The DataSaint Legacy

DataSaint was founded in 1985 as a support base for a few point-of-sale customers in the small enterprise business sphere.   Development work was done in DBC on Datapoint equipment. The basic standalone system consisted of a 64k processor with a separate disk drive system for the removable 1.2mb drive.  Cassette tapes were used to upload programs and software to the system.



1987 – 1991 included standalone contracting.  DataSaint had 10 shareholders at the time and each was responsible for his own customer base.  The PC was non-existent and a worldwide change in focus took place when the ARCNET concept was developed.  The first LAN was born allowing us to connect and share.  Shortly afterwards the first PC was released with the Microsoft DOS system but it took a few years to be considered as a serious business tool to resolve computing requirements.  We had company offices in Val de Grace, Pretoria, during this time but it was mainly used for meetings and social gatherings as all development was done on site at our clients.


1992 – 1998 saw the expansion of our development to include CA Clipper and the SQL Server on a Unix operating system platform. Our first corporate client was taken on board in the Agricultural Chemical industry and the first version of our standardized business system was developed.  We joined the Developers Conference in San Francisco at the time to find software development tools with the result that we created our own Toolkit software used to standardize our application development of the next few years.


1998 – 2007 saw the development of MAgIC, which was mainly developed for the mining industry, using Microsoft SQL Server relational database and Delphi as programming language.  Further development of the MAgIC system took place after implementation at various mines throughout South-Africa and Botswana. Alternative versions of MAgIC were developed for the Textile and Leather industry and agricultural chemical industries. At this stage the business administration department came about and we moved away from running the company on spreadsheets to installing MAgIC for our own in-house use.  MAgIC was sold as a turnkey solution to the variety of clients with separate functionality developed for each client leaving us with multiple sets of the same application with varying functionality.


Consolidation of the various MAgIC system implementations took 3 years and many thousands of man hours to complete and the first full-function DeltaERP system was installed in November 2010.  We expanded our office space to include an extra floor in the Wapadrand Office Park to accommodate the growing number of employees.  Our customer base in the Mining industry grew exponentially and our focus changed to concentrate our development efforts on the mining industry.  A strategic decision to re-arrange our internal departments to provide a more structured development chain and QA department turned out to be a turning point in our company history.


The decision to diversify the products we offer, inspired the development of ppe2go in collaboration with one of our key clients, which proved to be the beginning of an exciting new product drive and sales offering.  We then appointed our first Sales and Marketing team to focus on the marketing and selling of our ERP system.  Our website was designed and created in 2012 with the intent to expand our business internationally with our major focus on the junior mining businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa.

At DataSaint we focus on excellence and offering our clients on-trend products and services. Our exciting roadmap vision includes expanding our service offerings in the following areas:

  • Mobile application development, empowering our clients’ business, wherever they are!
  • Offering VSAT communication solutions to remote regions to improve their connection performance
  • Innovative PPE vending solutions, designed to offer complete control over the management of safety equipment
  • Room monitors which give you peace of mind when it comes to protecting your assets’ environments
  • Development into solutions for the Agricultural industry

Our innovative vision ensures that we are catering for our clients’ needs every step of the way, and we look forward to another 30 years creating intelligent business solutions.


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