About Azim premji

The Azim Premji Foundation launched the Azim Premji Scholarship Program to provide annual
financial assistance to eligible girl students entering undergraduate or diploma programs after
Class 12. With application windows opening twice a year to align with state-specific academic
calendars, the program supports academic fees and essential living expenses, enabling young
women across India to continue their education with confidence.
As the program scaled nationally, the Foundation required a modern, transparent, and
accessible platform to manage the complete scholarship lifecycle, from application and
verification to approval, disbursement, and renewals. Cloud Odyssey partnered with the
Foundation to design and implement a unified digital ecosystem powered by Salesforce.

Solutions

We help build a comprehensive scholarship management platform using Salesforce Experience
Cloud and Sales Cloud.

  • Single Source of Truth: Sales Cloud centralizes application data, verification updates,
    approvals, and disbursements in a secure, audit-ready environment.
  • Accessible Student Portal: A mobile-first Experience Cloud portal allows students
    across geographies to submit applications and upload documents easily, while SMS
  • Notifications keep them informed even with inconsistent internet access.
  • Automated Verification: Document parsing automatically extracts and validates data
    from uploads, reducing manual effort while improving accuracy and consistency.
  • Structured Review Workflow: Applications progress through clearly defined stages,
    Initial Review, Academic Review, Institutional Review, Final Approval, Program
  • Oversight, and Fund Management, ensuring fairness, accountability, and faster
    processing.
  • Intelligent Allocation: Applications are distributed based on region and workload, with
    flexibility to reassign urgent cases as needed.
  • End-to-End Disbursement: The system automatically generates offer letters and
    structured disbursement exports, ensuring full traceability and compliance. Renewal
    management is seamlessly integrated for continuing students.
  • Real-Time Insights: Dashboards and reports provide visibility into application volumes,
    processing timelines, geographic distribution, and fund utilization, enabling informed
    decision-making and effective program governance.

Benefits

Since launching at scale in 2024, the platform has supported over 10,00,000 applications,
enabling efficient national operations. The program expanded seamlessly from 4 states to 19
regions across India.
Mobile-first access and SMS updates ensure inclusion for students from rural and underserved
communities. AI-driven automation reduces operational workload, while comprehensive
logging and reporting strengthen transparency, compliance, and trust.

Through its partnership with Cloud Odyssey, the Azim Premji Foundation has transformed the
scholarship lifecycle into a scalable, accessible, and transparent digital ecosystem—one that
accelerates approvals, improves student experience, and ensures accountable fund flow at
national scale. Cloud Odyssey is proud to be a strategic technology partner in advancing
equitable access to higher education for young women across India.