A Brief History of Compunet

Managing our customers IT through the various technology cycles since 1987.

1987

From a living room in Cork Compunet was founded and began supplying spare parts and maintenance for word processor systems, and also began convincing small companies that computerisation was not just for big companies with big budgets.

1990

Moved into its first office in the City Centre. Now supporting IBM Dos based word processing and accounting software, and with Microsoft 3.0 around the corner, the founding Directors Rory O’Connor and Bill Maher set about expanding the customer base.

1995

By now Compunet commenced the migration of its customer base from Novell to Microsoft NT Server which was released in 1993 and which Compunet had implemented in-house the previous year. For both internal networking and improved internet communications Compunet delivered a lot of physical upgrades to its customer networks.

2000

The world having survived Y2K, in 2000 Compunet expanded to a larger premises and staffing grew accordingly. As Irelands Tiger years began the client base in the engineering and construction sector grew accordingly. Internet based communication technology was now at the forefront, and from DSL to Exchange to Sharepoint, Compunet continued to migrate is customers swiftly through the technology changes.

2010

A changing of the guard as the founding Directors phase the leadership of Compunet over to long term support engineers Jason Burns and Tony Healy. Compunet now began to focus on Cloud technology, becoming a Microsoft partner in its first Cloud offering, then called ‘BPOS’, now 365. Focus begins on international customers setting up in Cork and Compunet becomes a key technology partner to assist in their setup and scale.

2017

Acquires Managed Services customer base of TSG as it migrates customers onto Cloud and managed services. Begins on a pathway to Azure specialist and Microsoft Gold partner and migrates many large customers through full cloud transformation.

2021

Acquires KD Systems, a substantial skillset of engineers and large customer base, to expand its Managed Services further and add diversity into the Education Sector where KD Systems are adept and experienced. The customer first, hard-working, no-nonsense brand of IT delivery that started in 1987 continues on…

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With over 30 year’s experience in designing and delivering innovative IT solutions to clients, this has allowed Compunet to become a leading IT provider to SME and Enterprise clients alike.