Parte l’iniziativa di microcredito per il Madagascar

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1. Marcello Gribaudo scrive:

   26 gennaio 2009 alle 15:40

   Hi Wifak,
   As directly involved in the project, I can maybe give you some more details on the reasons of Octopus choice.
   First, as you know, my experience in MSI is limited the Madagascar project, so my words must be “parameterized” with my “short time” knowlege of this problem.

   First, OSS is an easiest choice for ISF because of the technical knowlwdge of the concerning problem.
   Then, generally, OSS have at the back a developpers community or a commercial society that can give support, some time in a better manner then prprietary software. This is the case of Octopus and, I think, also of Mifos.

   Why Octopus?
   Before choising Octopus whe also had a look on Mifos and Microfin (http://www.microfin.com/).
   We, at once, discarded Microfin because of the preferece of a database oriented application rather than a spreadsheet.
   After a short internal discussion bewteen the remaing choices, we decided for Octupos for the following reasons :
   - I think, this is my pesonal opinion, that is more apt for little MFI’s (simple in use and configure, fast installation and upgrade, no need of a web server, …).
   - direct access to Octo developpers for support
   - finally,last but not least, I was expert in sofware languages and database management used by Octopus and

   Sorry for my English

   Marcello

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2. Wifak scrive:

   26 gennaio 2009 alle 13:26

   Many thanks for your prompt reply and for the links you shared. I hope
   all the best for the team when launching OCTO in February.
   The choice of the right MIS for a young MFI is always a delicate
   matter. I am quite confident you are in a good track. Having got
   acquainted to OCTO’s representative before, I have no doubts on the
   serious and the commitment of the team members.
   Good luck and please do keep me updated on the progress of the
   implementation.

   Wifak

   —

   ISF Italy (international mailbox)

   Hi Mifak,
   I’d like to anticipate the very little I know from a technical point
   of view about selection of Octo option as our project manager has really tight times and probably can’t answer in short times, in case you’ll get a deeper info from our source next:-)

   At the beginning a selction was started from “Microfinance gateway”
   website at http://www.microfinancegateway.org/resource_centers/technology
   where orientation among already available technology and solutions
   could start.

   Then a parallel evaluation of both Mifos and Octo has been performed
   by two separated people sharing ideas and results. Then major
   availability of Octo expert to work on it, the extreme cooperation of
   Octo community and our expert’s technical background did the rest, and
   I can remember also some urls he visited while busy with his
   evaluations:

   http://www.octopusnetwork.org/pdf/Octopus_MIS_Upgrade_Methodology.pdf

   http://octopusfit.octo.com/FitNesse.OctoPus

   http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=how-to+migrate+excel+octopus+micro&btnG=Cerca&meta=

   http://www.mfntsummit2008.org/MIS%2021Oct%20Pierre%20Pezziardi%20Octopus.ppt

   http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=microfinance+octopus+from+excel+migration&meta=

   Hoping that this can give you initial flavour about, I remain waiting
   for a better answer to share and wish you a good week.

   WKR,
   Aldo

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3. Wifak scrive:

   24 gennaio 2009 alle 18:51

   Hi,
   I am amazed to hear of such straightforward adoption of Octo in ISF.
   Generally, MFIs involve in OSS implementation through partnerships
   that most of the time are time consuming and bear a cost for the MFI.
   This is indeed the first account I hear that sounded simple and
   effective.
   It has been a while that I am particularly interested in the the
   emergence of OSS in microfinance, tracing the experiences of MFIs who
   were enough courageous to take on this alternative. Reading your
   story, I was enchanted to see a concrete evidence that OSS can be the
   right alternative to go for, especially for small and fast growing
   MFIs such as ISF.
   Because I find your experience noteworthy, I would like to ask why
   OSS? what did decide you to go for it when an increasing choice of on-
   the-shelf-MIS is offered in the market. Also, by common sense MFIs
   with little MIS knowledge should give priority to commercial packages
   as they rely on the experience and the technical support that IT
   vendors guarantee. Can you please provide me with more details on the
   context of this project and the motives of this selection?
   Also, I wanted to ask if you heard about Mifos (see http://www.mifos.org).
   Was it an explicit decision to go for OCTO rather than Mifos in your
   case and why?

   I hope you will not find my questions indiscreet

   Cheers

   Wifak

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