Virtusa wins at first-ever Virtual Robotic Process Automation Conference and Hackathon Awards

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From left: Anusha Yapa, Kavinda Dahanayake, Haritha Balasooriya, Prabath Manjula Dharmaratne and Nilanga Silva with the award

From left: Chathuranga Lakmal Thilakarathna, Kavinda Dahanayake, Chathuranga Ishara Athukorala, Nilanga Silva, Haritha Balasooriya, Prabath Manjula Dharmaratne, Rasith Wijayarathna, Anusha Yapa and Janeth Thiththagalla with their award

Virtusa emerged winners in the Large Corporate category at the Virtual Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Conference and Hackathon Awards organised by the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) which was held at the Galle Face Hotel recently.

Virtusa RPA Flex Head and Delivery Senior Director Gunasiri Perera

Virtusa won first place, beating stiff competition from other leading large scale corporates for its Robotic Process Automation platform, Accello, a tool it uses to provide professional RPA services to clients and also markets as a commercial RPA platform.

More importantly, Virtusa uses this entirely in-house developed platform to automate its internal processes. Almost all internal shared-service departments that cater to a global engineering staff of over 18,000 have embarked on this RPA journey. Two of the largest departments, Finance and Human Resources, have already automated several processes and have witnessed significant benefits. The most important benefit Virtusa has gained through this initiative is the ability to release business users from mundane tasks and utilise them on value added tasks.

Speaking about the win, Virtusa RPA Flex Head and Delivery Senior Director Gunasiri Perera said, “We are extremely proud of the team that worked to develop this platform, and winning an award for it is a testament to their skills in creating a top-notch platform that has delivered immense savings and business transformation, enabling us to become a strategic partner to our global clients. The Accello RPA platform in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI&ML) capabilities, which comes as a part of our service catalogue offering, stands out well within ever-changing business needs. On top of our platform capabilities, professional services and consulting support enables reduction in Total Cost of Ownership, permitting clients to focus on their core business. At present every business which uses Accello gains savings over the years. The success of this platform, including large deals signed most recently, mandates the future success and way forward plan of Accello as a true business transformation platform in the RPA and AI & ML space in the global market place”.