Sri Lankan ICT seminar
Date: Wednesday 28th May
Venue: Sri Lankan High Commission, 13 Hyde Park Gardens, London, W2 2LU
Time: 9.30 – 12.30
Register: Click here to register
Sri Lanka is increasingly seen as a rival to India as a software development hub as the recent growth in the software sector in India has caused costs of IT staff to rise significantly and labour turnover is becoming a major issue. Pearson , the UK educational publisher already employs 300 people directly in Sri Lanka working on software development for electronic publishing of its materials as well as e- , m- learning and assessment modules. The sector employs already 60000 workers who generate $300 million of export turnover and this is expected to double in 5 years. The London Stock Exchange started outsourcing various IT projects to a local company called Millenium which gradually became so critical to its operations that it eventually acquired it and will give a testimonial at the event.
1. www.Statseeker.com
Owners of have large IT network installations need to be able to manage demand and capacity.
A number of network managers have traditionally downloaded free management tools from the Internet but these don’t always collect data from all the hardware in the network and they don’t “roll up” , whereas with Statseeker’s compression tools , a network manager can see historical data going back months or years if required to see past areas of pressure in the network and use this to predict future use which can help them either reconfigure the network itself rather than deciding whether new hardware is the answer.
Statseeker already have track record in the UK , they already have reference clients such as Peterborough regional college and New College Nottingham , Monash University , and Texas A&M in the USA and Fedex globally. Following an acquisition by an Australian private equity company they are looking both for major endusers and distributors in the UK.
2. www.99xtechnology.com
Looking to meet educational software companies who would obviously not consider outsourcing/offshoring their core product development work , but may need some support in disciplines such as QA , user experience testing , security testing , performance testing , test automation , mobile integration.
A particular characteristic of their work is the ongoing need maintenance of retired modules still in use where the software developers’s focus for its own staff in bringing forward new products which 99X can offer doing anything from running a helpdesk for a retired product on behalf of the client to development of social media/mobile interfaces for such products. They have expertise in Microsoft , Java , IOS/Android and HTML5/JS technologies.
They would be willing to consider either a contractual relationship or possibly an equity joint venture with a UK software company.
3. www.negete.com
Negete have expertise in particularly in mobile applications development , having worked on the engineering for a number of clients involved in mobile learning applications where the client perhaps develops an app completely in one format such as IOS but needs to offer it in Android and Windows too , or needs to develop a series of sequential learning/assessment modules for an e- / m- learning product.
They also have 2 products , one called m-sales which may be of use to companies who use mobile sales forces to take orders in person and recording sales data while travelling. The other is rush-route which uses wifi-triangulation / NFC technology inside buildings to help users guide them around . It’s currently being piloted in the Dubai Mall in Dubai.
They would be keen to meet software providers who have a need for mobile app work as well as any interesting in developing general sales for m-sales (target anyone with a mobile salesforce) or the for rushroute.
4. www.calcey.com
Virtually all of Calcey’s client base is currently in Silicon Valley , often small start ups who are developing mobile learning technologies for blue chip clients , particularly on the IOS platform. Their work has been used in products sold to CISCO’s training division, 3M’s internal training division and Stanford University’s distance learning courses as well as mobile integration with the university’s administration ERP system.
They would be keen to consider a contractual or collaborative partnership with a UK company developing software involving either mobile solutions (including their integration with web apps) , database integration with front end apps.
5. www.cslworld.com
One of Sri Lanka’s largest outsourcing companies with 400 staff , CSL operate dedicate teams on behalf of clients , work on development of complete modules and applications and offer support services. They are a preferred global vendor for Microsoft having developed the search functionality in SharePoint 2010 and 2013 and offer support for large Sharepoint installations globally.
CSL has also operated a BOOT model for clients such as Cambio Healthcare Systems of Sweden where they set up an outsourced BPO operation on Cambio’s behalf in Sri Lanka which was transferred to Cambio ownership once established with CSL being retained for management contract.
They would like to meet any company considering outsourcing of software development.
6. www.orioncity.com
Operator of Sri Lanka’s largest software park , home to Pearson’s captive facility , plus Sri Lankan Airlines and outsourcers such as WNS , Tetran , Camoplast and ISME Netherlands.
They would be keen to meet any company seeking to set up an operation in Sri Lanka offering office space of 300 sq metres upwards.
Registration is free of charge but please register here.
There will be opportunities for the audience to network over coffee with the delegates , however we are organising 1-2-1 sessions from 11.40-12.40 of 20 minutes each for each Sri Lankan delegate should a visitor wish to have a confidential discussion – for these please email robert@edgetradeinvest.co.uk direct.
