Metataxis

Information Architecture Services

Information architecture is the art and science of organizing information to increase findability and to support the efficient management of information.
It is essential in delivering successful websites, intranets, Office 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams , EDRMS (electronic document and records management systems), content management, publishing, and other information systems.

Features

  • Taxonomy and ontology design and implementation
  • Metadata schema design and implementation
  • Creation of conceptual and collection models
  • Creation of permission models
  • Creation of information architecture policies and governance
  • Stakeholder guidance, training and support on information architecture
  • Taxonomy tool selection and configuration
  • Creation of SharePoint site architecture
  • Creation of SharePoint content types and columns
  • Creation of SharePoint term sets

Benefits

  • Understand the concepts that exist within your organisation
  • Understand how information should be organised
  • Increase findability
  • Increase efficient usage of information
  • Increase effectiveness of information
  • Increase re-use of information
  • Leverage the value of your information
  • Ensure compliance of your information
  • Build systems that meet your requirements
  • Support ongoing management of information

Pricing

£850 to £1,250 a unit a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

8 1 1 2 1 8 6 1 4 9 8 5 1 5 9

Contact

Metataxis Alexander Church
Telephone: 07930489177
Email: alexander.church@metataxis.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
Metataxis has many years’ experience in designing information architectures, which typically consist of:
• Information inventories: Finding out what information your organisation holds.
• Information modelling: Describing the appropriate levels of information granularity and inter-relationships.
• Metadata and taxonomy: Defining the policies, processes, metadata and controlled vocabularies required to tag information to support findability.
• Information flows: Working out the flow of information items within your organisation.
• Findability: Creating a strategy for information retrieval and defining the search and browse techniques and tools required to support user requirements.
• Usability: Designing the visual manifestations of your content, including all the above.

Designing an Information Architecture for a cloud system such as Office 365, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams is crucial to undertake at an early stage because there are many design and configuration decisions that need to be taken before the implementation starts.
Planning service works with specific services
No

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
As well as planning and designing, Metataxis can implement the information architecture within the desired system as required.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
No

Security testing

Security services
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
No

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
1 business day
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Appropriate support is provided throughout the engagement as required based on the nature of services offered.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Staff wellbeing has always been core to the way that Metataxis works and something we take seriously. Staff are given the autonomy to work flexibly and manage their own hours to allow them to have a work/life balance that suits them. No member of staff is ever pressured to take on more work than they can manage and it is within their gift to decide which projects they accept or indeed decline depending on their circumstances. In addition, we also have a formal flexible working policy that allow staff to request a more structured flexible working pattern in cases of parental and care responsibilities. Support for our colleagues is built into our work; no member of staff is ‘left alone’, with a director being assigned to every project to provide oversight and support. As a micro-company that works remotely, we have always understood the need and benefit that comes from opportunities to talk. This came more sharply into focus during the pandemic when opportunities for face-to-face meetings were radically diminished. To help alleviate this we have weekly scheduled ‘touch base’ meetings with all staff in addition to more ad hoc chats via Teams. There is no work agenda for these weekly meetings, it is simply a time to allow us to catch up and check in with each other.

Pricing

Price
£850 to £1,250 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at alexander.church@metataxis.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.