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Our industry awards in innovation and service delivery, along with the level of our certification and accreditation across the technologies we deliver, show our commitment to always deliver brilliant outcomes for our clients.
It’s one thing to claim that we’re the leading mid-market MSP in Australia, it’s another thing to prove it. Our awards demonstrate that we’re your leading strategic technology partner. With recent accolades including: ‘Top 10 Best Medium & Large Workplaces in Technology for Australia 2025, ‘Finalist for Best Health Project in iTnews Benchmark Awards 2025’, and ‘Finalist for SOC Provider of the Year in CyberDaily Australian Cyber Awards 2025’ – you know you’re in safe hands.
2026 Great Place To Work – Best Workplaces in Technology – #16 – Medium and Large
Tecala has proudly ranked 16th on the 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology in Australia List for medium and large sized organisations. This showcases our commitment to building a high-trust culture, engaging our employees, and maximising their potential to facilitate innovation.
2026 CyberDaily Australian Cyber Awards – Finalist – Cyber Consulting Business of the Year – SME
“This award recognises the SME-level cyber consultancy that has most effectively capitalised on market opportunities and driven demonstrable business growth while supporting the strengthening of Australia’s cyber and national security capabilities through its participation in the cyber industry.” – CyberDaily.au
2026 iTnews Benchmark Awards – Finalist – Paul Ramsay Foundation
Tecala is proud to announce that one of our customers, (Paul Ramsay Foundation), has been selected as a finalist. “The iTnews Benchmark Awards celebrate Australian leaders for their work in driving effective technology programs in Australian enterprise and government.” – iTnews
2026 ABBYY Partner Awards – Top Performing Partner (APAC) – Winner
“By leveraging ABBYY solutions, winners achieved significant process efficiencies, enhanced customer experiences, and scalable digital transformation initiatives. They distinguished themselves through exceptional growth and gross retention, strong pipeline performance – from new APR to sell-through – and milestone achievements such as the largest APR deals of 2025.” – ABBYY
2025 ARN Innovation Awards – Technical Excellence – Partner – Winner – Ian Gard
Tecala is pleased to announce that one of our consultants, Ian Gard, is the recipient of the Technical Excellence award. “Ian has been recognised for his technical expertise spanning RPA to agentic AI, creating Tecala’s AI Agent Dream Team, whose agentic AI use cases led to a 60 per cent increase in AI project adoption across business units.” – ARN Net
2025 TechPartner Impact Awards – Customer Experience – Partner – Winner
“This award recognises Australian partner projects and people that helped end-user customers better service their customers in a digital, mobile world. This could include websites, mobile applications, or any technology deployed in the service of customers.” – techpartner.news
2025 Great Place To Work – Best Workplaces in Technology – #10 – Medium and Large
Tecala has proudly ranked 10th on the 2025 Best Workplaces in Technology in Australia List for medium and large sized organisations. This showcases our commitment to building a high-trust culture, engaging our employees, and maximising their potential to facilitate innovation.
2025 Great Place To Work – Best Workplaces in Australia – #19 – Medium
Tecala has proudly ranked 19th on the 2025 Best Workplaces in Australia List, for medium-sized organisations across all industries. This recognition highlights our dedication to cultivating a culture of trust and belonging, where our people feel valued, supported, and empowered to thrive and innovate.
2025 Channel Partners – MSP 501 Award Winner –
#1 Aus | #29 Global
In 2025, we were ranked 1st in Australia and 29th globally in the internationally respected Channel Partners MSP 501 Award. This annual ranking recognises the top managed service providers across the globe based on performance, innovation, and growth. Our 2025 ranking represents our strongest global performance to date, highlighting the ongoing strength of our service delivery, technical capability, and client outcomes.
