Case Study: Mennonite Economic Development Associates achieves 30% reduction in field data costs and faster prototyping with Zerion Software's Data Collector

Mennonite Economic Development Association - Customer Case Study

Mennonite Economic Development Associates, a 60‑year global NGO that promotes entrepreneurship to alleviate poverty, needed faster, more reliable market data to test business-model assumptions across projects in nearly 50 countries. Prior to engaging Zerion Software, MEDA relied on mixed survey methods (paper, Open Data Kit, FormHub) that slowed form design, deployment, and integration, limiting their ability to rapidly iterate prototypes and understand barriers and incentives in target markets. Zerion Software’s Data Collector was chosen to streamline field data capture.

Zerion Software deployed Data Collector across MEDA programs in Ukraine, Tanzania, Ghana and Sierra Leone, integrating field data into CRMs and market systems and enabling disconnected mobile surveys, API feeds, and easy form creation. The solution reduced MEDA’s cost to obtain validated field data by 30%, sped up form deployment and training, improved data integration and accuracy, and increased the rate of prototype testing and market response — delivering faster, more robust insights and measurable operational savings.

Mennonite Economic Development Associates