Business systems partner since 2014

Systems built to last. Partners built to stay.

We build software around how your business actually works, and we stay to support it as you grow. Some of our clients have been with us for more than a decade.

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About GEMIS

Trusted by South African businesses.

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GEM Information Systems has been building business systems in South Africa since 2014 — and still works with the businesses it started with. We design around how a business actually runs, build on the Microsoft Cloud, and stay after go-live.

  • 12+Years building business systems
  • 50+Systems delivered into production
  • 5+Sectors served nationally
  • WasteMart
  • ManaGEM
  • SmartStart
  • ECD Connect
  • HomeAssist
  • SBS Waterproofing
  • Trans Hex Group
  • Sonke Gender Justice
  • Tore's Foundation

Selected work

Selected work & case studies

Four systems in production, each with the story of what the business needed and what was built. View all projects

  1. Play story

    Business management software — compact ERP

    ManaGEM

    ManaGEM is GEMIS's business management platform, generalised from the system built for SBS Waterproofing.

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  2. Play story

    Waste management and skip hire

    WasteMart

    A single call becomes a priced quote, a secure payment, a scheduled truck and a confirmed collection — without the manual work in between.

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  3. Play story

    Insurance and home services — plumbing repairs

    HomeAssist

    A national plumbing-claims operation run from one system: report, dispatch, evidence and sign-off, with the customer informed at every step.

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  4. Play story

    Non-profit — gender-based violence and HIV prevention

    Sonke Gender Justice

    A monitoring and evaluation system for work in forty countries — captured offline in the field, checked in the office, reported to donors from verified data.

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Discover the complete collection of systems, platforms and products GEMIS has built.

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In their words

Some of the businesses we work with today first trusted GEMIS more than a decade ago.

  1. In their words

    The GEMIS team consistently met deadlines and delivered a solution that streamlined our operations, enhancing customer satisfaction and our market position.

    Keshan PatelCEO · HomeAssist (Pty) LtdClient since 2014

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GEMIS Operating principles

Seven systems. The same four decisions.

  1. Start where the work leaks, not where the software is.

    Enquiries lost between apps at SBS. Quotes, terms and payments chased by hand at WasteMart. We fix the leak before we design a screen.

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  2. Capture it once, where it happens, even with no signal.

    Sonke’s facilitators log sessions offline. HomeAssist plumbers photograph each step on site. WasteMart drivers confirm with a scan.

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  3. Automate the hand-off nobody owns.

    SBS deposit invoices go straight into accounting. WasteMart operations are alerted the moment payment lands. Tore’s claims are checked against the sessions actually run.

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  4. Build for year ten, not launch day.

    SBS still runs on the system from 2015. Trans Hex’s version two added forecasts and live exchange rates. The SBS system grew into ManaGEM.

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Book a Discovery Session

Tell us what you're trying to fix. We'll come back within two working days with a short written view and a time to talk. No obligation.

  1. 01
    We read it properly

    Your enquiry reaches a monitored GEMIS mailbox, not a personal address. A person who has read it replies.

  2. 02
    A discovery conversation

    We map how your organisation actually works — the goals, the friction and the constraints — before anyone proposes a system.

  3. 03
    A scoped way forward

    You get an architecture, a plan and a cost you can act on. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

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