Latest Technology News In South Africa
Sidetrade was founded in France in 2000 by Olivier Novasque with a focus on improving business-to-business receivables and working-capital management. By 2026 Sidetrade provides accounts-receivable automation and analytics to large organisations, with its Aimie AI technology central to product positioning.
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Linedata was formed in France in January 1998 through the combination of several financial-software businesses, including GSI Division des Banques, Line Data and BDB Participation. The group listed in 2000 and expanded internationally through acquisitions, including Longview, while broadening software for asset management, lending and fund administration.
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N-able’s technology lineage comes from software used by IT managed-service providers to monitor, manage and protect customer systems remotely. In 2026 N-able provides remote monitoring, management, backup and security software for managed service providers and IT departments.
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Smart Parking’s group history includes long-running parking-management operations in the United Kingdom, where a predecessor business was established in the early 1990s. The Australian-listed group combined parking operations with sensor, data and software technology designed to monitor occupancy, enforce parking rules and improve management of parking assets.
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OPTiM was founded in Saga, Japan, in June 2000 by Shunji Sugaya while he was a university student. The company moved from early internet services into software licensing, remote support and device management, launched products such as Optimal Remote and Optimal Biz, and listed in Tokyo in 2014.
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Admicom was founded in Finland in 2004 and developed cloud software for construction, building-services engineering and related small and mid-sized businesses. The company built recurring SaaS revenue around Adminet and related products and listed on Nasdaq First North Finland in February 2018 before broadening its construction-software portfolio.
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Temenos was founded in Geneva in 1993 by George Koukis to build software for banks. By 2026, Temenos sold core banking, payments, digital-banking and related software to financial institutions around the world.
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Zuken was founded in Yokohama in 1976 as Zukei Shori Gijutsu Kenkyusho and developed one of Japan’s early commercial CAD/CAM systems for printed-circuit-board design. In 2026 Zuken provides electronic and electrical design automation software used in electronics, automotive, aerospace and other engineering industries.
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Aptitude Software Group descends from Microgen, whose financial-systems roots date to the 1970s, while the current listed parent was incorporated in 1981. Aptitude became a focused finance-software business after Microgen separated activities and sold Microgen Financial Systems in 2019, leaving the group centred on accounting, billing and finance automation.
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Nuix was founded in Sydney in 2000 with the goal of making very large collections of unstructured data searchable and analysable. By 2026 Nuix provides investigative analytics and data-processing software and has expanded its graph capabilities through the acquisition of Linkurious.
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