Colombo 03rd October 2000-: Announcing ambitious expansion plans, powered by a successful track record as a leading eBusiness service provider, eRunway, Inc. is posed to become a leading player in the rapidly growing full-service eBusiness space.

Formerly known as Technology Providers, eRunway disclosed recently their staff strength will increase from its present strength of 400 to over 800 by March 2001, over 500 of the 800 will be in Colombo. "This move has been necessitated as a result of the growing demand by customers for eRunway's services," explained Tushara Canekeratne, Executive Vice President, Technical Operations, eRunway, Inc.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, USA, eRunway operates several Advanced Technology Centres (ATC's) including Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Hyderabad, India. Working exclusively for the US, eRunway builds cutting-edge Internet and Mobilenet solutions for the New Economy. "Our collaborative processes mandate that software groups work closely together, communicate over high speed dedicated intra-company communication lines, spend time in the US, and innovate faster for our customers," explained Tushara Canekeratne.

Over the years, eRunway has adopted stringent hiring criteria, attracted the best software engineering talent, invested in state-of-the art training programs, offered its engineers with advanced formal technology training programmes, and management training programmes. Says Tushara Canekeratne, "these programmes help our engineers enrich their creative output and strive for greater heights innovating technology for the rapidly evolving US technology landscape. At eRunway, our people are very special and our teams are world-class. We work on tier 1 Internet and Mobilenet projects while helping our customers define the new technology world.

eRunway has developed a strong object oriented foundation. This foundation was developed by one of Sri Lanka's object oriented experts, Dr. Ashok Suppiah. Dr. Suppiah has a PHD from the University of Wales in Cardiff in Object Oriented Software Construction. From our inception, we have standardized on object oriented technology and utilize a wide variety of tools that facilitate rapid innovation. "We work with Windows NT, Win 2K, UNIX, and a variety of hand-held technologies. We utilize JAVA, JSP, CORBA, Beans, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), J2EE, Servlets, C++, ASP, COM, DCOM, COM+, ATL, SOAP, XML, WML, WAP, Oracle 8I, and SQL," said Tushara Canekeratne.

Most of the solutions built by eRunway have won awards and set the bar that other solutions are measured to. Products developed by the company are installed at some of the largest fortune 100 organizations including, American Express, Sprint, Target, Prudential, Exxon, Xerox, MCI, and General Electric.

eRunway works exclusively on technology for the new economy. We are in an enviable position of being able to hand-pick the projects that we work on and have more than 2 projects for every project we select. We use very stringent project selection criteria, work exclusively on next generation technology, and select just those assignments that provide our engineers with technical challenges. After careful screening, eRunway accepts just those projects that provoke creativity and thought leadership keeping our project teams at the fore-front of innovation. The company provides leading-edge Web-enabled solutions for its customers in the US. Although eRunway is expanding very rapidly and opening over 12 offices in the US and Europe, there are no plans to acquire any clients in Sri Lanka, as of the moment.