Expert Insights

We wish everyone health over the coming weeks as we all deal together with Covid-19. As a company we continue to work and deliver our projects with skill and focus, while following more flexible working arrangements and with extensive use of work-from-home.  Fortunately most of our staff are used to occasional or regular remote working, … Continued

As part of our continuing exciting growth, we have yet more positions available – each of them offering a great opportunity to be involving in delivering important work and in developing technical and project delivery skills. More about current roles at our careers page.

Compass Informatics has been shortlisted for Data Project of the Year in the Water Industry Awards for its bioresources operations and compliance platform, Compass BIO.  The awards are back for the 13th year running – celebrating and rewarding outstanding achievement and innovation in the UK water industry, with the announcement of winners at a blacktie … Continued

We are pleased to announce that Compass Informatics has become part of the Tracsis group of companies as of January 16th 2019.   This positive news creates a substantial opportunity for growth of Compass over the coming years and creates great opportunities for the team.  We hope that by developing the company capabilities and skills that … Continued

Compass Informatics has donated to the University College Dublin (UCD) Champions Fund to provide a one year scholarship and bursary and has done so to remember Dr. Trutz Haase, a friend of our team and company.  Trutz, with his friend and colleague Dr. Jonathan Pratschke, designed and developed the HP Deprivation Index, which Compass then presented … Continued

We are currently (December 2018) advertising five roles in our teams: Systems Developer – .Net Senior Developer (with or without Esri GIS APIs / ArcGIS Server) – Blackrock, Dublin Technical Business Analyst & Project Manager – Blackrock, Dublin GIS Data Analyst (Esri ArcGIS, Python, SQL Server with strong domain knowledge) – Blackrock, Dublin Systems Developer – .Net … Continued

On Friday Sepetmber 7th, the National Biodiversity Data Centre and Compass Informatics were winners of the DatSci award for ‘Best use of data to achieve social impact’. Here we provide some background on the activities at the National Biodiversity Data Centre and some of the elements that the award recognises. The Centre has gone from … Continued

Compass Informatics works with selected UK water companies to deliver the Compass BIO biosolids operation, compliance and management platform.  workflow, compliance, sensor integration, GIS.   We will exhibit at the British Water conference “Data & Analytics: Unlocking value for the Water Industry“, and demonstrate our capabilities in analytics, statistical analysis, GIS, data strategy. **** The millions … Continued

Compass Informatics has provided sponsorship support to Cumann Rámhaíochta Choláiste na Coiribe (CRCC), Galway’s Irish language and ever-growing rowing club. This very welcome sponsorship enabled the club to buy a brand new four person racing boat, giving a 25% increase in training capacity and setting them up for growth and national titles. Announcing the support, … Continued

Geoscience is a broad term which encompasses a broad array of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and applications. The geoscience sector is an important one for the Irish economy, with Indecon recently valuing the sector as having an overall economic impact of more than €3 billion and employing 24,700 people in 2016.  Supporting … Continued

As a team, we would like to recognise the death of Trutz Haase and the great loss to the Haase family, to his friends, and to his colleagues in his work.  Quite a number of us have had the pleasure of Trutz’s expertise but also his great enthusiasm and his driving commitment to social justice. … Continued

Compass Informatics has been certified under the Cyber Essentials process. The Cyber Essentials Certificate certifies that the organisation was assessed as meeting the Cyber Essentials implementation profile published in February 2017 and thus that, at the time of testing, the organisation’s ICT defences were assessed as satisfactory against commodity based cyber attack. Cyber Essentials supplements our ISO9001 and 27001-based processes, … Continued

Ireland’s planning and conservation sectors receive a welcome tech boost from the National Biodiversity Data Centre and Compass Informatics March 21, 2018 Ireland’s planners, environmental consultants, local authorities, biological recorders, researchers, NGOs, private and public bodies, will be pleased to learn of the release of a major upgrade to the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s freely … Continued

Citi Logik Limited and Compass Informatics Limited join forces to develop advanced Location Analytics capability across the Island of Ireland. More about Compass Citi Logik services here… While visiting Dublin as part of the UK Department for International Trade mission today, Citi Logik, the UK big data Location Insights company, which provides advanced mobile network … Continued

The latest national “deprivation index”, commissioned by the independent agency Pobal and drawing on 2016’s census data, lays bare the entrenched inequality in Irish society, with disadvantage and advantage remaining stubbornly present in particular geographical areas (Irish Times news report). Working with Pobal, researchers Trutz Haase and Jonathan Pratschke, who compiled the study, note affluence is highest in … Continued