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50. BigAir Group

State: NSW
Founded: 2002
Employees (at time of entry): 250
Key executive: Jason Ashton

In their own words: "BigAir added to its portfolio in FY16 with the acquisitions of Applaud IT Pty Ltd and Everywhere Internet Pty Ltd. Applaud brings BigAir significant managed services and cloud services capability together with over 10 years service desk experience."

Pictured: Jason Ashton

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49. Combo

State: VIC
Founded: 2002
Employees (at time of entry): 24
Key executive: Rachel Markus

Pictured: the Combo team

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48. Outware Mobile

State: VIC
Founded: 2009
Employees (at time of entry): 140
Key executive: Eytan Lenko
Pictured: Danny Gorog, Eytan Lenko and Gideon Kowadlo, founders

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47. Calibre One

State: SA
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 43
Key executive: Steve Wemyss

Pictured: Helen and Steve Wemyss

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46. Red 29

State: ACT
Founded: 2006
Employees (at time of entry): 8
Key executive: Darrin Hunter

Pictured: Darrin Hunter, director

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45. R & G Technologies

State: Qld
Founded: 2003
Employees (at time of entry): 38
Key executive: Gordon Tan

Pictured: Gordon Tan

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44. Revolution IT

State: Vic
Founded: 2004
Employees (at time of entry): 300
Key executive: Jamie Duffield

Pictured: Revolution IT directors Hamish Leighton, Jamie Duffield and Mike Quill.

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43. IT Logic

State: NSW
Founded: 2003
Employees (at time of entry): 9
Key executive: Haydn Tomlinson

Pictured: The IT Logic team

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42. Best Technology Services

State: NSW
Founded: 2002
Employees (at time of entry): 200
Key executive: John Mcvicker

In their own words: "BEST is proud to have entered into an exclusive partnership with Dicker Data, an ASX-listed hardware distributor of more than 35 years. This is the first time that consumption-based services at a fixed and predictable cost have been offered to the channel. Working together this way means we can offer field services on a truly industrial scale via one order portal. This is an end-to-end service offering."

Pictured: John Mcvicker and Dean Yates

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41. Glintech

State: NSW
Founded: 2000
Employees (at time of entry): 35
Key executive: Dimitri Spyridopoulos

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40. LBNCo

State: NSW
Founded: 2008
Employees (at time of entry): 55
Key executive: Stephen Picton

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39. 1ICT

State: Qld
Founded: 2012
Employees (at time of entry): 100
Key executive: Matt Tsin

Pictured: Matt Tsin, Satish Naidu and Anthony Gavin.

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38. Geek

State: SA
Founded: 2005
Employees (at time of entry): 18
Key executive: Jon Paior
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37. Innessco

State: NSW
Founded: 2005
Employees (at time of entry): 11
Key executive: Robert Cox

In their own words: "We've been more focused on the legal firm community and gained several large legal firms as MSP clients. We also opened up a Melbourne data centre."

Pictured: Robert Cox, director

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36. Bistech

State: Qld
Founded: 2003
Employees (at time of entry): 20
Key executive: Shane Morgan

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35. Blue Apache

State: Vic
Founded: 1998
Employees (at time of entry): 70
Key executive: Chris Marshall

Pictured: Chris Marshall, James Hendry and Simon Richardson

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34. Nortec IT

State: NSW
Founded: 1992
Employees (at time of entry): 11
Key executive: David Norris

In their own words: "We saved one company $40,000 per year while increasing internet speeds at both the main and remote office as well as supply new phones and included phone calls. At a school we replaced an aging phone system throughout the school linking them to our hosted PBX."

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33. VMtech

State: NSW
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 65
Key executive: Len Findlay

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32. Virage IT

State: Vic
Founded: 2012
Employees (at time of entry): 15
Key executive: Paul MacNeill

In their own words: "We are very proud of our work in the not-for-profit sector, particularly in relation to helping ethical and cultural companies extend their care and compassion networks to the people that really require them, through robust, reliable systems. In addition to this, we're working closely with several schools to assist them to reach the status of school-of-choice because of their technology facilities. We value working with customers that provide much needed services to the community, and who appreciate IT partnerships that promote a more efficient outcome."

Pictured: Paul MacNeill, director

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31. Insync Technology

State: Qld
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 12
Key executive: Nathan Belling

Pictured: Nathan Belling (left) and Stuart Moore

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30. ADITS

State: Qld
Founded: 2006
Employees (at time of entry): 20
Key executive: Ashley Darwen

Pictured: The ADITS team

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29. 4mation Technologies

State: NSW
Founded: 2001
Employees (at time of entry): 60
Key executive: Dane Eldridge

In their own words: "This has been a seminal year in terms of our client growth, with new, high-profile clients coming on board."

