Azure AI Consulting Canberra
Our Microsoft certified AI consultants work with federal agencies and large organisations across Canberra and the ACT. We build secure, governed AI on the Azure environment you already run, so everything stays grounded in your own data and approved content and meets the security and compliance obligations you already report against.
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Why AI is hard to rollout across Canberra government agencies.
Federal agencies, defence industry suppliers, universities and national bodies across Canberra have invested heavily in Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, and most have already put an AI tool in front of staff with a growing number testing agentic workflows on top of that. The difficulty tends to arrive when AI starts touching systems that carry a classification, where permissions have drifted over the years, data sits across a dozen platforms and nobody has been named as the owner once the pilot ends, and these are the problems our consultants spend most of their time solving.
Federal security policy decides where your AI workload is allowed to run.
Commonwealth entities work to the Protective Security Policy Framework and the Information Security Manual, and under the Hosting Certification Framework all sensitive government data, whole of government systems and anything rated PROTECTED has to be hosted with a certified provider. Outsourced and cloud services holding OFFICIAL Sensitive or PROTECTED data also need an IRAP assessment against the ISM, reassessed within 24 months. Our AI consultants help Canberra teams work out which Azure hosted models and regions fit the classification of the data involved, and document the decision so it survives an assessment.
Your AI is only ever as good as the data sitting underneath it.
Most organisations find their data spread across ERP, CRM and HR systems, duplicated in places, labelled inconsistently and harder to reach than anyone expected. Governance widens the gap further, particularly where you need auditability, clarity on where data sits and controlled access to it. There is also the question that tends to surface in launch week, which is who owns and maintains the thing once it is running. Our consultants build the data foundation first, so your AI stays accurate and dependable well after deployment.
Microsoft AI specialists delivering large scale AI projects since 2017.
Antares has partnered with many of Australia’s most recognisable organisations to modernise their data, AI, applications and Microsoft 365 environments. Our consultants work with Canberra agencies and national organisations, delivered from our Australian offices with people on the ground when a project needs it. Our work spans enterprise AI agents, secure Azure solutions, Power Platform apps, Microsoft Fabric analytics, SharePoint intranets and Teams governance across government, education, health, financial services and the not for profit sector.
Our Azure AI consulting services in Canberra
Part of our national Azure AI consulting practice.
AI strategy and roadmapping
For organisations unsure which AI use case to start with or where the real value is, our consultants help you choose the right starting point, build a clear business case, and define the architecture needed to deliver it.
Data engineering and AI readiness
We help organisations modernise their data foundation using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory, improving data quality, standardising labels, and building the ingestion and transformation layers AI relies on.
Knowledge and document search
Staff lose time hunting for the right version of a policy or document. Our enterprise AI platform answers from your approved content, giving people fast, accurate responses grounded in your organisation’s knowledge.
Document processing and automation
Contracts, invoices and forms still get keyed in by hand. We can build AI automation solutions that read documents, extract the fields you care about, and pass them into the systems that need them, reducing manual work.
AI workflow automation
We help connect your CRM, ERP and other business systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI driven workflows that move data automatically, with human approval where needed.
AI analytics and insights
Your data sits in Fabric, Power BI and SQL, but only a few people can query it. We build AI analytics assistants that answer directly, giving managers clear insights without waiting for a report or raising a request with the data team.
AI governance and data sovereignty
Boards and auditors want to know where AI data went, who accessed it, and how decisions were made. We design AI governance frameworks, audit trails and access controls aligned to your requirements, including PSPF and IRAP requirements.
Managed AI services
We monitor, tune and support your AI once it’s live, ensuring it stays reliable, secure and aligned with Microsoft’s roadmap, with clear ownership and ongoing optimisation.
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Frequently asked questions about our AI services in Canberra
No, not if you run enterprise-grade AI inside your own Azure environment. Your prompts and documents stay inside your tenancy and aren’t used to train anyone’s models. Not sure how your data is being used today? Our consultants can audit it with you.
It can, but the path matters. Under the Hosting Certification Framework the hosting has to sit with a certified provider, and a system holding OFFICIAL Sensitive or PROTECTED data needs an IRAP assessment against the Information Security Manual, reassessed within 24 months. Running AI inside your own Azure tenancy keeps the data in an environment that is already assessed and audited, which is usually the shortest route. We help agencies map the classification to the right Azure region and services, then document the decision.
Usually you are extending an existing one rather than starting from scratch, because the AI sits inside a tenancy you have already assessed. What changes is the data flow, so the assessment needs to cover which content the AI can read, who can reach it and how requests are logged. We help agencies scope that change early, so it is a variation to existing evidence rather than a surprise late in the project.
It is usually a mix. Copilot works inside Word, Outlook and Teams. Anything that needs your own data or your own interface is a custom build, either in Copilot Studio or on an enterprise AI platform. We can map out which parts of your organisation suit which approach.