about our name - Vision, mission, values

"Meridian Informatics", these two words describe our vision, skills, services and purpose.

Some organisations spend much time and money on acquiring and promoting a corporate name and identity, other names, for better or worse, just happen. Meridian's original name, in 1989, was 'Meridian Information Services', selected so our original CSR Limited customers could continue to call us what they had previously, i.e. 'MIS'.

After 10 years and a new direction in 2000 the 'Services' was dropped from our name, (but not to our clients) and 'Information' became 'Informatics'.

As you see below these make a statement about where we think we are going and about the essence of our skill and service.

Meridian (in addition to the more common meanings from astrometry and navigation)

A point or period of highest development, greatest prosperity; pertaining to a period of greatest elevation, prosperity or splendour; apex, pinnacle; crowning or climactic.

Informatics

A discipline which investigates, analyses and explores the structure, representations, interactions and properties of information, (as opposed to content), with the object of understanding, explaining and mastering these so that the information can be transformed and productively utilised. The central notion of informatics is the transformation of information in complex computational systems. ( University of Edinburgh).

Meridian's Mission

At its simplest Meridian's mission is to work with our clients to supply the software tools that enable them to transform their data into information, this information into knowledge and the knowledge into action leading to competitive advantage for them.