Technology

Latitude 655 helps Lanka bridge technology gap

Latitude 655 will revolutionise Sri Lanka's IT industry with its world class innovative products, said Director Business Development, Latitude 655, Mani Kulasooriya.

He was addressing a ceremony in Colombo to launch Latitude 655, a partnership between a Sri Lankan entity and a Silicon Valleys innovator, Monvia.

He said, Sri Lanka is at an early stage of economic and IT boom. Latitude will capture this opportunity to develop a vibrant business environment in Sri Lanka.

"Sri Lanka's IT technology has not developed to meet the demands of the current global business trends. Latitude 655 will help bridge the technology gap and enhance corporate efficiency", he said.

"An IT savvy business environment will help Sri Lanka to reap the full benefits of peace. Latitude 655 will channel key developments, insights and best practices from Silicon Valley to Sri Lanka", Kulasooriya said. Latitude 655 will make an initial investment of US$ 5 million over a period of five years to develop businesses in Sri Lanka.

Silicon Valley has always been the leading high-tech hub due to its number of cutting edge entrepreneurs, engineers and venture capitalists.

It is home to world renowned companies such as ebay, Yahoo and Google.

CEO, Latitude 655, Shanil Fernando said, he is confident that Latitude will be the leading IT service provider in Sri Lanka within a short time.

Sri Lanka's businesses will thrive with the Silicon Valley innovations and high tech products.

"Our services are built on empowering businesses by providing solutions to enhance productivity and reduce cost", he said.

The company's services include IT consulting and technology strategy, application development and integration, next generation web development, application testing and skilled BPO.

Monvia is a technology innovator that has serviced many Fortune 500 companies in the US market since 2004 and has worked with Latitude 655 to provide solutions to companies such as Yahoo and Conde Nast.

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hSenid Mobile unveils two products

hSenid Mobile solutions, launched two revolutionary products at the recently concluded mobile world congress in Barcelona.

The two products include mChoiceTM Soltura; a community VAS platform that enables telcos to introduce unlimited number of VAS applications eliminating CAPEX and reducing OPEX and incremental costs.

As communication, entertainment, and information services converge, driven by the unprecedented power and flexibility of democratising content, Telco's today need an open platform coupled with an exciting array of features to create a sustainable revenue stream.

The new service creation platform mChoiceTM Soltura, provides an advanced set of tools for content creation through which users can define and build a set of common applications. This enables day-to-day users to create their own pool of easy to use telco applications for their various needs.

The open source Telco apps store mChoiceTM Vishma, provides the necessary platform to build an application eco-system in which application developers can publish and market their various applications.

The users can perform reviews, ratings, trials and visualizations of available content. mChoiceTM Vishma provides a seamless integration to mChoiceTM Soltura helping users to create an application using mChoice Soltura, and directly publishing it on mChoice Vishma.

Moreover, since mChoice Vishma is an open source apps store, it can be customised and integrated to the Service Delivery Platforms provided by any vendor.

hSenid continues its commitment to innovation after its successful launch of mChoice SDP, the next generation, open and scalable Service Delivery Platform implemented at M1 in Singapore. mChoiceTM SDP enables M1 to deploy new services faster, easier and more cost-effectively.

WSO2 debuts Cloud Identity to simplify identity

WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware company, announced the debut of WSO2 Cloud Identity.

The latest WSO2 Cloud helps companies eliminate the complexity of deploying identity management and authentication across multiple Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications as well as internal and traditional systems.

Comprehensive identity management primarily has been the domain of large enterprises with the budgets, resources and technical staff to implement them.

WSO2 Cloud Identity lowers the barriers for small and medium businesses by eliminating the need for internal software, dedicated hardware, and systems administrators. Instead, WSO2 provides enterprise identity management as a simple-to-manage, pay-as-you-go hosted service that can scale to meet companies' needs.

By supporting a broad set of authentication and security standards, WSO2 Cloud Identity gives administrators a central identity management system while users gain single sign-on access to different cloud applications.

Initial cloud application support includes Google Apps, which is available with today's beta release of WSO2 Cloud Identity, and Salesforce.com, which will be added at the end of the month.

"SaaS and other applications in the cloud have played a remarkable role in making enterprise-class applications accessible and affordable for small and medium-size businesses," said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO.

"With our WSO2 Cloud Identity, those companies now have an enterprise-class system that offers easy set up and enables a centralised, scalable approach to identity management and authentication across all their applications running in the cloud."

WSO2 Cloud Identity for Proven Identity Management WSO2 Cloud Identity is based on the proven functionality of the open source WSO2 Identity Server, which supports open identity standards.

The WSO2 Cloud Identity offering is completely self-service; it allows each company or organisation to register and configure its own domain, add users, and start using the service from day one with no software setup.

The WSO2 Cloud Services team manages the system on a scalable, reliable, infrastructure providing a one-stop service for identity across the web and internal systems.

The result is that for the first time, companies of any size can get enterprise-class identity and entitlement management unified for both internal and externally hosted applications, running in the cloud with no need for a systems administrator or dedicated hardware.

The Web-based administration and configuration model means that the system can be configured easily and effectively from any web browser.

Aepona picked for OneAPI Commercial Pilot

Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and with a software development centre (Aepona International Lanka (Pvt) Limited) in Colombo, announced that it has been selected by the GSMA for its launch of the world's first commercial implementation of OneAPI, a groundbreaking initiative that aims to make it much easier for application providers and enterprises to mobile-enable their applications and services across multiple operators. The service is being launched in Canada as a commercial Pilot, connecting to the three major Canadian mobile operators - Bell Mobility, TELUS and Rogers Wireless.

The GSMA chose Aepona as its prime contractor and platform supplier for the Pilot following a rigorous selection process. Aepona is providing its Universal Service Platform (USP) together with managed services, including application provider on-boarding, developer support and platform management.

In delivering the Pilot platform, Aepona is working with Transaction Network Services (TNS), who is providing the hosting infrastructure and operational services and expertise required to implement a carrier-grade, highly available commercial system.