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APAC CIO outlook magazine published from the hub of technology – Silicon Valley, USA is a leading IT magazine designed to connect stakeholders within and across the enterprise IT community of APAC countries, with an aim to provide a knowledge share platform for CIOs, CTOs and other senior level IT industry decision makers along with CXOs to share their insights and advice with IT community of APAC countries.
Just In Time Group (JIT) is indeed proud of its achievement of being listed in the latest edition of the magazine and as the only Sri Lankan company to be featured and recognized in the APAC CIO outlook Magazine’s annual listing of the Top 25 Government and Public Sector Technology Providers 2017. This prestigious recognition for JIT is an echo of the commitment of the JIT Team’s efforts of delivering innovative solutions and service excellence, as a leader in systems and solutions integration in Sri Lanka – with a special mention to JIT’s ability to manage any customer challenge and achieve 100% User Acceptance Test (UAT) sign offs.
The APAC CIO Outlook editorial research team analysed over 400+ companies who provide Govt. and Public Sector Technology solutions to shortlist the Top 25 companies in the Government and Public Sector Technology Providers 2017 – and companies who are at the forefront of tackling customer challenges. This edition of the APAC CIO Outlook magazine featured the top solution and service providers offering technologies and services in the government space – showcasing extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies combined with talent base across locations.Governments and Public sectors are no longer like before, as now their horizontal extent has multiplied unequivocally and so has their dependence onto newer technologies to tread these new horizons. As the new world is inundated by concerns such as; security threats, population proliferation and depleting resources, it will come to play that government agencies will become and must transition into major users of the newest disruptions that is hitting technology landscape.
JIT’s featured article on APAC CIO outlook Magazine, ‘Bringing Agility in the Workflow of Government Agencies’ shared that, “Technology has painted a new reality for the market today: a reality governed by the adage ‘deliver more for less’. To adjust to this new reality the Government and public sector have been heavily infusing leading edge technology to meet their core business needs.
Helping them seamlessly adapt to the change, is the Colombo-based company, Just in Time Group (JIT). JIT’s flexible and cost-effective solutions have regularly elevated the success graph of its niche customer base. Telecommunication and Digital infrastructure has been identified as two of the key areas that would define the future of Sri Lanka and JIT is committed to support and partner the Government’s digitalisation vision whilst harnessing its success and expertise towards the ICT imprint of the country.
In its two decade journey, JIT has rapidly evolved from a four-member team to an employee group of over 200. From selling Compaq computers to being a full-fledged system integrator, JIT has emerged as a pioneer in the Sri Lankan technology-scape providing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions ranging from systems integration to Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
“With over two decades of project experience of successfully delivering complex IT projects, we have a team of well experienced, multi-skilled certified professionals specialising in solution design and systems integration,” says JIT Founder and Chairman Jit Warnakulasuriya.
Delivering solutions of national importance, JIT was instrumental in deploying the electronic fund settlement system called Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) bringing Sri Lanka up to international banking standards. JIT’s team also assisted the Peoples Bank, a state-owned bank in Sri Lanka in implementing a robust ATM switch with ATOS Worldline. The offering helped them to overcome the challenge of connecting two different core banking solutions. This solution crafted a product that could communicate via ATMs and then later powered it to new core-banking and digital platforms.
The firm as the local technology partner also supported the deployment of the Central switch system with its principal FIS to connect all the ATMs of the country which is known as the common card and payments switch. This is a landmark project for the financial landscape as the only common switch for the country and has successfully gone live giving birth to Sri Lanka’s largest common ATM network, connecting over 2,500 ATMs.
Furthermore, JIT with its expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology provides solutions and expert consultancy that helps clients to analyse data from a geographical perspective to enhance the effectiveness of their planning as well as make more informed and accurate decisions. GIS drives the Public and Government sectors digitalisation process as foundation platform. JIT with its tie up with Esri (acronym for Environmental Systems Research Institute – USA) who is considered the global technology leader in GIS as well as in Sri Lanka, and remains the only fully equipped and supported
GIS technology provider in Sri Lanka. All of Sri Lanka’s authoritative Mapping up to date is done on the platform provided by JIT.
Being a visionary, Warnakulasuriya understands the importance of partnering with other market giants in the same space. ‘Our success has always been our strength in relationships with our stakeholders be it customers or principals, on which we place great emphasis remarked Warnakulasuriya. To this end, the company has collaborated with some of the prominent market leaders such as Gemalto, IBM, FIS, Silverlake, DELLEMC, Netcracker and CGI to name a few. Moreover, JIT’s associations have helped them address the core pain points of customers and then usher appropriate remedies for the same.
In the years ahead, JIT envisions implementing new solutions and techniques for digitally transforming the functionality of Govt. and Public sector.
JIT surpassed their mammoth two decade landmark in the ICT landscape of Sri Lanka, as a leading ICT Systems and Solutions Integrator to the country. This two decade success with their longstanding customers, strategic principals and committed employees have been the catalyst for JIT’s success and brining many landmark projects with cutting edge technology to the country and making Sri Lanka’s mark in the global ICT map.