Magic Solutions

Magic Solutions International, Inc. was a company that specialized in help desk automation and asset management software. Based on the East Coast of the United States, the company emerged as an unplanned spin-off from a computer systems integrator, and was later considered one of the East Coast's most successful independent software vendors of the 1990s. Magic Solutions was founded in 1988 by Igal Lichtman and was headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S. At inception, the company consisted of a single programmer in the service of one customer. Magic Solutions eventually accommodated over 300 staff members and a customer base of 6,000. The company reached a yearly revenue sum of US$64 million and in 1998 was sold to Network Associates, Inc. for US$110 million in cash.