A Word from The Boss

Energy Transition, Race to the Future

Welcome to our Spring newsletter for 2024!

In this edition, read on to discover how Mipela GeoSolutions Alignment digital transformation stage revolves around the cloud to enable our Clients’ to Sustain and Innovate their day-to-day activities. We hear from our most recent client success story, Inner West Council’s use of our X-Info Assurance suite to migrate their legacy Before You Dig enquiry response system to add value to their business. We also hear how, long term client, Epic Energy continues to contribute to renewable energy, supporting South Australia’s ambitious target to achieve 100% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2030.

As the Energy Transition race gains momentum, largely fuelled by environmental sustainability concerns, we recognise that its success hinges on ensuring it simultaneously provides energy security and access, while also promoting economic growth and development.

For us the journey to our third generation X-Info platform began two years ago with the decision to move to the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Offering over 200 plus fully featured services from data centres around the world, AWS has allowed us to Migrate and Modernise our products and services.

Work started late 2022 with a proof of concept (PoC) that our X-Info suite would operate as required in the AWS ecosystem, with our Cloud service provider iTOC at the time, who are now part of ThoughtWorks.

2023 saw us plan, build, deliver our AWS framework and migrate 100 plus critical infrastructure clients successfully to our new Platform as a Service (PaaS), which includes our Security Operations Center (SOC), managed by our Security partner, Fortian.

2024 has been the year of Alignment in our product roadmap, as we continue to modernise and leverage the services AWS has to offer – with security being our number one priority. We are centralising user management into Microsoft Azure Entra ID from an infrastructure and system perspective. The completion of our Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and the establishment of our Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) policies mark important milestones, and we are well on track with the next phase of procedures, governance, and compliance as we work towards achieving ISO27001:2023 certification by 2025. This is crucial to ensure that our solutions continue to address how our clients:

• Standardise data about their business processes
• Manage change in a responsive manner
• Execute work processes in a repeatable fashion
• Drive quality so they can make reliable decisions
• Connect stakeholders whether in the office or field.

On an exciting note, Adam Herbert, Jaci Button and I look forward to travelling south to see our clients and industry colleagues in Adelaide 12-15 October for the 2024 Australian Pipeline Gas Association Annual Convention & Exhibition. We will be focusing on this year’s compelling theme, Future Pipelines. We look forward to catching up with you over the course of the event and invite you to our cosy Psychiatrists’ Office to help diagnose your most pressing cloud hosting or data management ailments. Drop by Stand 37 in the exhibition to fuel your business sessions with some M&M’s on us.

Hayden McDonald
Founder and Managing Director