Foradian

Foradian Technologies
Privately held company
Industry Education
Founded 2009
Headquarters Bangalore, India
Services Web applications, ERP software
Website Foradian Technologies

Foradian Technologies is a privately held software provider of ERP Solutions for education institutions. Foradian is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.[1][2] The technical office of the firm is situated at Kasaragod, Kerala, India.[3] The company's flagship product Fedena is an opensource school management software used in more than 40,000 schools and powers 20 million users in more than 100 countries.[4] A most notable implementation of Fedena is by the Education Department of Government of Kerala to automate the system and process of over 15,000 schools in the state and is named as Sampoorna.[5][6][7] For the development and support of Fedena, Foradian won the MIT TR35 2012 India award for innovation in education domain.[8] Foradian is also known for popularizing Tintumon through providing an online identity[9][10] and releasing rupee font for Indian rupee sign which was reported in major national media and newspapers[11][12][13][14]

History

Foradian Technologies was started as a web design firm by a group of young people in India from the states of Kerala and Karnataka.[15]

Products

Fedena

Fedena is an open source school management software based on Ruby on Rails framework. It was selected for a presentation at International Rubyconf held at Bangalore on March 2010.[16][17][18] Fedena is also presented in the Debconf 2010.[19] Latest version of Fedena – 2.1 was released on 16 August 2011. Fedena is also available in Spanish other than English. Foradian Technologies provide Fedena related services, Fedena – PRO.

Rupee Font

As soon as the new Indian Rupee sign was approved, Foradian technologies published a free font at their blog.[20][21][22] The font and the blog became a viral phenomenon with 1 million visits in just two days of the launch of the font. The font also got criticisms for mapping the rupee symbol to the grave accent key of the keyboard and releasing a font much ahead of approval of unicode. The Rupee sign may be made visible on those word-processors also where the font is not installed in the system, by choosing to embed the font in the document in file saving options. However, embedding the Foradian Rupee Font renders the document read-only i.e., the document cannot be edited on a system where the font is not installed.

References

  1. ↑ "Now download the new rupee symbol". Hindustan Times. India. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Here's how to download new rupee symbol for free – Times Of India". The Times of India. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fedena-free-opensource-school-management-143000390.html
  5. ↑ "'Sampoorna' to give details of all schools, students". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 21 August 2011.
  6. ↑ http://sampoorna.itschool.gov.in/
  7. ↑ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862755
  8. ↑ http://www.technologyreview.in/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1248
  9. ↑ http://expressbuzz.com/Cities/Kochi/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-start-kidding!/139237.html
  10. ↑ "SMS Hero of Kerala". Tintumon. 30 November 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  11. ↑ "Now, download and use the new Rupee symbol". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  12. ↑ Web18 Wiki. "Blogforadian: Latest News, Photos and Videos". Connect.in.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  13. ↑ "How to download the Rupee symbol". Ndtv.com. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  14. ↑ "Rupee Symbol As A Font Character". YouTube. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  15. ↑ "Foradian Technologies – Mangalore – Business Consultants and E-Business Services service provider". Indiamart.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  16. ↑ "RubyConf India 2010: Get involved". Rubyconfindia.org. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  17. ↑ "Project Fedena". Project Fedena. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  18. ↑ Embed Video Subscribe to comments Post Comment. "Ruby Conf India – Project Fedena & Why Ro R". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  19. ↑ "dc10: Pedagogical Freedom". Penta.debconf.org. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  20. ↑ "Font with Indian Rupee Symbol – Download and Use Free – Foradian Technologies". Blog.foradian.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  21. ↑ "Rupee Font Version 2.0 – Foradian Technologies". Blog.foradian.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  22. ↑ Embed Video Subscribe to comments Post Comment. "Font for new rupee symbol of india". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

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