Pictured: The 4mation Technologies team

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28. VentraIP Australia

State: Vic
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 35
Key executive: Cheyne Jonstone

In their own words: "We have recently bucked the industry trend by removing our outsourced level one technical support team and replacing them with local Australia team members. We have done this due to customer feedback. Since making the change we have seen incredible customer feedback both in private communication and our public Facebook and Twitter accounts praising the company for outstand customer service."

Pictured: Angelo Giuffrida, chief executive

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27. Commulynx

State: NSW
Founded: 2006
Employees (at time of entry): 14
Key executive: Stephen Knights

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26. Kinetic IT

State: WA
Founded: 1995
Employees (at time of entry): 1200
Key executive: Michael North

In their own words: "The exceptional revenue growth for FY 2015/16 was underpinned by two significant new customer implementations. We delivered a five-year IT services contract with Victoria Police, with three single year extensions available, delivering and supporting newly bundled end-to-end IT outsourcing services with an initial contract value of around $164 million.
Kinetic IT also delivered a solution to Qantas, partnering with Service Now to improve the Qantas customer and staff experience.

"Three offshore IT service desks were replaced with a single onsite service operations centre and service integration governance function managed by Kinetic IT. The outcomes were significant, reducing cost, delighting the end-user (Qantas employees) and improving the customer experience."

Pictured: Michael North, chief strategy officer

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25. Cloud Plus

State: Qld
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 16
Key executive: Jules Rumsey

Pictured: Jules Rumsey, chief executive

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24. Comlinx

State: Qld
Founded: 2006
Employees (at time of entry): 20
Key executives: Scott Smith and Wayne Shaw

Pictured: Scott Smith and Wayne Shaw, owners

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23. SecureWare

State: SA
Founded: 2008
Employees (at time of entry): 3
Key executive: Adam Barker

In their own words: "We brought on a new customer with purchases totalling close to $1 million in revenue. Taking a proactive rather than typical reactive approach, this customer has invested and selected security monitoring solutions using the 'attack chain model'."

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22. R-Group International

State: WA
Founded: 2000
Employees (at time of entry): 39
Key executive: Josh Newton

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21. Strut Digital

State: NSW
Founded: 2014
Employees (at time of entry): 22
Key executive: Zack Levy

In their own words: "Some big wins for us this year was securing Bauer Media as a managed service client and being responsible for their entire AWS based digital platform including more than 350 customer facing sites across Australia and New Zealand."

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20. RXP Services

State: Vic
Founded: 2011
Employees (at time of entry): 779
Key executive: Ross Fielding

In their own words: "RXP have made two significant acquisitions in FY16; namely Engage Viidacom and 10Collective. Engage Viiadcom represents the biggest single acquisition that RXP has ever made in terms of number of employees, and increases our capability in large program deliveries, as well as strengthening our position in the telecommunications and media sector. The addition of 10Collective has provided RXP with market leading user experience, interaction design and service design capabilities which allows us to assist both new and existing customers in developing and implementing their digital strategies."

Pictured: Ross Fielding, chief executive

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19. Enosys Solutions

State: NSW
Founded: 2011
Employees (at time of entry): 31
Key executive: Joseph Mesiti

In their own words: "In 2015/16 Enosys has continued to win major projects in the higher education space, as well as winning business in general enterprise and with utility companies. We recently won a major managed SIEM project for a large New South Wales utility as well as winning next generation firewall and application delivery bids into complex SDN deployments for universities in Queensland.

"Additionally our partnership with Splunk continues to blossom with a major log aggregation project kicked off in Victoria for one of the largest universities in Australia."

Pictured: Stefan Hoerzer, George Soumilas and Joseph Mesiti

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18. Comwire IT

State: SA
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 29
Key executive: Mark Frahn

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17. Telegate

State: NSW
Founded: 2006
Employees (at time of entry): 35
Key executive: Tiernan O'Connor

Pictured: Members of the Telegate team

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16. Bulletproof Group

State: NSW
Founded: 2000
Employees (at time of entry): 170
Key executive: Anthony Woodward

In their own words: "In October 2015, Bulletproof Networks acquired Infoplex. The Infoplex product offering has been merged with pre-existing Bulletproof private cloud offering, key customer contracts have been renewed for 2-3 years (including Genworth, a top 3 customer) and the highly experienced team has joined the Bulletproof Networks team. February 2016 saw the acquisition of New Zealand-based Cloud House, giving Bulletproof Networks access to the rapidly growing New Zealand Cloud services market."

