Awards

CGAP

The World Bank CGAP review gave Abacus OneWorld the highest score in it's latest software review. Fern is the only European supplier included in the list which is by invitation only.

Item	Section	Fern Score	Standard
1	Functionality	4	Best
2	Ease of use	4	Best
3	Management Reporting	3	Excellent
4	Services	3	Excellent
5	Technical Capabilities	4	Best

See full report: http://collab2.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.39021/Review_Abacus.pdf
 

Accenture - Kenya

Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya recognises the critical role of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in providing access to financial services to low income households in Kenya. SACCOs are one of the leading sources of rural finance and in many rural areas the local SACCO is the only provider of financial services. In a recent review by Accenture on behalf of the FSD Kenya, Fern Software was rated number 1 out of a total of 23 vendors.

See an extract from the report: Accenture-FSD Kenya Report

 

 Quality - ISO 9001

Fern Software obtained certification in the internationally acclaimed quality standard for software development, support, administration and sales & marketing. This was relatively easy to achieve because the company had, over the past years, carried out a review of procedures and had introduced several innovative procedures and internal processes to raise the level of customer care.

ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.

 

Microsoft Certified Partner (MCP)

Fern Software is a registered MCP with Microsoft which indicates the level of development skills within the company using Microsoft products. This allows Fern access to additional support services and advance notice of new releases. Fern is automatically invited to pre-release events and participates in Beta testing of new products.

 

Investors In People (IIP)

 

Investors in People is the national UK Standard which sets a level of good practice for training and development of people to achieve business goals. The Standard was developed during 1990 by the National Training Task Force in partnership with leading national business, personnel, professional and employee organisations such as the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD). The work was supported by the Employment Department. The experiences of the UK's most successful organisations, large and small, representing all sectors of the UK economy, were very positive and the Standard received the full endorsement of the wide range of interested parties