"This strategic partnership with Empired will focus on innovative solutions to provide the best experience for our people from anywhere, anytime, across the State to ensure we can deliver great value to our customers."

The Empired User Secure Score works alongside Microsoft Teams, to give organisations a bird’s eye view of the level of security compliance from their team.

“It was clear that by bringing together our two organisations we could have more impact as a strategic partner helping our clients innovate and compete in an increasingly digital world."

The contract is for an initial term of three years plus two one-year options to extend, allowing the provision of services for up to five years.

The COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced customer expectations, and interactions must be built on a solid digital strategy, writes Empired head of digital Kevin Miller.

Failing to account for these five key focus areas can jeopardise the success of a cloud migration — and the organisation as a whole.

Developing a strong online relationship with the customer is a crucial part of doing business in the digital era.

The newly-created CTO role will facilitate a strategic focus on cloud and managed services for New Zealand organisations.

Existing security solutions need to evolve to accommodate the new remote workforce.

“With this partnership, Empired will be able to add value for customers by strengthening conversations around data management and compliance."

The Microsoft Business Applications Inner Circle recognises the top 1% of business applications partners - who provide Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - worldwide.

“Empired chose to partner with Pro AV Solutions because of its strong reputation in the market and national presence.

Apart from being digital natives, millennials aren’t really that different from other generations of workers and, of course, they’re all individuals.

estern Power operates the majority of power distribution in Western Australia.

Organisations need, now more than ever, advice and practical, rapid assistance to help them to maintain business continuity, productivity and connectivity, wherever their teams may be.

With four out of five Episerver specialisations, Empired is highly experienced and recognised across the Episerver stack."

Businesses should be considering connectivity and physical equipment when it comes to remote working plans. A tool such as WVD can help, Empired states.

Empired (Intergen) won two CX awards as well as APAC Partner of the Year at the awards ceremony in Sydney.

"Travis’ role will ensure that we are constantly driving innovation and realising this immense strategic opportunity for our customers.”

According to the Australian Government Department of Communications, the average cost of an individual cybersecurity breach to a business is $276,000.

Empired cites recent research by Gartner which found that only 30.3% of employees had a high intent to stay in their positions in Australia - below the international average.

The inclusion of ASX-listed Empired, and its New Zealand-operation Intergen, in the Inner Circle for 2019/20 was announced at Microsoft Inspire.

Out of five Nintex APAC partner awards, Australian digital transformation specialists took three; the Business Excellence, Business Transformation and Customer Success awards.

When working with board members and business stakeholders that are inherently suspicious of emerging technology, there is no room for error.