From left: David Pieris Group Chief Information Officer Jayaraj Sayanthan, D P Infotech (Pvt.) Ltd Head of ICT Rajitha Kumarage, D P Infotech (Pvt.) Ltd Head of Software Development Sajith Jayarathne, D P Infotech (Pvt.) Ltd Manager IT Planning and Cloud Operations Tharindu de Silva and D P Infotech (Pvt.) Ltd Chief Marketing Officer Group IT Business Anurudda Kariyawasam

David Pieris Holdings (Private) Limited (DPH) was awarded the Merit award under the Corporate IT Awards Category for its digitally transformed IT operations, at the Digital Excellence Awards, organised by the Federation of IT Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS), recently at Shangri-La Colombo.

DPH achieved this digital excellence through the ‘Go to Cloud’ initiative, which was an integral part of David Pieris Group’s digital transformation strategy, aimed at zero infrastructure operations on business applications and enhancing the opportunities to use cloud capabilities. This facilitated the group to gain operational agility with a flexible cost model and on-demand scalability. 

Through this, 80+ business applications were transferred to a cloud operating model (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and DPH successfully migrated its business operations to Microsoft Azure, achieving operational efficiency, cost optimisation and operational excellence. The entire process of strategising, planning, implementation and optimisation took nearly 10 months and was managed by the group’s IT arm D P Infotech (Private) Limited (DPIN).   
Commenting on the award, David Pieris Group Chairman and Managing Director Rohana Dissanayake said, “Our group vision is to be leaders in our chosen spheres while incorporating and leveraging technology. As such digital transformation is at the core of all we do and it is extremely encouraging to be recognised for these endeavours. This cloud journey allowed us to improve the efficiency of service delivery, optimise costs and most importantly in current times, helped our employees manage work from home or the field seamlessly and effectively.” 

Speaking about the success of the project David Pieris Group Chief Information Officer Jayaraj Sayanthan stated, “Migration of services to cloud means that adoption of the latest technologies, across the group, is easier and far more efficient (AI, ML, Analytics, Automation, etc.) and therefore, we are able to respond and react quickly and effectively to resolve any business challenges.”