Microimage localized messaging & information services platform is the most ground breaking revolutionary products launched for the ICT arena in recent times. These patents pending products are Worlds 1st inventions and considered by the industry veterans as one of the most important inventions of this era which can make an impact to socio-economic development of the country.

These worlds 1st successful local language messaging & browser applications will empower millions of people to embrace ICT, and use it effectively for messaging such SMS, MMS, E-mail and Information services. Localized Messaging Services features includes, - SMS/MMS/Phone to Email in Sinhala / Tamil
- Supports fancy symbols
- Supports sending Unicode Text Emails (where email receive as Unicode text)

Sinhala/Tamil Mobile Browser which is 100% Unicode compliant facilitates access to a host of infotainment services such as, - News/Market prices of agri goods in different markets
- Exchange rates/Flight schedules/Lottery results/Weather forecast
- Jokes, Cartoons, Music & Film reviews & many other infotainment information

These products will transform mass communities who are non English speaking in countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia and other similar allowing them to effectively communicate and gain easy access to information from anywhere; which will even help socio-economic development of these developing nations.

Microimage developed the product line for Maldives & Bangladesh markets. Maldives national telecom provider will launch the application to 140,000+ Maldivian mobile users soon. Discussions are in progress to launch the product for Bangladesh market in near future.

SILVER WinHard by Ceylinco Networking Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.

This product is a True Windows Hardening tools. Built from the Grown up and written totally in Win32 Assembly. WinHARD will assist any Security Administrator, Security Consultants and Digital Forensic Analysts to understand how the windows kernel, architecture is running and allows you to lock down process, application, service and all running windows components to fine tune the systems and to lock down unwanted components that may become a security breach

This product is only designed for all Microsoft windows systems only. It supports system from Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, and longhorn and Beta Tested on Blackcomb.

WinHARD was developed to solve security issues in RING-0 within Kernals I/O (IN and Out) functionalities. In simple it will solve prevailing security issues in a windows system. This programmer runs between the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), Device Drivers, Kernel and Upper layer modules. Please refer attached documents for more information.

Our target uses are Enterprise Customers running mission critical application and organizations that have to comply with regulatory compliance such SOX, BASE II, BS7799.

BRONZE ZyberSigns by Zone 24X7 (Pvt.) Ltd.

ZyberSigns is a dynamic new electronic signage solution for retailers for advertising, produced with innovative electronic ink technology. ZyberSigns combines the proven promotional effectiveness of motion with the visual appeal of ink-on-paper, to help retailers and marketers captivate customers and enhance brand equity

Currently the issues/problems faced by marketers, retailers and brand managers are;
- Display signs being none re-useable
- Manual deployment process is error prone as it involves store associate intervention
- High costs of labour and materials
- Slow deployment and hence poor pricing/sign accuracy reducing shopper satisfaction
- Inconsistent and the display is static with no animations and cause store clutter

ZyberSigns will greatly benefit marketers & brand managers with its unique features
- Low cost, low power consuming wireless technology
- Low cost, low power consuming display technology
- Superior readability
- Flexibility to integrate with existing IT infrastructure

Further since these displays use no backlight or front light and can be easily viewed from almost any angle and under virtually any lighting condition.

Sampath IVR Bill Payment System (SIBPS) provides real-time, online bill payment services to Dialog Telekom clients via their Mobile phones.

Dialog client connecting to Dialog Telekom IVR for Bill Payments is directed to SIBPS. The product provides payments from
1. Current or Savings Accounts maintained at Sampath Bank
2. MasterCard or VISA credit cards issued by any bank (both local and international)

The product enables Dialog Telekom clients to pay their bills from anywhere in the country, or even from overseas if they have obtained roaming facility.

Key issues addressed from the viewpoint of clients could be listed as,
A. Convenience - Client need not visit a Billing Centre to pay a bill
B. Speed of Payment updating at Dialog - Payments are updated in Dialog GSM's Systems within 15 minutes of making the payment.
C. Adherence to procedures currently offered by Dialog Billing Centres.
D. Guidance through voice assistance in Sinhala, Tamil and English.

SILVER BanBis by Hatton National Bank Ltd.

