Lush Cosmetics

A legacy point-of-sale app took several hours to cycle through all the stores in North America. Of course it was not just pulling POS data but was also pushing out a lot of price and inventory data as well. But to meet one particular objective LUSH needed near real-time data for a small subset of POS data. CompuWork’s first generation solution could poll nearly 200 stores in less than 10 minutes. That accomplishment brought us kudos. But a few months later they came back and asked if we could do better. We considered the matter, decided we could, and we did. The cycling time is now under 30 seconds.

Many clients use our services in this way, somewhat like an IT SWAT team, when they have an urgent challenging objective and require external assistance and expertise for a limited-term special project.