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11-Mar-2010
Although Colombo bourse was flat yesterday large volumes got traded with SLT topping the most traded stocks with over 3 million shares.
SLT was the highest trading stock amounting to 3,708,100 shares that got traded yesterday up by 0.68% at prices up by 25 cents on the heels of the court ruling yesterday which cleared a sale of an equity stake to a foreign buyer.
SLT accounted for the highest turnover, contributing 137 million rupees to the day's turnover .
9-Mar-2010
By Colin Beaney and Poorna Bandara
With the demand for information within an organisation growing on daily basis, business solution providers are constantly looking at new approaches of shorter implementation cycles, better known as "dynamic or rapid implementation".
Although rapid implementation approaches appear to be theoretically promising, in practice, it may not help all customers equally. On the contrary, the forced rapidity against the best fit approach could lead to failure in the implementation.
5-Mar-2010
Enterprise education involves developing core skills required to succeed in the corporate world, such as strategic thinking and the ability to think out of the box, thereby creating a more entrepreneurial and employable pool of individuals.
With the British Council actively campaigning for the establishment of enterprise education in Sri Lanka, Manager Education Partnerships at the British Council, Sri Lanka, Eranda Ginige spoke on the importance of a culture tailored to enrich and boost the entrepreneurial skills of the future generation.
3-Mar-2010
WaveNET, a leading provider of premium mobile technology products and solutions, introduced video call completion for 3G operators at the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress.
Represented at the event by its senior management team, the company co-exhibited with Dialogic, which invited WaveNET as one of its worldwide partners to work with them at the Mobile World Congress to demonstrate new, interactive mobile video services and solutions built with Dialogic technology.
2-Mar-2010
The Anuradhapura branch of the OpenArc School of Business and Technology celebrated its' fifth anniversary recently.
Having commenced operations in 2004, the Anuradhapura branch of the OpenArc School of Business and Technology was able to provide computer education to thousands of students, teachers and other professionals during the past five years as the leading computer institute of the North Central Province.
25-Feb-2010
Professional Project Management Certification is becoming a highly sought after industry recognition. As a Profession, Project Management is also experiencing phenomenal growth. A consequence of this growth is increased reliance upon Project Management and the need for professionally recognized Project Management ability. As more companies adopt Project Management into their businesses the demand for knowledgeable practitioners increase globally.
24-Feb-2010
Dialog Telekom PLC - Sri Lanka's premier connectivity provider, topped the country's corporate accountability ratings for the Year 2009, in its inaugural year of publication.
Sri Lanka's Corporate Accountability ratings were published recently in the country's premier business publication, LMD, and are compiled by Sting Consultants - a specialist marketing and brand consulting service.
22-Feb-2010
HSBC, having declared open its new branch at No. 145, Kankasanthurai Road, Jaffna on 11 February 2010, held a special handover ceremony at the Jaffna Public Library to donate computers to Sarvodaya-Fusion, the implementing partner of the bank's corporate sustainability initiative launched in 2009, in partnership with Microsoft.
18-Feb-2010
Mr.Epasinghe is seen here delivering the key-note speech. Others in the picture are from left - Mrs.Sujeewa Fernando, Ms.Rebecca Paul, Dr.Graham Morris and Dr. Maneesh
Jeewa Australian Education Centre (JAEC), a pioneer education consultant touched another milestone by Launching AUPP off- shore campus in Sri Lanka. AUPP (Australian unified pathway program) has been operating the most successful and dedicated pathway program in India since 2004 and now it came to Sri Lanka in order to show the correct pathways to Sri Lankan students.
17-Feb-2010
The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) has recently agreed to support Priyanthi Dissanayake (www.scholarshipsforusa.com) on her mission to attract American institutes of higher education, to set up offsite campuses in Sri Lanka. "Priyanthi's ultimate goal of making Sri Lanka the next Malaysia with a view of setting up offsite campuses in Sri Lanka is very compatible with BOI's own vision of turning the country into a Center of Knowledge Excellence," stated Shivan de Silva, the BOI's Executive Director of Promotions and Mega Projects. He further added that BOI also plans to use the good offices of Sri Lanka's Ambassador in Washington DC to ensure that the largest number of participants would attend the seminar and workshop which are scheduled to be held on 8th -10th October 2010.
16-Feb-2010
The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) launched the eHuman Resource Management project recently, in their continuing efforts to empower the public sector.
The implementation of the project is centred around the Ministry of Public Administration and the Home Affairs Ministry.
Under this project, several internal activities of the Ministries of Public Administration and Home Affairs are facilitated through information and communication technology (ICT).
16-Feb-2010
Suntel's Director, Information Technology, Tariq Marikar in an interview shares insights to the workings of software as a service (SaaS) model. Following are excerpts.
Q: How does the SaaS model work?
Users login to the application through their web browser, under a secured session.
They are authenticated and their relevant application service is delivered through the internet from the iDC to their web browser. The business or desktop application in this case is perfected to very high levels in terms of installation, support and ongoing upgrades The application is connected to the telecommunication billing system and the customer pays only a rental and for usage, as it is with normal telecommunications. The customer does not have to maintain IT staff, worry about software licensing and all the required hardware and software upgrades that are necessary over time. This is what SaaS is in a nutshell. In short pay only for what you use. Simple as that!
