Business Info in the IT revolution

Internet Content begins with the text-based information. Then, text-based information is incomplete if without the picture. Text and images eventually be equipped with sound. It is now less than complete without moving pictures or video.

Video is now not enough if only archive recording in the pattern on demand. Online video in real-time streaming current pattern also increasingly become a public demand on the Internet. Internet tape width (broadband), electronic chip products and media storage (storage), which is increasingly cheap factors that enrich the various types of applications on the Internet.



The bulk and personalnya tools digital IP (Internet Protocol) also affects the growth of industry content. The attractive power of multimedia eventually also be made for the moment to attract the attention of the public to stop and stand at a site. With the increasingly wide spread network tape to the home and handheld mobile communication equipment, the future of the Internet application is dominated by video. Pemicunya is because many handheld video recorder to create a compact, all people can create video content. The presence of various sites video podcasts and video blogs as a continuation of a weblog (blog) to strengthen the arena this video on the Internet.

In the equipment more derasnya Internet video content delivered many innovations with the birth of the various devices that are increasingly spoil the user through one tool with many functions. Slingbox outputs Slingmedia.com integrate television and satellite receiver, DVR and Internet communications tape width that is controlled by software from personal computers.

World video on the Internet at this time diramaikan with business content Agregator invite the public free of charge to be able to save and share video files. From the content, video, public Internet is also used by the presidential candidates in 2008 from the Democratic party John Edwards in the United States to "sell" vision since December 2006.

Trends strong video applications that increasingly take swift by the search engine giant Google to buy YouTube worth 1.65 billion dollars. Time only a year after Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim founded the business in 2005. The large amount of mass and "tersedot" YouTube to bring YouTube into five major versions of the world's leading site Alexa 2005. For Google, YouTube facilities in the increasingly strengthening its position as Agregator various content. This means that the mass number of users and disgorge aimed at Google from a variety of applications will be more meraksasa amount.

If Google with YouTube, he also made other Brightcove.com. Jeremy Allaire, the commander BrightCove believes that the public will be directly related to the content owners. Content owners will be more easily make the distribution directly to the public.

Only beginning to accommodate the concept of personal video blogs, with the motto "Launch Your Channel Today" Brightcove developed into a facilitator to hold a public broadcast TV on the Internet. With the pattern for the results of Brightcove also sells and places ads on the Internet. In business, a line of big names such as Fox Entertainment Group, National Geographic Channel, British Sky Broadcasting and other business partners Brightcove, which is currently in a large organization of Internet TV. For the industry, the video clearly that the presence of the Internet TV business will create a map of the distribution of the video to be changed.

Like BrightCove, jarring the distribution of video content is also disergap by Dave.TV since 2003. Not only facilitate video content delivery, but also to Dave.TV services to online advertising strategy that is in any content accessed. Dave insert ads that have been adjusted to the profile, demographic and geographic area. To advertisers, Dave also directly provide accurate data on who and how the behavior area to see the ad. Clear that online video finally order to change the advertising industry.

Video for mobile Internet.

Video services from home are also still reaching toward mobile applications. As Makayama.com done, the company that calls in the Netherlands, which supports hundreds of mobile phone brands. Makayama.com facilitate the application of various video formats to be used and transferred through the cellular phone device. Applications such as this mengakselerasi the use of mobile video is passed to the Internet through mobile devices.

In Indonesia, no wonder if the presence of various new technologies such as 3G and feels like slow market absorbed. Even consumers can be said of Indonesia's most trendy in this area. The impression arose operator is not ready to partner with local content output that is easily digested by our community. The fact that local content and the number of developers who are still limited, should be recognized. However, the selling and persuasion power to customers will be stronger when the peddler in the front line equipped with a variety of multimedia applications across the Internet and will certainly enrich the inspiration for the user.

Facing the Internet revolution.

Many of the Internet revolution that changed the world economic order is not enough just to give followed. However, at least to shift the thinking patterns and steps for entry into a new economic era. That, according to David Ticoll (2000) that the company has long it can become part of the new economy - if the company is adopting a new business model. Model when the strength of content to be magnets for the mass. Model information when power is influencing the decision to buy the public. Business model that requires affiliates and alliances to strengthen ties network. Business model that continues antisipatif against competitors who menggurita with information and ready to devour the existence of our business.

