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To mark International Women’s Day, Microsoft launched the #MakeWhatsNext campaign and co-hosted a forum alongside Sysco LABS at the Sysco LABS headquarters in Colombo 7. The event illustrated the changing workplace roles of women, and the importance of young women pursuing careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Over a 100 people—from daughters and

Salesforce is the world’s largest Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system with customers of enormous scale including Adidas, KONE, The US bank and AWS. But what is it that makes them the leader? Put simply, you’d be hard pressed to find a platform as feature rich as Salesforce.  So, many major companies turn to CRM to streamline their customer management, from approaching potential customers, managing leads and closing deals, to keeping existing customers happy. In the restaurant industry Smart Point of Sale (POS) systems

Thiwanka Wimalasuriya speaks at the IEEE IAS Sri Lanka Chapter on grid 2.0 – an updated version of the power grid that uses solar and wind to generate power – and the challenges of adopting this technology in Sri Lanka. Full session:  

DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives. This

Quality – the constant battle to deliver products fast, yet uphold a high level of quality. Engineers have been engaged in this battle since the beginning, and the way they’d reconciled the dilemma was to introduce development process improvements. But this meant there was lesser focus on the testing standard itself. To counter this limitation,

In a meeting with the American Chamber of commerce in Sri Lanka recently, Mani Kulasooriya – founder of Sysco LABS, and Ron May, Vice President of eSolutions at Sysco, addressed the audience with a presentation on the way that “Technology is eating the World” – an examination of the way that all industries are transforming

“A breakthrough in Machine Learning would be worth ten Microsofts” – Bill Gates once said this to emphasize the importance of Machine Learning, and in this Innovation Session, presenters Sakith Indula, Nuwan Pallewela and Ashan Maduranga dives deep into this topic:

The year: 2018, the technology: Blockchain. This revolutionary technology is changing the way that humans have transacted since the beginning of time, disrupting established norms like buying, selling and borrowing and breaking down barriers which restrict and threaten the freedom of trade.   Today, humans still rely heavily on large intermediaries of centralized institutions such as banks, governments, big social media agencies and credit card

From a 6 member team to 600, here’s our story:  

In 2018, innovations will emerge out of the foundational technologies conceived over the past few years. Most of these innovations are still in their early stages, and may only start gaining ground several years from now, but they hold the potential to change the way we live and the way we work and we may

Malinga Perera from the Sysco LABS Data and Analytics team talks about Distributed Computing including ETL Frameworks and Apache Storm as an ETL Tool. Watch full video, below:  

In this Innovation Session, Keet Sugathadasa delves deep into cyber security and talks in detail about security best practices, analyzing and breaking encryption schemes, hacking and how it plays out within the Sri Lankan legal system. Watch full video below: