Our software engineering experts thrive on solving the most challenging software projects that drive value for your business.
Our expert IT consultants focus on helping you streamline workflows, optimise your IT systems, and drive down costs while boosting productivity.
If you’re looking to learn a new skill, or upskill in open source, our experts can help with workshops and training.
Our UX services include business analysis, UX, UI and visual design.
You can also access our in-house design agency for non-tech related projects.
Qualified on the DIA Marketplace for Web Accessibility, our team brings you expert knowledge in a friendly, practical way.
We help you to create a secure, fully-customisable Content Management System (CMS) that is free from license and zero vendor lock-in, and works the way you need it to.
As New Zealand’s largest Tōtara Partner, Premium Certified Moodle LMS partners and the core maintainers of Mahara ePortfolio, we're primed to help you achieve your L&D strategy with the right tools.
Rōpū kohinga provides trusted technology solutions to help care for your physical and digital collections for generations to come. We specialise in library, collections and archives solutions including Koha, DSpace, VuFind, and Islandora.
With years of experience building and running cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications across AWS, Azure, and Catalyst Cloud (OpenStack), we can help you make the most of the cloud.
A career at Catalyst gives you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate with industry experts, and continuously grow both personally and professionally.
Our Open Source Academy equips senior secondary school students with basic skills and knowledge to help them consider a career in tech before making further education decisions.
Each year, we offer two students a scholarship to help cover study-related expenses.
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Catalyst has been in business for over 25 years. Learn more about how our organisation started in 1997 and our journey since then.
At Catalyst, we value the power of teamwork and collaboration. The distinctive management style and team approach at Catalyst drive the success of our open-source projects.
Our values of openness, freedom, collaboration and respect are important to us. These values align in some ways with tikanga Māori, but we understand we still have a way to go to fulfil all of our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Catalyst is a Toitu Carbon Zero Certified organisation that partners with clients to enable their sustainability journeys.
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Author: Jonathan Milne “....Don Christie says without a timetable to open the data centres, he questions whether the New Zealand Government and other customers can trust Amazon’s ....
Author: Moodle “Moodle Premium Certified Partner, Catalyst IT Australia, was invited to help ECA in their efforts. Using Moodle Workplace, Catalyst IT Australia endeavoured to enhance the effectiveness, usability, and cost and time efficiencies of ....
Author: Peter Bale "We could build capability in New Zealand to make this a far safer place. And this could again be under New Zealand’s control as opposed to having to rely on overseas actors.” ....
Author: Tim Murphy "Judges were impressed with [RiskScape's] ability “to harvest data to benefit so many communities on a national and global scale...“RiskScape is used to make better decisions driving impact from research and science with a sophisticate
Author: Nikki Mandow “There has been no fundamental shift in thinking or recognition that what Government calls a level playing field is actually skewed in favour of international companies. And there’s no agency reporting on any impact of applying ....
Author: GNS Science This award is a well-deserved recognition of the impact that RiskScape makes in helping New Zealand to understand the risk of, and build resilience to, natural hazards. It’s the outcome of years of hard work across GNS, and with ....
Author: Catalyst Cloud Catalyst Cloud’s net carbon zero certification is good news for the public sector with their requirement to be carbon neutral by 2025. It means government agencies now have a local government approved, carbon-zero cloud ....
Author: Don Christie “Since 2003, we have repeatedly demonstrated the possibilities of open-source learning platforms – whether that means scaling to meet the demands of three million users in the Middle East or facilitating thousands of simultaneous ...
Author: Niamh Avery "Another benefit is that open source projects feature public code that can be modified by anyone, thus allowing young people to use their skills to make a genuine difference in the world...
Author: Ben Moore "...AUT project manager Craig Murdoch said of this project, "We see the team at Catalyst as partners rather than vendors, and their commitment, skills and genuine approach meant our implementation was a real pleasure...
Author: Fire and Emergency NZ "It's an exciting time for the Te Ao Mārama team. Koha is intuitive, provides access to a wide range of resources and will improve user experience significantly," says Maki Tumu, Coordinator Te Ao Mārama, Strategy and Perfor
Author: Bill Bennett “…there are other approaches. Ones that involve paying taxes that provide for schools and hospitals, keeping data onshore and respecting te ao Māori, acknowledging the value of New Zealanders’ privacy, and building a resilient ....
Author: Don Christie “How do we harness the potential – and mitigate the disruptive – impacts of transformative technology in the digital age? Catalyst’s view is that technological sovereignty is perhaps the defining issue of the decade.” ....
