Sapro Hospitality Management Platform to run on Nimbus Cloud Services

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Nimbus Cloud Lanka Managing Director Damith Hettihewa (left) and Texonic Chairman Chaminda Senaratne after signing the agreement

Texonic Information Systems recently signed up with and Nimbus Cloud Services to host its cutting-edge Sapro Hospitality Management Platform. The agreement between Texonic Information Systems and Nimbus Clouds Lanka Ltd. was signed by Nimbus Clouds Lanka Ltd. Managing Director Damith Hettihewa and Texonic Information Systems Group Chairman Chaminda Senaratne.

The Sapro Hospitality Management ERP is a powerful hospitality platform that is designed to efficiently administer all common functions for any hotel or resort. It is a total solution for hotels incorporating front office and back office. It also has an automated sales engine which links the hotel’s special rates with travel agents. Currently Sapro serves customers in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand and Sierra Leone.

Speaking about the significance of signing with Nimbus Cloud Services, Chaminda Senaratne said: “The major benefits of the new Sapro product is that there is no investment up-front but only a monthly fee. Signing up with Nimbus Clouds was a great benefit for us.

“Monthly subscription fee based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from Nimbus Cloud enabled us to offer monthly fee based platform service to our hospitality customers. As a result, hotels do not require to buy servers or maintain IT server rooms. The property can be managed from anywhere in the world by simply accessing the Sapro hospitality platform through the internet.”

Damith Hettihewa said: “We are delighted to have a truly Sri Lankan global hospitality management platform on board. Local software innovators such as Texonic could leverage our elastics hyper-converged cloud infrastructure to ease the capex burden of their customers and offer subscription fee based Software as a Service (SaaS). In addition to capex savings, customers also will not need to maintain IT server rooms resulting significant operational cost savings on office space rent cost, power and AC cost etc.”

“We see increased adaption of public cloud services in Sri Lanka market by platform owners as well as enterprises of all sizes to get the benefits of cloud technology. Virtual Private Cloud is the most popular and Backup as a Service (BUaaS) is also becoming critical amidst increasing threats from Ransomware.

“Nimbus Cloud offers very attractive prices to support Sri Lankan software and platform provides who have the potential to generate foreign exchange revenue for Sri Lanka. We at Nimbus Cloud Lanka look forward to go extra mile to support such local software entrepreneurs,” Hettihewa further said.

Nimbus Clouds is a global public cloud services provider which offers local hosting service (www.nimbus.lk) in Sri Lanka. Its local presence enables its customers to comply for data sovereignty requirements.

It also offers Platform as a Service (PaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Backup as a Service (BUaaS) in addition to its flagship Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer in Sri Lanka. Nimbus offers OPEX based Private Cloud Infrastructure for banks and large conglomerates and also provide consultancy services on legacy IT infrastructureto cloud migrations.