Artis Group is one of only a dozen companies to join elevate61, a program designed to help high-growth Australian tech businesses break into the US market by connecting them with customers and investors.
Artis Group's involvement in the elevate61 program, which runs in partnership with Advance and KPMG Australia, was announced alongside with 11 other companies at the “Australia United States Business Week 2016” mission held in the US this week.
The program has also helped Artis Group's US launch of its ‘Business-Intelligence-Spatial’ (BIS) platform. The platform was developed with the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Biosecurity has been recognised at Microsoft’s CityNext award in 2014 and featured at the Microsoft ISV showcase at Parliament House last year.
“The BIS product developed with Artis Group has provided a powerful tool for managing biosecurity events. Their agile approach and cooperative management style gave us confidence in the quality and capability of the end product,” said DPI Biosecurity director of emergency operations, intelligence and programs Barry Kay.
“Events such as the avian flu outbreak in May 2015 throwing Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa into states of emergency provides an opening for such a solution. The declarations involved the culling of more than 33 million birds in 16 US states,” said Artis Group chief executive Chris Greatrex.
Sydney-based Artis Group is a Microsoft partner and application developer specialising in design, development, integration and support of critical business applications for enterprise and government organisations with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide.