Cardano ERP - Main Project

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Cardano ERP will be an intelligent, robust, open-source, multi-national, enterprise and government appropriate Tier 3 system which will seamlessly integrate all business and government related transactions and reporting between modular dApps. It will be full-featured with modules for all aspects of financial accounting, supply-chain, healthcare, payroll, human resources, service management, sales and purchase order processing, and all manner of various functionality currently enjoyed by legacy relational database dependent, centralized ERP systems running all businesses and governments today. It will be the first ERP system to successfully develop and implement comprehensive universal standards for the Tokenization of Everything to include full lifecycle tracking and reporting (from manufacture of smallest components to disposal and recycle of parent product or child assemblies/components).

Cardano ERP will primarily benefit the greater Cardano community by being the primary dApp driving mass enterprise and government adoption.

We plan to build with the intention to provide developing countries with a robust solution to propel their operations and economies into the Web 3.0 era. We anticipate partnering with many governments and enterprises of various sizes and levels to implement CERP as a strategy to that end. The impact will include vastly improved:

• Accountability
• Transparency
• Efficiency
• Competitiveness
• Employment of people
• Employment of resources

for millions/billions of people, organizations, and governments.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Cardano ERP will be the world's first open-source, intelligent, Tier 3 (e.g. can handle anything) ERP system having a blockchain back-end.

Every government, enterprise, or business having multiple locations currently runs all operations utilizing an ERP system having a relational database back-end. Whenever you hear about large amounts of data being hacked or stolen, it almost certainty involves such legacy ERP systems.

Cardano ERP will attract the many highly-skilled and experienced open-source ERP developer communities to learn Cardano technologies and re-build their many existing solutions to integrate with, grow, and improve not just Cardano ERP product, but the entire Cardano ecosystem and community. Growth and adoption will be exponential. There will finally be a standardized look and feel such that users will not have to learn anew with every disparate dApp encountered.

Transactions between accounting modules (for example) will support intelligence via the massive use of smart contracts and robust integrations between multiple modules developed by the Cardano ERP core team and the broad and deep open-source community and Cardano ecosystem.

With Cardaon ERP, anything and everything related to providing goods and services will finally be possible. Mass adoption by business and government would be inevitable.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Poaching of our core team members or not obtaining sufficient funding are our biggest risks.

We have mitigated against the risk of poaching by carefully selecting from a pool of developers already known to us and with whom we have worked previously. We intend to pay them competitive wages and provide various enticements to keep them.

Developing Cardano ERP will not be cheap and it will take years. With that in mind, we are following the advice of vCAs to approach the funding and project execution in a manner that will ensure a steady stream of milestone achievements and deliverables along with plans to hire professionals for community engagement and social media management. We anticipate these and other measures will keep us at the forefront when it comes time to request additional funding to continue development until the product becomes self-sustaining via its innovative revenue model.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

If funded, Cardano ERP will be formed as a not-for-profit entity for the purpose of entering into contracts and performing for the good of the Cardano community.

Cardano ERP (CERP) will utilize an innovative stake-to-subscribe revenue model. Organizations will stake ADA or other token(s) with CERP-licensed SPOs. The yield from staking will be split between the SPO and the Cardano Treasury (split ratio TBD). CERP will receive a very small fee per transaction if it flows through certain modules (the general ledger, for example) primarily maintained by the core CERP team. Every other integrating dApp can opt to require a revenue model from a selection of various revenue models. In time and with adoption, CERP will become self-sustaining and continue contributing accretively to the Cardano Treasury - thus growing opportunities and providing funding for more projects developed by the community.

