Microimage turns 20

Microimage, a company that started as a high-school start-up and built itself through sheer determination and passion, celebrated its 20th anniversary recently.

The evening kicked off with CEO Harsha Purasinghe showcasing the journey of their proprietary software, the very first Sinhala Unicode Keyboard, Helawadena, a collaboration between the ICTA, Microsoft and Microimage making Sinhala, Tamil and numerous other language 'keyboards' ubiquitously available. The initial Microimage product was given a small space in a store (at Majestic City) owned by another small startup, EPSI. Ironically, the owner of EPSI was none other than Muhunthan Canagey. Canagey, who today heads ICTA, shared this journey with the audience. "I am proud to be standing here acknowledging the success of Microimage."

COO Suren Rupasinghe outlined Sri Lanka's pioneering Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions by developing time and attendance, and payroll software for the manufacturing sector.

The company services a large established growing client base in seven markets across the region.

Purasinghe outlined the company's foray into the international arena tying up with Asia-based Omesti Group. This strategic partnership with Microimage brought leading edge Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions to Asian markets.

Microimage transformed from being just another provider of desktop language software into a successful software research and development company.

Chairman, SLASSCOM, Mano Sekeram said that despite all the hardships faced along the way due to various industry shortfalls, Microimage did not give up hope.

Seeing an opportunity to get into mobile media, the company started developing a radio automation software which turned out to be the mission-critical innitiative for radio operations. Group CEO, Dialog Axiata, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya also spoke.

Apart from making game-changing software, Microimage veered into social innovation with the first-ever disaster and early warning solution called DEWN.

Today, Microimage Holdings has become the umbrella organisation that oversees all of its diversifications including Microimage Impact. This new arm will engage in various social impact initiatives and all revenue generated from this social venture will be put back into fostering social ideas towards social impact harnessing the power of technology.