Product : Business Intelligence and Management Information System for a Bank. Collect data from all core systems and provide centralized (MIS) for decision makers. Static Reports & Dynamic Inquiries also available. The system designed and developed using data warehousing and Decision Support Systems (DSS) concepts.

Problem / Issues solved : The Bank, HNB uses distributed system (CoBAS) in 85 Branches mostly in outstation Branches and centralised system called GLOBUS. Collection Data from both system, Consolidation & preparing MIS was done manually. Issues like accuracy, timeliness, Quality etc were exists. The BanBIS address the issue and provided a Single data layer for entire Bank after Collecting, Loading to Central Database, mapping both systems & Consolidating. In addition Bank uses a few isolated application to handle some specific products. e.g. Pawning, Leasing, etc. Thus BanBIS Extract Data from many system and at the end provide Single system.

Target users : Decision makers of the Bank basically CEO, Corporate Management, Senior Management, Departments Heads, Regional Heads. ALCO Committee, Treasury Committee, Audit Committee , Productivity Committee.

Technologies used : Oracle 9i as Database. Microsoft DotNet as front end. Web based /browser based. Oracle Discover as dynamic report generator. Crystal Reports as static report generator. HW is IBM AIX - S8 Server and AIX (UNIX) as Operating System.

Features and Functions : Financial Information including Banks consolidated Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement on Daily Basis., all the statutory information required by Central Bank., all the MIS Reports, Key Performance Indicator (KPI), Ratios, Exceptions Monitoring branch wise/Bank wise. Common Data Layer for DSS.

BRONZE PABC SMS Banking by Pan Asia Banking Corporation Ltd.

The multi language SMS banking product developed by PABC Bank is based on the Short Messaging Service offered by mobile phone service providers. This product is presently integrated with two service providers namely Dialog GSM and Mobitel.

Through this product the objective is to provide the user with hassle free and convenient means of transacting with the bank without visiting the bank physically. This eliminates the time barriers for the customer in dealing with the bank as the customer can use the service at any time during the day being in any location at the time of using SMS banking as the only dependency is on the mobile service provide being able to cover the particular location.

The features in the SMS banking application caters to the regular transactions by the users such as balance enquiry, mini statements, fund transfers and utility bill payments including credit cards as well as advance features such as foreign currency transfers. The transaction cost incurred by the customer in having to physically come to the bank quite higher than using electronic means. Further the cost of the bank in serving the customer who visits the branch is higher than serving a customer through electronic delivery channels. Therefore the SMS banking service caters to the cost/time conscious consumer who wants to transact regularly while being mobile.

The product was developed using the J2EE platform. Additionally several Java API 's such as Java Communication API was used to communicate with external devices. The core banking application interface was developed using ANSI C in Solaris platform. The transaction processing in the core banking application GLOBUS is done through a generic application interface called OFS - Open Financial Services.

MERIT Cash Collection Solution for SLT by EPIC Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd.

SPECIAL MERIT SOBA by Kandurata Development Bank

QuIS is a sophisticated quality management and process control tool that has been designed to assist manufacturing organizations. It is an integrated system that captures, processes and reports all “quality” related information through a browser based interface.

The product has been initially implementation at Ceylon Tobacco Corporation which is the Sri Lankan subsidiary of British American Tobacco. QuIS is
Powerful - has the power to oversee +600,000 units of production per minute
Precise - detects faults accurately and instantly
Integrated - unifies data from all Primary Manufacturing Dept (PMD) and Secondary Manufacturing Dept (SMD) systems
Clear - generates over 40 easy-to-use reports
Complete - provides an overview of the entire manufacturing process
QuIS statistically analyses quality related data and provides real-time information to ensure that production is in-line with set specifications. Quality management begins at the point raw material enters the factory and ends when customer feedback is received.

QuIS uses Oracle 9i database technology and the Microsoft.NET platform as the development environment. This ensures that the application complies with standard interface formats and is able to exploit future developments in Web service technology.

The solution captures and maintains quality related information in manufacturing and distribution. Its high-value features include facilitation of SPC (Statistical Process Control), product data traceability, maintenance of manufacturing specifications and FPI (Finished Product Inspection) and COPS (Continuous Optimisation of Primary Manufacturing Systems Calculation) reports.