In the macro, the various reviews on the many outside India. However, keep in mind that access to global information on the Internet no longer recognize geographical boundaries and sovereignty of a country. Although the Internet has been in Indonesia for more than ten years, but various forms of business as the new economy does not stop in Indonesia. Impact of the Internet business for a while now but the beginning of the Internet revolution, which continues to engulf the world. Without didorongnya Internet-based business in Indonesia, this situation will continue and foreign exchange, we will continue to tersedot outside when Click start, hosting service, online payment transactions, renting bandwidth, up to the e-mail-free is still dominated by other countries.

After the torpor was, the sites social networking Indonesia mengeliat again. Just look at the success Fupei (Unity program, Friends Especially Indonesia), which encompass 30,000 active members, and the site AkuCintaSekolah.com (ACS) that entrap thousands of students and students in less than a year.



KR Online, Jakarta

Fupei have rocket since May 2004 with digawangi Sanny Ghaddafi, 27 years old, a graduate of the web progammer Bina Nusantara University and Marlinda Yumin, 24 years old, as a system analyst.

A pair of young children is inspired by the success of Friendster in Indonesia. They are interested in the concept of simple and unique Friendster build a successful inter-teman.Tak wonder if the features available in the Fupei follow the trends of development features Friendster. Fupei philosophy "with friends, we're nothing" also senapas social networking site with the largest third world.

Fupei members can discuss music, upload photos and video. Even some of the features in the latest Friendster, such as chat, and mini-flash games, is also available. Applications access the toolbar as a shortcut users can download Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers. Fupei list of features is quite long. There are discussion forums, communities, blogs, profiles and links.

Not only in the features, the use of language options Fupei involved the use of local language trends in the use of Google, Yahoo!, And Friendster. Initially Fupei use the English language and Indonesia, now the version of Java language, Sundanese, Betawi and has begun to be developed. Moreover, the quality of closeness with members, Fupei far more superior than Friendster, MySpace or Facebook. Fupei a mainstay events, namely coffee land, in the form of gathering, bazaar, watching movies, social loyalty, to go along.

Coffee land is carried out at least once a month with the average of 50 people. For Sanny and Marlinda, coffee land, other than the first memperat also maintain the loyalty of members. Moreover, the number of active members, including Fupei compared with most other community sites. Moreover, if calculated from the number of registered customers who achieve an 70,000-person.

Growth was initially only member of the 1000 tens of thousands into force Fupei also hosting their own rent. During the first two years, they get free hosting in MasterWeb. Consequently after the Sanny must more personal grope in the pocket to the operational cost at least Rp 4 million per month. Problems funds to become a classic problem for developers in Indonesia. No one had local investors who bid Fupei two years ago. Unfortunately, the investors gave a quote that is too small. Not even sufficient for the monthly operational cost. So rejected.

Later there is the origin of American investors who are interested to buy Fupei. Again they agree decline. The reason, nationalism. Sanny Fupei want to change the money into a bag and the Indonesian people. Finally, they choose to seek funds through advertising and banners. In fact, many parties are interested in advertising on Fupei, such as Indosat, Nokia, Blitz Megaplex, and the committee Abang-None South Jakarta, West Jakarta, North Jakarta and Thousand-Island.

Sanny wonder why no local investors who would fund the Fupei. There is also potential business. This is seen the number of customers in Indonesia these sites, which touches nearly 10 million people. Not yet seen from the number of internet area in the past year have cut through the number 25 million people. If viewed from the side of the technology and features, Fupei clearly not behind the social networking site from foreigners.

According to Sanny, from the technical capabilities, web developers do not lose the quality of Indonesia with foreign developers. Try it through a site built by ACN Agus Saragih, 29 years old, and Christian, 25 years old. The concept of this site is not much different with Facebook. ACN want to be a receptacle of all the people and schools in Indonesia. Both the students, alumni, senior, junior, and fellow teachers across the country.

Design and features of the site was launched on the day of National Education, 2 May 2007 is not less with foreign competitors. Display home page can be personalized with CSS to edit it. Their main features are four, namely People ACS, MyPage (can be filled with photos, video, exchange messages, blogs and bulletin), School of Information (equipped with a database that continues to upgrading at all schools in Indonesia), and Relax Chat.

Other evidence concerning the ability of young people born in Indonesia, also can be seen on the Batara Eto. Men 29 years old in Medan, a large web programmers, this is Mixi, the social networking site popular in Japan. Together Kenji Kasahara, Batara establish Mixi since February 2004. Batara become the chief technology officer (CTO) and Kenji as CEO.

Batara Eto (before moving to become citizens of Japan a year ago called Batara Kesuma) settled in Tokyo after Rockface lecture at the Department of Computer Science Takushoku University, Japan. He began designing Mixi (previously called E Mercury) in December 2003 with the support of various open-source programs such as MySQL, Perl, LAMP, and the Apache webserver. He makes scale-out architecture for Mixi. This design uses many servers and the most common fit for the site of its development rapidly.

