AWS crowns top partners on ‘significant’ public sector projects

InfoMedix, JourneyOne, DNX Solutions, Blue Crystal Solutions and Learnosity were highlighted as top performing partners by AWS at its Public Sector Partner Accolades awards held at its Public Sector Summit on 6 August in Canberra.

The awards recognised partners who helped organisations undergo “significant digital transformations, leveraging cloud technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.”

Simon Elisha, chief technologist for the public sector for AWS in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), congratulated each of the award recipients.

“Each of these partners have helped deliver industry leading outcomes across healthcare, education, connected communities and digital transformation,” he said.

“We are continuously inspired by how our Australia and New Zealand partners are embracing agile approaches and delivering innovations in the public sector. We want to again congratulate InfoMedix, JourneyOne, DNX Solutions and Learnosity on the well-earned recognition.” 

AWS awarded DNX Solutions for modernising the Men’s Online Support Hub (MOSH) technology infrastructure in the Connected Communities category.

According to Andrew Winter, head of channel and alliances, A/NZ public sector at AWS, DNX helped MOSH to migrate and modernise MOSH’s cloud platform, transitioning from Heroku to AWS and enhancing performance, security, and scalability using critical AWS services.

“The outcome was a solution that helped Mosh modernise their technology infrastructure, enabling them to reduce costs by 25 per cent and improve operational efficiency by 30 per cent,” he said. “The scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure now underpins MOSH’s operations.”

In the category of Digital Transformation Visionary, JourneyOne took the award for its work with Incite Energy. The energy company’s mission was to “accelerate to a lower emissions future”, with one key focus, “transforming how electricity is consumed”.

“Incite Energy needed to enable automated and timely responses to dynamic pricing signals, thereby empowering consumers to control their devices in response to the needs of the Norfolk Island electricity grid,” said Winter.

JourneyOne collaborated with Incite Energy to develop a smart grid solution using AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and SQS.

“Nine months post-go-live, the Norfolk Island Council has reduced diesel consumption for power generation by more than 28 per cent,” said Winter.

In the category of Healthcare Innovations, InfoMedix was awarded the top award for its work with St Vincent’s Hospital on legacy technology.

“A decision was made to migrate and upgrade the scanned medical record system to AWS, moving a significant amount of crucial patient data and marking a significant step forward in St Vincent’s health and their cloud migration strategy,” said Winter.

“The successful migration to AWS has modernised the hospital’s technology infrastructure, improving its ability to securely manage critical healthcare data and applications.”

He said InfoMedix showed “dedication and expertise, turning potential challenges into opportunities for innovation”.

Under the category of Public Sector Modernisation, Blue Crystal Solutions was hailed the winner for its work with the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

The government department needed help preserving and analysing critical species and environmental information.

At the time, its “software was dangerously outdated”, with applications that could stop running at any point, putting extensive scientific data at risk.

According to Winter, Blue Crystal Solutions leveraged AWS services like S3, RDS, EC2 and IAM to develop a secure, highly scalable, and compliant platform for managing sensitive biodiversity data.

“It enabled customers to securely store, assess, and analyse critical environmental data for over 500 species,” he said. “The outcome created better-informed decision-making and policies regarding managing and conserving hundreds of species.”

Independent software vendor Learnosity was also recognised for its work in the education space, in the Education Advancement category.

According to Winter, the AWS partner enabled “content authors to create high-quality educational content more efficiently, saving teachers time and helping students receive high-quality feedback”.

During his speech, Winter said that buyers in the next phase of their digital journey will be more discerning than before.

“Momentum is not guaranteed. The buyers in the next phase are more pragmatic; they’re not early adopters,” said Winter. “We have to think that the rules are different, the buyers are different. I don’t think we’ll get momentum by optimising what we’ve got.”

Lilia Guan travelled to the AWS Public Sector Summit as a guest of AWS.