Mac Centre Boosts Security and Growth for Flare

Project overview

Since launching in 2015, Flare has partnered with top industry players to make pay and benefits accessible for workers and promote financial wellbeing. However, as it expanded, managing a growing number of devices became a challenge. That’s where Mac Centre stepped in, providing the expertise Flare needed to transform its IT infrastructure, stay compliant, and keep scaling.

About Flare

Flare is Australia’s largest benefits platform, dedicated to helping businesses offer fair and accessible pay and benefits. They ensure that perks like superannuation and health insurance are available to employees across the board. Their core values—be kind, do the right thing, strive for more—guide everything they do.

Key issues

• Complex Setup Process: Setting up new devices was slow and inconsistent.
• Lack of coordination: No centralised process for procuring and managing devices.
• Data Security Risks: Concerns about keeping sensitive employee data safe.

The challenge

As Flare grew, its IT infrastructure struggled to keep up with the increasing demands of managing sensitive pay and benefits data. The company needed a more secure, scalable, and efficient way to manage devices for new hires across the country.

The solution

Mac Centre worked closely with Flare to tackle its IT challenges. By streamlining hardware procurement, switching to Jamf for mobile device management, and implementing a zero-touch deployment strategy, we helped Flare scale efficiently while ensuring security and compliance— even as they adjusted to hybrid working during the pandemic.

About Mac Centre

Mac Centre is Australia’s only Apple-first, Apple Authorised Enterprise Reseller and Solutions Provider, dedicated to optimising the Apple experience for organisations of all sizes. Whether your business is adopting Apple for the first time or looking to improve a past deployment, Mac Centre offers tailored services to ensure your business succeeds. From outsourced IT management solutions and end-user support to device management, IT security, employee onboarding/offboarding or lifecycle management services, and beyond—our team of Apple-accredited, Google, and Microsoft-certified IT support engineers will ensure your business reaches its full potential.

Results

Partnering with Mac Centre transformed Flare’s device management and security protocols. By adopting Jamf and a zero-touch deployment strategy, we reduced manual workloads, enhanced security, and ensured new hires were ready to go with fully prepared devices. Plus, our expertise helped Flare achieve ISO 27001 certification, showing their commitment to data privacy.

Key benefits

Thanks to Mac Centre’s expertise, Flare is now able to manage its devices faster and more efficiently, with a stronger security posture. We helped Flare to simplify its IT operations, making sure it could scale up without complicating its IT setup, risking noncompliance with industry standards, or jeopardising the security of sensitive employee data. By rolling out a zero-touch deployment strategy, we made it easy for Flare to onboard new employees quickly, with devices that were pre-configured and ready to use right out of the box. This change not only cut down setup time but also lightened the load on Flare’s IT team, letting the company focus on its mission of helping employees across Australia achieve financial peace of mind.