2025 Australian AI Awards – AI Consultant of the Year – Enterprise Award – Finalist – Ian Gard
Tecala is proud to announce that one of our consultants, Ian Gard, has been selected as a finalist. “This award recognises the AI consultant who has most successfully identified the uses and benefits of artificial intelligence for themselves, their organisations or their clients.” – Australian AI Awards
2025 iTnews Benchmark Security Awards – Finalist – Opera Australia
Tecala is proud to announce that one of our customers, Rasim Ustun (Opera Australia), has been selected as a finalist. “The Benchmark Security Awards celebrate Australian security leaders for their work in driving effective cyber programs in Australian enterprise and government.” iTnews
2025 iTnews Benchmark Awards – Finalist – Best Health Project
“Best Health Project: Projects or technology leadership in any organisation that delivered health services which demonstrably improved staff productivity and/or service delivery to patients.” – iTnews
2025 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Shining Star – Jennifer Favelle
“This award recognises an established candidate with a strong record of achievement, acknowledging excellence in spearheading company initiatives and driving strategic growth. This individual is a consistent high performer, regularly achieving standout business results and increased levels of seniority within the organisation.” – ARN
2025 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Technical – Benajir Khan
“This award recognises a problem-solving candidate showing advanced technical and engineering expertise, exhibiting deep knowledge of products, solutions and services. This individual provides exceptional business value through specialised skills, training and competence, spanning technical, pre-sales and support roles.” – ARN
2025 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Rising Star – Eleanor Au
“This award recognises a standout candidate rising through the ranks, acknowledging significant advancement during the early stages of her career. This individual is growing in stature and importance, demonstrating outstanding business acumen, deep market expertise and high levels of professional integrity.” – ARN
2025 CyberDaily Australian Cyber Awards – Finalist – SOC Provider of the Year
“This award recognises the cyber security business that has developed the most effective and innovative security operations centre (SOC) service of the year. It is open to all SOC service providers working within the cyber industry, regardless of specialisation, that aim to strengthen Australia’s cyber security capabilities.” – CyberDaily.au
2024 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Tech Partner –
Emerging Technology
“This award recognises partners converting early-stage pilot programs into full-scale deployments, cutting through the market hype to maximise the potential of emerging technologies. This partner is a standout in building out embryonic ideas and solutions into viable go-to-market strategies, introducing best-of-breed technologies to an innovative customer base. ” – ARN
2024 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Sales
Excellence – Belinda York-Atkins
“This award recognises trailblazing sales leaders innovating from within to deliver increased levels of customer value while surpassing business revenue targets. This individual is capable of balancing commercial objectives with the delivery of high-value sales, closing significant deals through a modern approach to end-user selling and consulting. ” – ARN
2024 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Management Excellence – Adrian Ng
“This award recognises a candidate with a strong record of management achievement, skills, excellence in spearheading company growth ambitions and driving strategic change. This individual is a consistent high-performer who regularly achieves business results, team culture, and leadership excellence. ” – ARN
2024 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Tech Partner – Digital Transformation
“This award recognises partners maximising a wide variety of technologies to deliver on the promise of digitalisation, creating solutions and services to meet transformation objectives. This partner is an expert in balancing business and technology requirements to guide customers through the digital process, providing consultation from ideation to implementation.” – ARN
2024 Nintex Partner Award – Winner – Customer Centricity ANZ
“The award recognises excellence and innovation in our partner communities. For the process innovators and automation trailblazers – recognising partners that use process and automation to deliver measurable business value or community impact through their innovative initiatives, sustainable practices, or technological advancements.” – Nintex
2024 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Graduate – Chenuli Abeywardena
“This award recognises a standout graduate candidate who has leveraged apprenticeship programs to start a career within the ICT industry. Open to all roles and responsibilities, this individual has made an immediate and positive impact on the business through providing a fresh perspective and high levels of professionalism.” – ARN
2024 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Rising Star – Samantha Buttigieg
“This award recognises a standout candidate rising through the ranks within the ICT industry, acknowledging significant advancement during the early stages of her technology career. This individual is growing in stature and importance through demonstrating outstanding business acumen, deep market expertise and high levels of professional integrity. This award is open to candidates with 10 years or less experience within the ICT industry.” – ARN
2024 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Achievement – Sherran Evans
“This award recognises a standout candidate who has delivered an unrivalled contribution to the ICT industry, evident through outstanding professional and personal achievements. This individual has earned a reputation as an esteemed thought leader following a distinguished career as both a business leader and role model for aspiring executives. This award is open to candidates with 21 years or more experience within the ICT industry.” – ARN
2024 CRN Impact Awards – Business Transformation – Partner – Highly Commended
Tecala’s nomination in this category is for our Automated Claims Experience platform developed for My Plan Manager, Australia’s largest manager of NDIS plans. This AI-powered platform utilises robotic process automation, optical character recognition, and automated decision-making through a rules engine.
2024 Channel Futures – MSP 501 Award Winner
We are proud to announce our recognition on the prestigious 2024 Channel Futures MSP 501 list, marking over 10 years now being recognised globally and each time within the Top 10 Australian managed service providers. This accomplishment underscores the dedication, expertise, and hard work of our entire team over the years.
2024 Great Place To Work – Best Workplaces in Technology – Medium and Large
Tecala has been listed in Australia’s Best Workplaces™ in Technology List, showcasing our commitment to building a high-trust culture, engaging our employees, and maximising their potential to facilitate innovation.
