LEEDS, UK 8th January 2004 - Luminary Solutions, a new technology company launched in September 2003, has doubled in size to 12 people and moved to state-of-the-art offices at the New Technology Institute, West Yorkshire.

Luminary has won a significant contract for a government department to assist in the modernisation of their legacy systems. In addition, Luminary's growing pipeline of work means that they have brought forward their expansion plans and they aim to employ 20 people by the middle of 2004.

Luminary has been assisted by the services of Leeds Metropolitan University Business Incubator, a service dedicated to nurturing new businesses during the early stages of their development. This included an initial office suite and access to specialist mentoring and legal services. It was through the incubator that Luminary contacted NTI West Yorkshire when it needed to expand.

NTI West Yorkshire is a partnership of universities and colleges, aimed at providing high quality support and development programmes at affordable prices to businesses in the region.

Neil Warnock, founder director of Luminary comments: "It was crucial that everything came together as quickly and successfully as possible. We were fortunate that the New Technology Institute (NTI) West Yorkshire was able to provide first class accommodation and infrastructure at a very competitive rate. NTI definitely helped to reduce the risk normally associated with moving premises."

Warnock added "The concepts behind the LMU Business Incubator and NTI West Yorkshire are excellent. The support they offered us as a new business has been magnificent."

"For us, the arrangement is mutually beneficial," says Linda Broughton, Head of NTI West Yorkshire. "Luminary has the space it needs and we're expanding our range of contacts for potential future partnerships."

Luminary is a systems integration company that combines existing corporate systems to produce new, integrated applications delivered to multiple display technologies - such as browsers, PDAs and mobile phones.

The template architecture developed by Luminary ties together different data sources and application sources and presents it to new back office and mobile interfaces. The architecture provides secure and efficient access to underlying databases and applications, whilst existing operational systems remain unchanged.

In addition, the company works with Computer Associates (CA), one of the largest software companies in the world, to provide services to the worldwide installed base of Ingres RDBMS and OpenROAD customers.

About Luminary Solutions

Luminary is a supplier of leading expertise in the area of Systems Integration and mobile enablement. Luminary has two key areas of service - the integration of disparate data sources presented by an integration layer to new generation devices and the provision of specialist services to the Ingres marketplace in conjunction with Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies.

Website: www.luminary.co.uk

About the New Technology Institute, West Yorkshire

NTI West Yorkshire is a partnership of universities and colleges, aimed at providing high quality support and development programmes at affordable prices to businesses in the region. More information about the organisation is available from Linda Broughton, Head of NTI West Yorkshire, on (0113) 383 9633, email info@ntileeds.co.uk. Website http://www.nti-wy.co.uk

About the Leeds Metropolitan University Business Incubator

The Leeds Metropolitan University Business Incubator is a service dedicated to nurturing new businesses during the early stages of their development. The Incubator provides office space, access to mentors and legal, financial, marketing and business planning expertise. More information about the Business Incubator is available from Rashree Soni, Incubator Manager on (0113) 281 6770, email r.soni@leedsmet.ac.uk