Digital advertising company Spectrum Networks and Sasol have won top honours in this year's Technology Top 100 Awards Programme (TT100).
Spectrum Networks won the award for overall technology excellence in the small enterprise category, while Sasol won in the large enterprise category.
Sasol has won multiple TT100 awards over the last 14 years while Spectrum is a third time entrant, but has not won previously.
Johannesburg-based Spectrum, established four years ago, custom-designs technology for creating, editing, distributing and playing out digital moving media content. It is used in 62 cinemas countrywide and is being rolled out to corporate in-house environments.
Sasol was recognised because its "technology has achieved impressive commercial success through its outstanding strategic vision and leadership".
JSE-listed Trusted Transactions company Prism Holdings and Flextronics South Africa jointly won the large enterprise category for companies operating in the ICT Software, Services and Solutions sector.
UEC Technologies won the large enterprise category and Truteq Wireless was the small enterprise category winner in the Information and Communication : Hardware section.
The special award for the most outstanding technological innovation went to Sulzer Pumps for its oil-free pneumatic rock drill powered and lubricated by water.
Omnipack, a plastic container manufacturer headed by double-amputee Sol Maake, won the special award for the most outstanding community-based technology enterprise for growing from a one-man operation to a company of 25 previously disadvantaged individuals.
The awards showcase the best technological and innovative companies in SA and are aimed at demonstrating "the deep-seated technological prowess that exists in this country".
The TT100 is run under the auspices of the South African Engineering Association and is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and Eskom. President Thabo Mbeki has, on several occasions, indicated his strong support for the TT100 initiative.
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