Partnering with governments
Salsa partners with governments across Australia to help them digitally transform, better engage with citizens, and open up to co-create and co-innovate with industry.
Driven by three key principles
With its legacy in open source since 2003, Salsa today is owned and led by directors Alfred Deeb, Paul Morriss and Stuart Rowlands. Alfred, Paul and Stuart have come together through a shared open ethos, to build a company that’s underpinned by the following three key principles…
Purpose
A clear purpose to help governments become more open, more connected and more consolidated.
People
An open environment for our people — the Salsarians — to thrive and be fulfilled in delivering great work that's meaningful.
Values
A culture that's truly driven by our values of rigour, accountability, transparency, innovation, authenticity and diversity.
Our history
From small startup in 2003 to enterprise-grade agency
2003 — Salsa is founded
Salsa is established in Melbourne, building websites using open source content management systems Wordpress and Joomla.
2007 — First six-figure project
Salsa builds custom website for startup.
2011 — The Drupal revolution
Salsa adopts Drupal, expanding its ability to deliver complex and scalable digital solutions.
2012 — Cloud
Salsa adopts the disruptive (at the time) cloud technology, via AWS.
2012 — First seven-figure project
Salsa delivers its first project valued at over $1 million, marking a major growth milestone.
2015 — Government and GovCMS
Salsa moves into the government space and starts building GovCMS websites.
2017 — Victoria's Single Digital Presence
Salsa co-creates and builds Victoria's whole-of-government digital platform, Single Digital Presence (SDP).
2018 — GovCMS implementation partner
Salsa wins the contract to create Australia's second-generation whole-of-government platform, GovCMS.
2018 — GovCMS2.0 launched
Salsa launches the second-generation GovCMS, a new Salsa/amazee.io platform.
2018 — Joins the open data revolution
Salsa moves into open data, taking over Victoria's Open Data Portal.
2022 — Rules as Code
Salsa moves into Rules as Code (RaC) with the build of BenefitMe and a proof of concept (PoC) for GovCMS.
2023 — GovCMS contract win
Salsa and amazee.io win a new platform contract.
2024 — GovCMS Rules as Code sandpits
Salsa works with GovCMS on 16 Rules as Code PoCs for government.
2026 — Rules as Code IRAP
Salsa's Rules as Code services and OpenFisca hosting platform, Assemblic, are assessed against the Information Security Manual (ISM) Official:Sensitive level controls, as part of an Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment.
