Calling Aadhaar as India�s app store, Nilekani asked technology heads to leverage the project infrastructure and online platform to develop enterprise services for people based on application programming interfaces (APIs).

�The opportunities for offering services using Aadhaar are enormous and now it's up to you CIOs to utilize the capabilities,� Nilekani said, while addressing the third anniversary of CIO KLUB in Mumbai o Friday.

Like any Internet providers, Aadhaar is powered by open source server architecture like MySQL, Hadoop and others and uses the smart feature of BI (business intelligence).