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Item The Implementation of Management Information System and its Impact on Performance Management of Employees: With Special Reference to Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Pitigala, P.K.G.C.Performance Management (PM) is an assessment of efficiency of a worker by the respective persons in the organization or providing an accurate and relevant rating of an employee performance as compared to pre-established criteria.All most all organizations included to the Apparel Industry tend to measure the level of performance of an employee as it is a major criteria for salary increments or any other perquisites. However the managers facing a critical situation as majority of employee grievances are regarding injustice of PM. Thereby the general objective of this study is to suggest some ways to the management to enhance the quality and the transparency of PM through effective implementation of Management Information System (MIS) that enable sound awareness of information to all levels of employees as well as for the managers. Criterions of effectiveness of PM is with whether the system generate accurate outcomes, generating quick reports, employees can see overall performance, evaluation status and performance evaluation discussions. The unit of analysis was at individual employees. The target population of the study was consist of employees both managerial and non-managerial who have worked with the similar organization since the organization not experiencing the MIS in PM. The study selected 150 employees by stratified random sampling technique from a particular organization included to the apparel industry of Sri Lanka. This study has proceeded with the questionnaire to collect data as primary data. Descriptive analysis, and chi-square analysis were used to analyze data with the limitation of considering the effect of implementation of MIS only on one management practice. As the results indicated according to the comparison made before and after implementing the MIS to the particular organization there is a significant reduction in grievances from employees regarding PM procedure. Similarly the employees are satisfied towards PM as the dissemination of information relevant to PM of each employee is transparent. Thereby the PM practices that measured with the effectiveness of timeliness, appropriate content, system quality, format and other benefits of using MIS as an administrative tool have been accomplished by the organization after the execution of MIS for PM.Item Virtualization for small and medium-size businesses(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pitigala, P.K.G.C.People were talking about virtualization all the time. They’re usually talking about enterprises and data centers and they usually mean server virtualization. But desktops can be virtualized too, it can be helpful to small and medium-size businesses. In here researcher was consider desktop virtualization. Desktop virtualization, as many firms look to extend the benefits of virtualization to their end users. Computer virtualization is a method of partitioning a computer hardware and in return presents multiple virtual machines on the computer platform providing the ability to run multiple operating systems and configurations without requiring multiple standalone computer systems. The study was thoroughly under taken by the researchers by focusing on the problem of the complex desktop environments, security and compliance issues. One of the original forms of computer virtualization on a centralized architecture model was used with mainframe technology. Virtualization and its unique architecture have many characteristics and advantages over traditional non-virtualized machines. This paper efforts to recognize the above-mentioned issues, risks, and differences caused by traditional non-virtualized machines. The system has been developed using VMs applications. server virtualization has been around for more than 10 years and while issues such as storage and I/O bottlenecks can still rear their head, the multi-faceted advantages offered by virtualization are real and attainable even if people run a small business and since them competitors may not have discovered the benefits of the technology yet they may gain a significant competitive advantage.