Clients

Addison Lee -Enterprise solutions development, real-time scheduling, fleet optimization and parallel running

Addison Lee is the largest minicab company in the UK, operating a fleet of over 2,500 vehicles in London.  Over 16,000 companies hold corporate accounts with Addison Lee including 50% of the FTSE 100 companies and 10 million passengers travel with Addison Lee every year.  Famed for its innovative use of technology, Addison Lee is a London success story, winning numerous awards for business performance and efficiency.

Haulmont Technology is proud to be Addison Lee’s Technology for development and support work for the company’s proprietary ERP platform Shamrock.  Shamrock is a highly available and scalable system written in Java that underpins Addison Lee’s entire operation, including:

• Call center automation 
• Customer web portal
• Driver management
• Fleet optimization and automatic job allocation
• Integration with legacy systems via parallel running
• Car and bike controllers automation
• iPhone App, Mobile and web bookings integration
• SMS and driver PDA integration

Awards and Recognition

Thanks to a large part to its adoption of new technologies, Addison Lee has revolutionized the minicab industry in London and has seen massive growth in its fleet, turnover and profits in the last five years. The company currently boasts a turnover of £180million and has been listed on the Sunday Times Profit Track 50 fastest growing companies in the UK.

In November 2009 Addison Lee’s Auto Allocator solution was named ‘Best Innovation’ at the National Business Awards, the UK’s ‘Business Oscars’. The company also won a regional prize in the 2008 National Business Awards in the Best Use of Technology category.

As well as awards for innovation and technology, the efficiencies delivered to Addison Lee by real time scheduling solutions have played a central role in reducing the emissions of the fleet. As a result of its success in reducing its emissions and environmental impact, Addison Lee has won a slew of Green awards including:

• ‘Best Ground Transportation Company’ Business Travel Awards 2010
• London Green500 ‘Leader’ award for carbon emissions reduction
• The TfL Enterprise award for Innovation in Sustainable Transport and Travel
•  ‘Best Large Fleet’ Energy Saving Trust Fleet Heroes awards 
• BP’s ‘Fuel Efficient Car and Van Fleet 2009’