The hSenid Group is commemorating 20 years of software development and services across the world this year.
hSenid Group Chairman Dinesh Saparamadu said his company currently serves over 400,000 users globally across 18 industries in over 30 countries. “When we started in 1997, hSenid was the first HRIS company in Sri Lanka. Most of the other companies were offering personnel management software at that time.All this happened by accident. In February 1997, I was at a Rotary Club meeting, having a chat with the head of HR from Shell Gas Lanka, who was also the guest speaker at the meeting and he told me that his company was in need of an HR software system. My reply was, “No we don’t have that, but we can build one for you.”
We started with a small office in Ward Place. There were three people working for the company when we began: a Software Developer, a trainee Business Analyst who also worked as the Systems Support person and me.
The first few years weren’t easy, it was a constant challenge to prove ourselves because we were an unknown company. And the only way for us to do that was to build a system that no one in the local market had seen before. There were a lot of late nights in those first years and that has been one thing that has not changed in 20 years. Even today, our teams work a lot of late nights to complete projects on time,” Saparamadu said.
It has been a very rewarding journey because you get to work with so many people, change the lives of so many people, and be responsible for so many employees and clients alike. By keeping a very close eye on what is happening outside.
That is why hSenid has started moving into FinTec (Financial Technology). Be it the Silicon Valley in the US or India, we pay close attention to the developments in those markets to see if we can adapt ourselves to take advantage of them.
The HR industry is maturing in Sri Lanka. The market still focuses only on the core areas of HR. We need to move towards strategic HR. Individuals, businesses and the nation as a whole will stand to gain from a more strategic approach to HR. The next level is going to be more of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, etc. An employee may be high in IQ and low in EQ but the HR systems will capture it and build it in the future. People will focus more on health and wellbeing HR rather than compliance and regulatory HR.
“hSenid Mobile Solutions will extend its heritage of being the connector into the future, by being the conduit that will enable the need for the next generation of people and enterprises to connect seamlessly to each other for purposes of telecommunication, FinTech, wearables and IOT, and creating entirely new user experiences, never seen before,the hSenid Group Chairman Dinesh Saparamadu said.
0 comments: