Project Short Description:

EAS (Enterprise Estonia) supports Brightspark LLC’s product development in two stages. In the first stage, support is provided within the framework of the project “Creation of the Lexi.Market commercial data exchange platform,” and then within the framework of “Development of additional functionality for the Lexi.Market commercial data exchange platform.”

Objective:

The goal of Project 1 is to create the Lexi.Market commercial data exchange platform, which fits into the company’s strategic commercial information system. The company’s objectives related to Lexi.Market are divided into the following sub-stages:

• Develop the Lexi.Market data exchange platform and take a leading position in the field of product information exchange between retailers and suppliers.
• Expand the Lexi.Market environment for international use in cooperation with Estonian retailers and suppliers who buy or sell products internationally.
• Supplement the Lexi.Market product with additional functionalities and evolve into an internationally known information system for organizing product management in retail companies.

The goal of Project 2 is to develop additional modules supporting the work processes of the retail purchasing department for the Lexi.Market platform:

• The Purchasing Manager’s Desk, which aims to create a user interface for a retail chain’s purchasing manager to accept, compare, enrich with retailer-specific product data, and forward to background systems incoming product proposals. Among other things, it is also possible to accept form-based product proposals that have not been submitted via the Lexi.Market platform.
• The Retailer’s PIM (product information management), whose purpose is to provide a product information database solution for entering, managing, storing, and interfacing product information with other background systems. The PIM solution is necessary for companies because classic economic software does not allow for the storage of all necessary product-specific meta-fields. The PIM solution, in contrast, allows designing product cards based on product group characteristics, which enables all product information to be managed in one data collection. The central data collection can then be interfaced with various other usable information systems – warehouse, cashier systems, online store, and accounting system.

Period:

• The start date of Project 1’s eligibility period is October 21, 2019, and the end date is March 31, 2021.
• The start date of Project 2’s eligibility period is April 5, 2021, and the end date is June 30, 2022.

Basis for granting support:

The support given to the beneficiary is the assistance given to research and development projects under the European Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the EU Treaty, whereby certain types of aid are declared compatible with the internal market (OJ L 187, 26.06.2014, p. 1-78), in the sense of Article 25.

Support amount:

• The total cost of Project 1 is 434,000 euros, of which the beneficiary’s own financing is at least 238,700 euros and the support is a maximum of 195,300 euros.
• The total cost of Project 2 is 331,636 euros, of which the beneficiary’s own financing is at least 182,399 euros and 80 cents and the support is a maximum of 149,236 euros and 20 cents.