LEEDS, UK 1st March 2005 - Luminary Solutions won the People's Choice prize at Connect Yorkshire's Venturefest Business Plan Competition. Luminary's service ethos based on no-nonsense professionalism grabbed the attention of the audience.

The Business Plan Competition, which is run by Connect Yorkshire, was attended by entrepreneurs, finance providers and individuals from the professional services community. Having applied to Connect Yorkshire to present at the competition, Neil Warnock of Luminary, says he was sceptical when he received the programme of events leading up to the competition. "I have admit there was a lot more involved than I had initially thought, and I wasn't sure it was all necessary," he says. "However, having said that, we got tremendous value from the programme and it's really helped us focus as a business."

Read the full Connect Yorkshire article.

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 Ingres and OpenROAD customers in conjunction with Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies.

Website: www.luminary.co.uk