BRONZE HAIMS by Hirdramani Group of Companies

The system was designed to address burning issues in the apparel manufacturing industry, mainly in the production planning and- tracking on critical events. Further system addresses typical issues faced by a user with multiple system access. System also focuses on reducing the work of system administrators and developers with the embedded features.

Lunch Pad
As the name suggests this is the single launching console for application functions. This handles the menu interfaces; Role based security, application objects and menu creations. This includes a unique web portal like interface with the facility to customize the application home page based on user preferences. User has the option of customizing favorite menu links, constructing the home page using interactive application components, etc.

Critical Path Module
Complete monitoring and tracking of a Sales order from the Inquiry to the Delivery is handled by this module. The module has reminders and alerts built into the system. As soon as the users login to the system they get status of their order at a glance from components and show only the relevant data to the user without cluttering the screen with unwanted information.

Production Panning Module
This module handles all activities related to manufacturing order planning. System has key features like main planning board, subcontract planning board, learning curves, work-study operations, actual data capturing.

MERIT Facility Management System by hSenid Software International (Pvt.) Ltd.

GOLD Localized Mobile Messaging & Browser by Microimage (Pvt.) Ltd.

Microimage localized messaging & information services platform is the most ground breaking revolutionary products launched for the ICT arena in recent times. These patents pending products are Worlds 1st inventions and considered by the industry veterans as one of the most important inventions of this era which can make an impact to socio-economic development of the country.

These worlds 1st successful local language messaging & browser applications will empower millions of people to embrace ICT, and use it effectively for messaging such SMS, MMS, E-mail and Information services. Localized Messaging Services features includes, - SMS/MMS/Phone to Email in Sinhala / Tamil
- Supports fancy symbols
- Supports sending Unicode Text Emails (where email receive as Unicode text)

Sinhala/Tamil Mobile Browser which is 100% Unicode compliant facilitates access to a host of infotainment services such as, - News/Market prices of agri goods in different markets
- Exchange rates/Flight schedules/Lottery results/Weather forecast
- Jokes, Cartoons, Music & Film reviews & many other infotainment information

These products will transform mass communities who are non English speaking in countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia and other similar allowing them to effectively communicate and gain easy access to information from anywhere; which will even help socio-economic development of these developing nations.

Microimage developed the product line for Maldives & Bangladesh markets. Maldives national telecom provider will launch the application to 140,000+ Maldivian mobile users soon. Discussions are in progress to launch the product for Bangladesh market in near future.

DMS iTOS is a fully web enabled Tour Operating system for destination management companies to streamline their operations in an effective and efficient manner. It allows the users to plan, control cost and manage a tour from the start to the end.

DMS iTOS is complete with factions to generate and print/email itineraries, generating amending and canceling of tours with automatically generated requisitions, amendments to requisitions, cancellation of requisitions and tour advances required by the tour. Flexible, full-feature multi currency invoicing option of DMS iTOS allows tracking and invoicing of tours completely or partially.

DMS iTOS is complete with two support systems Post-Tour Costing System (PTCS), Transport Management System (TMS), a web portal iFIT (Frequent Independent Traveler) and a Decision Support System (iTOSDSS).

PTCS provides accurate information on tour profitability to the finance department. TMS is a system used to manage transport related requirements in the tour operations. The TMS is available as an additional plug-in to DMS ITOS. DMS iFIT is a fully automated online destination management web portal for frequent independent travelers (FIT), which is tightly integrated with iTOS. The DMS iTOS DSS is intended to provide the executive management of the customer an easy to use, highly graphical information analysis and outcome predicting system which can be used on an ad-hoc basis.

iTOS is an third generation of DMS’s proven offering to the destination management industry and it offers three implementation methods, client server, web based and Mixed. DMS iTOS is built on oracle technologies and harnesses all features in oracle.

A tender procedure in Sri Lanka is paper intensive and time consuming, informing all potential or registered suppliers about a tender can be a difficult task. All tender will not bid in the same format therefore covering all received bids to a comparable format needs to be undertaken before a tender can be evaluated and awarded.