One of the key to success is character Mixi community. "To join Mixi must obtain an invitation from the members," Batara said in a seminar, two years ago. Now there are 490,000 community in Mixi. Community members are the place to share opinions and express hobby. The existence of this community in line with the origin of the word mixi, namely Mix (berbaur) and I (I). Community features a unique characteristic of Mixi, which is attracting millions of people. The uniqueness of other sites in Japan, every member get a user ID number.

Since the original, Mixi already features blogs, and there is a window (pane) on the front page that contains a list of blog links all friends concerned. This feature is the new Friendster adopted two years ago. In addition, Mixi is also free of spam, far different from Orkut filled broadcast spam. I wonder if Mixi is enthralling 11 million members, nearly all Japanese people. This figure is far outdo MySpace. Even Yahoo! Japan also less popular with Mixi.

Note peselancar virtual visits in Mixi is also fantastic. Each month, the number of page views (page views) reached 11.75 billion. As a comparison, one of Indonesia's most popular local sites, www.detik.com, "only" recorded 417,000 page views per hour. Note this mixi stockholders in the position of 50 most visited websites according to Alexa, a company pendata traffic website.

From the side of the business Mixi is also very profitable. Since 2006, Mixi is already listed on the stock Tokyo Stock Exchange today. Value of the market capitalization of about U.S. $ 2 billion. Some 80% of the total profits of U.S. $ 9, 6 million came from selling ads. Mixi total income reached U.S. $ 45 million. Of course, Kenji and Batara enjoy the luxury of drawing with the success Mixi. Kenji recorded as the richest person to-37 in Japan takes the wealth of U.S. $ 740 million. Batara release of the crew positions CTO since this year also be a millionaire.

Operation, Batara success can be enjoyed progammer and developers in the country. However, as expressed Sanny, capital and support from local residents and the government is still lacking. "Hence, many who fled abroad," said Sanny. Meanwhile, the government assess the development of the industry TIK Indonesia conducted through the concept of entrepreneurship. According to the Director General on Cahyana Ahmadjayadi, TIK industry as the independence of capital and labor-oriented tools. "Despite the government also help establish a software development center," he said.

Nonetheless, the market TIK national increases from year to year. Data from the research institute IDC noted the number of independent software house in Indonesia will increase to 500 units this year, with the number of professional developers 71,600. However, if viewed from the total number of professional developers worldwide is 13.5 million, the U.S. contributed only 0.5%. The biggest of India (10.5%) and the United States (18.9%). Asia Pacific Region, the largest contributor developer in the world (29.2%), followed by North America (21.7%).

IDC also mentioned, this year the sector to grow TIK will be 81,000 jobs and 1,100 new companies TIK. Software market compared with the total market TIK increased to 11.4% from only about 6% in 2005. The problem is, whether these opportunities can be fully utilized by local developers? Or even taken by the strong players from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. "Markets have seen, so stay to wait for our strategy in the battle," said Satria Wahono facts taken from this site, software engineering researchers from LIPI.

Indeed, geliat facts taken from this site to see the development of local IT content in Indonesia, especially in some sectors. Commercial business on the Internet, both sell goods on the internet or a publisher ad (through Google AdSense, Amazon Affiliate Program, Adbrite, and so forth). Then there is a growing number of user content and knowledge sharing through blogs. Interestingly, Behavior knowledge sharing is done by starting students, young lecturers, researchers, to government officials. Knowledge-sharing communities such as IlmuKomputer.Com and other sectors such as chemicals, metallurgy, social and increasingly rampant.

In the multimedia content and edutainment, developers also show many teeth. Creator-game game is a lot of local circulation. Mobile content, we glow, multimedia, education is also increasingly excited. Products made IlmuKomputer.Com (Brainmatics) have entered into foreign banks, foreign companies, aviation companies, plantation companies, universities, high schools / vocational, educational and TV. Other company also known as the bamboo products are mass media, the Enchantment of Education, Ganesa Exact, and Elex Media compressor.

