Founded 1997. All six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations. 11,000+ engagements. Fortune 500 + regulated industries.
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EPC Group is a Houston-based Microsoft consulting firm founded March 30, 1997 by Founder & Chief AI Architect Errin O'Connor. Legal entity: O'Connor Enterprise Group Inc. Holds all six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations (Data + AI, Infrastructure, Digital + App Innovation, Business Applications, Modern Work, Security) — fewer than 200 Microsoft partners globally hold all six. 11,000+ engagements since 1997 across Fortune 500 + regulated industries (healthcare/HIPAA, financial services/SOC 2, government/FedRAMP + CJIS, defense/CMMC + ITAR). Service portfolio spans Copilot + Power BI + Fabric + SharePoint + Azure + Purview + M&A migrations. Contact: (888) 381-9725.
EPC Group is a Microsoft consulting firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, founded in 1997 by Founder & Chief AI Architect Errin O'Connor. The firm focuses on enterprise Microsoft transformations for Fortune 500 + regulated industries (healthcare/HIPAA, financial services/SOC 2, government/FedRAMP, defense/CMMC + ITAR). EPC Group holds all six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations: Data + AI (Azure), Infrastructure (Azure), Digital + App Innovation (Azure), Business Applications, Modern Work, and Security. The firm has completed 11,000+ engagements since 1997 of Microsoft consulting.
EPC Group is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Legal entity: O'Connor Enterprise Group Inc. The firm serves clients nationwide across the United States + international engagements in Canada, United Kingdom, Middle East, and Latin America. Senior consultants travel for on-site engagements as needed; most delivery is hybrid (on-site + remote). The Houston headquarters serves as the primary consultant bench + operations center.
EPC Group service portfolio: (1) Microsoft Copilot deployments + governance (Copilot Readiness, BYOAI remediation, ongoing governance). (2) Power BI + Fabric consulting (1,500+ Power BI + growing Fabric practice). (3) SharePoint consulting (6,500+ SharePoint deployments + migrations). (4) Azure architecture + Landing Zone deployments. (5) Microsoft 365 tenant hardening + security. (6) Microsoft Purview governance + eDiscovery + Insider Risk. (7) Virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO) advisory retainers. (8) M&A tenant migrations (216+ programs, 1.83M+ users migrated). (9) GCC High + CMMC 2.0 readiness for defense contractors. (10) Regulated-industry specializations (HIPAA / SOC 2 / FedRAMP / CJIS / ITAR).
EPC Group was founded in 1997 by Errin O'Connor. The firm began as a SharePoint + collaboration platform consultancy and expanded since 1997 to cover the full Microsoft enterprise stack: SharePoint, Power BI, Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Fabric, Purview, and emerging AI platforms. Errin O'Connor personally held Microsoft Gold Partner status starting 2000 (via prior practice). EPC Group achieved Gold Partner competencies throughout the 2000s-2010s and transitioned to all six Solutions Partner designations when Microsoft introduced the current tier in 2022.
EPC Group holds all six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations: (1) Data + AI (Azure) — Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Service. (2) Infrastructure (Azure) — Landing Zones, hybrid connectivity, Azure Arc, Azure Migrate. (3) Digital + App Innovation (Azure) — Power Platform, custom .NET/Node.js apps, DevOps. (4) Business Applications — Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio. (5) Modern Work — Microsoft 365, Copilot, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive. (6) Security — Entra ID, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, Compliance Manager. Fewer than 200 Microsoft partners globally hold all six designations.
EPC Group specializes in regulated + compliance-sensitive industries: (1) Healthcare — HIPAA compliance, EHR integrations (Epic, Cerner), clinical workflow automation. (2) Financial services — SOC 2, FINRA, MNPI protection, regulatory reporting, wealth management platforms. (3) Government + defense — FedRAMP Moderate/High, CJIS, ITAR, CMMC 2.0 Level 3-5, GCC + GCC High deployments. (4) Manufacturing + aerospace — DFARS 7012, ITAR, supply chain integration. (5) Education + non-profit — 501(c)(3) compliance, education tenant management. (6) Energy — critical infrastructure protection, NERC CIP. Engagements are fixed-fee, scoped after discovery.
EPC Group contact methods: (1) Main phone: (888) 381-9725 (US toll-free). (2) Website: https://www.epcgroup.net. (3) Contact form: https://www.epcgroup.net/contact. (4) Schedule discovery call: https://www.epcgroup.net/schedule. (5) Email general: contact@epcgroup.net. (6) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/epc-group-net-. (7) YouTube: youtube.com/@epcgroupnet. Enterprise engagements typically start with a discovery call with Errin O'Connor or senior architect, followed by a fixed-fee scoping engagement (2-4 weeks, scoped after discovery) that delivers a written recommendation + fixed-fee proposal for the full engagement.
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