About 100 Sri Lankan developers are currently working in Colombo on the next generation of Microsoft's SharePoint enterprise software, says Microsoft Sri Lanka's Country Manager, Sriyan De Silva Wijeyeratne. He added that the local software industry would potentially benefit from this group's dynamics and their future interactions with local developers such as Virtusa.
This emerged at the launch of Virtusa's enterprise solutions service to Sri Lankan companies. The company, which is promising seamless integration with a company's existing resources, will be offering its services via its preferred Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform.
This is the first direct foray into Sri Lanka for Virtusa, a local company which is headquartered in USA that reports a 2008 revenue of US$ 162.5 million with a 5 year compounded annual growth of 46%. They have already been working with the Information and Communications Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka through other partners. Other major clients include 'Fortune 500 companies spanning the Banking, Financial Services, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Retail and Technology sectors', and the company has chosen pursue a more active role in Asia although 71% of business still resides in USA.
According to the company, "Virtusa’s SharePoint service offerings include architecture, design, development, testing and migration of SharePoint powered collaboration applications in areas of Internal portals, enabling multiple locations to share ideas and materials, Document workflow and archival – such as for work orders, marketing collateral, contracts, Project collaboration – such as managing deals through the sales, contract, delivery and support stages, Document – centric applications that tie people-driven processes to document rights and rules and Business intelligence – such as publishing an Excel-based sales forecast on a departmental dashboard".
Meanwhile, Virtusa will be offering potential clients a series of 'Show & Tell' workshops which will highlight SharePoint applications, etc. They will also be offering consultations to companies to manage their own resources to effectively reduce total cost of ownership over the next few years while, at the same time, saving on IT/manpower. |
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