Informed Solutions actively participate in professional associations, conferences, seminars and special interest groups that work for the greater good of the industry.

We also regularly organise and host a number of Key Industry Issues Seminars each year which focus on a range of leading edge IT and Spatial technology topics that have a particular value to our clients.

Phil Francis Appointed as AGI Representative on the National Underground Assets Group (NUAG) Steering Group Committee.

NUAG was established in 2005 to encourage relevant stakeholders, including utilities, highways organisations, the UK government and other representative bodies, to exchange information on underground assets to facilitate better street works cooperation. The group’s aims are to protect the health and safety of those working or living near to underground assets, ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of works on underground assets and support the successful delivery of relevant Traffic Management Act and other legislative targets.

To achieve these aims, the group brings together stakeholders to ensure that the most effective and efficient means of recording, storing, sharing and displaying information on underground assets and appropriate associated above ground assets are achieved. The Steering Group Committee is responsible for the management and strategic direction of NUAG, ensuring that its aims are met.

Informed Solutions has had a strong presence in the utilities and telecommunications industries for a number of years, and since joining the company Phil Francis has played a prominent role in a variety of projects within these sectors. These have typically involved the development of systems which use open standards to join up industry stakeholders, enabling efficient network management through the sharing of asset information for regulatory and other purposes.

Phil’s commitment to the NUAG Steering Group Committee demonstrates Informed Solutions’ ongoing dedication to the activities of the AGI and to the GI sector in general. Phil commented: “being part of NUAG is an exciting challenge; in its work to date the group has successfully demonstrated a clear willingness from both government and industry to improve the way asset data is shared among stakeholders. It is now the intention of the group to plan a roadmap for taking forward the incremental development of a data exchange hub and achieve the necessary buy in and momentum to turn the vision in to a reality”.



Informed Solutions pass annual e-GIF accreditation audit with an exceptional standard of performance.

Informed Solutions is extremely pleased to announce that it has successfully passed its annual e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) accreditation audit, with the accolade that this was achieved with an "exceptional standard of performance".

This achievement underlines the Company’s commitment to service excellence and risk managing innovation within a pragmatic business solutions landscape. The highly favourable feedback obtained from the e-GIF Accreditation Authority (operated by the National Computing Centre (NCC) on behalf of the Cabinet Office) reflects our ability to deliver high-quality public sector services which pay close regard to recommended public sector interoperability policies and standards.

The recent e-GIF audit, undertaken by Alan Bellinger, Assessor for the e-GIF Accreditation Authority, reported that Informed Solutions offers clients an “environment in which providing e-GIF compliant solutions is 'business as normal'”. Alan also went on to remark that Informed Solutions "are ideally placed to ensure that clients' interoperability goals are achieved". Andy Hopkirk (NCC’s Director e-GIF Programme) agreed that "it is evident that you have created a very strong, quality-based operation that is also able to maintain its agility and deliver e-GIF compliance for its clients".

This highly welcomed feedback highlights Informed Solutions' commitment to offering efficient and effective e-GIF compliant enterprise systems solutions. That is, independent consulting and accredited systems integration services that: comply with government standards and respect recommended working practices; protect individual client's investment, as well as create economies in broader related public sector IT spend; minimise the on-going costs of ownership by adherence to published, non-propriety, open systems standards; and, thereby, maximise and sustain the realisation of the business benefits the solution underpins

Informed Solutions tops quality benchmark and is awarded OGCbuying.solutions Catalist framework agreement in all Geographic Information Services and Solutions (GISS) categories.

Informed Solutions is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded an OGCbuying.solutions Catalist framework agreement for Geographic Information Services and Solutions (GISS). Furthermore, we are one of only three companies to be successfully awarded contracts in all three GISS categories - end to end solutions, map making and data capture.

As one of the largest suppliers of GI services under the previous GI framework, we acknowledge that our re-appointment owes much to the successful working relationships we built with members of OGCbuying.solutions' buying community over the previous four years. We are appreciative of the trust our Clients have placed in us by appointing Informed Solutions to deliver, on their behalf, some of the most significant and high profile GIS projects to be awarded in the UK , and our Clients' testimonials attest to the success of these projects and longevity of the partnerships we have forged with them.

As one of the UK's leading providers of independent GIS consultancy services, we are clearly delighted with this outcome, particularly as it reinforces our long established reputation for providing quality systems and professional services, as well as consistently achieving very high levels of Client satisfaction.

Under this new framework agreement, we look forward to continuing to work with our existing Clients, as well as forging and developing new relationships across the public sector. We certainly won't be resting on our laurels, and will continue to commit to delivering significant and measurable benefits to a Client's business - adding value through leveraging geographic and location based intelligence - in key business areas, such as policy formulation, performance management, logistics and evidence based decision making.

 

 

If you think we may be able to support or assist your organisation, and for more information, please contact Pauline Wrench at Informed Solutions on:

Tel: +44 161 942 2000

Fax: +44 161 942 2015

Email: pauline.wrench@informed.com

Please contact us for more details on our future programme using the contact details listed below.