What it takes to break away from the crowd

BANGALORE, INDIA: Get to know about a school management platform that can save up to Rs 50 crore annually and can make gifted teachers a la Khan Academy and about a Windows-based online desktop service that enables customers to access personal desktop from any device connected to the internet.

Enabling teachers to be Khan Academy

Rupee symbol fame Foradian Technologies CEO and founder Unni Krishnan Koroth talked about the company's new software platform, which could enable teachers in our country to be a Khan Academy, at the EmTech India 2012 event.

The software, called Fedena, a school management platform, is an open source, Ruby on Rails platform.

About 40,000 schools in the country use this platform and it gets about 200 downloads in a day. It is being used by around 15,000 students in Kerala, reaching out to about 7 million students in the state and helps in saving Rs 50 crores annually.

According Unni Krishnan it is different from other school management systems and unlike them does not fall short when it comes to meet customization requirements. Any school, irrespective of which country it is located in, can use it as the software can be customized to specific requirements, he noted.

Foradian is planning to introduce a Marketplace for Fedena, soon.

nivio: We complete your Apple

nivio, a start-up cloud computing company that provides access to desktop applications, data and Windows environment, co-founder and chief wizard Sachin Dev Duggal had a few points to share to the audience about why nivio is different and breaks away from the crowd that call themselves as cloud companies.

nivio helps to get Windows, or applications and synced storage from the cloud to any inter connected screen.

"Cloud is confusing because there are too many services, and salient features which are competing against each other for the space. nivio helps to get Windows and offers it on iPad or Android device, upgrade old computer to be new without any new hardware. Let kids work on your work laptop safely, gets software on rent (with an offer for students for as little as Rs 900 per month) and keep data online and secure for free - for up to 10 GB," he explained.