Ask a random South African IT executive who they think runs the world's largest data warehouses, or who developed technology capable of processing billions of call and network data activity records daily and you're likely to hear the names of the usual American or European suspects. Apart from everyone's favourite space tourist, no one in this neck of the woods has ever really gone large in the international software space, right? After all, you don't go hunting for killer applications in Centurion...

Actually, you do, particularly if you're a big player in the cellular networking space. Because Centurion-based LGR Telecommunications has developed the sort of call data record (CDR) analysis and reporting software solution that leaves you thinking in terabytes, seeing anything with ‘peta' in front of it as a real-world thing and wondering if the words ‘holy' and ‘grail' would make you sound hysterical. Maybe they would, but you'd be in good company. To date, LGR's client base reads like a list of who's who in the global cellular market. MTN? Check. Telstra? Check. AT&T? Check. So why haven't you heard of them?