Foradian Technologies is a privately held software provider of ERP Solutions for education institutions. Foradian is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The technical office of the firm is situated in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The company's flagship product Fedena is an open source school management software that is used in over 40,000 schools and 20 million users in over 100 countries. A notable implementation of Fedena is its use in over 15,000 schools in the state of Kerala, India. The Education Department of the Government of Kerala has used Fedena in a state program named Sampoorna to automate the system and process of over 15,000 schools in the state. Uzity is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Foradian that assists teachers and students to collaborate and learn the contents of different courses. Foradian is also known for popularizing the joke character Tintumon, via the provision of an online identity and releasing rupee font for Indian rupee sign which was reported in major national media and newspapers History Foradian Technologies was started as a web design firm by a group of young people in India from the states of Kerala and Karnataka. Products include Fedena Opensource, Fedena Pro, Uzity, and Fluxday. Products Fedena Fedena is an open source school management software based on Ruby on Rails framework. It was selected for a presentation at International Rubyconf held at Bangalore in March 2010. Fedena is also presented in the Debconf 2010. Fedena v3.5 was released on 15 February 2016, and Fedena is available in 22 languages, including English. Foradian Technologies also provide Fedena related services, Fedena – PRO and Fedena Enterprise. Uzity Uzity is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Foradian Technologies. It is a collaboration platform for students, teachers, administrators and management of an institution. Uzity assists in knowledge management of the entire institution and functions as a repository of course, information and collaboration data. It is developed by the same team who developed Fedena. Rupee Foradian Font As soon as the new Indian Rupee sign was approved, Foradian technologies published a free digital font named "Rupee Foradian" on 16 July 2010. The font and the blog became a viral phenomenon. The font was created using a vector image and its mapping is to the grave accent key of the keyboard, which was chosen because the grave accent key is often not used by