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Product Roadmap
Gazelle C: Currency Denominated Loan Products
Status: In Progress
Target Release date: 4/30/2010
Gazelle C will contain the following:
- Currency Denominated Loan Products
- basis for integration with m-pesa
Below is the proposed schedule:
| Patch Submission Deadline |
Feb 28 2010 |
| Last day for patches intended for Gazelle C to be submitted to the Mifos team for review. | |
| Feature Complete |
Mar 25 2010 |
| Core features for release complete, bug-fixing begins |
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| Code Freeze |
Apr 9 2010 |
| No further changes to the codebase expected. Only P1/S1 show-stopper bug fixes would be allowed. | |
| Release Gazelle C |
Apr 30 2010 |
Shamim D: Scalability, Holidays
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Status: In Planning Target Release Date: TBD |
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Gazelle D will contain the following:
- Improvements to Scalability
- Updates to holidays, moratoriums
Below is the proposed schedule:
| Patch Submission Deadline |
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| Last day for patches intended for Shamim D to be submitted to the Mifos team for review. | |
| Feature Complete |
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| Core features for release complete, bug-fixing begins |
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| Code Freeze |
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| No further changes to the codebase expected. Only P1/S1 show-stopper bug fixes would be allowed. | |
| Release Shamim D |
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Unscheduled Features
Below are features that have been requested or discussed but are not yet prioritized. As mentioned above, if there is a specific customer requirement for one of the features below, it may be brought into the v2.0 release. If a volunteer is passionate about an item below, they are welcome to begin working on it.
Here is a link to our updated feature train, which includes current features being worked on in Gazelle B, and other enhancements and futures in the pipeline.
| Functional Enhancements | Functional Complexity | Technical Complexity |
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| New Products: - Insurance - Shares - Term Deposits |
- Medium - Small - Small |
-Medium - Small - Medium |
| Accounting Tools: - Robust loan rescheduling - Collection against write-offs |
Medium | Medium |
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Adjustment Tools: |
Small | Medium |
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Data Migration Tools: |
Large | Large |
| Accounting Interface: via batch file | Medium | Medium |
| Offline support: for Loan Officer daily tasks | Large | Large |
| Archive support: Ability to define rules for trimming database and summarizing data (ie, after N years, save only year end balances for savings accounts and archive savings transactions). | Large | Large |
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Support for additional lending models: |
| Multicurrency Support |
| Enhanced MFI Configuration Settings: - Data scope configuration (can a branch see data from another branch) - Additional levels of office hierarchy - Defining lending models by branch |
| Enhanced Product Configuration Settings: - Product availability by branch - Products by lending model |
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Enhanced Loan Functionality & Flexibility: |
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Enhanced Savings Product Functionality: |
| Enhanced Client Data Collection: - Biometrics collection - Clients can belong to multiple groups/centers - Codification of village/city/towns |
| Enhanced Work Flow & Permissioning System: - Configurable Work flow management tools - Field Level Permissioning - Ability to combine loan and client/group approval steps into single step, ie, create client/group/center/loan all at same time |
| Interfaces: - ATM integration - Cash Management Systems - Front-end POS devices - Payment Systems - Regulatory Agencies - Kiosks - Mix Market - Smart Cards |
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Enhanced Reporting: |
| Advanced Internationalization: - Right-to-left support - Support for non-gregorian calendars - Support for non Arabic numbers |
| Cash Management Support: - Includes things like track clearing and tracking, deposit tracking, bank account balance tracking and management of multiple accounts, etc - Tracking fund balances |
| Securitization Support: - Portfolio tagging at account level - Report generation |
| Misc: - Easy tools for "Splitting" a Branch - Ability to group clients into "Programs" (ie, HIV program, beggars program, etc) - Set-up Wizard - Localization into additional languages - Self-extracting Windows Installer - Collection of structured data in "Additional Data Fields" - Support for variable/floating interest - "Cash taken to Field" added to bulk-entry - Branch level holidays - Moratorims |
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Architecture enhancements: |