Compower was started in 1975 by Tony Grimshaw as a software development company.

Its customers have included many companies in South Africa such as Computicket, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, Bateman Group, Sun International, Avis , Blue IQ, Philips, Venetia Diamond Mine.

Compower has skills encompassing many aspects of the IT industry including SAP financial systems and many IT development languages.

Compower is a one stop development company.