Ideally, geliat followed up with positive movement proactive government. Especially for a communicator with the parties that requires the software. Protection of the government in progamer developers and local assistance and business capital. "Improved information infrastructure and Internet bandwidth with lower prices so that not more expensive from our neighboring countries," said the facts taken from this site. (Tmn / Slot)

May not have been imagined by most of our parents that in this day and likely in the future work that is not identical with. In the tempo doeloe, working in the office may become a very prestigious and elite class in the grandparent generation, probably, like "Socialism or DEATH & our parents. If we work alone in the house - whew be bothered with the affairs of law and parents. In the seal is not useful, not used ... etc. For example, on this day, parents seem to be bite finger & accept the fact that the more precisely and more prestigious jobs that do not have you doing office work. Why? Because at the end of the scientist in a professional non-attendance office, but his target / results / achievement of objectives. Except in the institutions of government, attendance seems to be the paradigm still works - for bertugaslah safe and trusting fellow civil servants.



Perhaps because I was in the Internet world, in my many opportunities for many professionals with high mobility, even though the office has often leave his office - even if normal work done at home or while chatting and drinking coffee in the cafes along with partners - it. Leisure, hobbies, freedom and what they like is very dominant in the professional self is. Not that strange if we see them as professionals is not tied to the one office that remain. Jobs & kontrakan services that rely on the professionalism and expertise that is specific to be very dominant among professionals. Apparently, the skill and delight that a specific security professionals who are still young between the ages of 27-40s years.

Earnings in do not ask ... at least Rp. 5-10 million Monthly gross income is the worst among these professionals. Clearly, much better than the fresh graduate who generally Rp. 750,000 / month. It is still a bit of professional work earnestly free and very mobile, such as this, but the trend is toward very prominent, especially in young colleagues around the age of 30s. Is something longed to become the best in a healthy atmosphere of competition. Recognition is done directly by the community, not even the extraordinary if exposure by the mass media - because they are the best mechanism without KKN pure competition and fight.

Laptop, palmtop, personal digital assistance (PDA), mobile phones into devices that are commonplace for these professionals. Yah minimal access to that what is supported by mobile phones become characteristic of the young fellow. Communication is becoming intense particularity of the professionals, the e-mail traffic in the various mailing lists with a lot of news on the screen with each SMS mobile phone becomes integral part of their lives. Even most of the job-even in many send in the form of attachment in the e-mail. It is a joke sometimes some laughter among them, but it is part of the akraban to life in a world without limits in which many enjoy, especially by young professionals and students / students.

On a more serious level, if not shocked at the railway, airport waiting room, an aircraft professional view of the tie-typing keyboard, the Nokia 9230 or work online in the PDA / Palmtop Jornada its associated with the PCMCIA modem with a built-in aircraft handphone.

Unified messaging between SMS, e-mail, FAX technology to become the trigger, the unified messaging technology is very significant at this time - the integration between the SMS news to e-mail to FAX can become very interdependent and help the executive & bermanouver for the mobile professional in the world of information .

Trusting that their office is, the style of their work, lifestyle most young professionals who are very mobile on this day. Not impossible number of them will be many more in the future. Equipment investment of U.S. $ 400-1000 to be justified with the most gross income at least they are between U.S. $ 500-1000 / month.

When you are able to do it? Clearly not the time you have a laptop, palmtop or HP - it will happen with his own at the time you have a skill that is very specific expertise and professionalism is recognized to-ment by the community. Generally, my former students are able to reach the stage in 2-4 years time, if properly dipupuk & both in the schools in the university & high school.

May force be with you ....

Dr. Onno W Purbo

Changes for the changes that occur from one period to the next era have entered the human accompany the digital era, an era that often raises the question: whether we still live in the present or have been living in the future. This question arises because almost all things which are not imagined would happen at this time, suddenly appear in front of us. The future seems to be faster from the time that the present operation, owing to advances in information technology.



Information and communications technology or telecommunications service technology (information and communication technology-ICT) has been recognized as one of the world's facilities and infrastructure to overcome the main problems the world. Technology, telecommunications service known as the convergence of communications technology (communication), processing (computing) and information (information) that diseminasikan practice of multimedia facilities. The problem in Indonesia is the main problem is how to solve the digital gap is still very large with menumbuh-developed innovations or teknopreneur telecommunications service industry. Technopreneurship or entrepreneurship, technology is a process and the formation of a new business that involves technology as a base, with the hope that the creation and innovation strategy that can be put right soon the technology as one of the factors for the development of national economy.



Employers technology (Technopreneur), especially information technology (IT) requires the existence of freedom in the innovating, without bridled by the regulations that hamper. The government loosen regulations that set strict grass root movement in the Indonesian IT community, it will provide a positive impact on the growth of IT itself and also the business aspect. This is very important because it was the experience in the field, which often occur between the interests of business entities as a business that demands to always behave and behave as entrepreneurs and make changes, adjust the fact that there are changes with the demands and increase business, but on the other hand, there are interests that the Government may be contrary to the interests of business as a unit. Technopreneurship needed in the spirit of competition that dominant, that is not left behind from the turbulent global business.