11-Feb-2010
India's fastest growing IT/BPO company, which is setting up a major investment in Sri Lanka, has highlighted the venture in its latest annual report.
In its Annual Report for 2009, MphasiS has featured a quotation by Chairman/Director General of the Board of Investment Dhammika Perera prominently, referring to the speed with which the BOI and MphasiS worked together to set up operations in the island.
11-Feb-2010
Navantis IT (Pvt) Ltd., a premium software services and consultancy company in Colombo, has been awarded the CMMI Level 3 (v 1.2) certification by the Software Engineering Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University. The certification was awarded in December 2009.
The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is the highest internationally recognised certification model for improving, measuring, assessing and evaluating the quality of software development processes and practices.
9-Feb-2010
The CIMA Corporate Partner Programme was launched in 2007 keeping in line with the global growth strategy underpinned by strong and effective partnering programmes with employers around the world. These global endorsements affirm CIMA as the qualification of choice and that individuals are encouraged to pursue lifelong learning. The programme is also designed to establish affinities with leading corporate organisations in Sri Lanka so that they could mutually benefit from CIMA's high brand recognition and compatible professionalism and values.
8-Feb-2010
By Cheranka Mendis
COO of ICTA, Reshan Devapura (middle) speaking at the press conference while Chairman Exhibition Committee, A. Jayaseelan (L) and Chairman of Infotel Ruwan Weerasinghe (R ) looks on.
The Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry in Sri Lanka is on its way to grow at twice the rate than at present and has great potential to contribute to the socio economic development of the country.
8-Feb-2010
Amba Research announced that it has been ranked amongst the top 3 investment research KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) vendors in the annual Black Book of Outsourcing survey for 2009.
The survey covers areas such as trust, training, delivery excellence, scalability, data security, and many other areas that clients take into consideration when engaging with an outsourcing partner.
8-Feb-2010
By Dan Matthews
Chief Technical Officer IFS Charles Darwin said: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but those that are most responsive to change."
Dan Matthews, CTO at IFS, looks at how social media is changing the face of Enterprise Applications
Our Customers are being challenged by an ever more complex and demanding market and globalisation is the key driver of this change. It's far from a new phenomenon but the economic climate has catalysed the need for businesses to look beyond stagnant domestic markets and expand operations into emerging and growing economies. As a result, the way businesses operate is increasingly complex with offices in locations all over the world, a decentralised knowledge base, and global supply chains and dispersed virtual teams that must collaborate and work together irrespective of location.
5-Feb-2010
Suntel has come forward as the principal sponsor of SLASI Tech Forum 2010 - Cloud Computing Demystified. Tech Forum is the flagship ICT industry forum, annually organised by the Software Chapter of the Federation of Information Technology Industry, Sri Lanka ( FITIS).
At Tech Forum, decision makers of the ICT industry get an opportunity to obtain independent views of technology innovators and industry thought leaders, on an emerging technology. The industry's much hyped Cloud Computing technology is this year's topic.
4-Feb-2010
The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) will participate at the Deyata Kirula exhibition organised under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and held at Pallekele, Kandy from today till 10th instant.
ICTA's participation will be articulated mainly by the Nenasala stall forming part of the National Development exhibition which will be inaugurated today coinciding with the 62nd Commemoration of Independence Day.
2-Feb-2010
The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) from Asia Pacific economies recently (28 January).
The theme of the drill was Fighting Cyber Crimes with Financial Incentives. The objective of the drill is for participating teams to exercise incident response handling arrangements, locally and internationally, to mitigate the impact of ongoing internet based attacks and to enable better coordination of teams in the region in tackling cyber incidents.
1-Feb-2010
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), rated as the most sought qualification for management positions in Sri Lanka (as per a Ministry of Labour survey 2008), launched an innovative fast-track route for MBA holders to become CIMA qualified - the CIMA Masters Gateway (CMGA).
With professionalism at the top of the corporate agenda following on from the global financial crisis, there has never been a more important time for employees to prove their accountability and understanding of business ethics.
25-Jan-2010
Due to the direct response nature and the cost effectiveness, many business professionals today in Sri Lanka have opted to rely on the Internet Marketing activities. However since the practice of Internet Marketing is relatively new, the need for a proper avenue to obtain the knowledge in this field is getting highlighted among many corporate and business professionals. As an initiative towards fulfilling this need in the market, a workshop on e-Marketing was organized by the Asia Marketing Association (www.AsiaMarketingAssociation.com) and this was successfully held on the 17th October 2009.
25-Jan-2010
Businessmen and ICT professionals have paid tribute to President Mahinda Rajapaksa for having given priority to ICT during the past four years.
Virtusa General Manager and Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) Secretary, General Madu Ratnayake, said that it was commendable that for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka, an ICT policy for the state sector has been formulated and implemented.
21-Jan-2010
CHENNAI: Madras University Vice-Chancellor G Thiruvasagam said the Sri Lankan government “has agreed in principle’ to the University of Madras” free higher education to the Tamil refugees living in various camps in Sri Lanka.
He told reporters after the 152nd year convocation held here on Tuesday that a meeting was organised to discuss the various aspects of the free education scheme on Monday.