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Infused Innovations is a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps organizations digitally transform their businesses by securely integrating emerging technologies. They are passionate and committed to assisting organizations across various verticals, such as health care, engineering, manufacturing, finance, as well as non-profit organizations. With practice areas that collectively add to the solutions they provide their clients - such as Cybersecurity, AI & ML, Hybrid Cloud Services, Data & Analytics, and more - they set themselves apart with a holistic solution approach that can solve many of today’s complex business challenges.
To top it off, social responsibility, sustainability, transparency, and innovation are among the company’s top core values. They intently and carefully select projects with clients who are also aligned with these beliefs. Infused Innovations believes that businesses should, no less, be aware of the inherent inequities that are prevalent within the tech industry and be a catalyst for social good.
Industry-Esteemed Leadership
Jeff Wilhelm, the Founder, and CEO of Infused Innovations imagined Infused Innovations many years before building the business. He felt that there was a gap in the industry. Organizations had become too transactional -prioritizing profit over client relationship. He wanted to start a company that had strong interpersonal and ethical values that would set new standards for running a business within the tech industry. Not only was it a goal to focus on social good and client relationships, but also to thrive on the innovation that happens in a market that is changing constantly.
Passionate about technology for decades, Jeff has always found himself dabbling in the latest and greatest technologies. He has over 20 years of experience working with clients across a multitude of business and technology areas, including high-performance virtualization, end-user computing environments, data analytics and business intelligence, marketing automation, datacenter design, network architecture, and security. Jeff’s current focus is architecting Infused Innovations’ vision for a Secure Intelligent Workplace, which leverages a Zero Trust Security framework. This framework focuses on modern authentication, data and device protection, and threat protection. His primary goal is to improve the workflow, operations, and automation across client organizations.
The company’s goal has been to be intentional in every decision and every hire. This is evident in the hiring of industry veterans with extensive knowledge, a professional aptitude to drive the business forward, and the sharing of similar core values. As a result, Infused Innovations has grown quicker than he imagined many years ago when he first began to dream about the reality of this business.
Partnerships Driving Organizational Success
Achieving such heights would not have been as easy without their trusted partner, Microsoft. Infused Innovations is proud to be a Microsoft Gold Partner, which means they have earned competencies in various areas including product knowledge and service excellence.
Leveraging Microsoft 365, Infused Innovations delivers a holistic identity-based security platform that integrates across a client’s business and beyond their network perimeter so that employees can work from anywhere, on any device. According to Dan Chemistruck, CISO and Microsoft Evangelist, “Microsoft Azure product teams are constantly innovating tools for the future of work and we help our clients implement those tools. With Microsoft technology at our disposal, we have completed some incredibly difficult and fulfilling projects.” By leveraging the scale and intelligence of the cloud, Infused Innovations is leading the way in delivering Microsoft's 60+ security products to mobile workforces around the world and innovating the way people run their businesses.
Mitigating Cyber Risks with Innovative offerings
Infused Innovations is a vocal proponent of the Zero Trust Security Framework. They help their clients implement this by leveraging the Microsoft security platform.The company also provides a managed security service – Infused Threat Protection. The service has been introduced to help organizations manage the ongoing changes in the threat landscape. To help get greater and more holistic insight across their client’s organizations, Infused Innovations uses Microsoft Azure Sentinel. Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automation and response (SOAR). In addition to the leveraging modern AI technologies and security orchestration provided by Azure Sentinel, Infused Innovations’ new ITP service leverages a formal Security Operations Center (SOC) to provide 24/7 year-round coverage for all alerts generated in both Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender ATP. The company’s cybersecurity incident response team (CSIRT) is entirely based in the United States and is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.
Leveraging Emerging Technologies
Infused Innovations is also working with clients to leverage Artificial Intelligence to help them digitally transform their businesses. This includes training machine learning models to reduce the impact of repetitive tasks that are normally handled by high-cost, high-value resources. Also, using image recognition and computer vision, the company is working with clients to automatically label and classify images.
Keeping true to their core values, Infused Innovations recognizes that with the potential benefits, there are also inherent biases and risks in AI models. Sean Trifero, CTO & AI practice leader says, “Beyond ethics, inclusiveness and fairness in our machine learning training data sets, are typically going to result in better reliability and generally a superior solution. Responsibly training our models with the correct data, and the correct amount of data will yield improved results.” Infused Innovations continues to express the importance in ethical data and promises to always grow their company with that in mind.
Infused Innovations enables their clients to test, pilot and build unique solutions on the most comprehensive cloud platform – Microsoft Azure. In addition, a next-generation Innovation Lab is available for clients that want to try out new ideas. According to Phil Magnuszewski, COO and head of their Innovation Lab, “Many organizations simply don’t have the time or resources to run a traditional innovation lab. We provide an environment to pilot the “Art of the Possible” leveraging a low-cost, low-risk approach.
Gaining Prestigious Recognitions Beyond Business Challenges
While it is exciting to discuss Infused Innovations exploding success, Jeff opens up about the ‘not so fun’ parts of growing a business in the tech industry. He says, “Growth can be a challenge at times. Finding talent that has the right mix of skill sets and cultural fit with the organization can be tricky as your business grows.” Nonetheless, the company has magnificently managed to attain several achievements and accolades including the title of Top 10 Security Automation Vendors. Sean Trifero, who is a VMware vExpert, has achieved an Honor title of Tech10 Award. Moreover, Jeff himself has been awarded both the ‘40 under Forty” and “CTO in a Small Private Business’ awards. Jeff takes pride in telling us that he has been recognized as Tech10 Award Winner by the Tech Collective.
However, what Infused Innovations values most is the feedback from their clients. Infused Innovations has helped numerous businesses transform over the years and is grateful for the opportunity to have been a building block in all their successes. Helping organizations and businesses thrive is what ultimately fulfils the Infused Innovation’s team.
Envisioning an Ever-Growing Future
The industry-wide recognition gained by Infused Innovations shows that the company is thriving as the world is changing its understanding of technology. As Jeff says, “there is an ever-evolving need for more innovative platforms and tools. Businesses are realizing the importance of securing their data and the company sees a huge shift in businesses asking their employees to work remotely.” Infused Innovations is confident that their business is going to continue to grow, and as it does, the company’s goal is to always remain one step ahead of the industry.