LEEDS, UK 23rd August 2004 - Luminary Solutions, the leading supplier of mobile and system integration solutions, has completed a number of projects for the Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revenue).

Revenue collects and administers almost all government imposed taxes and duties in the Republic of Ireland. Net tax and duty receipts totalled 26.7 billion euro in 2003. In addition, Revenue enforces import and export controls and is responsible for the national administration of various European Union schemes such as the exchange of VAT information between member states. It also carries out collection work for a number of other Irish government departments.

Revenue uses an integrated set of applications for the administration of all taxes. These provide a 'whole customer view' that offers up-to-the-minute information on the status of each taxpayer to the 130 tax offices around the country, as well an internet-based file and pay facilities for taxpayer self service. The technical environment is a combination of Java based solutions combined with older n-tier client server technology.

Working in conjunction with Revenue's ICT and eBusiness Division, Luminary initially provided a solution which enabled the deployment of existing "fat" client applications (built using CA's OpenROAD technology) over Revenue's intranet. This 'eClient' solution extended the life of these applications and made them more accessible to a wider audience. Luminary also developed a number of prototypes which demonstrated how OpenROAD can communicate with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories for central security access, embedded HTML screens and use SOAP to interact with existing web services. These proof of concept prototypes were delivered with high quality documentation and knowledge transfer to Revenue technical staff and have since been incorporated into Revenue's mainstream development projects.

Following the success of these projects, Luminary has been engaged via Accenture (one of Revenue's technology partners) to deliver a Management Information Framework to provide Revenue senior management with the ability to measure performance against targets. This system gathers data from a variety of existing sources. Luminary's familiarity with Ingres database technology, widely used in Revenue, together with the use of OpenROAD eClient and application server technology allowed rapid development of the solution. Having successfully delivered the first release of the project, work is now ongoing with Revenue to determine the scope and requirements for the next version.

John Barron, Technical Manager for eGovernment and Enterprise Management for Revenue, commented: "We have been very happy with both the quality of the people and the quality of the work we have received from Luminary. Their ability to work with a range of J2EE and Windows technologies, and their experience with OpenROAD eClient and application server technology in particular, has helped us achieve re-use of existing code and technical expertise allowing us to quickly deliver cost effective solutions for our user base."

Mike Prollins of Luminary welcomed Revenue's remarks. He said: "We are pleased to have met the requirements of such a major customer who are well known for their technical literacy and exacting demands from technology. We are a developing company, and we will build on this success to provide further world class solutions for both national and regional Government customers".

About Luminary Solutions

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 using both J2EE and .NET architectures. 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 and OpenROAD customers in conjunction with Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies.

Website: www.luminary.co.uk