Zone24x7, a US based technology solutions company recently obtained the CMMI Level 3 certification by the US based Software Engineering Institute, part of Carnegie Mellon University, USA. CMMI or Capability Maturity Model Integration is a process framework that helps improve quality with continuous improvement practices for successful project execution and delivery. Adoption of CMMI framework demonstrates Zone24x7’s continuing efforts to maintain the utmost quality standards and successfully delivering measurable business benefits to all their clients.

The journey has been a manifestation of corporate vision and the CMMI Level 3 certification marks an important milestone in the journey towards excellence.

Common Goal

“The company is focusing on a common goal. Scalability, quality and consistency are the most important attributes in it. Company’s attention on this is clearly demonstrated by achieving CMMI Certification”, said Llavan Fernando, President/CEO of Zone24x7.

This great achievement demonstrates yet another sign of the company’s commitment towards adopting world class business practices. This bears witness to continual development of its services and products for client success.

“Using the CMMI model Zone24x7 has been able to successfully define lightweight processes in ‘Zone Way’, the project execution framework of the company.

As a company that started with fully agile processes, we have been able to arrive at a happy balance today which would definitely help our projects.

Endorsement of CMMI level 3 certification on ‘Zone Way’ which includes project execution, knowledge management and performance evaluation is indeed an encouragement to continue to march our way towards building Technoprenuers at Zone24x7”, said Manjula Dissanayake, Vice President of Global Operations at Zone24x7. “We are proud to be among the first few companies in Sri Lanka to obtain this prestigious certification for the high quality services and products of the company” he added.

CMMI is a set of best practices developed in the USA by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in collaboration with industry and government. SEI is an internationally recognised standard for assessing software development practices. According to SEI, CMMI is being adopted by companies worldwide to improve their performance in software development. In this respect, CMMI addresses not only the activities linked to software engineering, but also the disciplines of project management and process support and management, aiming to enhance the maturity of the organisation and the project execution capacity of the people that work there.

Experts from KPMG, a global leader in independent testing and evaluation services conducted the assessments at Zone24x7.

Leading provider

Zone24x7 is a leading provider of global technology innovation services with world-class partnerships. Since its inception in 2003, Zone24x7 benchmarks the finest technological capabilities and delivering innovation with profound industry and business process expertise. Headquartered in San Jose, USA, Zone24x7 operates in the USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia providing technology solutions to leading clients around the world.

The company is recognized as a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner in Mobility Solutions, Custom Development Solutions and Data Management Solutions and also a Microsoft Gold Partner in Embedded Solutions. Zone24x7 prides itself in having the vision, leadership and a world-class team to drive creativity and innovation.