Simplify your digital technology to improve people’s lives

Symbiote is a trusted partner for both government and private organisations with critical-information projects, providing:

Data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) for data migration and/or re-purposing across platforms and channels

Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Content Management System (CMS) research, selection and implementation

Data and API integration and management to handle large and varied data sources efficiently

Agile and flexible practises that keep projects collaborative and responsive to changing needs and enhance capability

Real-time, time sensitive and critical data availability including interactive and customisable maps and cross-platform alerts

Digital product and service development on secure, scalable and reliable infrastructure

Benefits of our work

  • Reliably deliver information to millions of people

    VicTraffic now has a robust, secure and user-friendly map-based website that can scale to provide critical data to potentially millions of road users.

  • Easily create and manage multiple websites

    This NSW State Government department can create its own fully branded, consistent websites for special projects or when departments change, via an easy-to-use CMS we selected for them.

  • Integrate data from a variety of sources

    Clever integration of data from a range of sources gave Public Transport Victoria a productivity-boosting intranet that was later adapted so customers could self-serve 24/7.

Read our case studies

What our clients say

“Symbiote have given DPC solid solutions across a wide range of technologies for over 11 years. They’ve enabled us to meet every challenge and given us the tools and resources to create solutions for ourselves, backed by their solid, continuous integration pipeline.”

— Mark Taylor, Senior Advisor Web Development and Support BR Partnerships and Engagement, Department of Premier and Cabinet NSW.

Who we work with

  • NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet

    Simple, secure, templated government websites the NSW Government’s Department of Premier & Cabinet can create and maintain themselves.

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  • NOPSEMA

    NOPSEMA were pleased with the fast turnaround brand refresh and simple, easy-to-maintain open source website we created for their regulatory arm, IOPER.

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  • Public Transport Victoria

    A cleverly integrated intranet dashboard gave PTV Customer Call Centre staff access to all the systems they need in one place, with a single secure login.

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  • Circular Open – By-Product

    Open source software can be part of an ethical circular design economy, as our work with Circular Open, an offshoot of Melbourne Design Week, demonstrated.

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  • Ian Potter Foundation

    Effective personal user research enabled us to tailor the Ian Potter Foundation website to simplify finding, applying for and administering grants.

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Maintain and Optimise

Security

Application support

Meet the Symbiote team

We live and work here in Australia, so we’re around to talk when you are.

Talk to us about building digital tools designed for real human beings, to give you the biggest return on investment while nurturing relationships with your staff and customers.

Smarter tech for better days: that’s our purpose

Symbiote folks are people-people as well as tech-people. We become part of your team to work with you in a cooperative and mutually beneficial way. It’s all in our name (which is pronounced Sim-Bee-Oat).

We’re curious, empathetic problem-solvers who keep people at the centre of their thinking, to make sure your digital technology works for – and even delights – everyone who uses it.

If you’re looking for a digital agency to research and design, build and deliver, maintain and optimise your digital technology, we’re based in Melbourne and keen to help.