Microsoft Consulting in Kansas City, Missouri

EPC Group Kansas City — the regional Microsoft consulting practice

EPC Group serves enterprise customers in Kansas City from regional senior architects with hands-on production delivery experience. The local engagement model is the same as the national practice: senior-architect-led, fixed-fee accelerators or milestone-billed projects, compliance-native delivery for healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing. Kansas City clients typically begin with a 30-minute discovery call or a fixed-fee Tenant Health Check or Copilot Readiness Assessment.

Senior-architect-led delivery in Kansas City

Every engagement is led and staffed by 15 to 20 year veterans. No rotating juniors learning on your tenant. The bench includes hundreds of Microsoft-certified consultants who have shipped real production environments for Fortune 500 customers across SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power BI, Azure, and Microsoft Copilot. Errin O'Connor (CEO and founder) is a Microsoft MVP (first awarded 2003) and a FedRAMP framework contributor; author of four Microsoft Press bestsellers covering Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and large-scale migrations.

Compliance-native, not bolted on

Zero governance audit failures across 11,000-plus enterprise engagements. HIPAA, SOC 2, FINRA, FedRAMP, and CMMC controls are engineered into the tenant on day one with audit-ready evidence. The regulated-industry posture is the baseline, not an upgrade tier. EPC Group is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with core designations across Modern Work, Security, and Data & AI. EPC Group was the oldest continuous Microsoft Gold Partner in North America from 2016 until program retirement in 2022.

How EPC Group engages Kansas City clients

Six-phase methodology applied to every engagement, compressed for fixed-fee accelerators and extended for full programs.

1. Discovery — two-week assessment of the current estate, gap analysis, risk register, target architecture, costed remediation roadmap.
2. Design — senior architect produces the target topology, identity framework, Conditional Access, Purview, governance model, and security posture, reviewed by client leads.
3. Pilot — 25 to 100 user pilot in a real business unit. Migrate, apply baselines, test integrations, capture feedback.
4. Wave rollout — migrate in waves of 500 to 2,500 users with communications, training, hypercare, and a per-wave retrospective.
5. Adoption — role-based training, Champions network, executive sponsor enablement, metrics tracked against a measured baseline.
6. Operate — optional managed-services retainer for license optimization, governance reviews, security monitoring, and quarterly business reviews.

Engagement models

Three engagement models cover most enterprise needs. Most Kansas City clients start with a fixed-fee accelerator and grow into a full program or a managed-services retainer.

• Fixed-fee accelerators — Copilot Readiness, Security Hardening, Tenant Health Check, SharePoint Migration, Teams Governance. Defined scope and price. Typical range $25,000 to $150,000 over four to twelve weeks.
• Project engagements — full migration or governance program with milestone-based billing. Discovery through hypercare. Typical range $150,000 to $750,000-plus over three to nine months.
• Managed services — tiered retainer for ongoing operations. Named senior architect on the account. From $3,500 per month with a twelve-month minimum.

Industries served from the Kansas City practice

• Healthcare and life sciences — HIPAA, BAAs, Purview sensitivity labels for protected health information, Epic and Cerner integration patterns, 21 CFR Part 11 e-signature controls for clinical trials.
• Financial services — SOC 2, FINRA Rule 4511 and SEC 17a-4 retention, MNPI controls, Communication Compliance for trading floors and wealth advisors.
• Government and defense contractors — FedRAMP Moderate and High posture, GCC and GCC High tenants, CUI handling, ITAR-controlled data segregation.
• Manufacturing and energy — IP protection, operational technology integration, multi-plant rollouts, frontline-worker enablement.

Talk to a senior architect

30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. Call (816) 425-3240 or schedule a discovery call and a senior architect responds within one business day.