Author: Marc Dalder “Three reasons for New Zealand’s vulnerability in this arena? The fundamental architecture of the internet, which necessitates the overseas transfer of data even to reach a New Zealand-hosted and -domiciled webpage from within ....
Author: Moodle “The Catalyst Group has had Moodle Certified Partner status since 2004 and was upgraded to Moodle Premium Partner in 2020. Catalyst was winner of The Moodle Project – Moodle Open Source Contributor Partner of The Year, 2019. Moodle is plea
Author: Nikki Mandow “The government could and should be using its $42b-worth of procurement clout to support the New Zealand economy and help local businesses get the sort of scale they need to take on the international market....
Author: Don Christie “Developing a roadmap for Cloud Native, irrespective of your starting point, will deliver immediate benefits, either in terms of crystalising your planning and strategy, or the sorts of tangible benefits above. ....
Author: David Williams “Give us some complicated business problem and what we will do is break that down into components and develop you the platform you need to make the business run really sweetly.”
“Think about Māori data and look at the health and social outcomes of minorities within the minority. Then you’re in an even worse position. And this is why, for Māori, data sovereignty, the use of health data, the type of knowledge system, are all ....
Author: Bernard Hickey “Now sovereignty is all about which platform you get your information from, and run your business or school from, where it is hosted, what is written into the algorithms it uses and who is hacking into it. We have to negotiate ....
Author: Bernard Hickey “Catalyst IT CEO Don Christie believes the Government would be better off using local, open-source based platforms as the basis for communications to avoid becoming dependent on an unaccountable operation that may not have ....
Author: Katie Kenny "New Zealand technology company Catalyst has been promoting online education platforms since the early 2000s, and is now helping educators around the world teach remotely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. "
Author: Newsroom “Catalyst has been a long-time and prominent player in our local IT landscape and a passionate advocate of what’s best for New Zealand,” Hickey says. “We know Catalyst is here for the long haul and ....
Author: Don Christie Right now our Prime Minister is in Paris building an alliance of multinational tech companies and Governments to address how internet-based platforms are being used to radicalise and weaponise extremism.
Author: Eloise GIbson “AUT and tech companies such as Catalyst IT have been investing in preparatory work on the telescope for more than five years, spending millions on staff salaries and expenses. Their work has been partly ....
Author: Sean Mitchell "The New Zealand Transport Authority (NZTA) partnered with Catalyst and Orbica to revolutionise CAS, the Crash Analysis System used by engineers, policy makers and researchers around New Zealand to make our roads safer."
Author: Te Herenga Waka – Victory University of Wellington “The conference took place against a backdrop of keynote speaker Finance Minister Grant Robertson announcing in his opening address terms of reference for the Productivity Commission’s inquiry in
Author: Business Desk “Big data analytics firm Catalyst and parts of New Zealand’s tiny astronomy community are mounting a last-ditch effort to keep New Zealand a full member of what’s being hailed as the largest science project ever ....
Author: Richard MacManus “There is a sense of cultural cringe about their drive to put New Zealand citizens’ data and processing on overseas platforms beyond the jurisdictional control of Kiwis,” Christie told me. “This will become a growing issue as ...
Author: UC Arts Digital Lab "The project to update the QuakeStudies online platform was undertaken by the UC Arts Digital Lab in collaboration with local open source technologists Catalyst IT. The new QuakeStudies platform, built on the Islandora...
Author: Richard McManus While we’re waiting for the big US tech companies to decide whether to come here, it’s worth noting that New Zealand does have locally-based public clouds. The IT firm Catalyst has a service called Catalyst Cloud. ....
Author: Don Christie “Money spent within local economies generates far higher tax revenues. A study by Economics New Zealand showed that $115,000 spent with our local IT services company generated a whopping $47,693 ....
Author: Alastair Thompson and Peter Kerr "OpenStack is the world's fastest growing open source project. It enables you to run what amounts to a version of Amazon Web Services on a laptop. The same software is being used by....
Author: Stuff "During his studies Denham started an internship at Catalyst, an open source software company, where he developed an app for a major telecommunications company....."
Author: Jazial Crossley "South China Morning Post deputy digital director Ben Abbotts said the site Catalyst made was world class."Already, in the first few weeks, the site is significantly outperforming its predecessor; traffic has doubled overnight...
Author: Claire Rogers "Wellington open source software firm Catalyst IT has won a seven-figure contract to develop the news website and supporting systems for the South China Morning Post...
