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been implemented successfully by Social Education and Development Society (SEDS), an NGO, in the drought-prone Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Bangalore-based Wolf Frameworks has developed a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution — Census Information Management Solution (CIMS) for SEDS. Using this application, SEDS has profiled and generated unique identification numbers for more than 40,000 members in the district.

Manil Jayasena Joshua, CEO, SEDs said, “We rely on data, its relationships and analytics/reports heavily to serve the rural and under developed community effectively. CIMS gave us quick, anytime, anywhere, and secured access.”

SEDS conducts surveys regularly to track real-time population, resource, programme statistics, and a road map of how their programme is working and its resultant success/failure.

The NGO uses Wolf’s solution to collect, relate and consolidate data into a central repository and automates the process of data analysis, presenting reports and charts on different metrics. The application also imports the previous data records maintained in Microsoft Access Databases and spreadsheets.

Sunny Ghosh, director & CEO of Wolf Frameworks said, “CIMS solution demonstrates the ability of our framework to manage thousands of records online and the ease of use with which non-sophisticated users are now able to leverage Wolf cloud computing technologies – OnDemand.”

Ghosh said, “Looking at the scale in which the National UID project is planned, many technologies will be involved that will work together. If there is going to be a strong collaboration perspective, we are open to share our system and technology.”