Affno
wins two Golds, overall Silver
Financial Times - Monday October 30, 2006
Affno, Sri Lanka’s leading software engineering company for
web based software products won 2 Gold Awards and the Silver for
the Best Overall Product, vindicating the Company’s excellent
growth over the year. The blue riband National Awards for Best Quality
Software in Sri Lanka was held on the 20th October, against a glittering
backdrop of entertainment and a stellar turnout of Sri Lanka’s
elite ICT fraternity.
Held for the 9th year, these awards are organised
by the British Computer Society (BCS), with the support of the Sri
Lanka Association for Software Industry (SLASI), the Software Exporters
Association (SEA), the Infotel Society and the Universities of Colombo
and Moratuwa.
Affno said in a statement it first entered this keenly contested
competition five years ago and since then have won 11 medals of
which seven have been golds. In addition, Affno have been the recipient
of the special award given at this event by organisations such as
MTV, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
The NBQSA recognizes and honours significant technological developments
and innovation within Sri Lanka’s software industry. Affno
set this record at the gala dinner last week where the 2007 awards
were presented amidst a large and distinguished gathering representing
the cream of Sri Lanka’s software industry. There Affno won
the Overall Gold in addition to winning the Gold in the E-Government
category for the third consecutive year as well as the Gold in the
General Applications category, which was the second most keenly
contested category this year. The special award presented by the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) was also made
to Affno this year. Commenting on his company’s success, Affno’s
CEO, Suren Kannangara said, “We are yet a relatively young
company. We just completed seven years of existence and are now
a team of nearly 80 professionals.
Our products that are winning awards now are the result of many
person-years of intense research and development.”
