KRAN Consulting: Transforming Citizen Experience with Digital Government Strategies
With technological advancements and globalization, government bodies are implementing digital transformation strategies in order to deliver services that meet the ever evolving expectations of businesses and citizens. A well functioning public administration in tandem with highly qualified personnel plays a pivotal role in creating a meaningful process of engagement with people. Government departments are on the lookout for capable solution providers that possess subject and domain expertise in parallel with technical expertise.Coming to the fore is KRAN Consulting, a pioneer in eGovernance and the only player to have endured and succeeded exclusively in the government space for more than 2 decades. Kran has a wide and rich customer base across the country, from Trivandrum to Delhi and also in the North East. It has developed and implemented projects in the Central Government, State Governments and PSUs with its comprehensive suite of open technology solutions, and strong focus on achieving the highest levels of efficiency and transparency in Public Administration.
Being a quality driven Organization, KRAN follows a process driven lifecycle model to conceptualize, design and develop high quality software solutions with the ability to meet and exceed client requirements. With a proven track record of superior customer satisfaction for the past two decades, the company facilitates customers with its broad range of services which are consulting, software development, maintenance and support, project/ product implementation, hosted solutions and app development. “Our end-to-end solutions and IT consultancy services help Public Administration transform, evolve, and achieve sustainable growth. We prioritize a roadmap, targeting those technology changes which maximize our customer’s operational benefit and are delivered in line with available
budgets,” elaborates Ajith Kumar, CEO of KRAN Consulting.
Continually striving to develop best practices, acquire better subject expertise and train themselves according to advancing customer needs, the team of experts at KRAN have set up three exclusive “Centers of Excellence” in Public Finance, Licensing & Compliance and General Administration.
KRAN has pioneered in Open Technologies and has successfully delivered cost effective eGovernance solutions across various states. One such client serviced was the Government of Assam, finance department. KRAN was initially approached to address a contingency requirement to automate the budget preparation in the Finance Department. The requirement was met by leveraging the company’s Integrated Financial Management System “Probity Financials”, which was implemented with necessary customisation and enhancement as “FinAssam” project. FinAssam went on to become the most successful and cost effective IFMS solution in the country, and was developed and implemented in record time. It also achieved the distinction of bringing out the first paperless budget in the country.
FinAssam comprises all activities under Budget Preparation, Budget Modification, Budget Control, Budget Execution and Monitoring in addition to a few other custom modules. The solution is implemented across all 56 Administrative Departments and over 120 Field Departments. Presently, over 12,000 active and regular users access the application for their routine financial management activities in Assam. Self Service facility is provided to over 5.5 Lakh Government Employees.
Further making its contributions to the Public Sector domain, the company aims at setting up a separate entity called CPART in the near future where it will be an exclusive centre for study, consulting and training in Public Administration. Ajith signs off on a positive note saying, “We have set ourselves to implementing global standards in Quality/Process. Apart from the ISO 9000,ISO 27000 for Information Security and CMMI Level 3 for Software Processes, we are currently implementing process for CMMI Level 5 and aim to complete the process by September 2019 itself.”
Continually striving to develop best practices, acquire better subject expertise and train themselves according to advancing customer needs, the team of experts at KRAN have set up three exclusive “Centers of Excellence” in Public Finance, Licensing & Compliance and General Administration.
KRAN has pioneered in Open Technologies and has successfully delivered cost effective eGovernance solutions across various states. One such client serviced was the Government of Assam, finance department. KRAN was initially approached to address a contingency requirement to automate the budget preparation in the Finance Department. The requirement was met by leveraging the company’s Integrated Financial Management System “Probity Financials”, which was implemented with necessary customisation and enhancement as “FinAssam” project. FinAssam went on to become the most successful and cost effective IFMS solution in the country, and was developed and implemented in record time. It also achieved the distinction of bringing out the first paperless budget in the country.
FinAssam comprises all activities under Budget Preparation, Budget Modification, Budget Control, Budget Execution and Monitoring in addition to a few other custom modules. The solution is implemented across all 56 Administrative Departments and over 120 Field Departments. Presently, over 12,000 active and regular users access the application for their routine financial management activities in Assam. Self Service facility is provided to over 5.5 Lakh Government Employees.
Further making its contributions to the Public Sector domain, the company aims at setting up a separate entity called CPART in the near future where it will be an exclusive centre for study, consulting and training in Public Administration. Ajith signs off on a positive note saying, “We have set ourselves to implementing global standards in Quality/Process. Apart from the ISO 9000,ISO 27000 for Information Security and CMMI Level 3 for Software Processes, we are currently implementing process for CMMI Level 5 and aim to complete the process by September 2019 itself.”