For an organization that issues approx 200 tender a month, handling all of this manually can be imposing task which consume timer and effort. Given that organizations such as SLT have numerous supplier registered. Creating a set of documents for all the tenders is a costly affair, in addition searching for historical information on past tenders and the basis of awards san be a near impossible task given the volume of paper involved.

The Affno e-tendering system allows organizations or government entities to call for tenders online. Tender publication can be extended to any supplier who is a member of the general public both in Sri Lanka and Overseas. Enabling the organization to increase their reach thus enabling better participation, increased competition and better prices

Tenders can be created and extended to a selected number of suppliers who have pre-register to a category.

Tenders can be submitted online or can be submitted in hardcopy format, tenders that are submitted online can be evaluated online. The system filters tender prices and can indicate the lowest quote by item enabling users to segregate and award a tender to multiple parties If there are multiple Items with different suppliers being the lowest quote for a particular time

The system also allows back office users to generate several key reports on the tenders created, closed, number of bids received and other vital information.

SILVER Contact Pro by X-ONT Software (Pvt.) Ltd.

X-ONT ContactPRO is a Business Contact Management and Event Management software which helps organizations manage large customer/prospect bases effectively and handle mass mailing campaigns efficiently.

ContactPRO builds a relationship between a contact and an employee in the organization. At any given time one can ascertain which employee is maintaining a relationship with a contact or how many individuals are being served by an employee.

The system is designed to capture as much information as possible about a contact over and above the basic name, address, designations, office name address, telephone number. The system also maintains birth days any special days such as anniversaries, spouse name, spouse birthdays, spouse official address, designations, children, name age, gender. Any number of interest groups, Industry classifications, type/class/category of customer. ContactPRO can also maintain likes and dislikes of food or any other unique habits. Strict user authorities can be maintained with detailed audits on creation and update of existing records. A business card scanner automatically scans business cards and updates the data base.

A Primary list can be created by designation, industry type, age or any classification maintained. Invitations can be based on past attendance as the system maintains past history of participation. The system faxes or emails the Invitation to finalized list automatically or can print address labels or envelops.

Call ups can be made to verify receipt of invitation and to confirm participation at an event and record the responses. The predictive dialer facility allows the user to dial a contact from the system and record the responses on the system.

BRONZE Freighter by Softlogic Information Systems (Pvt.) Ltd.

Freighter package is one of the most powerful and comprehensive logistics software available for the freight forwarding industry, created exclusively for Freight Forwarders by expertise. With over five years of product evolution we are able to provide a powerful solution with the flexibility specific to industry operation.

Freighter also gives users a level of flexibility not found anywhere else. Our innovative technology enables us to modify the program quickly, giving users a high customized program tailored specifically to their needs. Our software architecture allows for continues modification which provides for changing needs in a users industry or organization. This flexibility provides our clients with a lower cost of ownership by providing the right solution today, tomorrow and beyond.

In cooperation with several experienced and successful forwarders, we have developed our total Freight Forwarding Operation Solution. However Freighter will equip your operations staff with valuable logistics, tracking and accounting tools to improve employee efficiency and organization.

In addition, our built in features would ensure user accountability and give managers the ability to monitor the actions of their staff. Most user functions are recorded in our events section allowing the administrators/managers to keep track of who is making the critical shipment decisions and when they made them. User’s events are saved on the house and master bill levels, and throughout the accounting process. With Freighter you can keep track of your operations staff and how they are handling your critical freights.

MERIT INCITO by Brandix Lanka Ltd.

MERIT SLC Sourcing by Sara Lee Courtaulds / Slimline (Pvt.) Ltd.

This product is a True Windows Hardening tools. Built from the Grown up and written totally in Win32 Assembly. WinHARD will assist any Security Administrator, Security Consultants and Digital Forensic Analysts to understand how the windows kernel, architecture is running and allows you to lock down process, application, service and all running windows components to fine tune the systems and to lock down unwanted components that may become a security breach

This product is only designed for all Microsoft windows systems only. It supports system from Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, and longhorn and Beta Tested on Blackcomb.

