Local Industry News

9-Mar-2010

The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), renowned for producing skilled IT specialists, creates valuable opportunities for students to further their knowledge-base and enhance future career prospects through its collaboration with many institutions and companies to provide constructive industry-ready training. 

SLIIT recently partnered with reputed global IT services company Virtusa Corporation to introduce a program that will boost the quality of the Software Testing educational experience and maximise student potential within the IT sector.

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.

9-Mar-2010

Nimesha Priyadarshani of Katawela Kanishta Vidyalaya was offered a scholarship to study at the Infosys Institute, Hyderabad by Infosys Institute, Founder and Chairman Nayana Moorthy.

She was one of the students sponsored by the Rotary Club of Colombo West, to follow the Toast Masters ‘speech’ Program.

The Chart Foundation, formed under the auspices of the Rotary Club of Colombo West, plans to take the next step by making the Katawela village an integral part of the global village.

8-Mar-2010

By Ramani Kangaraarachchi

UK and Sri Lanka are prioritizing their investments in developing graduate entrepreneurship and enterprise education.

New businesses can lift nations out of recession through job creation which is economic policy’s top priority. British Council Sri Lanka Country Director, Gill Westway said.

8-Mar-2010

Sri Lanka-India Centre for English Language Training (SLICELT) enables every child in Sri Lanka to learn English and access equal opportunities, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said.

She was speaking at the inauguration of the SLICELT at the National College of Education in Peradeniya yesterday.

This promotes English language learning to bring about a better life, Rao said.

English as a life skill, which reacts in fostering our relationship in every angle.

7-Mar-2010

As the first point of guiding your child towards IT, you have to be aware of the two major types of qualifications that need to be acquired. Similar to any other field, the qualifications in the IT field too belongs to two main categories; academic qualifications and professional qualifications. Basically, any university around the globe focuses mainly on academic qualifications especially in the field of information technology.

7-Mar-2010

Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and with a software development centre (Aepona International Lanka (Pvt) Limited) in Colombo, announced that it has been selected by the GSMA for its launch of the world's first commercial implementation of OneAPI, a groundbreaking initiative that aims to make it much easier for application providers and enterprises to mobile-enable their applications and services across multiple operators. The service is being launched in Canada as a commercial Pilot, connecting to the three major Canadian mobile operators - Bell Mobility, TELUS and Rogers Wireless.

7-Mar-2010

A nation needs a strong broadband backbone to deliver the technology to all segments of the society said chief regulatory advisor and director government affairs of BT (India) (Pvt) ltd Shri Satya Gupta. He was addressing Sri Lanka Telecom Summit 2010 in Colombo last week.

7-Mar-2010

By Ananda Kannangara

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said the Government's assurance of expanding the facility of Information Technology for the rural and remote sector in the country will become a reality with the providing of computers to 500,000 schoolchildren during the next six months.

7-Mar-2010

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, has introduced the Virtusa BPM Test Drive for Needs Assessment, Business Case & ROI from Gartner’s Business Process Management (BPM) Summit 2010.  This intensive three-week program, focused on BPM education, evaluation of challenges, business case creation,  prototype development and technology evaluation and recommendation, establishes a framework for a client’s successful BPM engagement.

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.

5-Mar-2010

By K. Davidraj(Commerce and Management Faculty Eastern University of Sri Lanka)

An entrepreneur is an individual who owns a firm, business, or venture, and is responsible for its development.

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting a new business or reviving an existing business, in order to capitalize on new found opportunities.

5-Mar-2010

By Harshini PERERA

While banks are moving into latest technologies with internet and mobile banking, they should also be concerned about the risk factor it carries, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said.

“In a time where people are concerned of the greater potential with less inputs in any industry, savings banks too have introduced fast moving technology into banking transactions”, Cabraal said at the World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI)’s Cross Regional Conference 2010 held at Colombo Hilton yesterday. There are more than 4000 branches and outlets of savings banks in Sri Lanka.

5-Mar-2010

By Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI

Sri Lanka and India have immense growth potential for collaborations in the telecommunication industry.

UT Starcom’s Managing Director for South Asia Vijay Yadav said Sri Lanka has a well adopted technology in telecommunications and geographically Lanka is well placed.

5-Mar-2010

IT (Information Technology) is a science which is constantly changing emerging as a scientific discipline out of research and development activities in the fields of technology, data base technology, software technology, video technology and communication technology, to the adaptation to a vital part of everyday life. Our country experienced a boost and adaptation towards IT following the technology boom in Sri Lanka. The opportunities available in the IT and ICT sectors are rich, yet Sri Lanka is absent with regards to the talent inheriting as there is a lack of awareness within the mass – realized by the government, and the resistance to change – change is inevitable in IT.

4-Mar-2010

SaaS or Software as a service, is computer based applications and services that are provided via remote delivery to end users rather than as a packaged product to be purchased and installed by the end user.

Here an interview with the Suntel’s Head of Corporate Solutions, Ranjith Fernando on SaaS.

Q: How would SaaS transform software investments in future?

The beauty of the solution is that you can use it based on the requirement without spending initial capital expenditure to obtain services.

With the current global economic turmoil calls CEO’s of almost all companies to do business in smarter ways. Ways where earlier we have not even dreamt of. Software as a Service refers to one such way of doing business as an when you would want it.This opens a whole new world of opportunities for commercial establishments plus software vendors.

4-Mar-2010

The Information Technology Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) program organised by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) created huge interest among the student population of the North.

This was shown by more than 4000 students who participated in the three-day IT-BPO career guidance program ICTA held at the Jaffna Vembady Girls' High School the last three days of last month.

Out of the 4000 odd students from grade 9 to 12 who participated in the program the girls slightly outnumbered the boys.

3-Mar-2010

One of the largest electronic document management project in Sri Lankan history started recently with Department of Immigration and Emigration Sri Lanka. Under this project Sanje Lanka Private Limited provide all the technologies and resources to digitize & index passport related documents enabling online search, retrieval and manipulation.

3-Mar-2010

The Sri Lanka Telecom Summit 2010, presented by Runeware Integrated together with BE Expositions India will be held tomorrow, March 4 2010 from 10.00 am – 6.30pm at the Cinnamon Grand in Colombo.

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

Virtusa TestFest 2010 was held on the 25th of February 2010, as Virtusa Corporation presented its groundbreaking software testing festival. The event was organized to celebrate software testing & quality assurance professionals and their contribution to the IT industry, in an ever evolving world where quality plays a crucial and fundamental role.  This rare opportunity enabled  first-hand experience on how software testing  tools, innovative methods, techniques and processes are designed, implemented and used by professionals in the IT industry.

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.

2-Mar-2010

Singapore Informatics is having their project management-training program, the Advanced Project Management Training Program, leading to Project Management Professional Certification (PMP), the world’s most recognized project management credential for the fifth consecutive year.

1-Mar-2010

'The emergence of finance as a key to business transformation in light of the global downturn’ is the theme for discussion at the CIMA CFO forum held in collaboration with LBR-LBO on March 4, at Ceylon Continental Hotel.

CIMA Global President Aubrey Joachim will be the keynote speaker of the forum.

The forum will conclude with a Question and Answer session enabling an opportunity for the audience to actively interact with the speaker.

28-Feb-2010

Sri Lanka is at the very early stages of an economic boom and therefore a technology boom, according to Mani Kulasooriya, a Founder / Director of Business Development of the recently launched local IT consultancy Latitude655.

Further, he suggested there was a lack of professional IT services companies to effectively support this anticipated technology boom, noting that the local engineering talent can be currently characterised as 'uncut gems'.