ARMPD- Lecture No. 26 (Our Field Trip To Virtusa)

Great Memories and Experiences in Virtusa 

 

Today's lecture was conducted in a different place, in a different way. Our lecture Mr.Eranjan Padumadasa organized a field trip to Virtusa one of the software developing giants in the globe. first of all my heartfelt  gratitude goes to him for organizing such thing for the benefit of the students. It was my dream to go to Virtusa but i never got a chance because we need to get special permission to enter. Finallly i got the opportunity to participate in this special occasion and i would like to share my experience with you guys.

First of all i would like to share some information i gathered about the Virtusa Company background. There were a couple of lectures conducted by the employees at virtusa and the information was gathered from that fashion

Virtusa is a US company but they have branches located in Asia and in Europe. The organization consist of more than 6000 World Class Professionals within the organization and 89 active clients who give significant amount of business to Virtusa.  The companies aim is to achieve its 40 billion Rupee revenue target in year 2015

They believe that the above target is within their reach because they can bid a 100 million project because of the large size of the company and any client would have confidence if they go through the company profile of Virtusa. Also the company has a good family culture their employees work as a whole unit/family to achieve their goals where coordination is the key. These are some of their main strengths i identified in Virtusa. Here are some of the other main information i gathered during lectures,

Operating Income - 23.9 million

Compound growth rate - 10 year revenue 32.47%

Loyal Customers - IBM, Standard Charted, National Geographic, British Telecom

Awards - HRM Award, Forbes 2011 award and many more

Some of the CSR activities done by the company 

1. Virtusa provided a total of 21000 campus training hours across Sri-Lanka
2. They have build a system for S.Joesph and they made it open source and its completely free of charge. Meaning it is free for the schools for them to use. This is one of their main CSR activities conducted.

when looking at the above statistics it is clearly seen that Virtusa is one of the biggest companies in software Development and I m glad to make a Visit for such a company and its a privileged. The Following is a project done by the company to British Telecom.

Name - Telecom Fault Management

Technology used - i phone, android, blackberry mobile software

                             Java, WS02 ESB

User Experience - Traffic fines on your mobile.

Social media used by the company

- Vingio

- VT

- Yammer

Some of the Benefits to the employees in Virtusa

Library

Food Court

Gymnasium

Dinner and transport after working. 

According to one of the employees who conducted the lecture in Virtusa :

Virusa is growing and it need more leadership, more teams, more people therefore everyone has a chance to go up the ladder. Goal is to gain 80% of the leadership skills within the organization and  it gives opportunities for the future employees who are willing to join the company.

Then next employee who was an expert in the Business process management(BPM) came in and explained us about the BPM  process and the technology  and languages used in the environment.

 According to him BPM process is

"Adding value to customer and  employee reducing cost, improving quality. it all comes under the BPM."

The lectures were concluded by another lecture conducted about the Phillips Fall tracker  project for patients done by Virtusa which is one of their main projects in recent times which brought them significant amount of profits to the company. 

Finally the field trip came to a success and if i were to rate the success i would say it is a 100% success for all the students because from what i heard they have enjoyed the trip and filled their minds with lots of knowledge throughout the trip. The Credit goes to our lecturer for arranging it. THANK YOU 

Reflection of the lectures

The experience i gained today from the trip to virtusa cannot be expressed in words because it was a once in a lifetime experience we got during our campus life. i learned many things from the lectures conducted in virtusa such as the company background, where it stands among the competitors, their clients , the corporate information (which cannot be gained even through their website if you visit) such as market growth, profit target, their family culture of the company, BPM process and the projects they have conducted successfully, the working environment, the technology they use to develop software, their organizational structure and how an employee is guided through the career path. This information cannot be accessed if this trip wasn't organized therefore it was a major success for all students. I am hoping to finish my degree with a first class and join virtusa and take on my career from their onwards.