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A Brief Background Research on Virtusa Corporation



Virtusa Corporation is an American information technology services company founded in 1996 in Sri Lanka and has its headquarters in Southborough, Massachusetts, United States. The company provides IT consulting, business consulting, systems implementation and application outsourcing services to large enterprises and software vendors.

History:

When Virtusa was founded back in 1996, Kris Canekeratne became the CEO of the company whose valuation today has crossed billions. He took the company public in 2007 but currently it is listed as a private company as it was recently acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia for $2 billion. The company currently has more than 30,000 employees and some of its biggest competitors in the IT sector are Wipro, TCS, Infosys, and Cognizant. All these companies have a very strong market in India along with Virtusa and that raises the competition even more. The company is also known for its community support program that focuses mainly on education. In all these years, Company has established partnerships with many famous companies like Adobe, Azure, Google Cloud, PEGA, etc.

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Virtusa's vision is "Sparking innovation, one sprint at a time", and the mission is to contribute to our clients' success by delivering C3ORE solutions that provide significant and sustainable value.

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Company Technology Focus:
Virtusa delivers services across the IT lifecycle, including consulting, solution design, technology selection, implementation, testing, and maintenance, including infrastructure support. With a strong heritage in software engineering, Virtusa is highly qualified to both develop and maintain software, using a proven platforming methodology and advanced Agile and Accelerated Solution Design techniques to reliably deliver results on time and within budget. Holding a proven record of success across industries, Virtusa readily understands its clients' business challenges and uses its domain expertise to deliver distinctive, differentiated and innovative applications of technology to address its client critical business challenges.

Company Work Culture:
According to comparably.com, based on 426 ratings, Virtusa employees rate their Work Culture a "B" or 75/100. This category describes how employees feel about their environment, relationship with leadership and coworkers as well as their productivity in the workplace.A few of the questions that are answered include "How would you rate your manager?" and "How confident are you about the future success of your company?"

75% of Virtusa employees are excited to go to work. Employees who have been at the company 5 to 10 Years and the IT department gave the best ratings and believe Virtusa has a productive and effective Work Culture. 

Clients and Operating Regions:
Virtusa serve global 2000 companies and the leading software vendors in Communications & Technology, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Media, Information & Entertainment industries. 

When it comes to operating regions, Virtusa is headquartered in Westborough, MA and has branches located all over the world; Australia, Austria, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Qatar, and Singapore are some of the countries where Virtusa provides their services in.

Conclusion:
Overall, Virtusa Corporations seems like the perfect workplace for someone who values their freedom, and at the same time can deliver the responsibilties of the job that they are entitled to without preasure.

history: ඉතිහාසය, පුරාවෘත්තය, යටගියාව, විත්ති, වෘත්තාන්තය
English - Sinhala
History: ඉතිහාසය
English - Sinhala

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