about us
Mission Statement -
Utilizing our passion for ICT allows us to create fresh and innovative solutions which empower our customers to realize and unleash their full potential.
Who are we?
Imagitech had its beginning in July 2005 as a step in the success story of two of its founding members, Riekert du Preez and James Boshoff. While completing their Information Technology diploma in 2003 at the Port Elizabeth Technikon, Riekert and James qualified as part of a three man team being one of the institute’s entries for the Microsoft Project Firefly competition held in Cape Town. Their entry, the “Media Preview Suite” software application, was selected as the overall winner at the local event by an internationally recognized panel of judges.
Building on the success of Project Firefly, the “Media Preview Suite” was South Africa’s entry for the international Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004 competition in Brazil. Of the 35 countries present at the event, the team achieved a final placing of 4th overall.
On their return to South Africa they were invited to share the keynote presentation at the 2004 Microsoft Partner Summit. Later that year they also shared the day two keynote presentation at Microsoft Tech-Ed Africa 2004. In the latter part of 2005, they were invited to return to Microsoft Tech-Ed Africa 2005 to present a session at this event. During the period 2004 – 2005, Riekert and James also presented at numerous universities throughout the country while completing their BTech: Information Technology.
Reporting on their success and bright future the April 1st 2005 Financial Mail featured the South African Microsoft Imagine Cup entrant team in an article entitled; “Taking a Shine to the Firefly”. The two then cofounded Imagitech ICT Solutions as an independent software vendor focusing on developing software solutions for small to medium enterprise. While participating in the day-to-day tasks of running an ISV business, Riekert completed his MTech: Information Technology at the NMMU.
Imagitech released “ORwin Lite” as their first software package in August 2007, after it having passed the Microsoft Platform Test for ISV Solutions. “ORwin Lite” also received an endorsement from the National Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) with the SEDA product and services panel rating the software as “excellent for small enterprise use”.
Imagitech is a Microsoft Certified Partner and has achieved Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency status.
The company is currently in the process of completing development on their next exciting product.