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IFS, Cenmetrix sign a joint partnership agreement

IFS and Cenmetrix have signed a strategic partnership agreement where both companies will work together to provide a total software and hardware solution to the customer.

From left IFS South Asia Director Asanga Marasinghe, IFS South Asia Director and General Manager Poorna Bandara, Cenmetrix Director Ziyam Kamil, Cenmetrix Director Farhard Hussain and IFS Research and Development Business Solution Advisor Sean Fernando.

“Having a reliable partner who could provide one vital element for the offering that makes it a complete end to end solution, gives great confidence and convenience to our prospects.

“We believe the partnership with Cenmetrix would add that vital ingredient we could offer the customer and we are very happy and look forward for a great partnership between two organizations that has similar values, and culture”, IFS South Asia Sales and Marketing Director Shiraz Lye said.

IFS is a public company founded in 1983 that develops, supplies and implements IFS Applications, a component-based extended ERP suite. IFS focuses on agile businesses where any of four core processes are strategic: Service and asset management, manufacturing, supply chain and projects.

The company has 2,000 customers and is present in more than 50 countries with 2,700 employees in total.

“IFS reach” that was launched last year for SMEs in South Asia, offers a state-of-the-art ERP at a fraction of a cost, with an assurance that the project would be implemented in 100 days. The solution comes in an easy to learn, simple to use, new and modern user friendly interface. Cenmetrix (www.cenmetrix.lk) is an IT systems integrations provider operating in Sri Lanka, specializing in fingerprint hardware, security access control systems and RFID asset tracking solutions.

Cenmetrix’s local portfolio includes solutions to several other leading companies such as The National Water Supply Board, Rocell, No-Limit, Virtusa, Prima Group, LB Finance, Ceylon Petroleum Storage, Lanka Tiles, AMW, Sri Lanka Telecom and The Colombo Stock Exchange.

“The dynamics of business around the world is changing. Consumers are looking for total solution providers to do business with. The IFS and Cenmetrix strategic synergy will help us deliver the most optimum solution to benefit our customers”, Cenmetrix Director Farhard Hussain said.

Free Microsoft software for all registered NGOs

Together with the National NGO Secretariat which operates under the Defence Ministry, Microsoft Sri Lanka is offering a wide range of genuine Microsoft software including Office 2010, Microsoft Server Products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Windows Server, and an upgrade to genuine Windows 7 operating system free of charge to all registered NGOs. Microsoft Sri Lanka, committed to breaking down barriers that restrict people from using IT in their daily lives, has initiated the campaign as part of their Gamata IT program to provide genuine Microsoft software to registered NGOs who are actively involved in empowering communities.

Microsoft Sri Lanka’s Country Manager Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne said, “`We are committed to improve IT knowledge and provide IT accessibility across the nation through many far reaching programs we have carried out through the past years. Some of them, such as our Gamata IT and Software for the 21st Century have been truly groundbreaking, whereby we give away our latest and most innovative software absolutely free to rural community groups and university students. This program which offers genuine software free of charge to registered NGOs is the latest in the Gamata IT initiative, through which we make IT and its numerous benefits accessible to more and more people each year. That aim is one of the main reasons that we embark on through endeavours such as this where we take IT to rural areas or supply software and tools to those who work with rural communities,” he said.

The program offers latest software and application upgrades such as Office 2010, the latest productivity suite. Office 2010 with its enhanced user-friendly features delivers productivity enhancements any organization seeks that enable them to save time and money in their day-to-day operational work. Also on offer is the latest Server products range from Microsoft that includes products such as SharePoint which is the most sought after collaboration technology that is ideal for NGO type of scenario where they need to communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and be up-to-date across geographical and physical boundaries. Microsoft Exchange Server provides the advantage of operating a cost-effective and flexible communication platform that is safe and reliable.

The program also gives the opportunity for NGOs to upgrade their existing genuine operating system licenses on computers running on older versions of Windows such as Windows Xp or Vista to the latest Windows 7 operating system.

Windows 7, the latest operating system launched by Microsoft simplifies the use of a computer making everyday tasks faster and easier. Windows 7 also comes with the Language Interface Packs in Sinhala and Tamil, enabling the computer to be used in a more familiar local language.

AFP

Digital health tech on display at electronics show

Technology companies are getting healthier. And not just their bottom line.

The latest innovations on the digital health care front are on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) alongside the newest smartphones, touchscreen tablet computers and 3D television sets.

For the second year, organizers staged a full-day “Digital Health Summit” featuring sessions such as “The Doctor in Your Hand: Exploring Mobile Health Options” and “Does Technology Motivate People to Stay Healthy?”

Exhibitors said digital technology can help significantly lower health costs, give people the ability to be more actively involved in their care through self-monitoring and improve doctor-patients communications.

“The intersection of health and technology is really ripe for an explosion,” said Jason Goldberg, 33, president and founder of Ideal Life, a Toronto-based company that makes monitoring devices.

“Technologies formally were cost prohibitive,” Goldberg said.

“But I can now sit down at the kitchen table for breakfast and check my blood sugar,” he said, and transmit the data in real-time to a health care provider using a device that costs less than $100.

Elliot Sprecher, senior data analyst for Israeli company IDesia, developer of a heartbeat sensor, said digital technology should lead to “better patient awareness of their own physical health.”

“Typically if you’re an informed consumer in any market you’re going to get better service,” Sprecher said.

“For example, an electrocardiogram (ECG) is usually taken maybe once a year,” he said. “That’s not enough to capture the possibility of any real substantial heart problem.

“If you were taking readings every day eventually you’d also see the affects of bad lifestyle,” Sprecher said. “Conversely you’d see the improvement if you started an exercise program.”

Ideal Life’s Goldberg said digital devices can have a big impact on chronic condition management.

“You can do that with simple, easy to use, affordable, familiar devices,” he said.

AFP