In the long period of time, knowledge is placed in the "box" apart exclusively, seems to be deported from economic activities. World knowledge or call us with education, is not considered to be a part of the economic system. Education is seen as a cloistered world where the development value of sterling, while the world economy is seen as a world full of cheating, injustice, even as a world tanpai value (value). Dikotomis perspective that is, in the long period of time that can not be good terjembatani. Each of the more important and party-claim as the most correct.



That we need to know is that in the era of knowledge-based economy that knowledge, education is a manifestation of the success of the national development of a country. Even education can be a superior competitiveness of a country. In other words, the strategic role of education in the nation's economic advancement. And this has been proven by industrial countries such as the new Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, where the building of education facilities and infrastructure are seriously in the last ten years, the quality of life of nations continued to increase.



How to Indonesia. During the years that have education as the means of political authorities, ranging from primary education to universities. As a result of education slow (too slow), so it can not pursue claims changes. Education has not provided a significant contribution to the changes that occurred or are still very few (too little). Even education is often too late (too late) adapt the changes, so that education behind and has not been able to answer the challenges of the future. Factor is the cause because the policy is in addition tambal embroidery, also made in haste. Even the government has not yet assessed the vision and a clear commitment on education.



So that it can be said that Indonesia and a new orientation is to make changes to the education of academic education based to a competency-based education. This is the subject of technopreneurship about the need to be developed. It is not easy to do, but to be a challenge for us to advance this nation in the future.


Tata Sutabri S. Kom, MM

The technology is intended to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and increase output (output). However,
it was not always in line with reality. Meletusnya still remember the Internet bubble,
development of the aircraft manufacturer that fails, the failure of some of the implementation of 3G, and many more others. <
that many more still and 3G, the implementation of the failure of some failed, the aircraft factory of the Internet,
meletusnya remember the bubble with the reality. in fact it is not always the hope, however, (output).
output increase costs, reduce efficiency, to be>



Judging from the development of technology, things on the actual development of a technology that
quite interesting, but the business had different results. Many factors that determine success
the implementation of technology, from the cultural community and the readiness to packaging technology in the
mengomunikasikannya to the market.

Mobile telecommunications sector is one of the areas that experienced the development of technology that is
fast. If we note with the attendance of the services offered by the operator, the birth of various new services
very quickly. Meanwhile, if we see the emergence of cellular phones in the market, the average phone market leaders
mobile (phone) issued a 8-20 new type of mobile phone each year.

This means, how rapid technological innovation is happening. One of the development of technology in the world of cellular technology is
messaging (sending) from the SMS (short message service), EMS (enhanced message service), and the
are now frequently promoted the cellular business is MMS (multimedia message service). Attendance
MMS technology can be considered as a messaging technology revolution because of the conditions which can only be
send a message form of text, images and ring tones or simple, it can also be used to
send photos, moving pictures, ring tones and more complex. This should be of the with the
creativity higher.

MMS technology is expected to replace the position of the SMS later. However, it looks like it will be realized at the time
MMS tariffs are cheaper SMS rates approaching, the device also has ponselnya affordable for the middle
(around Rp 1.5 million), and inter-operator can be done. If the total MMS traffic in Indonesia (provided by the
two operators) around 20,000 MMS per day, it is necessary once the strategy to encourage the use of MMS
This can be offset so that SMS traffic is more than 15 million per day.

MMS traffic on a condition in which the current MMS tariffs are still free, so it is very possible
will increasingly be down when the tariffs. This data is Ovum, a consulting firm and survey, estimated
that around 2006, the number of SMS users the world will begin to decline (from around 1.000 billion per year),
while users of MMS will rise sharply (over 350 billion messages per year) in the same year. And, about 3-4
years and then will be possible to have the same amount. However, whether it will happen in Indonesia
range of time?

One of the strategies proposed to encourage an increase in revenue through the MMS service is to
to bring the various applications that can trigger the use of MMS, so we will have the justification that
implementation of MMS is not just to maintain the prestige that in turn can make us as
the victims of technology. However, the implementation of this technology is feasible because it has high demand.
Currently we have been able to get the various mobile phone, MMS learner with a price range of Rp 1.5 million, and it seems
industry and the phone industry of the information and communications technology has reached economies of scale
so that the costs incurred will be more affordable in line with the development of the time. However strange phone tariffs
still continue to rise. Thus, it is expected that soon will be available more affordable mobile phone MMS
the wider community. Attendance MMS along with several new facilities we can make various
applications more attractive.

