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HAYS celebrates 20 years presence here "The success of HAYS Sri Lanka is due to successful competing done against global players as far back as 1983 - the dawn of IT era - in a field that demands that we adapt every advance in technology to meet new parameters and diverse command sequences" said Devapriya Perera General Manager of HAYS Sri Lanka at a press conference held at the Barefoot Gallery Colombo 03 recently. HAYS is a business service group providing the services in data and image capture, transaction / claim processing, back office and voice services. Last year, HAYS Sri Lanka set up first International Call Centre at the World Trade Centre, Colombo. "The strategic direction is necessary but, success ultimately, is in the hands of the team. If they don't perform at peak consistently, we have no business" said Ananda Wickremasinghe, the Regional Director, Service Delivery, HAYS Asia. With 20 years of experience in providing offshore services, HAYS Sri Lanka provides business solutions organizations seeking to improve services to its customers. The original company, Data Entry International Ltd., began its operations in the U.K. in 1967. It was acquired by HAYS plc., a FTSE 100 company in 1997. With a 2.4 billion turnover, HAYS plc., employs over 28,000 personnel, operating in 22 countries worldwide. Key services offered by HAYS plc., are Commercial, Personnel, Logistics and Mail and Express Services. HAYS Asia is also planning to expand its involvement in Customer Relationship Management, to have large and long term contracts with selected customers. ********* On-line transaction with govt institutions by next June By Sudarshana Perera "The High-Powered Agency on e-Sri Lanka under its phase I of e-Sri
Lanka initiative will lay a strategy for people to interact with the
government on the internet and on other digital sources . Phase I will Speaking on the response received from the LTTE towards e-Sri Lanka initiative he said that LTTE accepts and believes that there is a great potentiality for the country's growth under this program. But the organisation doubted as to whether the e-Sri Lanka strategy will expand its services to villages in North and East, he said. "The role of the government would be to play a facilitatory role in order to create a necessary background to carryout the strategy. One of the aims of this initiative is also to develop ICT resources. Those are building information infrastructure and implementation capacity, he said. Setting up of centers of excellence on ICT education, providing multi-level ICT training, ICT training for professionals and mainstream ICT education at all levels are the programs to be launched under e-Sri Lanka, he said. We are in the process of empowering the implementation structure which is crucial for better realization of this initiative. The recruitment of required IT professionals for necessary bodies is in progress ,he added. We will not leave any possibility for a bureaucracy to build up in the official bodies which take charge of implementation. The initial leadership will be given by the Prime Minister himself who regards this program as one of the priorities of the government. The official bodies consist of a National Consultative Committee, and an ICT agency. Each Ministry will also have its own Chief Information Officer for better co-ordination of the whole plan, he said. The liberalisation of telecom policy will help in getting e-Sri Lanka move fast. Explaining the process of funding the initiative Wickremaratne said that part of the expenditure will be funded by donors and other friendly and countries. We expect private investment to follow as a better foundation is laid for actual implementation of the whole strategy. Prof. Rohan Samarajeewa, Team Leader - Public interest program unit Ministry of Economic and Reforms, Science and Technology who was one of the keynote speakers said that a rapid development of Telecom infrastructure especially in rural areas is very vital for a smooth implementation of e-Sri Lanka. The government has also to create incentives for the private sector to build a cost-effective multi service platform across the country, Samarajeewa said. Manju Haththotuwa, Chairman, ICT Committee, NCCSL, Neil Seneviratne, Secretary General NCCSL and several other representatives from the business community also spoke. ********* ProLiant Technologies for adaptive infrastructures Hewlett-Packard (HP) Colombo Section launched its new HP ProLiant Servers and Software Solutions at a media conference held at Hilton Hotel on Tuesday. These new HP ProLiant Technologies will facilitate to redefine the economics of enterprise computing as Sri Lanka has ventured into a major IT project "e-SriLanka" initiative. The new proLiant servers are to perform an advanced data storage with easy facilities to adapt any to needs and wants of enterprises. Under its adaptive infrastructure strategy, the HP ProLiant servers and software solutions will enable customers to maximise their existing IT investments while adapting easily to the changes necessary to remain competitive. The HP new Products launched on Tuesday include next generation BL20P blade server, first to market 4P blade server, new 4P Fosters (1.4, 1.6)/ Gallatin, the ML570 (2.0), DL580 (1.5, 1.9 and 2.0), new 2P Xeon servers, the ML350, ML370 and DL380, DL360, DL320 (P4), new 1P P4 server, the ML310 and new 8P ProLiant servers. "HP is effecting a sea of change in the data centre with our adaptive infrastructure strategy. In a constantly changing business environment, we are addressing customers' needs for reduced costs, greater flexibility, and increased agility", said Paul Blinkhorn, vice president, Industry Standard Servers, HP Asia Pacific. "The advanced technologies HP has developed and integrated into our newest market-leading ProLiant servers and software extends HP's leadership in industry-standard computing. They offer customers a competitive advantage through a simple and easily managed IT infrastructure," said Blinkhorn. The representatives from HP Asia Pacific Ltd, Singapore and others participated at the conference. |
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in to operation on June 2003 said Eran Wickremaratne IT Adivisor, Ministry
of Economic Reforms and CEO National Development Bank (NDB) at a seminar
on "e-Sri Lanka Smart People, Smart Island, Opportunities and
Challenges " at National Chamber of Commerce auditorium recently. The
seminar was organised by The National Chamber of Commerce. Phase II which
is a step forward from phase I is targetted to provide facilities to
transact business with the government and for the success of phase II much
attention will be focussed to get all government ministries together
on-line, Wickremaratne said. Emphassing on the economic and social
advantages accruing from the e-Sri Lanka initiative, Wickremaratne said
that e-Sri Lanka will be a tremendous impetus for social integration and
it will also create a conducive environment to achieve export-led economic
growth. This initiative will revolutionise the administrative structure of
the country as it fulfils the need to establish an open and transparent
government. One of the ultimate consequences will be achieving a contended
higher living standard, he said.
