DesignSoft Technologies (Pvt) Ltd

Sri Lankan software maker DesignSoft Technologies offers LeoBiz ERP plus, an enterprise resource planning package for organisations in many industries. The firm builds its platform from a core set of reusable building blocks, which it says lets business people assemble and configure their own applications without writing code. The framework behind this approach is called MenSitpi, and the company describes it as a way to construct business applications reliably.

LeoBiz ERP plus built from reusable building blocks

The product brings sales, purchasing, operations, accounting and inventory management into one integrated system. Each industry solution is assembled from existing building blocks, which the company says removes the need for programming and makes the result reliable from the start. It presents continuous upgrades as a way for customers to keep current with the technology in the market.

Industry templates and business process consulting

The company keeps a set of industry-specialised templates, each holding business practices that a client can choose from to fit its own organisation. The industries it lists include print media and newspapers, tea blending and export, apparel manufacturing, technical repair services with warranty management, service level agreement operations, micro banking, leasing and investment, hotels and hospitality, and club and professional membership management. Alongside the software it offers consultancy for business process re-engineering, to help an organisation settle how its processes should run before the system is set up.

Deployment, databases and licensing

The system can run on premise or in the cloud, and it can be set up in two-tier, three-tier or n-tier form, so that load can be spread across added application and component servers. It is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MySQL, and the firm describes the product as platform independent. Licences are sold as perpetual software licences or as subscriptions priced on revenue or transaction volume. The company also implements Microsoft Dynamics NAV for growing small and medium-sized businesses.

Customers across manufacturing and publishing

The company says its customers are organisations in many industries, among them manufacturers and newspaper publishers, and groups of companies that need a single system. It also says it is looking for market development locally and internationally, and it is seeking partners to join it. The firm presents its work as delivering proven business practices to customers over many years, and as tailoring the solution so that it fits each organisation.