There are many applications that can be built using the platform of MMS, among other telemetry applications. If
before we get the information only if the form of text using SMS as a medium, for example, the data
engine temperature, can now also get information about the form of graphs temperature changes in the
a certain period.

MMS can also be used for monitoring application. One of the applications developed by local company
Jaya is the I-net mengombinasikannya with a CCTV camera. If the camera is mounted on the house, where
child care, or roads, with the connection on a server computer a simple form, then
anytime you can know the information home state, the condition of children in child care, and the conditions and
cross roads that are not only the form of text information, but also the image or images that will be sent in
automatically to the phone via MMS. And if you are in office, we can access the server through the Internet.
Currently, communications technology, which is also rampant, or Wireless Fidelity technology that often many people
known as the Wireless LAN. In Indonesia it may be a new start developing with the emergence of several locations
access or often called the Hot Spot, which is then combined with cellular technology, and GPRS.
Thus, in the area outside the Hot Spot will use GPRS to access their Internet access,
but it will automatically switch to the W-LAN connection to enter the Hot Spot, which offers speeds of up to
512 Kbps.

The question is now whether the development of Hot Spots in many places have economic value to the
and can offer various new services to encourage the growth of profit? While this is the time for us
to not only consider the ARPU (average revenue per user) to the performance of the service, but more precise
if we consider the AMPU (average margin per user) because it is possible that its ARPU up, but after
with the reduced cost required to bring these services had cost more than
revenue obtained.

And vice versa, if ARPU decreased sure whether the company is loss? Not necessarily! Because
possible to occur due to prepaid card users meledaknya the revenue contribution of each low users.
And, because the number of lots, then the results will affect the average, where the number pembaginya
with a large presence in high technology, cost of implementation to be down.

Thus, despite its low-ARPU, but for still greater than the average cost
required, the operator will still speculate. Therefore, the objective is not simply an increase ARPU, for example,
with various ways to bring new services, but also need to consider whether the cost of implementation services
is balanced with the increase in its revenue. Apparently, the presence of a variety of data services that can be expected
boost ARPU, does not guarantee increased their profit.

Therefore, many new technologies that require alertness present in select technology which can be
the market absorbed. If not, we will only remain in a soft market technology like the foreign players and
economically we do not benefit from.

If it is assumed that the investment cost for the MMS service reaches 1 million U.S. dollars, if the level of capital
for 5 years with the tariff of Rp 350, the required traffic each day about 15,000 of MMS. So, to make this technology
can be absorbed by the market, should be given MMS and SMS tariffs properly conducted with the focus on encouraging
the growth of traffic through one application. A large number of mobile phone, MMS learner with an affordable price
many circles, particularly the largest users SMS / MMS is a young group, the number is 15,000 per day
the amount is very small. Thus, soon will be replaced MMS SMS as a producer
the largest revenue for the service after voice services.

Source: Kompas Cyber Media

In the beginning, COMMUNICATION need an antenna, satellite antenna and connect only point to point. Functionality satellite communications when it is still limited for such large capacity for operators (such as PT TELKOM), trunking, microwave back-up, and telecommunications services in remote areas.



In the United States in the early 80s appear satellite communication technology with a small antenna, capable of connecting points to multipoint or multipoint to point and vice versa. The technology is known as VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal).

VSAT first entry into Indonesia in 1989 in line with bermunculnya private banks that need the online communication system, such as ATM (Automated Teller Machine). Utilization of VSAT in Indonesia including the first in Southeast Asia, which by the national private company PT Citra Sari Makmur (CSM) with the license of PT Telkom. CSM began operating early in 1990 by using the Palapa satellite. Currently there are 3 other than CSM private VSAT operators, namely Lintasarta, Elektrindo Nusantara and prosperous path (Primacom). Still the largest market share domination CSM. Outside it still has 2 operators that serve only among themselves, Dwi Partners (groups of Garuda Indonesia) and BMG (Meteorological and Geophysics Agency).

Benefits VSAT

With the VSAT technology more advanced, communication between islands in Indonesia so more easily and cheaply. Easy, because not terhalangi ocean and earth disturbance other structures such as mountains. Cheap, because the one near or far cost the same. Cheap here will be more meaningful if the number of customers more, because for one channel on the satellite can be used by several customers alternates. Utilization of the Internet and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) will be more optimal and also cheaper.

Features of VSAT cable channels in addition to the fee is cheaper and reliable system with a wide bandwidth transmission of data packets. VSAT is also functioning as a complement or substitute for a phone line and micro-wave (microwave).