Pictured: Anthony Woodward, chief executive

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15. Neptune Managed Services

State: Vic
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 65
Key executive: Geoff Bentley

Pictured: Geoff Bentley, director

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14. Onel Consulting

State: Vic
Founded: 2012
Employees (at time of entry): 10
Key executive: Binal Hendawitharana

Pictured: James England, Paul Barrett, Binal Hendawitharana and Ray Ng

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13. Insentra

State: NSW
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 50
Key executive: Ronnie Altit

In their own words: "Insentra has enjoyed a massive year of growth with major strategic wins, notably including a major telecommunications company. Microsoft Consulting Services engaged Insentra to assist in the largest Office 365 project in Australia, being a 70,000 seat live mailbox and 140,000 email archive migration.

"The MCS Services sales executive was so impressed with the work at Insentra that she said to her entire team, 'Without Insentra this transaction would never have happened. They came in and addressed every question quickly and effectively. They are without doubt the experts in this space and are the reason why we closed this deal'."

Pictured: Ronnie Altit, managing director

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12. BEarena

State: NSW
Founded: 2007
Employees (at time of entry): 15
Key executive: Darren Ashley

Pictured: Darren Ashley, managing director

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11. Warehouse1

State: Vic
Founded: 2014
Employees (at time of entry): 8
Key executive: Samuel Robinson

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10. NGage Technology Group

State: Vic
Founded: 2011
Employees (at time of entry): 18
Key executive: Jarrod Bloomfield

In their own words: "The partnership with Pure Storage got us more involved in more projects because we were their original partner and have a great understanding of that technology. That won us a lot of credibility with larger customers who, if we partnered with older storage companies, we wouldn't have been exposed to."

Pictured: Brent Valle and Jarrod Bloomfield

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9. onPlatinum ICT

State: Qld
Founded: 2012
Employees (at time of entry): 20
Key executive: Shannon Overs
In their own words: "Dealing with vendors and suppliers, your expectations often don't get met 100 percent so we decided to build from the ground up, create a foundation and own everything we sell."

Pictured: Shannon Overs and Jay Newcomb

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8. Touchpoint Technology

State: NSW
Founded: 2009
Employees (at time of entry): 6
Key executive: William Freeman

In their own words: "Open and honest communication is most important. Sometimes customers don't like it but we share, warts and all."

Pictured: William Freeman and Nicholas Asscher

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No.7 Katana1

State: NSW
Founded: 2011
Employees (at time of entry): 17
Key executive: Nick Russell

In their own words: "We sat on the customer side and evaluated multiple technologies; we don't want to be an extension of any one vendor and it works well for the customer."

Pictured: The Katana1 executive team

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No.6 Adactin Group

State: NSW
Founded: 2011
Employees (at time of entry): 40
Key executive: Navneesh Garg

In their own words: "People want innovation and the best possible solutions for a problem. That felt great because I come from a technical background and we want the best possible outcome for the customer."

Pictured: Navneesh Garg, chief executive officer

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No.5 Correct Communications

State: ACT
Founded: 2010
Employees (at time of entry): 17
Key executive: Andrew Weir

In their own words: "We don't just sell anything, we only sell what we're trained in and we don't need a lot of vendor interaction to get jobs done. We're low-touch and reliable."

Pictured: Michael Honeyman, Sally Cumper, Andrew Weir and Simon Loftus

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No.4 Solista

State: NSW
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 7
Key executive: Noel Allnutt

In their own words: "We made the decision right at the beginning that we were going to push the best that was available, the latest, the next generation of technologies."

Pictured: Noel Allnutt and Daniel Fuller, directors

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No.3 Araza

State: Vic
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 110
Key executive: Victoria Kluth

In their own words: "It is significant to note we employ 50 percent women without using quotas."

Pictured: Victoria Kluth, managing director

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No.2 EFEX

State: NSW
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 30
Key executive: Nick Sheehan

In their own words: "Print is a big part of what we do, it's our heritage and we don't want to move away from that, but there are other things out there than copiers."

Pictured: The EFEX team

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No.1 The Missing Link Security

State: NSW
Founded: 2013
Employees (at time of entry): 22
Key executive: Aaron Bailey

In their own words: "It is a complex landscape. Larger enterprise organisations can have up to 80 security vendors. That is an incredibly complex mix we have to be across."

Pictured: Sam Marshall, Aaron Bailey, Karen Drewitt, Alex Gambotto and Daniel Forsyth

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