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The Digital Group Launches A New Division In Colombo, Sri Lanka

Pune, India – 15thJune 2011 – The Digital Group (T/DG), a CMMi Level 5, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 20000 & ISO 27001:2000, ISO 22301:2012 and SSAE 16, Type II. organization with offices in North America, India, Fiji and Australia is pleased to announce its expanded presence in the Asia Pacific region with a new satellite division in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Through this expansion, T/DG will be offering end-to-end services and solutions in ERP & Line-of-Business Applications, Enterprise Information Portals, Mobile Solutions, Business Intelligence, and Infrastructure Management Services including Data Center Virtualization to an emerging customer base in Sri Lanka.

Since its inception in 1998, the organization has built up a market-leading reputation of being a world-classInformation Technology &Software Development Services provider to clients in North America, the South Pacific and India. T/DG has been consistently recognized by its customers as a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner andan Oracle Certified Partner with a highly capable talent pool of more than 600+high-caliber technologyresources at their offshore development center in Pune, India.

Mr. Aditya Sharma, CEO of The Digital Group, states that "With an economy of $53.241 billion (2010 IMF estimate, $104.124 billion PPP estimate), Sri Lanka has shown very strong growth rates in recent years and is far ahead of its other south Asian peers such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan."

Mr. Sharma shared the company's initial plans of starting with a sales, marketing and customer support center for client engagement and support in Colombo with development support being provided from the company's development centers in Pune (India) and Princeton (US). In a subsequent phase, T/DG also plans to expand its development centers to Sri Lanka with a strong vision to create more aggressive penetration and an integrated local client engagement framework that leverages the Information Technology and Management resources and expertise within Sri Lanka.

The Colombo office will be headed up by Mr. Jude Tissera, an ICT industry veteran with 20+ years of industry experience in technology and telecommunications. Mr. Tissera holds an MBA from Preston University in California and started his career at Grant McCann Ericsson. He joined Celltel in the mid 90's and held the positions of Regional Manager, Customer Relations Manager, as well as Training & Promotions Manager. He was also responsible for implementing the Company's first ever loyalty program. He joined Dialog in 1997 as Marketing Manager and was promoted to the Principal Marketing Channel Officer & Senior General Manager of Dialog Broadband. During his tenure at Dialog, he was instrumental in implementing certain pioneering efforts of Dialog, such as modeling and setting up the Industry's best channel marketing program and implementing the industry'sfirst IVR connectivity program, as well as designing and setting up of regional sales and marketing strategies. Prior to joining TDG, Mr. Tissera was Director of Marketing for Vodafone Fiji and was instrumental in launching the first ever mobile broadband product and service lines.

The expansion of its presence toSri Lanka is in line with one of the core strategic initiatives of The Digital Group to acquire new business channels by providing world-class IT services and supportto customers in developing countries with stable and fast developing economies. For more information,
please visit our website: http://www.thedigitalgroup.com or send an email to mailto:sales@thedigitalgroup.com

Posted Date:
Monday, June 27, 2011

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