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