Some of Our Clients

From dot com startups to global companies with complex systems, Lightship builds the backend that runs e-business.

We bring depth of experience and solid credentials to companies that operate in a variety of markets. We understand the issues that are important to them and we measure the success of our IT solutions by the number of companies that return to Lightship again and again.

Lightship's blue chip client roster includes companies in the financial and insurance services market, manufacturing industries and Internet startups. Complete client satisfaction, measured by the speed, innovation and profitability of our clients' business is the goal of every Lightship project team.

Lightship conducted a project audit of this insurance company's multi-million dollar policy administration system. USAA is a worldwide insurance and diversified financial services association.

Lightship created a Web-based, software package that allows agents to maintain their clients' portfolio of accounts in real-time. Designed application architecture, technical architecture and a prototype Web application.

Lightship was contracted to improve this brokerage firm's IT development methodologies for use in developing new, in-house applications.

A provider of foreign currency broking services, EBS engaged Lightship to craft agile components needed to rapidly develop and deploy new products in anticipation of entering new Foreign Exchange markets.

ACORD
The Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad. Lightship was selected to assist in developing software to publish object-oriented standards to the Property and Casualty industry sector.

During a three-year project, Lightship completed a major manufacturing product for IBM. Our roles included chief architect, middleware lead, server lead, client lead, object modeler and developers. The commercial Manufacturing Execution System contained 2.5 million lines of source code. It was multi-platform (NT and AIX), multi-database (Oracle & DB2), and multi-language. A distributed messaging system, to get objects from back-end server to client GUIs, was constructed.

Working for this international pump manufacturer, Lighship provided an increasing amount of design and implementation for a software tool capable of selecting, configuring and electronically ordering pumps based upon exact customer requirements. During this multi-year engagement, we designed complex order configuration software. We have been instrumental in the continuing migration of Flowserve's mission-critical sales proposal generation system from DOS to 32-bit Windows.

The world's largest supplier of semiconductor assembly equipment, K&S, contracted Lightship to expand its engineering facilities internationally.

Lightship designed a digital marketplace for this e-commerce Website. We built a custom search engine, shopping cart system and e-commerce functionality. Lightship served as the CIO and IT department for this vortal.

Japan Ministry of Housing
Lightship developed a multimedia catalog application for the Japanese Housing Information Center.

Air Canada
Lightship performed risk assessment analysis.

A leader in providing strategic advertising intelligence and marketing information, CMR chose Lightship to design and integrate an acquisition system for remote video recordings, verify the integrity of the collected data and, design a Web interface for remote maintenance of CMR's embedded system.

CyberFone
Lightship created a prototype for this cutting-edge Internet appliance. Completed hardware/software integration.

Leading innovators of the optical technologies industry, Questar engaged Lightship to develop software that supported high precision motion control and real-time remote control for Astronomical and Terrestrial viewing, Long-Range Surveillance and Security Systems and, Microscopic Imaging, Recording, and Measuring.