Digital Transformation Can Drive Business More Innovative

Digital Transformation Can Drive Business More Innovative

Susanto Djaja, Presiden Direktur PT Metrodata Electronics Tbk (tengah) bersama mitra bisnis teknologi (Rully Moulany, Country Manager, Red Hat Indonesia; Mulia Dewi Karnadi, Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners Director, Microsoft Indonesia; Catherine Lian, Managing Director, Dell Indonesia; CK Lam, Director, Data Center Fabric and Virtualization for APJ, Brocade-Ruckus dan Steven Samudra, Shareholder, PT Dwitunggal Solusindo Prima) sesaat setelah melakukan jumpa pers Metrodata Solution Day 2016 yang membahas tentang Transformasi Digital Akan Mendorong Bisnis Menjadi Lebih Inovatif.

Jakarta, 24 August 2016—Take the theme of “People & Business Transformation with Digital Business Platform”, the Metrodata Solution Day 2016 (“MSD 2016”) is back and answering the challenges in providing Information Communication and Technology (“ICT”) solutions for business people in Indonesia. More than 1,000 IT professional and key business users attended the event to take part of various digital innovations trend.

Currently digitalization has been becoming part of people life style where digitalization can change the life style, work, communicate, and behave. Digital transformation not merely use or invest digital technology directly, but we also need to change the business model become more adaptive to digital transformation, more efficient and can create added value and even lead to new innovation for customers and employees in order to compete in the era of quick digital change. Digital make the environment to be highly competitive in various industrial sector. And could make new opportunity from many sector. At the end of highly competitive spectrum, this digital transformation become ‘the revolution’ in doing business.

“It cannot be denied that digital transformation is very important topic for business people. And one of the important things to drive digitalization is the application of technology. If the technology is not maximal used, it will not give competitive advantage. However, if the company utilized the technology, it will change the business landscape and the company will be more innovative”, said Susanto Djaja, President Director of PT Metrodata Electronics Tbk.

“The business decision makers need to know ICT trend so they will not make mistakes in making decisions. Cloud, Mobility, Big Data, Security, Internet of Things and Social Media is not just a future trend, but has been becoming part of today businesses. Those who can see the trends and use them well will become market leaders,” added Susanto Djaja.

Based on the Company Corporate Culture, innovation is very important for METRODATA. In line with Digital Transformation, METRODATA provides solutions such as mobility, integrated ERP, BI, CRM, starting from consulting and changes in customers approach, switching from IT to key business users. Digital transformation has four factors related with technology and business: Engage Customers, Empower Employees, Optimize Operations, and Transform Products.

The full day conference and exhibition will present 6 general sessions and 35 track sessions with wide solution coverage such as Business Insight, Business Transformation, Data Center Transformation, Smart Office for Always-On Enterprise, Enterprise Mobility, Application Transformation, and Security & Infrastructure Transformation. MSD 2016 also provides exhibition booths displaying updated and current technology solutions from METRODATA’s business partners as well as consultation with technology experts.

CK Lam, director, Data Center Fabric and Virtualization, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), Brocade: “As businesses and organizations digitize, they need modern New IP technologies in order to unlock the power of the network as a platform for innovation. According to a global study commissioned by Brocade, 79 percent of IT decision makers stated that their organization was restricted in its ability to support digital transformation, while 72 percent felt frustrated that the IT department could not readily deliver what was demanded by the business. 63 percent cited their IT departments spent large proportions of time maintaining legacy systems. Organizations can only be as agile as the IT infrastructure that supports them, and legacy networks have been shown to hold businesses back from innovating on their terms. We are fully committed to developing best-in-class and comprehensive solutions for network transformation, and focused on helping our customers move to New IP network architectures that are software-centric, automated, open and agile.”

“Today, we are living in the digital era and to survive, companies has to evolve and embrace digital transformation. Technology is the key for companies and organizations to develop and implement IT strategies to address not only today’s needs, challenges and benefits, but also to become future-ready,” said Catherine Lian, managing director, Dell Indonesia. “As the only integrated solutions and IT provider, Dell can help our customers with the digital transformation and empower their business to become more agile, more connected to resources, insights to better decision making, and protect critical data from increased digitalization.”

"As Indonesian business leaders become more tech-savvy, there is a huge opportunity for a thorough digital transformation to be done immediately. The success stories of this transformation can be proven by the rapid growth of technology-based businesses such as Bukalapak.com, Bhinneka.com, and YesBoss Indonesia," said Mulia Dewi Karnadi, Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners Director, Microsoft Indonesia.

Dewi also added that the readiness of the technology alone, however, is not enough. “Business leaders also need to consider the readiness of their internal team. Therefore, at MSD 2016, Microsoft aims to assist businesses in digital transformation by introducing cloud-based technologies such as Office 365 and Microsoft Azure, as well as providing relevant training."

Damien Wong, Vice President and General Manager of ASEAN, Red Hat: “A recent IDC report on digital transformation[1], sponsored by Red Hat, predicts that within the next two years, two-thirds of Global 2000 enterprise CEOs will put digital transformation at the center of their corporate strategies. Red Hat recognizes the importance of digital transformation and believes that open source technology can help organizations to use technology to modernize their organizations and offerings. We are excited by the potential for digital transformation in Indonesia as many organizations are carving their strategies to help reduce costs and increase agility with technology.”