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WSO2 accelerates business in Sri Lanka

WSO2 announced five business wins in Sri Lanka, that highlight the company’s comprehensive middleware solution facilitating business productivity with innovation and vision.

With its main operations arm in Sri Lanka, WSO2 delivers the industry’s most comprehensive middleware platforms for enabling Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and integrated application development. WSO2’s middleware includes its award-winning, 100% open source WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform, WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform, and the WSO2 StratosLive platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Built on the same componentized architecture, WSO2 give enterprises unmatched flexibility to migrate their applications on-premise, or to the cloud.

“We are increasingly seeing global and local enterprises making WSO2 their choice for strategic enterprise middleware.” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO at the press conference. “I am excited that enterprises are taking advantage of our high performance and flexible deployments and that we are able to meet the requirements while delivering unmatched value to companies like eBay, AAA, British Airways and more, from right here in Sri Lanka”.

Among the many global companies signed up over the last few years, the new businesses signed up in Sri Lanka include -

* Brandix - Introduced SOA principles eliminating the challenges of managing various heterogeneous systems.

* Dialog Axiata - Introduced the WSO2 Platform as an integration platform and a Master Data Management (MDM) solution to connect legacy systems.

* ICTA - eLocal Government Project enabling citizen friendly delivery of services and increasing efficiency and effectiveness of governance.

* John Keells Holdings PLC - Integration of SAP ERP with POS system and online store, resulting in reduced operating costs and enhanced customer experience.

* ODEL - Mobile point of sale solution, that help deliver innovative services along with enhancing the current ERP system capabilities to handle the customer loyalty program.

WSO2 Workshop for IT Professionals

Prior to the press conference, WSO2 conducted a workshop on how customers are solving traditional IT challenges by combining WSO2 products, enabling project self-service, fostering partnerships, and delivering business-focused solutions.

“The response we received to the workshop personifies the need for IT professionals wanting to reduce time and effort required to craft a comprehensive solution. Enterprise architects and developers aim to build secure, reliable, and high-performance solutions and we were able to showcase the WSO2 middleware platforms’ capabilities, to deliver solutions that meet real-world needs of enterprises today,” said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 Co Founder and CTO, who presented the workshop along with Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism.

Disclosing the recognition for IIT students in the industry

Not many educational institutes come recommended by foreign embassies. Dharshana Jayawardena, Manager Software Engineering at Cambio Healthcare Systems, Sri Lanka, however states that he chose the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) purely based on the high recommendation received by the British embassy. At the time, IIT was the only accredited Institute offering a degree programme from a recognized UK University.

To date IIT remains committed to providing a quality education, offering internationally recognized degrees and high caliber graduates for global positions in the Industry.

Dharshana Jayawardena said “At IIT students can learn all of the required competencies needed for a successful career in Software Engineering.

Every effort is made at the Institute to give students the very best in terms of educational knowledge as well as the soft skills and other personality development activities that enable us to make an impression in the industry.”

The placement year that is a unique feature of IIT education during the third year of study is one which sees the student working closely within the industry and being able to see their course work in practice.

IIT is one of the very few, if not the only, educational institute offering a, 1 year industry placement. In return the new knowledge gained by working in the industry can be applied in their final year studies and specially in the project.

The experience and the recognition received through this placement usually results in students being offered job opportunities even before they get their final year results. This is Dharshana’s story as well. He was engaged as a Software Engineer at Virtusa as soon as he finished his final exams.

At Virtusa, Dharshana was later promoted to Technical Manager and thereafter Senior Project Manager for the US office. Prior to joining his current workplace Dharshana also worked at Sage Training as a Senior Business Consultant.

He now works at Cambio Healthcare Systems as Manager Software Engineering in charge of the organization’s Sri Lanka software engineering organization, staffed by over 180 Softwrae Engineers.

Cambio Health is one of the Sweden’s largest and fastest growing IT companies for the healthcare sector and operates on a large scale internationally.

They offer an integrated patient centric solution that spans all stages of the healthcare process. By working in collaboration with healthcare providers, Cambio is building an “e-health generation” that is committed to the improvement of patient’s care, patient’s safety and patient’s outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.

As an integral part of this operation, Dharshana firmly believes that he couldn’t have made it this far in a short period if not for the solid foundation in Technical Knowledge and Soft Skills instilled in him at IIT.

He attributes his success to the content and recognition of the degree programme offered at IIT.

“In the IT Industry when people see that you are a graduate of IIT, there is an instant appreciation and acknowledgement of the level of understanding and practical know how that you possess. When it comes to starting a career this is what is most important” concluded Dharshana Jayawardena.

hSenid marks 15 years of creative innovation

hSenid, a global software development and IT Solutions company marks its 15th Anniversary this year. hSenid is an indigenous Sri Lankan multinational company founded in 1997 with offices in the United States, Singapore, in Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

hSenid has seen expansive growth over the past decade and a half in the fields of HR and Mobile IT Software solutions and continues to strive from strength to strength supported by hSenid’s core values of quality, accountability, personal growth and discipline through continuous improvement, creativity and innovation.

hSenid commemorates this unique milestone for a company of its caliber, through numerous initiatives with the organization’s employees, customers, partners and the community to mark hSenid’s growth, expansion and progress since its inception. As pioneers and thought leaders in HR IT and software solutions, hSenid will be hosting its milestone HR Conference “Aligning Talent Management with Organizational Strategy” in conjunction with celebrating 15 years of Creative Innovation in the field of Human Resource Information Systems.

Delegates in the field of Human Resources will participate at this Conference along with prominent local and international industry experts as hSenid aims to share emerging international best practices and competitive strategies in the HR domain.

hSenid will recognize and appreciate many of the organization’s long standing and esteemed portfolio of clients across commercial and non-commercial industries covering Telecom-Mobile, Manufacturing, Financial, Textiles, Aviation, Services as well as Government institutions for whom hSenid has been able to provide world-class innovative Mobile, HR and other IT Software solutions.

hSenid’s 15th Year Anniversary celebrations also saw an event for hSenid’s employees where service and appreciation awards were presented to employees in recognition of their very valuable contribution towards hSenid and the organization’s growth.

hSenid’s Founder and CEO Dinesh Saparamadu stated, “It is with great pride and pleasure that we mark this significant milestone in hSenid's history. I would like to thank all our valuable stakeholders, crucially our customers for inspiring our innovation and the opportunity to serve them with utmost passion, our employees for being our greatest assets and being instrumental in our progress and the community at large for believing in hSenid as a responsible corporate citizen and enriching people's lives by using ICT.

Throughout this period, hSenidians have proudly lived up to being achievers, innovators, accountable, passionate, customer centric and team oriented. As we look forward to the next chapter in hSenid's journey, we are geared to adapt and ready for new challenges working as one towards a common goal.”

hSenid have also worked throughout the past few years to build a strong relationship with the community.

Hence one of these initiatives is the company’s 15th Anniversary Community Project to distribute Library Books to 15 needy Rural Schools identified across the country. In addition, hSenid will launch its Foundation that will address all the organization’s CSR activities.