departments were pushing IT to move away from traditional green screen systems to new browser based technology fit for the 21st Century, but they had 35 applications, representing 10 years of departmental development time, to be upgraded while preserving the business logic they embodied. The goal was to refresh the look of the systems in the eyes of the users, make them easier to use, and allow the applications to be delivered through a browser.

Working with two US technology companies, Luminary formed part of a virtual team based in four countries. Luminary's team of seven technical specialists was deployed as a managed unit within the project and spent over seven months working to successfully migrate these applications to a 3-tier, browser-based architecture. more

UK Retailer - Ł16m to the bottom line

A large UK retailer was looking to gain a competitive advantage over other retailers by giving its sales managers closer control over forecast sales and distribution of stock and so maximise stock on shelves and minimise waste.

The Luminary team developed a centralised sales control and ordering system with an n-tiered architecture. Purchase orders and store orders are produced by the system using up to the minute information from stores regarding sales, waste, markdowns and other information. This information is made available at chain, depot and store level in a variety of different ways. It also includes alerting when actual sales or waste figures are out of tolerance with automatically produced plans and forecasts.

The system was initially developed on the customer's site over a period of six months on a fixed price basis. Over the next 3 years, the system was enhanced in two large phases by a project team that averaged around ten people, to eventually include over 250,000 lines of code across 500 components/programs, over 200 database tables with a database over 6 GB in size.

The system delievered a finanical return of over Ł16 million per year through reduced waste and increased sales.

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