ICT

Top-notch IT Park in Colombo

Orion City, an IT Service Park, a private sector venture, managed by St Anthony’s Industries Group (Private) Ltd will be the next big step in the Sri Lankan IT infrastructure development in Colombo.

The Orion City is located next to the Baseline Road (Dr. Danister de Silva Mawatha) Colombo 9. With an estimated four million square feet to be developed in the 13 acre site within the next 10 years, Orion offers its tenants an ideal place to grow. It is a hassle free environment with ancillary and support services taken care of. Currently approx. 250,000 square feet have been developed.

Orion City is being built to work as a self contained city with modern facilities such as gymnasiums, shopping malls, swimming pools, food courts and in-house parking facilities etc where the employees of companies who have located themselves in the IT Service Park will be able to attend to their day to day family and personal requirements while working.

Other than providing IT facilitation to software development and BPO services companies, Orion City is also looking at the possibility of assisting and facilitating start-up companies by providing them with “incubation centres”.

The incubation centres will have all the necessary infrastructure facilities required to start an IT /BPO operation.

The Orion City officials were inspired by this novel concept of incubation centre that is being utilised by STPI (Software Technology Parks of India), while they were attending an IT/BPO/KPO Investment Promotion Mission in India organised by the Board of Investment (BOI) and Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka.

Orion City is committed to increasing the pool of IT and BPO sector trained professionals in Sri Lanka by attracting training institutions for potential joint ventures. It is also willing to offer specialised training to BPO/KPO companies in the areas of accountancy process outsourcing, law process out sourcing etc.

CEO of Orion Management Consortium, Orion City Jeevan Gnanam said this reflects the confidence of the St Anthony’s Industries Group in the future potential of Sri Lanka’s IT/BPO sector. Orion City is planning to build high end accommodation for overseas representatives who visit the city as this would be more cost effective and convenient than staying at a luxury hotel.

Suntel offers fully loaded, full option CDMA phone

MD, Suntel Ltd, Jeremy Huxtable, said that they alone provided a stand-alone CDMA unit, which abounded with a host of attractive and useful features, which came ready-for-use at the point of purchase itself.

The fully loaded full option phone consists of many value added services such as SMS which focuses on the young generation, recipes for the mothers and voice SMS, CLI, IDD, jokes, horoscope, greetings, news alerts, sports news and internet benefiting the entire family.

He also went on to indicate further that Suntel offered the most comprehensive, full option phone, available in the market with no additional costs for subscription of the value added services as it’s a part of the full option phone a customer purchases from Suntel.

Recently Suntel launched the #1 in service campaign which re-established among all stakeholders that providing a high quality service will be the main priority in all operations.

SLT total communication solutions provider for BOI

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) recently signed an agreement with the Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka, the central facilitation point for investors in Sri Lanka, providing it with a voice communication solution and becoming their total communication service provider.

Chairperson of SLT, Leisha de Silva Chandrasena, exchanging the agreement with Chairman, BOI, Dhammika Perera.

The recent agreement was signed to provide a voice communication solution comprising a state-of-the-art PABX infrastructure and inter-branch communication system by becoming their total communication solutions provider.

As a result of this enhancement BOI will enjoy the facility of seamless connectivity for communication between the head office and its 14 branch network. This facility is provided through a dedicated high capacity digital E1 connectivity for voice communications. Also SLT has taken steps to upgrade their existing Internet Leased Line to a very high speed dedicated broadband internet connectivity.

The broadband Internet and inter-branch data communication network (14 branches) via IP/VPN solution, which is capable of carrying voice and mission critical data securely and reliably, is already in place as the backbone infrastructure of BOI Sri Lanka over a period of time.

To strengthen their data network, SLT has already provided ‘Fiber to the building’ connectivity to the BOI head office which has opened them up to the internet with a very high bandwidth.

Utilising this total communication solution, BOI’s inter branch communication system will be able to minimize their communications costs of their 14 BOI locations, which include regional offices, project offices and site offices and free trade zones in the country.

Speaking on the significance of the agreement, Chairperson of SLT, Leisha De Silva Chandrasena, said, “We take great pleasure in providing total communication solutions to the BOI, enabling them to bring more investors to Sri Lanka and helping them to have access to a world class communication infrastructure for effective communications.

We are confident that SLT in a position to provide communication facilities to existing investors as well as potential investors, making it possible to take advantage of the unlimited opportunities that new communication technologies offer”.

“EPSI Concepts” showroom at ODEL

EPSI Computers (Pvt) Ltd opens the “EPSI Concepts” showroom at ODEL. “EPSI Concepts” showroom will carry a wide variety of latest digital products from the world’s top brands.

The CEO of EPSI Computers (Pvt) Ltd, Niranjan Canagey said that the main focus of “EPSI Concepts” showrooms will be for users to have hands on experience with the products first hand, prior to making a decision to purchase.

EPSI Concepts showrooms carry a wide category of Digital products such as Desktops, Notebooks, Net Books, PDA’s, Mobile Phones, MP3 Players, Gaming Consoles, Gaming Software’s, Digital Cameras, Scale Models, Multimedia Speakers and a range of PC accessories.

EPSI Concepts is home to many of the world’s leading and well-known brands including APPLE, Sony, Nokia, Microsoft, ASUS, ViewSonic, Creative, Logitech, JBL and other popular brands.

Canagey said that faulty products can also be handed over for service at any of our “EPSI Concepts” outlets. Our commitment towards service has always been fundamental to us. We will provide service levels with the least turn around time and will strive continuously to reduce and improve this.

We expect this to result in greater efficiency and a significant service, enabling the customer to know that he is valued by our organisation he said.