Hi Michael, I have a set of questions that I am forming that we could ask all existing/future MFIs to fill to give us a better of idea of how best to deliver an MIS solution to MFIs.
I have read the profile available for Niranata which answers a few of the questions: http://mifos.org/community/whos-using-mifos/nirantara-india Organisation related ----- 1) How many clients to you serve? (looks like this is ~10,500, is this still the case or more?) 2) How many branches? (looks like 7, is this still the case?) 3) How many staff in organisation/per branch? 4) What business roles exist in the organisation? (e.g. are there data entry staff, credit officers, managers, board members) 5) Is the organisatons purpose a social one or profit driven? - Is social performance measurement/monitoring and reporting important? In Niranta case, its looks like they are very much socially driven and care about social performance. The case study (http://www.nirantara.org/MicroSave_RBS_Case_Study_on_Nirantara.pdf) was interesting and I would be interested in seeing any documenation around '...The microfinance operations (from group formation to day end branch and head office procedures) have since been mapped, key risks have been mitigated, and the key documents have been translated into Kannada and made available at all the branches. These now form the core of Nirantara’s new Operations Manual and have resulted in improvements in products and systems...' Portfolio Product related ------- 6) What products/services are provided? Loan, Savings, Insurance, Other? (looks to be joint liability loans (group loans) - are the joint liability loans tracked on a per individual client member basis or purely through the group in full itself? 7) Do you have the notion of 'centers' or 'kendra' in your organisation? 8) What parts of mifos are essential? Clients/Groups, Loans and Reporting on these? 9) What other information to you track in relation to clients/groups/loans? Software/Technology related ---------- 10) What type of internet connectivity exist at your branches? (as they seem to use mifos through cloud, this is likely good.) 11) Do you require 'offline capabilities' for some/all branches (most likely no in this case.) 12) Do you prefer Local Installation or 'Cloud' installation of an MIS software and why? (looks like they use private cloud) 13) Do you handle hosting/installation/maintenance yourselves or is it outsourced to another company? 14) How much does it cost to deliver this at present? - how many staff are needed that are not core to microfinance serivces to help manage MIS/IT? - or How much per month/year does it cost to have MIS service? 15) Is overall IT cost reasonable or deemeed high? Thats all i could think of at the moment. regards, Keith On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Michael Vorburger <m...@vorburger.ch> wrote: > Dear Mifos Community, > > FYI: I am going to India for a 1 month private (family) & work (day > job / non-Mifos) trip in a few days. I'll be mostly in Chennai and 1 > week in Bangalore, and am in the process of arranging visits with > Nirantra (MFI) and Conflux (Tech) and Binny (GF) and Udai. If anybody > else is interested in meeting up in Bangalore or Chennai, please email > me so we can see how we can arrange something. > > I am hoping that this will be an opportunity for me to make a bit of > time available to learn more directly about Mifos 'in Action' & MF/Is > and "to [help my little bit to] break down any barriers between the > MFI (customer) and those who deliver the features" (to quote KeithW > from the "Whats after Maya G?" thread). @Dev List: please let me know > if you have any questions/points which you think would be interesting > to learn more about? > > Regards, > Michael > _______________________ > Michael Vorburger > http://www.vorburger.ch > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Mifos-users mailing list Mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-users