technology education founded 2009 founders unni koroth arvind g s abdulla hisham vishwajith a abdul salam arun raveendran 1 headquarters bangalore india products fedena uzity 2 fluxday website www.foradian.com foradian technologies is a privately held software provider of erp solutions for education institutions . foradian is based in bangalore karnataka india . 1 the technical office of the firm is situated at bengaluru karnataka india . 3 the company s flagship product fedena is an open source school management software that is used in over 40 000 schools and 20 million users 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 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 is also known for popularizing the joke character tintumon via the provision of an online identity 7 and releasing rupee font for indian rupee sign which was reported in major national media and newspapers 8 9 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 fedena 2.2 uzity 3 rupee foradian font 4 recognition 5 references 6 further reading 7 external links history edit foradian technologies was started as a web design firm by a group of young people in india from the states of kerala and karnataka . 10 user generated source products include fedena opensource fedena pro uzity 2 and fluxday . products edit fedena edit 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 on march 2010 . 11 fedena is also presented in the debconf 2010 . 12 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 edit uzity is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by foradian technologies . it is a collaboration platform for students teachers administrators and management of an institution . uzity assists in knowledge management of the entire institution and functions as a repository of course information and collaboration data . it is developed by the same team who developed fedena . uzity assists teachers and students to collaborate and learn the contents of different courses . students can ask questions specific to each topic and the answers can be given by a teacher or other students . it allows the uploading of learning resources about different topics in a course and enables sharing of the resources to other courses in the same organization . uzity gives full control of designing and implementing the learning activities of an institution . rupee foradian font edit as soon as the new indian rupee sign was approved foradian technologies published a free digital font named rupee foradian on 16 july 2010 . 13 14 15 the font and the blog became a viral phenomenon . 14 the font was created using a vector image and its mapping is to the grave accent key of the keyboard which was chosen because the grave accent key is often not used by computer users . 16 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 can not be edited on a system where the font is not installed . citation needed recognition edit for the development and support of fedena foradian won the mit tr35 2012 india award for innovation in education domain . 17 non primary source needed 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 non primary source needed references edit a b shanbaug amit . foradian technologies how 6 childhood friends are making big bucks from the educational venture . the economic times . retrieved 17 august 2016 . a b c company overview of foradian technologies pvt ltd. . bloomberg . 17 august 2016 . retrieved 17 august 2016 . 1 archived 26 july 2010 at the wayback machine . foradian tech raises 2 mn funding . the hindu business line . 30 april 2014 . retrieved 17 august 2016 . small town education start up offers erp solution to schools across the globe . the economic times . 8 may 2012 . retrieved 17 august 2016 . sampoorna to give details of all schools students . the hindu . chennai india . 21 august 2011 . expressbuzz.com dead link now download and use the new rupee symbol . moneycontrol.com . retrieved 22 october 2011 . rupee symbol as a font character . youtube . 18 july 2010 . retrieved 22 october 2011 . foradian technologies mangalore business consultants and e business services service provider . indiamart . retrieved 22 october 2011 . embed video subscribe to comments post comment . ruby conf india project fedena & why ro r . slideshare.net . retrieved 22 october 2011 . dc10 pedagogical freedom . penta.debconf.org . retrieved 22 october 2011 . here s how to download new rupee symbol for free . the times of india . 18 july 2010 . retrieved 22 october 2011 . a b peter petlee 22 august 2010 . press tilde key to type rupee . the hindu . retrieved 17 august 2016 . updated indian rupee font for download . pc world india . 28 july 2010 . retrieved 8 august 2016 . now download the new rupee symbol . hindustan times . india . 19 july 2010 . retrieved 22 october 2011 . 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 . foradian technologies features in top 20 of deloitte technology fast 50 india 2014 awards . the times of india . retrieved 17 august 2016 . innovative education technology company foradian . retrieved 17 august 2016 . further reading edit innovator under 35 india unni koroth 26 . mit technology review . retrieved 17 august 2016 . external links edit official website sms hero of kerala . tintumon . 30 november 2009 . retrieved 22 october 2011 . dead link ruby on rails to power 13 000 schools with 7million students in kerala india hacker news . rubyconf india 2010 get involved . rubyconfindia.org . retrieved 22 october 2011 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title foradian & oldid 744254838 categories information technology consulting firms of indiasoftware companies of 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