Milestones:

• Month 1: Obtain funding, establish legal and administrative imperatives (hiring). Core CERP team to enroll in Emurgo Academy courses.
• Month 2: Core CERP team to complete Emurgo Academy courses.
• Month 3: Plan, architect, and develop MVP (general ledger and basic financial reporting)
• Month 4: Test and deliver MVP
• Month 5: Draft and deliver any identified CIPs required for a final product

If the CERP core team is fortunate enough to also receive funding for the "Cardano ERP for Catalyst" proposal, we would prioritize accordingly where necessary; but both projects enjoy positive overlapping development effort.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

We anticipate the following effort/expenses:

Emurgo Training courses: 6 x $1,900/course = $11,400

Developers: 6 x $50/hr x 160 hrs/month = $48,000/month

Community Engagement Managers: 2 x $2,000 = $4,000/month

Webmaster/Developer/Content: 2 x $1,000 = $2,000/month

Legal & Accounting = $2,000/month

Outside Consulting - Research (authors, etc.) = $10,000/month

Outside Consulting - Technical (developers, etc.) = $10,000/month

Travel & Meetings - $15,000/month

Other administrative & overhead = $5,000/month

Training Budget: $11,400

Total Monthly Budget: $96,000 x 5 months = $480,000

Total Budget: $491,400

Note: If the CERP core team is fortunate enough to also receive funding for the "Cardano ERP - Grow Africa" or "Cardano ERP - Grow Asia" proposals, we would use the Emurgo Training course budget for other budgeted items or train and onboard additional CERP core team members.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Please see development team CVs at our linked website.

The Project Founder, R “Jay” Jackson is an accomplished, retired (early), former international ERP consultant possessing 30+ years of ERP system scoping, testing, implementation, support, training, and hosting experience for leading ERP system vendors. He has implemented, supported, and advised well in excess of 100+ ERP customers globally, spanning the gamut of most industry verticals and has held various verifiable, relevant certifications (including CPA, MCSE, PMI, etc.) throughout his career. He has extensive multi-national departmental level and team level management experience. He is an active supporter of the Cardano mission and vision who engages and participates where he can. His vast ERP experience, background, credentials, initiative, and “If it can be imagined, it can be done!” approach and way-outside-the-box thinking when identifying and implementing solutions to problems make him the ideal person to lead this ambitious endeavor to create and deploy the “killer dApp” of the Cardano blockchain. He will oversee project administration and overall project direction.

The Project Manager, Gopakumar T. Nair, Founder/CEO of ArrowHead Technologies, PL (India), is an accomplished, internationally recognized ERP consultant and developer possessing 30+ years of ERP system scoping, testing, implementation, support, training, and full-stack development experience for leading ERP system vendors, multi-national organizations, and governmental entities across almost every industry vertical including supply chain, manufacturing, and financial services. He has extensive team leadership and mentoring experience, having assembled and successfully lead teams in completing “impossible” projects across Asia, Africa, and Europe. He has held or currently holds several verifiable, relevant certifications. He will oversee all aspects of product development.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

If we are funded, we would return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding because the scope of the entire budget and deliverables may be too large for a single funding round at present levels and seek to provide an ongoing service to the Cardano community and ecosystem. Our intent is to request funds twice yearly so that we may retain the core CERP team until the entire project scope is fully delivered, or until the project becomes self-sustaining.

See the Vision Paper available on our linked website for a presentation of the entire project scope.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We will measure:

• Number of experienced developers from the ERP, enterprise, and governmental software domains who successfully complete the Emurgo Academy courses and contribute to CERP.
• Number and distribution of developers contributing to the CERP project.
• Number, nature, and complexity of CERP related transactions processed
• Number, nature, and complexity of CERP deployed smart contracts

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

• Number of experienced developers from the ERP, enterprise, and governmental software domains who successfully complete the Emurgo Academy courses and contribute to CERP. (6)
• Number and distribution of developers contributing to the CERP project. (6+, Asia and Africa)
• Number, nature, and complexity of CERP related transactions processed (100+ successful transactions across 2+ core MVP modules)
• Number, nature, and complexity of CERP deployed smart contracts (4+ contracts successfully deployed across 2+ core MVP modules)

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new proposal.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

SDG subgoals:

10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations

10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions

10.a Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements

10.b Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes

10.c By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

10.a.1 Proportion of tariff lines applied to imports from least developed countries and developing countries with zero-tariff

10.1.1 Growth rates of household expenditure or income per capita among the bottom 40 per cent of the population and the total population

10.2.1 Proportion of people living below 50 per cent of median income, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

10.6.1 Proportion of members and voting rights of developing countries in international organizations

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