2024 iTnews Benchmark Awards – Finalist – Best Finance & Professional Services Project
“Projects conducted by participants in the financial services industries that either improved internal operations or resulted in improved products and/or service delivery to corporate or retail customers.”
– iTnews
2023 Channel Futures – MSP 501 Award Winner
For the fourth year running we have been recognised as one of Australia’s top-ranked, Mid-market, Managed Service Providers in the annual MSP 501 list – the world’s most comprehensive survey and ranking list in the IT Channel. In addition, Channel Futures ranked Tecala among the top 150 Managed Service Providers worldwide.
2023 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Partner Innovation – Mid-Market
“Partner Innovation recognises customer innovation and excellence across the key market segments of Enterprise, Mid-Market and SMB, in addition to pioneering technology specialists and collaborative providers.” – ARN
2023 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Personal Innovation – Sales Excellence – David Jenkins
“Personal Innovation recognises standout individuals who contribute to customer, company and channel success through a transformative approach to management, channel, sales, technical and marketing positions.” – ARN
2023 ARN WIICTA – Finalist – Graduate – Chenuli Abeywardena
“This award recognises a standout graduate candidate who has leveraged apprenticeship programs to start a career within the ICT industry. Open to all roles and responsibilities, this individual has made an immediate and positive impact on the business through providing a fresh perspective and high levels of professionalism.” – ARN
2022 ARN WIICTA – Winner – Technical – Erika Orozco
“This award recognises excellence in the form of technical and engineering expertise, honouring deep domain knowledge in relation to technology products, solutions and services. This candidate has provided business value through specialised skills and competence, spanning technical, pre-sales and support roles.” – ARN
2022 ARN Innovation Awards – Winner – Tech Innovation – Emerging (Automation)
“With decades of experience in infrastructure, managed services and cloud, Tecala built a dedicated intelligent business practice featuring senior resources across business analysts, AI/ML practice managers, developers, RPA and data engineers. Its Contract Processing and Review Automation solution uses RPA, AI/ML to assess and review contracts with human-like insights, saving customers precious time in contract management.” – ARN
2022 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Partner Innovation – Mid-Market
“Partner Innovation recognises customer innovation and excellence across the key market segments of Enterprise, Mid-Market and SMB, in addition to pioneering technology specialists and collaborative providers.” – ARN
2022 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Tech Innovation – Security
“Tech Innovation recognises partners leveraging established and emerging solutions to enhance customer innovation levels, underpinned by deep levels of expertise and specialist services.” – ARN
2022 Rubrik Partner Recognition Awards – Winner – Managed Service Provider Partner of the Year
This award recognises the top-performing managed service provider partner who has built out managed service offerings around Rubrik in the 2021-22 financial year, with best-in-class expertise in Rubrik technologies and outstanding overall partnership engagement jointly with Rubrik and its customers.
2022 Dicker Data Partner Awards – Winner – Microsoft CSP Growth Partner of the Year
“Tecala has seen unprecedented growth across the business as they have continued to modernise their solution matched with best practice in GTM and research combined with a powerful sales engine.”
– Tim O’Neill, Microsoft Solution Sales Manager
2022 Channel Futures – MSP 501 Award Winner
For the third year running we have been recognised as Australia’s top-ranked, Mid-market, Managed Service Provider in the annual MSP 501 list – the world’s most comprehensive survey and ranking list in the IT Channel. In addition, Channel Futures ranked Tecala among the top 50 Managed Service Providers worldwide.
2022 Channel Futures – World’s Top Cloud-Focused MSPs List
We are proud to feature on Channel Futures’ 2022 list of the world’s top cloud-focused MSPs. This compilation represents partners who are hyper-focused on cloud-based services. Not only that, but they have demonstrated the highest standards according to Channel Futures’ methodology.
2021 NetApp Partner Awards – Finalist – New Partner of the Year
This award honors a reseller in its first full calendar year of partnership that, after meeting minimum requirement thresholds, has delivered a sizeable revenue contribution and made significant business development investments in NetApp.
2021 ARN Innovation Awards – Winner – Tech Innovation – Security
“Tecala Group wins this award for its work implementing a range of security products and services for a customer with a deep pool of sensitive client data, relieving it of the day-to-day responsibilities for identifying and responding to threats and incidents.” – ARN
2021 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Tech Innovation – Cloud
“Tech Innovation recognises partners leveraging established and emerging solutions to enhance customer innovation levels, underpinned by deep levels of expertise and specialist services.” – ARN
2021 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Tech Innovation – Emerging (Automation)
“Tech Innovation recognises partners leveraging established and emerging solutions to enhance customer innovation levels, underpinned by deep levels of expertise and specialist services.” – ARN
2021 Channel Futures – MSP 501 Award Winner
For the second year running we have been recognised as Australia’s top-ranked, Mid-market, Managed Service Provider in the annual MSP 501 list – the world’s most comprehensive survey and ranking list in the IT Channel. In addition, Channel Futures ranked Tecala among the top 50 Managed Service Providers worldwide.
