CommCare Overview

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Last updated: Oct 31, 2024
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As the most the most widely-deployed and evidence-based platform for enabling Frontline Workers, CommCare’s unique value is its proven ability to deliver technology which is both highly impactful and highly scalable.

 

CommCare’s Unique Value: Highly Impactful & Scaleable

Since 2002, the social enterprise Dimagi has built and scaled sustainable, high-impact digital solutions that amplify Frontline Workers and Programs. This includes CommCare. As the most widely-deployed and evidence-based platform for enabling Frontline Workers, CommCare empowers organizations to build their own digital solutions to better deliver services, manage clients, and collect data.

CommCare's unique value is its proven ability to deliver technology which is both highly impactful and highly scalable. While Dimagi shares many similar views and approaches in building technology with partner organizations, this dual focus on developing solutions that are both highly impactful and highly scalable is what differentiates CommCare from any other solutions.

In its High-Impact Growth Framework, Dimagi lists four questions that we ask ourselves to evaluate whether a potential solution we’re building achieves High-Impact Growth, and thus contributes to our mission to build and scale sustainable, high-impact digital solutions that amplify the efforts of Frontline Workers and programs. You can read this in full detail below.

High-Impact

In its quest to deliver high impact, CommCare is designed to amplify frontline programs’ abilities to improve wellbeing for all. Some noteworthy featuers include:

No code app development, in minutes

CommCare’s simple, intuitive design allows sector experts to rapidly translate complex content & workflows into sophisticated applications.

Users can rapidly launch production ready no-code mobile apps, Web Applications , and CommCare Messaging apps in minutes, with confidence that their tools can be incorporated into complex, at-scale ecosystems through robust CommCare Integrations .

Some notable features include:

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Real world tools, used everywhere

CommCare was built from the ground up to support the complexities and idiosyncrasies of frontline work.

CommCare can meet nearly every frontline use case in any setting (including offline) at any scale, from pilot to nationwide programs. This includes powerful case management with decision support and rich engagement for any setting - even offline.

Get a sense of some of these use cases at Featured Solutions

Notable features include:

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Proven impact for Frontline Programs

CommCare is backed by the strongest evidence base of any digital platform for Frontline Workers.

These nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications prove CommCare’s positive impact on organizational performance, frontline workers behaviors, and most importantly, client outcomes.

Read more at https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/commcarepublic/pages/2143957103

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Highly Scalable

CommCare meets highest technology standards through a robust digital foundation and proven ability to scale, all while being recognized by external third-parties.

Best in class, robust foundation

Designed to support teams of every size and level of digital maturity, CommCare’s technology grows with an organization’s needs.

Dimagi’s expert team delivers CommCare on an open source, professionally managed foundation which is best in its class for sustainability, support, and top-tier https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/commcarepublic/pages/2230288715 that meets rigorous standards including GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC-2.

Notable features include

One million users & counting

More than one million Frontline Workers have used CommCare applications to deliver critical frontline services across numerous sectors.

These span a wide array of https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/commcarepublic/pages/2196865026 - including health, agriculture, social services, and more.

CommCare is the selected community health platform for several countries, ranging from Burkina Faso to Madagascar to Ethiopia and more.

An award-winning, leading Global Good

In addition to CommCare's Evidence Base that speaks to its impact on frontline programs, users, and clients, there are also a number of third-party technology evaluations of CommCare. Many of these include comparisons of CommCare against other digital systems in terms of features, pricing, reach, security, maturity, etc. As seen in the graph below, many CommCare projects are being measured not only in years, but decades.

Read more at https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/commcarepublic/pages/2143957191