Efutures provides support services to Wall Street firms

EFutures, a premier Sri Lankan web and software solutions provider has won contracts from several Wall Street firms in the United States for support services. These Wall Street firms are ranked among the top five financial firms in the world.

Director of EFutures Prashan Nagendra said, "The company has diversified their services into providing support in managing, maintaining and deploying servers in a mixed environment of Solaris, Linux, VMWare, AIX and Windows running infrastructure and trading applications".

Deploying servers, monitoring, troubleshoot and resolving problems, daily production support, software installation, fault analysis and recovery, deploying middleware applications, assistance in application disaster recovery testing and maintenance of security compliance are some of the expert services provided to these Wall Street financial institutions by EFutures.

The company has engaged a team of software engineers and support engineers to provide these services to two of the leading financial firms in the United States. The team providing services to these firms is expected to be increased to 50 by the end 2011.

EFutures handles offshore software projects and boasts of one of the most impressive portfolios in the local and international software industry. It has become the corporate choice in outsourcing both web and software development.

Development is based on customer specifications for a software product. The highly flexible approach, large and experienced team and faster response time has enabled the company to be successful in the software industry for over 10 years.

"The company is in the process of obtaining CMMI Level 3 Certification with the objective of acquiring larger development projects" said Director EFutures Rishen Fernando.

He noted that CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides organisations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve performance. At maturity Level 3, processes are well characterised and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools, and methods. These standard processes are used to establish consistency across the organisation.