WinHARD was developed to solve security issues in RING-0 within Kernals I/O (IN and Out) functionalities. In simple it will solve prevailing security issues in a windows system. This programmer runs between the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), Device Drivers, Kernel and Upper layer modules. Please refer attached documents for more information.

Our target uses are Enterprise Customers running mission critical application and organizations that have to comply with regulatory compliance such SOX, BASE II, BS7799.

SILVER ZyberSigns by Zone 24X7 (Pvt.) Ltd.

ZyberSigns is a dynamic new electronic signage solution for retailers for advertising, produced with innovative electronic ink technology. ZyberSigns combines the proven promotional effectiveness of motion with the visual appeal of ink-on-paper, to help retailers and marketers captivate customers and enhance brand equity

Currently the issues/problems faced by marketers, retailers and brand managers are;
- Display signs being none re-useable
- Manual deployment process is error prone as it involves store associate intervention
- High costs of labour and materials
- Slow deployment and hence poor pricing/sign accuracy reducing shopper satisfaction
- Inconsistent and the display is static with no animations and cause store clutter

ZyberSigns will greatly benefit marketers & brand managers with its unique features
- Low cost, low power consuming wireless technology
- Low cost, low power consuming display technology
- Superior readability
- Flexibility to integrate with existing IT infrastructure

Further since these displays use no backlight or front light and can be easily viewed from almost any angle and under virtually any lighting condition.

BRONZE Thibus ME by Science Land Corporation (Pvt.) Ltd.

This is a complete web browser which supports Sinhala and English languages. It also includes complete Sinhala / English dictionary for mobile phones. This was completely developed with using Java Two Micro Edition Technology. This can easily be used in any Java support mobile phone. It was designed to use the minimum resources when operating to make sure this can easily be used in even a least facilitated Java supported mobile phones as well.

Sinhala Information Service for mobile phone users is the Home Page of ThibusMe browser.Sinhala English Dictionary allows users to find the meaning of Sinhala or English word in second from their mobile phones.

The major issues faced during the development stage were to develop the Sinhala Character engine and manipulating Sinhala characters in screen. Also face serious difficulties to optimize the use of memory when application in running inside the mobile phone. As there is no built in support for Sinhala language from the Mobile phones, Character engines, text handing was written from the pixel level. Also more attention had to give to minimize the time taken for graphic functions which were used to develop the Character Engine. Those issues were successfully achieved and are now at a highly satisfactory level.

Target users for the product will be mobile phone users in Sri Lanka and abroad who speak Sinhala.

This browser includes following features:
1. Sinhala / English language content
2. Support Links
3. Support Forms for Data Input in Sinhala or English
4. Supports Server side redirections
5. Static and Dynamic pages are supported
6. Content is developed with using specially formatted ThibusMe tags.
7. Content is automatically formatted according to the screen size.
8. Support Book marks
9. Support MIDP 1 or higher Phones

'Earth Invasion 2' is a 3 Dimensional First Person Shooter game / Simulator developed with a special electronic device that would simulate a realistic background according to the real world environment surrounding. The simulator equipped with a software program and few hardware devices, they are listed below:

1). Real time environment changes capturing device
Apart from other hardware devices this is the device which is able to capture changes of surrounding, It recognizes the real-time light level, humidity, etc. And this part doesn't need to be connected to the computer to capture data, there is a transmitter and you can place it on a different location. The receiver should always be connected to the communication port of the computer and that transmitted data will be captured by the receiver. Both devices use infrared beaming technology to communicate between them.

2). Cockpit
Cockpit consists a joystick and few buttons to operate the soldier in the game. The joystick is developed using some complex mechanisms like hyptic technology or in simple words "feedback", When the player operates the game he will be able to feel reactions to his simulated movements.

