ABOVE's team works with global customers to assess, plan and implement the most effective open source strategies for their businesses. Open source is becoming an important part of the technology mix for organizations in pursuit of high performance. In a business environment where cost and speed to market are both critical factors, open source software plays a key role in helping organizations develop the capabilities they need to achieve.
By taking full advantage of implementing open source comprehensively and successfully, organizations should carefully address integrating open source projects with the overall technology strategy and ensuring adequate support. In addition, a comprehensive licensing strategy is created and integration issues are dealt with.
Breakthrough solution for the Microfinance industry
ABOVE's solution for the rapidly growing Microfinance industry is based on the concept of "Microfinance In A Box" - a readily deployable and scalable solution that helps companies in the space ramp up and deliver their technology and mobility requirements.
The Microfinance industry also known as "banking for the poor" is a rapidly growing industry gaining increasing relevance in fulfilling the aspirations of emerging markets.
The vision of this product is to be the predominant solution of choice to help Microfinance companies meet their business needs through a simple, effective and scalable technology and mobility solution.
The solution can be looked at from four dimensions:
Network Layer-SME Server
Desktop Productivity Suite-Ubuntu OS with Open Office
Applications Layer-Portal solution integrating MiFOS, among other applications
Mobility-applications on multiple mobile platforms
The entire solution is built with Open Source components. The suite of applications and software is available as a tightly integrated and tested bundle. It can be easily deployed and scaled with growth. It is also highly customizable to the needs of different types of MFIs.
ABOVE's efforts will reduce operating costs, help scale the business and improve employee productivity.
The value of the solution and the unique proposition comes from the ability to understand the business dynamics in the Microfinance space very deeply and configure the solution.