More about Korbistat

Our company’s greatest strength lies in its people.
A diverse and talented team driven by passion, innovation, and a shared commitment to excellence. 

Korbistat Values

Each of our teams has worked through a process to establish values that best suit them.
Coincidentally, these values overlap to create a set of values which best describes the overall business.

Customer Locations

Our customers are spread across the globe, with users in United States of America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

Our Road to Success

The origins of Korbistat track all the way back to the founding of Compustat in 1976.
Among the original partners were Mendel Karpul, Mark Todes and Rolland Bryan, all of
whom are still active members of the team at Korbistat. Here is a summary of this history.
  • 1976 | Compustat - Founding Company

    The company, then known as Compustat, started out as a software bureau delivering an accounts receivable service to a group of pharmacies and similar businesses. 

  • 1980s | Application Software Development

    Some well known applications and services were developed by the group, including GhostWriter, GhostConvey, Jutastat, APCS and The Compact Collection. 

  • 1990s | Technology Shift

    Reinvented features of GhostWriter in the newly emerging Microsoft Windows environment in the form of a plug-in to MS Word that we called GhostFill. 

  • 1993 | Birth of Korbitec & Internet Africa

    Became the first commercial Internet Service Provider in Africa in the form of Internet Africa (URL: iafrica.com). Around this time, the company name changed to Korbitec.

  • 2000 | WinDeed - Property Search Engine

    Developed a software system known as “WinDeed” which allowed the public and professionals easy access to property related and other public domain data. 

  • 2002 | Major US Contract

    Won the contract for development of a document automation solution for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We created this in GhostFill and then migrated it into GhostDraft. 

  • 2004 | GhostPractice - Legal Software System

    Developed GhostPractice, a legal accounting and practice management system with the goal to help law firms achieve better business results.

  • 2006 | Established Litigation Service in Canada

    Launched ACL to simplify the complex world of managing Canadian court forms and the associated litigation workflow. 

  • 2009 | Birth of Korbicom

    Naspers Ltd acquired half of Korbitec's property-related divisions, leading to the creation of Korbitec (property/legal solutions) and Korbicom (non-property aspects). Korbitec acquired the dormant business of Property24 from Naspers and developed it into the largest property portal in Africa. 

  • 2010 | Developed & launched GhostDraft

    Launched our third generation document automation engine called GhostDraft, leveraging the knowledge and experience gained from our GhostWriter and GhostFill solutions.

  • 2011 | Global Reach of GhostDraft

    On the back of its early commercial success in South Africa, Korbicom established a relationship through which GhostDraft was marketed extensively into North America.

  • 2016 | Completed Extensive Office Modernisation

    Korbicom established its new innovative and attractive offices in the Great Westerford Building, where our headquarters were first established in 1999. This remains our home.

  • 2020 | xchangedocs Launch

    Korbicom participated in the development of xchangedocs from 2018. The product was then launched in 2020. xchangedocs provides a secure cloud-based platform through which any party participating in a specific legal matter can exchange documents quickly, securely, and economically.” 

  • 2022 - 2023 | Korbistat & GhostDraft

    The businesses of ACL,
    xchangedocs and GhostPractice were sold to Dye & Durham Ltd, a Canadian-based software firm listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. This transaction represented a strategic opportunity for Korbistat to focus its energy and substantial investment into its cloud-based GhostDraft solutions development.

  • The Future

    Following completion of the D&D transaction, Korbicom has now been renamed and rebranded into Korbistat and is focussed on the ongoing development of GhostDraft. This software engine has evolved into one of the leading Customer Communications Management (“CCM”) software platforms in the world. With over 80 large, global enterprise customers, including an A-list of South African corporate customers, the GhostDraft team is set to expand into an exciting range of new markets and vertical applications.

Our core business is developing cutting-edge software commercialising modern technology-based solutions for our users.