About Us : Awards

Virtusa has been ranked # 252 on the 2008 VARBusiness 500 list. The VARBusiness 500 awards acknowledge the top-placed firms in North America that help corporations and institutions best apply IT strategies and systems. (April 2008)

Virtusa won the Best Paper Award at Step-Auto 2008 International Conference on Test Practices and Test Automation, held in Bangalore, India, on February 21st, 2008. The paper by Venkata Ramana L., Senior Manager Testing, was titled "Developing Effective Testing Organizations—An Approach Based on TQM Philosophy." (February 2008)

Virtusa won a Gold Award at the Sri Lanka National HRM Awards 2007, conducted by Hewitt Associates. Virtusa was ranked one of the 10 best companies - the “Super 10” - for its people practices. (February 2008)

Virtusa has been listed in the 2008 Global Services 100, a list of the top global providers of business and technology services. The Global Services 100 list is compiled by Global Services magazine with outsourcing experts at neoIT. (February 2008)

Participating for the first time in the NASSCOM IT Innovation Award, Virtusa was a finalist from among 300 nominations highlighting Market-facing Innovation, Input Innovation and Process Innovation. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) evaluation panel recognized Virtusa as a finalist in the Process Innovation category. (November 2007)

Virtusa was nominated as a finalist for the BT Supplier Innovation Award 2007. Virtusa’s entry highlighted the BT Beta Programme, which accelerates innovation to deliver fully-tested, production ready software in 30-day implementation cycles. Click here to see Derek Bell, Director BT Collaboration Programme, describe the BT Beta Programme and agile approaches used within its projects to accelerate innovation and reduce cycle time. (November 2007)

A new entrant, Virtusa was ranked #80 in the FinTech 100 rankings published by American Banker and Financial Insights, an IDC company. This is a ranking of top global technology and service providers categorized and evaluated based on fiscal year end revenues and the percentage of revenues attributed to financial services. (November 2007)

Virtusa has been ranked in the 2007 SiliconIndia 100, an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies. (November 2007)

Virtusa received the Pegasystems Partner Innovation Award 2007 for Engineering Excellence presented at PegaWORLD 2007. (October 2007)

Chairman & CEO Kris Canekeratne received the TiE Boston IPO Award in recognition of the company’s successful IPO in August 2007. (October 2007)

Virtusa has been ranked 388 in the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth over five years (2002–2006). (October 2007)

Virtusa was ranked 43 in the New England Technology Fast 50. Organized by Deloitte and now in its 11th year, the awards honor the 50 fastest growing technology and life sciences companies in New England. (September 2007)

Virtusa has been ranked the #1 IT Systems Outsourcing Vendor in the Wealth Management Industry by the 2007 Black Book of Outsourcing published by the Brown-Wilson Group. (September 2007)

Virtusa Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne was awarded the Most Outstanding CEO award in the IT/BPO industry, presented by the Information and Communication Technology Association of Sri Lanka (ICTA). The award recognizes someone who has made a significant contribution to the industry as a whole during 2007, besides leading his/her own company to greater heights. (August 2007)

Virtusa was ranked 1896 in the inaugural Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the US. (August 2007)

Virtusa won an IBM Partner Award for its contribution to Information Server 8.0 (March 2007)

The BT OpenReach Portal developed by Virtusa received a Quality Award at BT Quality Day. (November 2006)

Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of information consulting, technology and outsourcing services has been named to the siliconindia 100 list. (November 2006)

Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of software development and IT services, has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for New England, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in the area by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. (September 2006)

Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne has been nominated as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2006 Award in New England. This year's 44 finalists were selected from more than 90 nominations by an independent Finalist Selection Committee composed of area business, academic and civic leaders (May 2006)

Co-founder Tushara Canekeratne received the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Award from the Women’s Chamber of Commerce (WCIC) of Sri Lanka. She also won the Gold Medal in the Large Business category. (May 16, 2006)

Virtusa has been named to the Global Offshore 100 companies, a listing determined through a worldwide survey conducted by outsourcing consulting firm NeoIT and CMP Media. NeoIT and CMP Media are publishers of magazines such as Information Week, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Byte, Software Development, etc. This was the first time Virtusa participated in the survey. (February 2006)

Virtusa Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne received the Sri Lanka Sikhamani, one of the most prestigious national awards the Sri Lankan government bestows upon individuals making significant contributions to the nation. (November 25, 2005)

The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) presented Virtusa Chairman and CEO Kris Canekeratne, with Sri Lanka's Young Director of the Year Award 2005 for "excellence in business strategy making". (May 2005)

The Hyderabad Software Exporters' Association (HYSEA) presented Virtusa with the HYSEA award for the Best Established Offshore Development Center at a ceremony held in Hyderabad on February 25, 2005. Virtusa won the award for its outstanding growth and contribution to the Hyderabad software arena during 2003-2004. Virtusa shares this award with Keane India Ltd. (February 2005)

Virtusa won a Pega Partner Excellence Award again at the Pegsystems Sales Conference, which took place in Pinehurst, North Carolina. (February 2005)

On October 23, 2003, Virtusa was honored by Bank One with an award for outstanding performance, quality and excellence. The award was handed out by Bank One’s CEO, Jamie Diamond and CIO, Austin Adams in the presence of senior Bank One executives and their top (10%) IT suppliers. (October 2003)

Virtusa was the recipient of a Pega Partner Excellence Award at the PegaVISION 2003 Conference held at the Marriott Copley, Boston on May 19. Virtusa was recognized in the category of 'Smartest BPM Application/Demonstration' as the partner that created the most compelling Pegasystems-based solution demonstration illustrating a business case scenario. Virtusa's entry was the vCHAT Next Generation On Line Customer Care Services Framework. (May 2003)

Virtusa won the 2002 Siliconindia si100 Award of Recognition for the company’s ‘spirit of entrepreneurship, technology strengths and market traction’. (2002)