Case Studies

Hewlett Packard needed an information management solution that would make strategic and tactical planning easier and more efficient for their management team.

The challenge was that the information they needed was spread across multiple databases - such as HP 3000 and Red Brick Data Warehouses.

We helped design and implement a complete information management system that retrieved information from the wide variety of existing legacy databases, then translated and delivered it in a single, consistent format for the information management and strategic planning teams to use.
 

Reuters may be best known as a global news agency.

But significant proportion of their revenue comes from financial services - where they support the equities, money, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities and energy markets around the world.

Those markets rely on Reuters' technology systems to search, store and integrate information from multiple sources.

When we became involved in producing a system to secure stock feeds to its customers, we knew it had to be done flawlessly.

The final system included a stock feed to multiple outlets, a client interface that worked with multiple Windows applications with the ever present need for data security.
 

Galileo International, one of the principal travel information and airline ticketing providers worldwide, needed to upgrade their systems to the next-generation TravelManager.

We helped design design a two-phased approach that kept their business running without interruption.

During the first phase, both the old and new systems ran in tandem, making it possible for travel agents to install and learn how to use the new system.

Once installations and training were complete, Phase 2 began. Phase 2, built upon the existing technology to enable higher performance and better data management.
 

The McLaren Formula One Racing Team needed an interface for their engine data telemetry. Being involved in the highly competitive Formula One environment, they needed a robust solution fast!

We started working with them within two days of our initial meeting.

We feel proud to have been involved with such a prestigious team and having delivered a system that we like to feel is still active in one guise or another to this day.

We’re always rooting for them in the races.
 

ICL / Fujitsu Retail Systems supplied large retailers with in-store data management and operations systems to help stores track inventory and ensure run systems systems within the store.

We helped by providing the event manager part of the system which allowed the system to provide real time monitoring of the state of the system and slert staff to any conditions that needed their attention.

We were proud to have been part of a team that addresses two key areas for retailers - how to optimize inventory and how to run the business more efficiently. 
 

Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the UK's regulatory body for commercial television and radio broadcasting, neede a health monitoring system that could be installed in each of their transmitters.

We helped them by designing and implementing a fully-automated system to monitor the health of each transmitter.

The system was fully automated, and was equipped to "gracefully" close down malfunctioning sections of the array in order to secure the rest and as such, maintain maximum possible service while keeping the transmitter safe.

At the same time, it was also designed to alert the engineering team about the nature and severity of the problem, so they could be fully equipped to repair the transmitter on arrival.
 

Smith Industries Aerospace - Stewart Hughes Ltd. now a division of General Electric Company, is a leading provider of helicopter health monitoring systems.

In order to keep helicopters running perfectly and safely, maintenance schedules call for frequent parts replacements and full strip down - at a significant cost.

Maintenance regimes often required disposal of parts that were probably in perfect working order.

To avoid this expense, we were involved in the design of a monitoring system that provided the ground crew with performance information for critical parts of the helicopter's rotor and gearbox systems.
 

Pera is a consulting company dedicated to helping companies achieve world-beating product and business innovations.

When one of their oil exploration clients needed an innovative technology to control their pipe jointing system and archive all joints formed, we became involved.

We designed a system that not only controlled the accurate torquing up of each joint but also provided a human interface similar to that of a modern PDA thesedays, that provided graphical views of each joint’s torque profile in various formats including on-screen display, print out and stored files.
 

Trasys Systems S.A. needed a power station graphical control centre interface.

We were involved in the design and implementation of a control system that enabled operators to view the entire system while also allowing them to zero in on and control individual areas of the station via a dashboard view.

The system featured visual and audible alarm triggers to alert operators should areas of the system need their attention. 
 

Merlin Velocity Profiling provided seismic velocity profiling data processing for the oil exploration industry.

They employed geophysicists to analyse the velocity profiles of rock strata in order to help identify oil pockets.

Traditionally, the analysts would use a central batch processing system to process their data sometimes involving hours, if not days, to get the results they were looking for.

Interpreting the data could be a lengthy, repetitive process to fully analyse the data from a given borehole.

We created an interactive, graphical, mathematical and geophysical modelling system that enabled the geophysicists to query and interpret data on the spot.

In essence, the modelling tool significantly decreased the time it took for geophysicists to correlate rock strata and surface seismic.

The result was increased speed of analysis - so saving time and money.