Background & Approach

Lunatech Research was founded in 1993 as an IT consulting, product research and development team. As a team of adept self-managing programmers, working with a very experienced commercial team, Lunatech has a successful track record of implementing medium-sized to large systems. Our skills are best applied in designing and building back office systems whereby a web interface is just one of many external user- interfaces.

We excel at going into an organisation, analysing their requirements, and then - together with the customer - designing and building a system to meet their needs.

We work to an interactive development process. We build applications in a number of short iterations. This provides great visibility to the customer and it greatly improves the end result because the product and expectations can be adjusted along the way. With a proud record of providing professional IT services, joint ventures and investments in other peoples ideas, you’ll find us highly technical, very creative, and flexible.

Our offering

• Professionalism, responsibility, creativity & pragmatism
• Management & optimisation of long-term projects
• Delivery on agreed commitments
• Thinking with our customer as an active team member
• Proven record at building web based solutions

Technical skills

• Platforms and frameworks: Apache (Tomcat, HTTPD), JBoss, Linux, Solaris, Windows, .NET and J2EE
• Protocols and Formats: XML, XML-Schema, DTDs, Web Services (SOAP/XMLRPC)
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL (including mapping extensions), MySQL
• Languages: Java, Perl, PHP
• Open GIS: MapServer, PostGIS, OGR/GDAL, GML

What we are into

• Ajax and rich web application interfaces
• Open-source GIS and web mapping
• XML document repositories and publishing
• Agile software development
• Self-service project management
• More deliverables, fewer meetings

See the methodologies page for more about how we work.