Financial Times

The TechForum of the Sri Lanka Association for the Software industry is to be held for the second consecutive year in Colombo on 23 August with the theme for the all-day forum being ‘Back to the Future: Business Intelligence /Business Performance Management Demystified’.

According to SLASI president Udaya De Silva, participants at the forum will ‘learn about the latest trends in Business Intelligence /Business Performance Management and how these innovations can streamline their businesses and sharpen their competitive edge.’ More than 125 participants, mainly corporate IT and Planning professionals from both the private and public sectors, are expected to attend.

SLASI vice-president Nayane Gunawardena, explains that most business could benefit significantly by adopting business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) products. ‘BPM is the big-picture stuff,’ he says. ‘It helps managers define strategic goals, devise plans to reach those goals and measure the success of the attainment in terms of well-defined indicators. You could call it the set of integrated, feedback-driven processes, supported by appropriate software, that helps navigate and steer today’s businesses.’ BPM, he explains, comes in a wide range of different forms, of which the most widely adopted will be covered at the TechForum.

The TechForum, as it is popularly known, is now in its second year. The success of the inaugural forum, held last year, prompted SLASI to make this a regular, annual event. Last year’s forum, which supported the theme of “Software Development Demystified” had nearly a hundred attendees representing over 50 companies.