The history of Savaco

In February 2021 Savaco celebrated its 30th birthday. Founders Carl & Rik look back in time and talk in detail about entrepreneurship, friendship and Savaco:

AAC Capital steps into the capital of Savaco. This is to support the company in the next growth phase and to facilitate the family succession.

Savaco assigns the greatest importance to the security of data within the cloud services it offers, and therefore makes enormous efforts in that area. These efforts were recognised in 2017 by obtaining the ISO27001 certificate.

Savaco has existed for 25 years and has been growing for a quarter of a century. Founders Carl Sabbe and Rik Vandemoortele tell  the Voka magazine about 25 years of activity in the wonderful world of IT.

At the end of 2014 Savaco will open a second data centre in Diegem as an extension and back-up for its own data centre.

In May 2010, a new Business Unit was established around Business Productivity Solutions. The aim of this unit is to help companies communicate and collaborate more efficiently with colleagues, suppliers and customers. Optimising business processes and information flow is also among the challenges.

With the takeover of ABC Computerland in 2008, further growth was initiated, so that since then, more than 100 employees were active.

In 2006 Savaco opened a new office in Sint-Niklaas.

Savaco as an organisation strives for continuous improvement of quality and professionalism. This was recognised in 2004 by obtaining the ISO 9001 quality label.

The engineering activities were expanded in September 2002 with the offering of PTC. This American company is the world leader in CAD design software and product data management solutions.

In order to make the knowledge acquired about IT infrastructure, networks and integration available to non-engineering customers as well, a separate Business Unit was established in 1999.

Savaco was founded on 4 February 1991 by Carl SAbbe and Rik VAndemoortele. Both graduated as Civil Engineer Computer Sciences at the KUL, followed by five years of professional experience at machine-constructor LVD in Gullegem.

For the first four years the company was housed in the Business Centre in Wevelgem. The expertise in the early years was mainly in CAD applications (ME10/30) and Unix networks.