Dusmant,
It may also help if you tell us what are the gaps you have found. Sometimes
there are some manual or process workarounds that will resolve gaps.
Ryan
On 2/20/09 20:16, "Emily Tucker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dusmant,
>
> We¹re very excited to hear about your evaluation of Mifos! I hope we can help
> answer your questions. I¹ve moved this question to the mifos-users list,
> since your questions are more appropriate for this mailing list.
>
> There are several ways to customize Mifos to work for your needs. The best
> way for us to evaluate what approach makes sense is for you to send us a list
> of gaps. Our team, and others in the community, can then review and make
> suggestions for work-arounds or other approaches to solve the problem.
>
> Grameen Koota (who I believe you¹ve visited) has solved many of their
> customization needs by writing scripts that run directly against the database.
> For example, Mifos doesn¹t have a feature that automatically applies late fees
> to overdue loans. GK wrote a script that they run every night to charge these
> fees. This approach requires a deep knowledge of the database, a great deal
> of testing, and dedicated staff to run and monitor this scriptbut it can
> work. This approach might work for some of your gaps.
>
> Alternatively, if the gap requires code changesthis can be much more
> difficult. There is a firm we¹ve worked with in Bangalore that has deep
> experience working in the Mifos code. You can contact us directly if you want
> a reference to that company.
>
> Data migration in any project is typically a long and costly processbut the
> difficulty of the migration depends a lot on how ditry your old data is and
> what format it is in. With our partner in Tunisia, it took about 3.5 people 4
> months to migrate data from their legacy system into Mifos. Some of this
> complexity came from the fact that they were migrating historical data. If
> you just migrate current accounts, then the work is much less. There is
> another group in Bangalore, SunGard, that has done some Mifos migration for
> Grameen Koota. Again, you can contact us directly if you¹d like more
> information.
>
> Others on the list might be able to share their experience with data
> migration.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Emily.
>
>
> From: Dusmant Kumar [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:05 AM
> To: Developer
> Subject: [Mifos-developer] Mifos Implementation Difficulties
>
> I, at Adhikar working actively to implement mifos. But I am wondering how can
> I be able to handle specific application cusomizing issues. I have conducted
> the Gap Analysis and found some process or functionality needs to be
> customized. How can I get support in this. And as we have large number of
> client data in our existing system, how can I migrate them into mifos. What
> level of complexity involves in data migration and application customization.
>
>
>
> Is there some mifos specialist team there in India who can help me in this
> regard. I will be happy if anyone contact me in this regard.
--
Ryan Whitney
Mifos Technical Program Manager
[email protected]
Mifos - Technology that Empowers Microfinance (www.mifos.org)
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