Today ISA, has a wide range of products which are catered
to the Airline, Airport, Travel and Tourism sectors. ISA was
named the “World’s Leading PSS (Passenger Service System)
Provider 2015” by the World Travel awards last December.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
ASSISTS LEADING PLASTIC
MANUFACTURER; PHOENIX
TO SYNERGIZE BUSINESS
AND TECHNOLOGY
a match made on Cloud
Phoenix Industries Limited, the leading and largest
plastic manufacturer in Sri Lanka joined hands with
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to enable their Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) Solution, Microsoft Dynamics
NAV 2013 on Microsoft Azure Cloud for the first time in
Sri Lanka. PwC Sri Lanka in partnership with Microsoft
has been successful in providing enterprise solutions over
the years, with the expertise of well qualified, multi-skilled
professionals who have vast experience in diverse industries.
business requirement through workarounds and process
reengineering. This allowed Phoenix Industries Limited to
seamlessly migrate the on-premise solution on to Microsoft
Azure Cloud. At present the Cloud environment facilitates
the total enterprise solution including virtualized client
services, ERP application services and database services.
The Business continues to reap the benefits of its Cloud
based IT strategy by:
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PwC, a global player, spanning five continents with an
international presence in 157 countries and a workforce of
over 195,000; has the experience, technical knowledge and
informed points of view, which brings value to clients by
combining the local presence with the international expertise
and knowledge base to improve performance and achieve
visions through technology which is an important enabler of
business transformation.
Achieving economies of scale;
Reducing spending on technology infrastructure;
Globalizing the workforce;
Reducing capital costs;
Improving accessibility;
Minimizing licensing investments; and
Improving flexibility.
PwC Sri Lanka operates from its principle office in Colombo
and overlooks the operations in Malé, the Republic of
Maldives. With over 400 employees and 14 Partners and
Directors, PwC are advisers to various private sector
enterprises and government. PwC is the brand under which
the member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International
Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide professional services.
Together, these firms form the PwC network. ‘PwC’ is often
used to refer either to individual firms within the PwC
network or to several or all of them collectively.
Phoenix Industries Limited had been using Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2009 since 2010 and embraced Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2013 as an on-premise solution in the year
2013 in order to maximize on the new features available
with the latest release at that point in time. This enterprise
resource planning solution continues to drive their business
as well as operational excellence in terms of finance, sales,
purchasing, inventory and manufacturing. The solution
was implemented in its vanilla state while catering to the
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