30+
Years in Practice
3,500+
Projects Delivered
350+
Clients Served
ISO 9001:2015
Certified
Our focus is on helping clients navigate complexity in a reliable evidence-based manner
Regulated organisations carry a breadth of legislative obligations across governance, technology, privacy, and information management that demands specialist expertise. Votar Partners provides, as a business and technology consultancy, that expertise on an independent, evidence-based basis, helping clients meet their compliance requirements, strengthen internal capability, and make well-informed decisions across their operations.
Since 1989 with over 3,500+ projects delivered, we have built our reputation on delivering measurable outcomes for a growing list of regulated clients. Every assignment is delivered by a mature, multidisciplinary team of consultants who are personable, respectful, and bring a depth of sector knowledge that comes from three decades of cross-sector experience.
Business & technology consulting services.
Across three integrated practice areas, our business consulting services address the operational, compliance, and strategic needs of regulated organisations throughout Australia.
Develop and review your technology and digital capabilities to support a contemporary service-focused architecture.
We help clients uplift their maturity to use your data, information, and knowledge as a strategic asset.
Practical recommendations and advice across a range of strategic and operational initiatives.
What you can expect from our business consulting services.
Our clients, their needs, and their objectives drive everything we do. Services are delivered by a team that are personable, approachable, and respectful of all clients.
Staunchly vendor independent business and technology consulting services ensures we will provide you with impartial, evidence-based guidance through depth and rigour of our consultation and analysis.
This independence is a key strategy by which our organisation has avoided any conflicts of interest in the past.
Shaped by your operating environment, we ensure specialist advice is always realistic and fit for purpose, with recommendations designed to deliver tangible outcomes rather than theoretical frameworks.
In a world that is rapidly changing, we must change with it. We continuously learn and grow so we can give you the best advice.
As a business consulting practice in Melbourne, Votar is fully transparent as to areas where we can deliver value to clients or alternately areas that are outside the scope of our professional service offerings and commercial experience. Basically, we’re not interested in wasting your time.
Our quality management is established and maintained in accordance with ISO 9001 international standards.
We focus on making meaningful use of these quality standards and controls to identify client-specific needs, tailor our approach and deliverables to meet these client needs and maintain internal controls to ensure that what is delivered to all clients is of the highest quality possible.
Our internal controls ensure we learn and adapt and do things right, every time.
Why regulated organisations choose Votar Partners
Vendor-Independent
With no commercial relationships with software vendors or IT providers, every recommendation we make is assessed entirely on the merits of what is best for your organisation.
Senior Expertise on Every Engagement
A mature, multidisciplinary team of consultants leads and delivers every assignment. We do not engage junior resources, meaning every client receives the full depth of our expertise from day one.
Sector-Specific Experience
Three decades of cross-sector experience produce a depth of sector understanding we bring directly to every engagement, drawing on what has worked in comparable regulated organisations.
Identify, assess and mitigate information management risk.
Identifying information management risk across an entire organisation demands structure and rigour. Our Regulatory Compliance Assessment Toolkit (RCAT) was purpose-built to make the process structured, repeatable, and evidence-based.
RCAT is a secure, cloud-based SaaS platform pre-populated with relevant legislation and guidelines, giving executives a clear, actionable picture of their information risks, compliance gaps, and where to focus first.
Across cybersecurity, ICT, information security, records, privacy, risk and governance, AI, and data, RCAT gives regulated organisations one place to assess, manage, and act on their compliance obligations.
Sectors and industries we serve across Australia.
We draw upon our wealth of knowledge and experience that have helped us successfully conduct 3,500+ assignments for a growing list of regulated clients including state government, local government, water, health, education, and not-for-profits.
A senior multi-disciplinary team of consultants with the depth your organisation deserves.
You work directly with experienced consultants throughout every project. Their qualifications and breadth of experience across regulatory, technology, and governance disciplines means your engagement draws on the full depth of what we have built over three decades.
Let’s find out if we’re the right fit.
Listening to your challenges and understanding your organisation is where every conversation with us begins. Together, we can determine whether our practice can add genuine value.
Common questions about our consulting services
An independent business and technology consulting firm based in Melbourne, we deliver evidence-based strategic and operational advice to regulated organisations across Australia’s public and not-for-profit sectors.
From state and federal government departments through to water, health, education, and not-for-profit organisations, our work spans every regulated sector in Australia, with over 3,500 assignments completed since 1989.
Yes. Votar holds approved supplier status on government procurement panels across Victoria, NSW, Queensland, and Western Australia, as well as the Digital Transformation Agency panel for the Australian Government.
Headquartered in Melbourne, our practice maintains an active consulting presence across Australia, regularly spanning multiple jurisdictions for state and local government clients.
Regulatory Compliance Assessment Toolkit (RCAT) is a proprietary SaaS platform developed by Votar Partners to help regulated organisations assess compliance with information management legislation, hosted on a PROTECTED-level Azure platform certified by the Australian Government.
As a point-in-time consulting practice, engagements begin with an initial conversation, progress through scoping and analysis, and conclude with evidence-based recommendations. Ongoing support is available where clients require it.
Latest news & announcements.
Perspectives on regulatory change, technology trends, and governance challenges facing Australia’s regulated sectors, shared by our team from over three decades of active experience.
