Virtusa’s partners with Microsoft offering enterprise services in Sri Lanka

 Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global information technology (IT) services company that provides IT consulting, technology implementation and application outsourcing services through an enhanced global delivery model, today announced that it has ventured into a partnership with Microsoft to provide consultation for enterprise service in Sri Lanka offering services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Druvi Jayamanne Associate Director – Sales and Client Services for the Middle East and Asia Pacific region for Virtusa Corporation said “We look forward to serving the Sri Lankan enterprise clients. We bring deep expertise in serving leading organizations in the US and Europe for over 12 years. We have a strong well tuned proven best of breed processes and excellent track record of having worked with Fortune 500 companies spanning the Banking, Financial Services, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Retail and Technology sectors. We are excited about getting into closer association with Microsoft Sri Lanka, as this would enable both companies to combine our strengths and our unique value proposition to provide more comprehensive solutions to Sri Lankan Enterprises.”

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.

Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne Country Manager, Microsoft Sri Lanka said, "The launch of Virtusa’s services on Microsoft technologies to the local market is no doubt a significant boost to local businesses. Microsoft technologies have dominated the landscape of work Virtusa has undertaken globally over the years. Therefore, Virtusa with its proven expertise in software development, and intimacy with our products, will add immense value to the industry through their advanced technology know-how, mature process disciplines and their experience in developing software for some of the world renowned companies. Given that His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapakse officially declared this year as the Year of English and IT, the partnership between Virtusa and Microsoft could not have come at a better time as it provides both companies with the ideal foundation to leverage each other’s skills in offering impactful innovative solutions to the market and contribute towards the development of IT in the country.  Microsoft Sri Lanka, over a short span of less than 5 years, has become intrinsically linked with Sri Lanka and its people by delivering an incredible array of innovative new technologies that transform our customers’ lives. Given the issues faced by many organizations today due to the Global Crisis, Virtusa, through this partnership, would help bring and deploy the best in class Microsoft technologies to local businesses to help drive key business outcomes around cost reduction and increased productivity gains. Virtusa’s extensive internal use of these technologies no doubt reinforce the confidence they place in these technologies.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is the cornerstone for corporate collaboration applications, and is typically imbedded in Microsoft enterprise licensing agreements. MOSS has recently evolved with new tools and templates, and can transform critical business functions in ways that formerly required many man hours in custom development.