2021 Channel Futures – Elite Security-Focused MSPs List
Off the back of our brilliant result on the Channel Futures MSP 501 list, Tecala was ranked by Channel Futures in the Elite Security-Focused MSPs List. This compilation represents partners who are hyper-focused on Cyber Security, and who have demonstrated the highest Cyber Security standards according to Channel Futures methodology.
2021 Channel Futures – MSP 501 List of Fastest-Growing MSPs – Top 50
Tecala ensures a safe cloud with rigorous Off the back of our brilliant result on the Channel Futures MSP 501 list, Tecala was ranked by Channel Futures in the Top 100 Fastest Growing MSP’s. This is a fantastic reflection of our rate of growth compared to a global playing field.
2020 Channel Futures – MSP 501 Award Winner
Recognised as Australia’s top-ranked, Mid-market, Managed Service Provider in the annual MSP 501 list – the world’s most comprehensive survey and ranking list in the IT Channel. In addition, Channel Futures ranked Tecala among the top 100 Managed Service Providers worldwide.
2018 ARN Innovation Awards – Winner – Homegrown Service Provider
The ARN Innovation Awards are the market-leading program for celebrating ecosystem innovation and excellence across the technology sector in Australia. The Homegrown award recognises Australian-made excellence in the ICT market.
2018 ARN Innovation Awards – Finalist – Mid-Market Provider
The ARN Innovation Awards are the market-leading program for celebrating ecosystem innovation and excellence across the technology sector in Australia. The Partner awards recognise small, mid-sized and enterprise providers for delivering innovation and value to customers across Australia.
2013 MAPA Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards – Finalist – Server Platform Partner of the Year
The MAPA programme recognises Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the year. Tecala was nominated based on its server farm project with Ausgrid for which it developed a hosted solution using Microsoft technologies.
We stay on top of industry certifications so you don’t have to. From individual certification, to team qualifications, you can be sure we go beyond what’s required. We’re always thinking ahead, with you in mind.
ITIL v4
Certified
This certification enables candidates to look at IT service management through an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery and continual improvement of tech-enabled products and services.
ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management
Tecala has achieved ISO 27001 certification, enabling us to help our clients manage assets and important information, such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details.
Great Place to Work Certified 2026
Tecala has been certified as a Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd for the fourth year in a row. This achievement is the result of a thorough two-step process, including employee surveys and a detailed questionnaire evaluating our workforce.
2025 UiPath Agentic Automation Fast Track Partner
As a UiPath Fast Track Partner, Tecala has received early access to agentic automation capabilities, identifying use cases and scenarios where agents can help augment end-to-end process automation, and contributed to further development of UiPath agentic automation solutions.
Dell Gold Partner
As a Dell Technologies Gold Partner, Tecala is accredited across Dell Technologies’ entire portfolio. Through our local service operations centres (SOCs), our clients receive exceptional service and support.
Netskope Gold Partner
As a Netskope Gold Partner, Tecala has the required sales and technical certifications to deliver best-of-breed solutions for our customers.
Climate Active Carbon Neutral Certification
Tecala is now certified as Climate Active Carbon Neutral for its Australian business operations. Tecala is the first mid-market Managed Service Provider (MSP) in Australia to achieve this certification.
Microsoft Gold Partner
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Tecala has the highest certification available for the Microsoft services, applications, and platforms we deliver.
Microsoft Solutions Partner – Security
As a Microsoft Solution Partner, Tecala has demonstrated a broad capability to safeguard organisations using integrated Microsoft solutions for security, compliance, identity, and threat protection.
Microsoft Solutions Partner – Modern Work
As a Microsoft Solution Partner, Tecala has demonstrated a broad capability to help customers boost productivity and make the shift to hybrid work using Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Solutions Partner – Azure | Infrastructure
As a Microsoft Solution Partner, Tecala has demonstrated a broad capability in designing and managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Solutions Partner – Azure | Data & AI
As a Microsoft Solution Partner, Tecala has demonstrated a broad capability in delivering data-driven solutions and unlocking insights with advanced analytics and AI tools built on Azure.
Microsoft Solutions Partner – Azure | Digital & App Innovation
As a Microsoft Solution Partner, Tecala has demonstrated a broad capability to build, modernise, and deploy intelligent applications that accelerate business innovation on Azure.
