Virtusa Becomes a Top Employer in Britain in 2011

19th April 2011, www.dailynews.lk

Virtusa Corporation has been certified by the Corporate Research Foundation (CRF) Institute as one of Britain's Top Employers for 2011, scoring exceptionally well in the categories of Secondary Benefits and Working Conditions and Career Development.

Now in its 11th year, Britain's Top Employers uses international standards and independent research done by the CRF Institute to identify those companies excelling in HR management. Virtusa was recognized for its outstanding HR policies and exceptional working conditions.

Companies were assessed based on key HR-related areas including primary benefits, secondary benefits and working conditions, training and development, career development, and company culture.

"The happiness and well-being of our team members are critical to the success of Virtusa as a company," Virtusa Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne said.

"We founded Virtusa based on a spirit of innovation and it is very gratifying to see our team members continue to demonstrate creativity as they develop solutions that help our clients achieve their business goals and objectives.

Our values are clear: we believe in the pursuit of excellence, integrity, respect and leadership. These values form the nucleus of our high-performance culture and our ability to create competitive advantage for our clients. Our team members put their hearts and souls into creating excellence and we are honoured to be recognized for creating a conducive work environment," he said.

Image: The Britain’s Top Employers Award trophy was presented by CRF Institute CEO Steven Veenendaal and received by team members Europe Managing Director Clayton Locke, Longest tenured team member in UK Shiraz T and, Human Resources Director for Europe Sundararajan Narayanan.

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Virtusa Builds Lanka Gate Portal for eSriLanka Initiative to Improve Transparency & Increase Access to Information for Underserved

19th February 2011, www.dailynews.lk

Virtusa Corporation has developed an innovative web portal and supporting middleware service integration platform for the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA).

Part of the government’s eSriLanka initiative, the Lanka Gate portal reduces costs while improving transparency and empowering traditionally underserved populations through increased access to information and communication tools.

With various agencies running on different platforms with minimal or no integration, the Government recognized the need to provide a standard service platform to facilitate seamless interaction for its citizens, departments, and businesses in a secure, reliable and transparent environment.

The ICTA tapped Virtusa to create a new portal to serve as a primary interface for all users, including citizens, non-citizens, businesses, agents and government employees.

Virtusa created the Lanka Gate country portal, as well as an underlying middleware tier called the Lanka Interoperability Exchange (LIX), which allows users to connect to various government organizations and businesses in Sri Lanka.

Lanka Gate supports the Sinhala, Tamil and English languages, as well as both traditional web and mobile browsing, which increases Government transparency by making information more accessible to a greater number of users.

Not only did the project dramatically improve user experience, it also reduced costs and improved efficiency by integrating disparate systems and automating processes through workflows and orchestration.

More readily available information has reduced the number of service requests and integration has led to faster and more accurate service when requests do come in.

As a testament to the success of the platform built by Virtusa, the ICTA was recently honoured with the “Public Sector Organization of the Year” award among South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries at Future Gov Asia held in October, 2010.

“Virtusa has been a true partner throughout the creation of Lanka Gate and the Lanka Interoperability Exchange and was instrumental in translating the eSriLanka vision into an innovative product for our citizens, businesses and government agencies,” ICTA CEO Reshan Dewapura said.

“We’re excited about the recognition the portal has received and look forward to continuing to work with Virtusa to improve how the Government uses technology to better connect with people and businesses. Through the Cabinet approved e-Government Policy it has now been made mandatory for all government organizations to use Lanka Gate for electronic service delivery and the Country Portal has been identified as the government’s single window for electronic service delivery.”

Virtusa Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne said, “We are proud to partner with ICTA to build the ‘e’ vision for Sri Lanka.

“Our expertise is in building transformational solutions that accelerate time-to-market and improve the consumer experience. The Lanka Gate portal is a prime example of the type of project that requires a unique combination of technical expertise, user experience innovation and strong execution.

“Whether they’re government organizations or businesses, whether in North America, Europe or Asia, our teams develop award winning solutions that connect consumers to critical on-line services,” he said.

The Virtusa solution is based on a robust Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform that uses open standards, frameworks and protocols to allow different businesses to meet unique requirements with minimal impact on their existing systems. The service is flexible and can be extended to any protocol in the future as needs change.

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Virtusa (NASDAQ:VRTU) in FinTech 100 List. Financial Services Technology Company was Founded in Colombo Sri Lanka

22nd December 2010, www.dailynews.lk

Virtusa Corporation has been recognized by American Banker, Bank Technology News and IDC Financial Insights on the 2010 FinTech 100 List. The list, currently in its seventh year, ranks the most successful financial services technology vendors around the world based on their calendar year 2009 revenue from financial services.

This marks the third time in four years that Virtusa has been honoured in the ranking.“The FinTech 100 List has established itself as a significant point of reference in measuring success within the financial services industry, and we are extremely honoured to be recognized on this year’s list,” which they must comply, and Virtusa has the domain expertise Virtusa Chairman CEO Kris Canekeratne said.

“Financial institutions today are facing an increasing number of challenges to help companies solve these challenges and achieve measurable business results,” he said.

Virtusa partners with some of the world’s largest banking and financial services companies.

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World Indigenous People’s Day - Virtusa Donates Computer Lab to Dambana Primary School under the Patronage of Tribal Leader Uruvarige Vannilaththga

www.itpro.lk, 26th November 2009

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU) has taken a step forward by taking IT education to the Indigenous tribes in Dambana. In celebration of World Indigenous People’s day, Virtusa donated a fully equipped computer lab to the Dambana Primary School, under the patronage of tribal leader Uruvarige Vannilaththga and his two sons.

This contribution was made with the aim of taking IT education to Sri Lanka’s remotest areas, in a move to provide its children with the knowledge and infrastructure, to keep them up to date in a fast paced I.T world. Under its Digital Reach initiative, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, Virtusa has donated computers, compatible curriculums and fully equipped computer labs to over 50 rural schools.

Principle of the Dambana Primary School, Rohitha Pushpakumara expressed his gratitude on accepting the gateway to I.T for his pupils; “today’s curriculums insist upon I.T knowledge and our children have been deprived of such facilities for a long time…we had made request from various institutions for assistance, but it was Virtusa which responded and acted speedily in meeting our demands… we remain grateful for the opportunity.”

Marketing & Communications Manager, of Virtusa, Rasika Withanage commenting at the handing over ceremony voiced Virtusa’s pleasure in enabling rural children to utilize their talents to gain knowledge and professionalism. He commented that the Digital Reach programme is intended to provide the foundation for opportunities for Sri Lankan youth. Up to date, the Virtusa Digital Reach programme has reached out to more than 45,000 youth, arming them to face an ever growing world of opportunities.