Advanced Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd Signs Agreement as Agile Lab’s Solution Partner for Sri Lanka April 15, 2010, Colombo – Advanced Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd [ABS], one of the leading providers of software solutions in Sri Lanka is pleased to announce that it has been appointed as the solutions partner for providing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems 5th GEAR built on revolutionary technology – Axpert from Agile Labs Bangalore, India. Under this agreement, Advanced Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd is authorized to do marketing, developing, implementing the solutions and extending post implementation support using Agile Labs software technology and developer environment.

“We are proud to join our hands with Agile Labs which is a well known leading software solutions company in technology hub of India, Bangalore. The innovative technology platform of AXPERT will be a perfect fit in Sri Lankan ERP software industry because of its ability to deliver an appropriate solution with a minimum total cost of ownership & maintenance, plus a greater flexibility in catering to all needs of a business” said Mr. Ranil Perera, Chief Executive Officer of ABS.

ABS is in existence over the past 11 years as the Sole Authorized Master Channel Partner for “TALLY” award winning Accounting & Inventory Management Software serving more than one thousand satisfied clients. Mr. Raghunathan Perumal Director &CEO of Agile Labs said “We are glad to appoint ABS which has an excellent history of business and a high reputation in the software industry, as our solution partner in Sri Lanka. ABS has the required necessary skills, capabilities and experience to provide suitable business solutions, and post implementation support services to the entire spectrum of enterprise clients in Srilanka. We will be working very closely with ABS considering each and every project as a unique opportunity, to give the best solution to all our Sri Lankan clients”.

Agile Labs has been an innovation company right from inception. Founded in 1992 in India, this new age company was one of the first few to introduce “Packaged Software Application” to the Indian business world. It won a plethora of innovation awards from the IT media for its product – PRO-fit®, PROfessional Financial Information Tracking.

Agile Labs through AXPERT 5TH GEAR ERP delivered solutions across various domains including Manufacturing, Trading, Services, Logistics, Textile, Construction, eGovernence, etc. Agile Labs has invented a technology that stores ‘business logic’ in the form of ‘process structure’ similar to ‘data structures’ inside the database, unlike in other conventional technologies where the ‘business logics’ are stored as complex programs in the application layer. This radically different approach significantly reduces effort and time required for building any kind of enterprise applications, and offers immense flexibility and ease in change management and maintenance of the applications.

Prasad Wijesuriya, Head of Sales and Marketing, ABS, said, “With Agile Labs as our principal partner, we have an excellent proposition to our customers where we will be able to make all of them delighted. Unlike other traditional and packaged ERP solutions, AXPERT gives an enormous flexibility to make the solution to fit exactly to the client requirements. Having an ERP is no more a dream with AXPERT since it’s highly affordable and will definitely meet organizational budgets.”

Using Oracle/ Microsoft SQL as backend, AXPERT is based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and it is quite open for working with any external code. Microsoft and Oracle will always be around ruling out possibility of obsolescence. Moreover, Agile Labs is in existence for the last 17 years (from 1992 onwards). They have at least 2000+ customers including all Profit Plus, PRO-fit5RM & AXPERT customers who they have been supporting till date.

The list of Indian clients includes Apollo Hospitals, Uniworld Logistics (UWL), Karnataka State Beverages Corporation Limited (KSBCL), etc. Agile has delivered few large eGovernance projects in partnership with WIPRO, one of the largest Indian IT services companies.

ABS has the required technical expertise and the resources in Installing, Implementing, and commissioning & maintaining business information systems. The highly trained and motivated staff will provide you with the best possible advice to help you in the selection of products that are ideal for your businesses needs, thus enabling you to get timely and accurate information.

Apart from marketing off-the-shelf software solutions, ABS helps companies to become a winning organization by streamlining their essential internal processes through providing software solutions. Company believes that it is their business to understand organizational strategies and processes and determine how information systems can enhance productivity. Some of the solutions we have provided are Payroll and Attendance Management, Freight Management, Customs Duty Calculation, Document Management, etc…