Infragistics has reestablished operations in Australasia

Infragistics has re-established its presence in Australasia with the hiring of technology industry expert Luke Hijikata to the leadership role of Regional Manager, Australasia. Luke will help Infragistics better serve its existing customer base and facilitate the company’s expansion throughout the region. He brings two decades of IT industry experience in New Zealand to the organization. Infragistics also named Aquion as its newest distributor for Australia and New Zealand to deliver business-critical software solutions within the region.

Infragistics reestablishes presence and operations in Australasia with Aquion partnership

"Luke brings extensive experience to our team as a manager and technical lead at one of the largest ICT providers in the region. We are pleased to welcome him as a senior leader focused on delivering value to our customers and we are delighted to have him spearhead our Australasia office," said Dean Guida, CEO, and Founder, of Infragistics.

"We have relied on Infragistics WinForms components to provide unique capabilities for our desktop software for over 10 years. As we migrate our code base to new UI technologies, we look forward to continuing our partnership with Luke and Infragistics," said Derek Campbell, IT Group Manager, Rider Levett Bucknall.

Infragistics forms strategic partnership with Aquion

Infragistics also announced a strategic partnership with Sydney-based software solutions distributor Aquion Pty, Ltd, which has been supplying software solutions since 2000. Aquion provides the link between Infragistics’ market-leading enterprise software and thousands of resellers in the APAC region. Aquion represents products that are used by some 16 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at some 32,000 organizations.

"We chose Aquion to distribute and support our enterprise software tools in Australasia because they have a long history of delivering high business value and technical expertise for business-critical software solution providers. This partnership will make our enterprise-ready application design and development toolkits available to customers throughout the APAC region seeking to accelerate software design and development," said Guida.

"Aquion is proud to partner with Infragistics, whose tools for user interface development and multi-platform enterprise software products accelerate application design and development. Infragistics is a key pillar in the ongoing expansion of our software development distribution practice," said Richard Thomas, COO, and CFO, of Aquion.

Infragistics enterprise software tools include:

Infragistics Ultimate, a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and UX design-development collaboration tools with Indigo.Design Ignite UI, a complete library of UI components for building modern, data-rich and responsive web apps

App Builder, the only cloud-based, WYSIWYG drag & drop design-to-code tool that helps teams build complete business apps

Indigo Design, a unified platform for visual design, UX prototyping, code generation,  and app development