Steeves and Associates: The Canadian Partner Behind Your Microsoft Investment

Most organizations don't have a Microsoft licensing problem — they have a Microsoft value problem. The subscriptions are paid for; the outcomes are the hard part. Steeves and Associates is the Canadian partner that has built its whole practice around closing that gap: helping companies maximize their investments in Microsoft technologies by delivering outcomes that keep the business secure, scalable, and on track to its objectives.

Three decades of Microsoft, from BC outward

Established in 1992 and headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Steeves has been working with Microsoft technology for more than thirty years — long enough to have been Canada's first Microsoft Cloud Partner, and one of roughly a hundred partners worldwide selected for Microsoft's inaugural FastTrack-Ready program in 2018. The team is deliberately senior: Microsoft-certified consultants, trainers, Microsoft MVPs, PMI-certified project managers and cybersecurity specialists, serving organizations typically running 500 to 10,000 computers across Canada and the US.

What they do

Steeves frames its work as four journeys — Security, Data and AI, Azure, and Modern Work — delivered through practical engagements:

• Microsoft 365 and Teams — transitions and adoption for organizations moving their collaboration stack to the Microsoft cloud.
• Enterprise mobility and endpoint management — Intune, Configuration Manager and co-management, endpoint audits, and the messy real-world middle where most of us live. This is Workplace Ninjas home turf, and it's no coincidence their consultants speak at our events.
• Microsoft security — Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft Entra Suite, with FastTrack security assessments and a bottom-up strategy that treats security as something you build in, not bolt on.
• Azure cloud transformation — infrastructure and application migration, plus data centre and infrastructure assessments for what stays on-premises.
• Accelerator workshops — focused engagements on data and identity protection to get stalled security initiatives moving.

The client list reflects a partner trusted with serious environments: professional services, forestry, manufacturing, oil and gas, legal, finance, education and healthcare, alongside municipalities across BC — Burnaby, both North Vancouvers, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Prince George, the Township of Langley and Vancouver itself. Their own line says it best: "our clients are our best sales people."

Why outcomes, not projects

What sets the Steeves approach apart is where an engagement ends. A migration that completes on time is a project; an environment your team can operate, secure and scale after the consultants leave is an outcome. Steeves' engagements — from endpoint management implementations to security accelerators — are scoped around the latter: the business stays secure, the platform scales with growth, and the technology measurably serves the objectives it was bought for.

Ninjas in the wild

Steeves and Associates has sponsored every Workplace Ninjas Canada event to date — Vancouver 2024 and 2025, Toronto 2025 and Calgary 2025 — and its people show up on stage, not just on the sponsor wall. At Vancouver 2024, Senior Cloud Consultant Matthew Armitage's deep dive into Multi App Kiosk mode in Windows 11 was rated the best session of the day in the feedback forms. That's the kind of partner this community is glad to have: one that shares what it knows.

You can reach the team at steeves.net, at sales@steeves.net, or at 1 888 952 8800.

Steeves and Associates is a sponsor of Workplace Ninjas Canada events. This profile was written by the community.

← Back to articles