Informotion Appoints Shane Parsons as CEO, Doubles Down on Microsoft Investment and Capabilities
Announcement posted by UBE Marketing 04 Feb 2026
Sydney, Australia, 04 February 2026, Informotion, a leading Australian data, information governance and compliance consultancy, announced the appointment of Shane Parsons as Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Informotion has doubled its investment in Microsoft capabilities, achieving Microsoft Solution Partner designation in under three months. This positions the firm to compete directly with systems integrators (SIs).
Parsons brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience across enterprise consulting and the Microsoft ecosystem, including executive roles at KPMG, IBM, and large-scale systems integration firms. His appointment marks a pivotal shift for Informotion as it accelerates its evolution from a specialist records and information management consultancy to also a Microsoft-focused, AI-ready transformation partner.
"AI will only succeed where data is trusted, governed, and understood," said Shane Parsons, CEO of Informotion. "Organisations are burning money on AI initiatives without addressing the foundations. Informotion's heritage in information management gives us a unique advantage. We take clients from chaos to clarity, and from governance to innovation."
Rapid Microsoft Capability Expansion
Since Parsons appointment, Informotion has made a deliberate and accelerated investment in Microsoft talent, architecture, and delivery capability. In under three months, the company achieved Microsoft Solution Partner designation, supported by a senior team of Microsoft MVPs, FastTrack architects, and Head of Microsoft Go-to-market.oth ility, cost efficiency, and accountability of a specialist consultancy.
Alongside its expanded Microsoft investment, Informotion continues to double down on EncompasS, a proprietary platform that sits on Microsoft Azure and lights up Copilot which we've developed over eight years to support governed, prepare AI-ready information environments. EncompasS underpins Informotion's agentic-led approach, embedding innovation directly into how organisations manage, govern and trust their data across Microsoft ecosystems.
"Most of our team has come from the big end of town," Parsons said. "We're delivering the same quality of Microsoft expertise organisations expect from GSIs, with greater focus, faster execution, and better commercial value."
The strengthened Microsoft alignment also unlocks access to Microsoft funding programs, co-sell opportunities, and innovation initiatives, reducing upfront investment for customers while accelerating time to value.
Competing Where AI, Data and Compliance Converge
Informotion's expansion builds on its long-standing reputation in highly regulated sectors, including government, utilities, and education, where compliance, information governance, and data risk are critical barriers to AI adoption.
The firm specialises in making complex, unstructured data environments AI-ready, ensuring organisations can adopt Microsoft Copilot and AI services with confidence, security, and regulatory alignment.
"Many organisations stall at AI pilots because they uncover data risks they're not prepared to manage," Parsons said. "That's where we're different. We understand both the technology and the risk and compliance realities, and we bridge that gap."
For over a decade, Content Manager has been the cornerstone of our record and information management business. Today, we're helping our clients unlock even greater value from this trusted platform by integrating Microsoft AI and Power Platform capabilities. This combination enables our clients to modernise their operations, unlock previously inaccessible data, and generate actionable insights through intelligent automation. The results speak for themselves: working with one government department, we deployed AI-powered solutions that reduced average FOI request response times from 8 weeks to just 5 days - a transformation that directly improves citizen service delivery.
What's Next
Looking ahead, Informotion will continue to invest aggressively in Microsoft capability, talent, and innovation, with plans to expand both organically in Australia, the UK and Ireland. The company remains committed to its heritage in information governance while scaling its role as a Microsoft-first AI and data transformation partner.
About Informotion
For over 25 years, Informotion's team has specialised in compliance and records management, guiding regulated organisations globally through complexity with clarity, confidence, and proven expertise. We have people in Australia, the UK and Ireland.
Today, as data moves to Cloud, AI, and automation, Informotion bridges heritage governance with future-ready innovation. Our Data and Information Governance practice and our Microsoft Cloud & AI practice are combining decades of compliance mastery with innovative AI, Cloud, and automation tools, to help organisations transform complex data into actionable insights, wherever they operate.