Kalingasoft is an education technology company based in Bhubaneswar, India that provides ERP solutions, academic learning platforms, and e-governance services to educational institutions globally. Their flagship product Greycells is a customizable ERP designed specifically for education that facilitates decision making across various functions. The internship project involves researching the academic module requirements for Greycells by collecting data from existing and prospective clients.

1. Kalingasoft
-Summer Internship
Abhishek Ranjan 11BM60117
MBA, VGSOM – IIT KHARAGPUR

2. Overview
• Kalingasoft, A Bhubaneswar based company with experience
in end to end education technology & consulting promoted by
“edu-preneurs”.
• Vision-To continuously innovate our business models so that it
can successfully address the dynamic market context and
aspirations of all stake-holders especially customers,
employees and partners.
• Values-Kalingasoft is committed to create a sustainable
competitive edge for clients through innovative and need-
centric management and technology solutions.

3. Overview
• It has been involved in providing technology solutions to
around 75 institutes, including universities, colleges.
• Kalingasoft already has initiated operations in 5 countries and
is looking forward to having an active presence in at least 10
countries by the year end.

4. Offerings
• Management consulting
• ERP/automation
• Academic learning solutions to education
organizations
• Software services in the e-governance
space.

5. Greycells
• Greycells - a highly powerful, technology agnostic, and
scalable ERP, specifically designed for education institutes.
• Greycells facilitates timely decision-making in:
• course management
• all financial areas
• student strength-weakness analysis
• teacher performance/skills analysis

6. Multiple flavours of Greycells
Greycells
MpoweredSc SmartAdmit
Delite Maxima eAssess
hool

7. Salient Features & Key Benefits
Flexible
Facilitates timely Modules Reduction in
and astute administrative
(Customizable /
decision making overhead
Configurable)
Improved
Cash generating Quality of
User Friendly
investment
Interaction

8. Learning Management System
LMS
• LMS platform helps publishers create interactive content
supplemental to their textbooks with minimal time and
investment
• Unique features include
o Chalk Talk methodology
o Quick turnaround time and low costs of developing
content
o High degree of scalability and flexibility
o Replicating class room experience
o User management

9. K-ACE
Kalingasoft Academic Centre of Excellence (K-ACE) – various
offerings to
• Schools
• Degree colleges
• Engineering colleges
• B-schools

10. eGovernance
• A very high success rate and developmental
projects
• Initiatives include
o Community service centers
o Logistics management in education sector
o Unique student identification card
o t – learning
o Concept of paperless office

11. Domains
The domains of eGovernance include
• Health
• Education
• Defense
• Establishment & administration

12. Partners
• Strategic Alliances
- IBM (Premium partner) - Winpossible
- Corporate Gurukul - Appin Knowledge Sol
- Cyber School Tech Sol - Knowledge Factor
• Technology partners
- HCL Technologies - Spanco
- AVAYA - Datacraft

13. Clientele and partners

14. Project
• The output of the project would be of significant importance
for setting the strategic and tactical direction of the company.
• It can involve revalidating hypotheses, forming new
hypothesis and assessing the business potential, do-ability,
time-to-market, the target market segment etc.
• It can involve creating documentation/presentation
featuring key product specialization which could be presented
in front of prospective clients.
• It can also involve doing segmentation for our existing
products and identifying the features and price points/pricing
model for each segments to facilitate targeted business
development.

15. Project Specifications
Greycells
- Focus on the academic side of the product
- Find the market requirements
- Find the expected conversion rate
- “Academic modules requirement research”

16. Modules in Greycells
• Administration – 2
• Course management – 5
• Human resources – 4
• Student information – 3
• Financial accounting - 5
• Facility management – 2
• Library management – 2
• Examination – 6
• Payroll – 4
• Fee collection - 3

17. Roles and responsibilities
• Data collection – primary method - Meet existing
and prospective clients
• Data analysis
• Decide on the market size, conversion ratio, set of
modules, price

18. References
• http://www.kalingasoft.com/partners-says.html
• http://www.slideshare.net/probals/kalingasoft-profile