About the software programme
Infrasoft Earth Invasion 2 is developed using few software programmes and languages, they are Borland Delphi 8.0, Visual C++ .net, 3D Studio Max 6, GLScene. GLScene has been known as a Simplified OpenGL engine for Delphi programmers, and in this simulator also GLScene headers have used to programme the game. Earth Invasion program has the ability to retrieve data from the communication port, therefore all the captured signals (from the device) are analyzed in real-time mode and the user will be feeling the sudden changes of light-level, humidity, and raining according to the surrounding. In the science-fiction game Earth Invasion II, You get a super soldier called Marlon. He combats with the mighty forces of Mars. Marlon is one of the few people who have saved his live from the wicked Mars Army. Their mighty forces have invaded and threaten Earth with their superior technology enforced with egocentric cruelty.

You (Marlon) are the only one in Earth to do a battle against Aliens of Mars because you have been transformed into a mighty Soldier as a result of a Nuclear Explosion. And the people in your region suggest you as the only fearless soldier to fight against the forces of Mars.

SILVER Behaviour Anomaly Based User Impersonation Detection by Rukmal Fernando (Informatics Institute of Technology)

BRONZE Java dotNet Interoperability Framework (JNIF) by S.Senthuran, P.I.B. Wanninayake, R.Dharshan, S.Pramila, R. Abiramy (Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology)

MERIT A Mobile ECG Monitoring System by Deva Prabha Siri Kularathna (University of Colombo School of Computing)

MERIT An SMS Email Reader by S.Sivaparan (University of Colombo School of Computing)

MERIT Virtual Facial Surgery Assistant by H.G.L.P. Priyashantha, M.D.K.A.G Manathunga, K.Y.N Dharmadasa, H.A.V.C Hettiarachchi (University of Moratuwa)

The SOL Learning Manager is a complete software suite for teaching, learning and assessment. The product vision is to offer state of the art education in a paperless environment to meet the challenges of the digital age.

Schools and Universities world over are seen today to improve the efficiency of teaching and learning by introducing e-Learning and e-Assessment. In the developed world, such systems are seen to be making a tremendous contribution to the productivity of both teachers and students.

SOL Learning Manager is designed to enhance the efficiency of learning of pupils whilst yielding more time for teachers to spend on planning. Further, the automation processes improve parent-teacher participation in the child’s education. Also, stored data is organized in unique ways that empower the administrator and staff to make better decisions.

Success of SOL Learning Manager has been the involvement of teachers actively in the running of schools in the designing of the system. Further, the system is modeled on the principle of ‘anytime anywhere’ so that it supports work from multiple locations. It helps to improve the quality and effectiveness of education by empowering students, parents and teachers with real-time information, relevant assessment tools and access to online educational resources. Minimal training is required for users, as its browser based interface is easy to use and intuitive to any one who has used internet.

Technologies used in SOL include ASP, COM+, ADO, and DHTML. Languages used are JavaScript, VBScript, VB and Transact SQL. The product is now being made multilingual for use in Sinhala and Tamil.     

MERIT Affno eLearning Centre by Affno (Pvt.) Ltd.

The Business Information Portal (www.bip.lk) is a joint initiative of the Ceylon Chamber of commerce, the Ministry of Plan Implementation and Parliamentary Affairs and the German Agency for technical Co-operation (GTZ). The EIP aims at establishing a network of distinct regional Business Information Desks in Sri Lanka.

The www.bip.lk has contributed towards developing a common market place for information trading. Eight (08) Regional Business Information Centres (BIS-Centers) are linked with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce to provide international and national-level business information to regional SMEs. At the same time, regional BIS-Centers facilitates entering and dissemination of information via a chain of Regional Information Desks, finally by promoting in regionally important business data (e.g. business contacts – local/overseas, general business information such as export/import trade statistics, rates of exchange, economic information, trade/investment policies, rules/regulations etc.) that could be retrieved at any point in the country and in the world over the Internet.

The system does not only confined to local SMEs but also to the SMEs in overseas, since it has a web based interface which links partners by way of a two-way window, where the portal would serve both foreign entities interested in Sri Lanka as well as local entities interested in establishing contacts with institutions representing specific industries, markets or regions overseas. This is distinct from many portals that are designed mainly to attract an external audience. With the expansion of the system in 2003, www.bip.lk integrated many national data sources forming a comprehensive data platform to retrieve customized information to exactly meet the demands of the SMEs.

SPECIAL MERIT Services Main Card Data Managements System by Ceylon Electricity Board