Technology People becomes Novon On Demand

An Important Announcement from the teams at Technology People & Novon

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Novon today announced the launch of Novon on Demand, with the acquisition and integration of leading technology resourcing firm Technology People. The landmark union establishes one of the largest privately owned data and engineering technology service providers in Australia.

Founded in 2014, Novon (previously Xpert Consulting) provides specialist advisory and professional services supporting the delivery of leading-edge data solutions, with a key focus and expertise in data management, data governance, engineering, integration, insights, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Now with over 100 consultants nationally, strategic key hires over the past 18 months have primed the company to compete at the top tier of data consulting in the region.Leading an end-to-end process of advisory and discovery through to the design and build of complex data solutions, Novon works with iconic Australian brands including ASX-listed enterprises and leading SMEs across banking, airline, utilities, logistics, government, and media.

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Dominic Dufaur, Founder and Group CEO of Novon, said:

“To say we are excited about this announcement is an understatement. The acquisition and integration of Technology People’s phenomenal team will not only enhance what we can now do as a business but how we do it; unlocking new opportunities for our clients and truly expanding the opportunities we can offer our growing team.

“Novon is a brand synonymous with data. Data and engineering capability is our DNA. As demand for complex, high-impact data-driven solutions accelerates, we’re not here to simply compete. We’re here to lead. And our focus heading into 2026 is clear: to scale, deliver, and partner with customers ready to get–and stay–ahead of the curve.”

Under the Novon marque, Novon on Demand will now provide a critical extension to Novon’s core data and engineering services, supporting a growing market demand for more advanced and nuanced capability solutions, amidst continued investment in–and demand for–data and cloud services, and the adoption of AI.

Chris Spring, Novon's CTO:

“As we navigate the next iteration of automation, with the evolution of AI, advanced engineering, and modern integration techniques, we are on the precipice of a complete revolution within our industry that will drive huge demand for enterprise customers.

“While Novon has historically operated as a boutique data consultancy, scaling our service offering enables us to compete with the Big Four. The acquisition of Technology People, which attracts the best talent nationally, means we are now equipped to build teams at scale and support customers on this unique journey.”

Founded in 2011, Technology People has spent 14 years at the forefront of some of the region’s most significant digital and data transformation programs, successfully placing over 2000 specialist technology resources during this time alongside some of Australia’s fastest-growing startups to ASX-listed companies including QANTAS, Macquarie Group, ASX, and Rest.

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What’s driving a modern Data Architecture?

In today's digital economy, data is a critical asset that drives business innovation, efficiency, and a competitive advantage. A modern data architecture is at the heart of leveraging this business asset. It is designed to address the complexities and scale of managing data in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. So, what are the key tenants of a modern data architecture that allow for this agility, innovation, and security of your organisations data.

Adopt cloud-based data management and cloud-based data storage.
Add a data fabric architecture for seamless integration. Organisations are looking for flexible data management solutions as data continues to sprawl across disparate destinations—on-premises data centres, multiple clouds, and edge devices.
Add a data mesh architecture to simplify and focus your response to the changing data landscape. It will enable your organisation to respond quickly and cost effectively to the data changes that abound in 2024
Adopt automation using generative AI and ML in data management.
Adopt low-code / no-code for data integration. Find the vendors or data specialists that have completed work similar to your challenge. Successful experienced operators are key.
Provide data governance, security, and privacy in an automated fashion. There is no time in 2024 to manually rediscover and develop data changes that other organisations have already found and adopted. These changes must be automated through generative AI and ML capabilities.

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Data management guiding principles still apply in today’s data landscape, however, today change is very rapid and there is no room for a bottom-up approach to managing your data, rather you should build pervasive AI / generative AI / ML models that do the heavy lifting for you.

In 2023 and still today we talk about data gravity as a key challenging principle of today’s modern enterprise data platform, but increasingly anti-data gravity is seen as the key issue in 2024 and beyond.

Data gravity is well documented, essentially this is where the accumulation of data (operations and analytical) attracts more data and services into its business data mix, thereby increasing data complexity and potentially causing serious challenges for an organisation to maximise the value of their data, especially if you have adopted a cloud first approach for your infrastructure. To further complicate this scenario, consider the challenges if you are a global organisation as you manage across different time zones, regulatory and business structures.

Anti-gravity advocates that the data and expertise should stay local and the two modern data architectures when used correctly can help moderate these challenges are data fabric and data mesh architectures.

Joanne Maggs, Managing Director, Technology People, added:

“Novon on Demand represents our ambition to create a suite of services that not only reflects our deep domain expertise, but which actively challenges the status quo.”

“For Technology People customers, the move is a win-win. The trusted talent solutions they know they can rely on are now supercharged by Novon’s specialist capabilities and regional scale. It’s an exhilarating next chapter.”