Our approach

The key to our approach is to understand your business and your needs. Only by doing this can we identify the critical areas where you will obtain the maximum return on your investment in informatics. Understanding your scientists work flows and requirements is critical to determining the key issues and identifying the best solution. We do not try to fit any particular solution to your needs.

Many problems can be solved by off-the-shelf tools, and where this is the case we help you to select these tools from the available vendors, and can manage the commissioning process. We can use our experience to facilitate the interaction between you and the software vendors, engage the right parties, ask the right questions, and work towards getting you the best solution.

Where off-the-shelf tools cannot meet all your needs, for instance, some "glue" is needed to tie systems together, or maybe part of your system needs custom development, we can manage this process through our implementation team, who have expertise in a wide range of scientific areas and programming languages.

Commissioning software systems is a complex process, with delayed or terminated projects, failure to meet expectations and exceeded budgets common place. Our approach addresses these risks head on, maximizing the chances of your project succeeding. This involves managing requirements, specifications, schedules, acceptance criteria and vendors, an area where small life science organisations often have limited experience. A beneficial side-effect is that it leaves you, the scientist, to get on with the job you are best at! When combined with the improved success rate you will see from effective management of the process, we think you will find this process very cost effective.

Designed by: Duncan Peacock. Version 1.1: June 2005