At Astun, we love a challenge. Yet, there’s one we refuse to give our employees: the challenge of how to pay their bills. We believe that our highly talented and committed team deserves to be fairly rewarded for their hard work and we’re happy to do everything we can to ensure this happens, from benchmarking…
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At Astun, we take our responsibility to the environment seriously. This #NetZeroWeek, we’re going one step further by signing up for the SME Climate Change Commitment. This encourages SMEs to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by half before 2030 and eradicate them by 2050. Why it’s important for every SME to go green Emissions from…
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There are many well-kept secrets in the world. Until now, we’d include Astun on the list. However, with a new suite of Data Discoverability tools in the final stages of development, we thought it was time to welcome some marketing experts to our team. Firstly, who better to help us put Astun centre stage than…
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It’s great when the stars align, and a lot of people are talking about, and interested in, the things you like. This happened to Astun recently, when the Open Data Institute (ODI) announced a grant, funded by Innovate UK, for developing open source tools for data institutions. Data Institutions are roughly defined as organisations with…
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A Walsall Council case study Walsall Council are utilising a cloud hosted enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) to reduce the running costs of hosting and serving geospatial data to Council Officers and members of the public We have been working with the GIS team in Walsall Council for over 6 years and they have recently…
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We’ve recently completed a project on Data Discoverability for the Scottish Government, which meshes very nicely with a best practice guide on search engine optimisation that the Geospatial Commission have just published. There are three facets to the work we’ve done: Search Engine Optimisation The basic idea is that data needs to be discoverable via…
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