how we work
Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems.
Our aim is to help you find the best solutions to your informatics problems; our approach combines innovative science with acknowledged best practice and pragmatic engineering.
Where possible we prefer to use open source technologies, and agile development methodologies, giving us unrivalled freedom and scope, and we’re fully conversant in the open standards required to implement any forward-thinking informatics strategy.
Our working practices are backed by the methodologies that we have tried and tested over decades of experience. But we are not slaves to pre-determined processes and procedures; instead we pay heed to the Agile Manifesto, which values
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
"That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more" - http://agilemanifesto.org/.