ICT

Sri Lanka Telecom launches BIZAPPS

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the country’s national telecommunications provider, hosted an event recently to showcase how their technology supports IT professionals to revolutionize their businesses by empowering them with a superior range of Intelligent Solutions.

The event saw the launch of SLT BIZAPPS, a managed service offering with unmatched Internet Data Centre (IDC) facilities, covering every conceivable business requirement. Globally, the convergence of voice, data and video networks is having a profound impact on the way businesses are run and SLT is at the forefront of this revolution in Sri Lanka.

Greg Young, Chief Executive Officer, SLT commented: “SLT’s Intelligent Solutions are aimed at equipping local businesses with the full range of ICT solutions to help succeed in the global arena.

Speed, connectivity and security are key demands businesses make and SLT’s wide portfolio of services is perfectly poised to meet and exceed these expectations.

Our comprehensive array of services is helping organisations to blaze ahead with stronger convergence capabilities, extended reliability, improved scalability, flexibility and cost effective implementation.” SLT’s Intelligent Solutions encompass the entire gamut of next generation voice, networking, data hosting and managed services to facilitate local businesses to compete in the global arena.

The SLT Enterprise Voice solutions guarantees optimal connectivity using ultra reliable copper wire and fibre optic technology which is resilient to drastic weather patterns that Sri Lanka is prone to, offering high quality, crystal clear voice clarity. Meanwhile, SLT Business Trunking and IPVPN Solutions offer flexible scalability and innovative features and services, with extended geographic coverage, improved security and reduced operational costs.

Kiththi Perera, Chief Enterprise and Wholesale Officer, SLT, commenting on the event said, “Our rich portfolio of flexible hosting solutions offers businesses the assurance that their mission critical

Infrastructure is safe under SLT’s expertise. From web hosting, e-mail hosting to database hosting, SLT offer partition based server space to operate websites, mail servers and databases.”

“Whether it is in the domain of Virtual Private Server hosting or Dedicated Hosting as per business requirements, SLT offers round-the-clock server maintenance and tech support to ensure seamless functioning.

We even offer a unique disaster recovery solution, which ensures the smooth functioning of organisations, after disruptive events such as natural or man-made disasters,” he further added.

Furthermore, SLT Intelligent Solutions provides managed services to enterprise clients with Data, Voice and Video integrated solutions. SLT Managed Services customers can outsource the entire communications infrastructure to SLT and focus on their core business.

The Video Conferencing service from SLT Intelligent Solutions offers a step up from traditional video conferencing with economical web based video conferencing solution for conducting board meetings, lectures, presentations or demonstrations without investing in proprietary video conferencing equipment all you need is a PC, webcam and internet connection.

Baby Cheramy marks World Children’s Day

Baby Cheramy, a trusted brand of leading Sri Lankan conglomerate Hemas Holdings PLC, celebrated World Children’s Day this year by donating books and school stationary to the Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Affairs.

The donation was presented to the Minister of Child Development and Women’s Affairs Hon. Tissa Karalliyadda by Hemas Marketing Manager, Derrick Antony at the Ministry premises.

The initiative is part of Baby Cheramy’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme ‘The Big Heart Project’, which was launched this year with the aim of promoting education among children in Sri Lanka, marking the brand’s 50th year in the country.

The books and stationary donated to the Ministry Child Development and Women’s Affairs were contributed by both Baby Cheramy and the public. Through a special ‘Big Heart Project’ stall at the popular International Book Fair in Colombo recently, Baby Cheramy drove awareness about the importance of education for children and encouraged thousands of people visiting the fair to donate books and stationary to children in need.

The Big Heart Project by Baby Cheramy in partnership with the Department of Probation and Childcare Services of the Ministry of Child Development & Women Affairs will fund the education of disadvantaged children from across the country during their crucial first five years of schooling. Baby Cheramy will fund the education of these children from Grades One to Five by contributing 50 cents from every Baby Cheramy product sold.

The Big Heart Project will specifically fund children that are ‘at-risk’, or in danger of being institutionalized due to the financial inability of their families’ to care for them. ‘Big Heart Project’ will fund the education of such at-risk children with the purpose of providing much needed support to parents while ensuring these children remain in the care of their families.

Former national cricketer and Project Ambassador for Big Heart Project Roshan Mahanama will join hand with Baby Cheramy to encourage likeminded Sri Lankans to open their hearts in support of this cause with an extensive all island awareness drive.

A dedicated bank account under ‘Sevana Sarana Foster Parent Scheme’ (Account No: 174-1-001-1-9026268 at People’s Bank, Nugegoda branch) has been opened for funds and the account will be monitored by the Ministry of Child Development & Women Affairs.

Baby Cheramy was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1962. It has since grown to be a diverse, multi-sector range and has reached the No. 1 position in the country’s baby care category. With a rich heritage of 50 years in serving the nation, Baby Cheramy aspires to continue its quest of enriching the lives of mothers and babies in Sri Lanka.

Orient Finance now in Kilinochchi

Orient Finance PLC strengthened its customer reach by opening a new Customer Service Centre in Killinochchi, recently.

This is the latest addition to the branch network of Orient Finance PLC, which has branches located in Matara, Kurunegala, Ampara, Kochchikade andWelisara and customer service centers in Gampaha, Avissawella, Galle, Kandy, Vavuniya, Kalutara, Anuradhapura and Kegalle.

The Killinochchi customer service center is geared to serve customers with varying financing needs pertaining to leases, hire purchases and debt factoring. A special focus of this office would be servicing the SME sector in the area.