VSAT capability in the transfer of data, voice and video are very good because of the wide bandwidth. Moreover, by using compression techniques are good, picture and sound easy in the transfer of the cost.

Line of business that requires very VSAT, among other banks (such as the computerized online), the company's oil industry, aviation, distribution of goods and services, carpentry business and others. VSAT usage will be more effective if the customer has to prepare and provide application at the start using VSAT.

VSAT Customers in the Eye

One of the VSAT customers in the banking sector is Commerce Bank. According to Assistant Vice President Commerce Bank, Paul S Hasjim, banking services to the customer becomes more complete and better by using VSAT, for example, ATM (see photo) and online facilities. There are several reasons for the use of VSAT for Commerce Bank, added, among others, according to which there is no local phone line, to remote branch and a wide bandwidth.

Commerce Bank has been utilizing the VSAT from the CSM since the early 90's. VSAT facilities are used for other than Commerce Bank ATM is VSAT LINK with 64 Kbps of bandwidth, while ATM only require 2.4 Kbps.

VSAT LINK can be used as a disaster recovery (recovery operation when a disaster), which in this case Commerce Bank using the facilities of CSM is in the Dir. Because of wide bandwidth, VSAT LINK is very good for voice and data communications. Thus, the staff at headquarters can easily deal with branches and vice versa, the relationship between the branch runs smoothly without long.

Currently, Commerce Bank will develop the use of VSAT, for example, regional or branch of the high cost interlokalnya such as in Medan and Semarang. Relations between the regions that use LINKS VSAT, namely Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Jakarta.

"Actually there are other telecommunication system which is also used as microwave Commerce Bank," said Paul, "however, because some benefits, VSAT will remain an important role in the present and future."

Alternative Telecom the Right-To

Lately it by the news surge flooding many cities in Indonesia, which damaged many phone cable channel. That reminds us on several alternative replacement for the cable channel and one satellite communication system, namely VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal).

To learn more about the benefits of VSAT in the business world in Indonesia, we have a written interview with Dr. through the Internet. Joseph FP Luhukay, a telecommunications and informatics experts from PT Bahana Business Development of Indonesia in Jakarta.

What is the background of the use of VSAT in Indonesia?

Basically, the use of communication ekstraterestrial generally encouraged by inadequate communication terestrial point to the need for data communications in Indonesia. Not only inter-city, terestrial communication in the city, it feels very drawbacks for inter-computer.

In addition, the use of the VSAT network also facilitates planning for data communications because "availability" will be at any cost and virtually "flat". This means that the relationship between Jalan Thamrin and Jalan Kiai Tapa in Jakarta on the same charges with the relations between Jakarta and Ujungpandang.

What is the advantage of the VSAT communication system to another?

In addition to this, the VSAT communication terestrial also excel in quality of the duct. Some locations in the ground-water is very dependent on the network cable-land, which often interfere in the quality of its installation may be due to less water-impermeable.

Pemasangannyapun relatively very quickly because they do not need to wait for the installation of cable-land. The time required for installation in Irian Jaya is not practical with many different installations in Surabaya, for example. Antenanya small size, even smaller dish from television, also simplifies the installation.

How the development of VSAT currently and in the future?

We think that its development will be very rapid. Which is very urgent to improve the quality of operation and services of the VSAT service.

Perhaps because the "cured" with the service "they" are the users of telecommunication phone service, the business world Indonesia oust the quality of services that are really Friendly of the VSAT service. That is the global will boost the quality of telecommunication services generally, especially VSAT service.

Who are the players (the operator) VSAT in Indonesia?

Which is already well established Citra Sari Makmur (CSM) and Lintasarta, although in terms of service quality and operational readiness of CSM we deem more reliable. There are several more new operators in the field, which still must build the capacity and operating reliability of service quality.

What type of business that requires very VSAT?

Practically all business sectors that didera by the competition, both national and international, will likely need the support of both information technology. Similarly high volume business and operations scattered locations. Not to efforts to strengthen the position in the market with built-keterhubungan upstream with downstream suppliers and customers. Ketersebaran location is encouraging the development of a data communication network, which then tends to increasingly use VSAT "cemepak." Until the end of this decade can be estimated that the business of insurance and financial services, business "retail, tourism and business will dominate the use of VSAT. In addition, the government sector and public services that dominated government will also use the more VSAT.

How to make VSAT and what the most tangible benefits for companies, consumers?

