The award was not given lightly; SA Health, along with Splunk, Hannan and Partners, and Chamonix IT Consulting, has designed and built one of the largest and most advanced Splunk deployments in Australia.

The result is a blend of Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence giving vast service visibility, increased operational efficiencies, and a technology skills uplift for approximately 100 staff.

SA Health is the first Splunk customer to receive this award, which focuses on organisations that innovate and leverage the Splunk platform to its fullest.

“SA Health has delivered outstanding deployment of the Splunk platform, impacting the health sector so positively in a moment when it was more critical than ever. We couldn’t be more proud to recognise them for the exceptional platform implementation and collaboration,” said Splunk area vice president of Australia and New Zealand Ernie Hug. “Splunk has demonstrated continuing investment into South Australia, not only growing our team locally but also further expanding with new resources. This is an important result of this commitment to the state.”

With this implementation, SA Health has become the national leader in Splunk IT Service Intelligence design and use in the health sector, and now can monitor the health of over 20 critical sites and services that are the most vital digital services for the state's health system.

“It’s an honour for SA Health to be recognised on a global stage as we strive to continually improve our health services and enhance patient outcomes,” said SA Health chief digital officer Bret Morris. “In much the same way as a modern clinician relies on data to gain immediate insight into patient health, the Splunk platform allows us to have a deeper insight into the overall health of our digital environment and provide a more meaningful, insightful and available digital service across the health sector.”

Some of the initiatives by SA Health were the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) and education programs to develop critical cyber skills for the state.

Pictured: Bret Morris (left) and Ernie Hug (right)