siliconindia | |October 201419siliconindia | |September 201419siliconindia | |October 201419for more progressive and transformational businesses," says Rajgopal. Clearly, in some ways, this focus and ability to help corporations transform their business to be a Millennial enterprise is born from Virtusa's heritage and experience of transforming its clients' customer facing processes. This is further enriched by Virtusa's social business engagement platform that provides a rich Millennial experience to its employee base. The Millennial culture is deep-rooted in the organization's DNA. Given that digital natives form over 70 percent of its workforce, Virtusa has been experimenting with disruptive technologies to make its organization a digital workplace. A case in point is its home-grown, award winning social business platform, V+, which provides a rich digital environment for its 8,500 plus global employees to work, learn, collaborate and innovate. Virtusa has also helped some of its larger clients in transforming their IT infrastructure and creating a much simpler, much more efficient IT capability to service their businesses. One such partner is a leading global telecom player with whom Virtusa has been working with for the past several years. Their very successful relationship is a testament to Virtusa's ability to drive business transformation and innovation for its clients. Birth of a StarThere is a confident and energetic aura in Virtusa's offices for the Millennial plans of the company, reminiscent of the early days in Virtusa's history, when the company was created to accelerate time to market through innovation. Incepted in 1996, the initial motive was to leverage a global talent pool focused on leveraging innovative solutions to accelerate business outcomes for its clients. Canekeratne, an accomplished software engineer himself, wanted to assemble global teams that could innovate and help clients accelerate their time-to-market, as opposed to spending time on mundane tasks. "This led me to experiment with a small team of people both in the U.S. and in Southeast Asia to determine if we can leverage a global talent pool to innovate and help our clients bring their product and business ideas to market faster by applying Software Platforming efficiencies," says Canekeratne. In its initial years, the company focused on fielding its Platforming value proposition in the outsourced product development (OPD) industry, helping independent software vendors design and build a unified software platform which would encapsulate their product idea and support different industries and applications. In the late nineties, software development was plagued by issues like coding inefficiencies, cost over-runs and delays in releases. Canekeratne's view when founding Virtusa, was to apply the notion of platforms to software development. This is an area that he is passionate about, has deep expertise in and often exemplifies through lessons learned from established industries such as manufacturing and automotive. By using its enhanced global delivery model, innovative Software Platforming approach and industry expertise, the firm started Raj RajgopalPresident - Business Development & Client ServicesCourtesy: Nabil Kapasi
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