Foradian

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Foradian Technologies
Company type Privately held company
Industry Educational technology, Education
Founded2009
FoundersUnni Koroth, Arvind G S, Abdulla Hisham, Vishwajith A, Abdul Salam, Arun Raveendran [1]
Headquarters,
ProductsFedena, Uzity, [2] Fluxday

Foradian Technologies is a privately held software provider of ERP Solutions for education institutions. Foradian is based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), Karnataka, India. [1] [3]

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Fedena is an open source school management software developed by the company, used in over 100 countries. [4] A notable implementation of Fedena is its use in over 15,000 schools in the state of Kerala, India. [5] The Education Department of the Government of Kerala has used Fedena in a state program named Sampoorna to automate the system and process of over 15,000 schools in the state. [6] Uzity is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Foradian that assists teachers and students to collaborate and learn the contents of different courses.

Foradian gained media attention for creating a digital font for the Indian rupee sign and for popularizing the Tintumon character online. The rupee font release was covered by major Indian media outlets. [7] [8] [9]

History

Foradian Technologies was founded in 2009 as a web design firm by six co-founders from Kerala and Karnataka states in India. [1]

Products

Fedena

Fedena is an open source school management software [2] based on Ruby on Rails framework. It was selected for a presentation at International Rubyconf held at Bangalore in March 2010. [10] Fedena is also presented in the Debconf 2010. [11] [ user-generated source? ] Fedena v3.5 was released on 15 February 2016, and Fedena is available in 22 languages, including English. Foradian Technologies also provide Fedena related services, Fedena – PRO and Fedena Enterprise.

Uzity

Uzity serves as a virtual learning environment and repository for course information (course management system) within an educational institution. Developed by the same team that developed Fedena, it is a collaboration platform for students, teachers, administrators and management.[ citation needed ]

Rupee Foradian font

As soon as the new Indian Rupee sign was approved, Foradian technologies published a free digital font named "Rupee Foradian" on 16 July 2010. [12] [13] [14] The font was created using vector image and mapped to the grave accent key (`) on keyboards. The font gained widespread attention online following its release. [13] The grave accent key of the keyboard was chosen because the grave accent key is often not used by computer users. [15] The font received some criticism for the mapping to the grave accent key, and per being released much ahead of its approval for unicode. The Rupee sign may be made visible on some 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.[ citation needed ]

Recognition

For the development and support of Fedena, Foradian won the MIT TR35 2012 India award for innovation in education domain. [16] [17] Foradian also came fifteenth in the Deloitte Technology Fast50. [18] Foradian received the IT Innovation Award – MSME Category at the Express I.T Awards, 2014. [19] [20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shanbaug, Amit. "Foradian Technologies: How 6 childhood friends are making big bucks from the educational venture". The Economic Times . Archived from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Company Overview of Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd". Bloomberg. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  3. Archived 26 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Foradian Tech raises $2-mn funding". The Hindu Business Line . 30 April 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. "Small town education start-up offers ERP solution to schools across the globe". The Economic Times. 8 May 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. "'Sampoorna' to give details of all schools, students". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 21 August 2011.
  7. Expressbuzz.com [ dead link ]
  8. "Now, download and use the new Rupee symbol". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  9. "Rupee Symbol As A Font Character". YouTube. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.[ dead YouTube link ]
  10. Embed Video Subscribe to comments Post Comment (21 March 2010). "Ruby Conf India – Project Fedena & Why Ro R". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  11. "dc10: Pedagogical Freedom". Penta.debconf.org. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  12. "Here's how to download new rupee symbol for free". The Times of India . 18 July 2010. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  13. 1 2 Peter, Petlee (22 August 2010). "Press tilde key to type Rupee". The Hindu . Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  14. "Updated Indian Rupee Font for Download". PC World India. 28 July 2010. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  15. "Now download the new rupee symbol". Hindustan Times . India. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  16. NS (22 March 2012). "MIT Technology Review India announces India TR35 list of young Technology Innovators under 35 for 2012". APN News.
  17. Ltd, Foradian Technologies Pvt (18 September 2012). "Fedena – the Free and Opensource School Management Software From an Indian Startup, Now Powers /PR Newswire UK/". PR Newswire UK. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  18. "Foradian Technologies features in top 20 of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2014 awards". The Times of India . Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  19. "Express IT Awards: Raising a toast to technovation". The Financial Express. Indian Express Limited. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  20. "Innovative Education Technology Company – Foradian" . Retrieved 17 August 2016.

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