Company promotes inclusion
A female-founded tech start up with a focus on digital inclusion has been announced by Microsoft as the winner of the Global Diversity and Inclusion Changemaker 2020, Microsoft Partner of the Year Award.
The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
Akari Solutions is a Scottish based, Microsoft Gold Partner with a twist, coupling technical knowledge with a passion for inclusion and diversity to truly level the playing field for people with hidden and situational disabilities.
Using AI and change management, they support organisations to digitally transform using the latest Microsoft Solutions with a focus on accessibility at the core of everything they do.
Akari is the only Scottish technology company to win a global award from Microsoft this year and is one of only six UK companies to be honoured in this year’s awards.
It has been working with Microsoft for just over one year attaining multiple Microsoft Gold competencies in record time, such as Cloud Platform, Cloud Productivity and recently were one of a handful of organisations to achieve an advanced specialisation in Adoption and Change Management.
Founded in 2019 by three female founders all with a strong background in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem. They have a breadth of experience across SME to enterprise organisations operating at global scale.
They work with customers with differing requirements across commercial, local regional government and healthcare organisations all moving towards the cloud with a renewed focus on bringing staff from office to frontline along on an inclusive digital transformation journey, this has been ever more so important with the current global situation with increased home working and reliance on accessible solutions for all.
Margaret Totten, Managing Director said: I am massively proud of what Akari has achieved in this last year particularly during a global pandemic that has seen challenges arise for many businesses.
“We set out to create a female founded tech organisation where technical expertise meets true digital inclusion and have seen more people than we ever expected join us in taking up the mantle to support inclusivity in tech. The market has shown that organisations, small and large, are truly embracing digital inclusion and this award from Microsoft is a massive honor that finishes off a fantastic first year.
“We are extremely excited to see a UK female led company take home this global accolade as it shows how far forward we are and how ready we are to embrace true inclusion and accessibility.”