Relatively high cost of subscriptions VSAT encourage users to use the need for more communication in addition to the plenary for data communications only. For that, the relationship between the PABX locations in the operation will improve the ratio of "cost / benefit" to remain in the boundaries of the legality of the use of the VSAT, the use of "groupware" between al-location includes e-mail by using Web technology from the Inernet or technology from Lotus Notes, for example, network information and integration of a company will become the method and principle uses.

How VSAT service business prospects in Indonesia?

Good enough. The problem is how to achieve "economies of scale" to the existing operators. The granting of authority for telecommunications operators should consider new things, because if not, that there is "equity-stunt" only. On the other hand, there is a healthy competition among the operators will help increase the quality of services, although the cost to switch from one operator to another operator that is not easy for a company to the user. Start the emergence of techniques of communication terestrial which also is raising a new urgency for the operator to quickly achieve economies of scale and profitability of the business.

Bill Gates is one of the last decade (for precisely 13 years) is not tergoyahkan number one position from the world's richest version of Forbes magazine. Can be if Bill Gates pan sac dolarnya 'only' from Microsoft Corp.., An American multinational company which was established early April 1975 and registered in Nasdaq in March 1986 with the MS or MSFT. Microsoft currently has more than 70,000 employees in 102 countries with a total market capitalization (the value of shares) 287 billion U.S. dollars in mid-August 2005. If your roads to all corners of Indonesia, the computer can be no more than 90 percent drop from the touch Microsoft.Namun, recently dikabarkan Bill Gates is panic, because the Microsoft-garanya difficulties "dominate" the Internet business, while more than 50 percent of internet users in the world are users of Internet Explorer (IE), one of Microsoft products. So who actually "can" by Bill Gates? Google, the answer.



Yahoo acquisition

As was dikabarkan by the New York Post, the news was broadcasted Microsoft maker is to Yahoo bernegoisasi the current value of market capitalization reached 50 billion U.S. dollars. Negotiations also allowed by the Wall Street Journal, although still not clear whether the acquisition or only form a joint venture. Positive impact for Yahoo with this issue is the increase in the value of shares of 17 percent.

By some analysts, the discussion between Microsoft and Yahoo is called as a step to menjegal Google in Internet search business, although many are still skeptical that Yahoo interested. Currently, the position of Yahoo and Microsoft are in the position of the second and third in the bottom of Google. Currently, more than 50 percent of the world's Internet users use Google as a search tool on the Internet.

Then whom Google? Is Google really menghunuskan pedangnya to Microsoft that Bill Gates panic? Google Inc.. Founded in early September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Similarly, with Bill Gates, Google founders also left the course at Stanford University to pursue dreams in Google. The difference between Bill Gates from Harvard University. Currently more than 20,000 people joined in the Googleplex, to the headquarters of Google. Google listed on Nasdaq in mid-August 2004 with the code GOOG, and recorded in mid-August 2005 the value of the market capitalization of 79.6 billion U.S. dollars, a quarter of the value of Microsoft at the same time. However, Google's shares have value is only 1 year since the IPO to make (Initial Public Offering) in the previous year.

Eric Schmidt, Google petinggi one, never sesumbar that Microsoft is the giant who is pregnant with the successes that have been passed. According to him, Microsoft is rooted in a long phase of the technology that has been left behind by kedigdayaan Internet. Based on this viewpoint, the role of the Microsoft continues to decline, while Google increased. "You go around in a stage that is far larger bets with greater also," said Eric. "We compete with Yahoo every day. In fact, Microsoft recently announced its participation in this market. Now they can not yet be called a competitor, but I believe they continue to try. "

The clear for Schmidt if he considers Bill Gates panic when witnessing the performance of Google's unusual in that short time. Even during the IPO, Google had predicted the same boat with Netscape, the company that became symbols of the Internet explosion in pengujung 1990-before dilindas by Microsoft. An article from Fortune journalist, Fred Vogelstein, titled "Why Google Scares Bill Gates" the more competition, which explains the extraordinary two days of this company is different.

Google's dominance is recognized by many parties such as the one published in Business Week magazine's Indonesian edition published in May 2007, is tercantumnya Google in the second as the company's innovative version of the Boston Consulting Group, while Microsoft is ranked fifth. What is interesting is when Google offices to develop applications that can be accessed online through the Google Apps brand in which there are applications such as Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, which dikolaborasikan directly with the e-mail through Gmail brand, with brand-messenger Google Talk, Google also Calendar, and Google Apps application can be dikustomisasi using its own brand as well as we have a virtual office.

The Google Apps services is to compete directly with Microsoft Office Live, an online service owned by the application of Microsoft office. However, Google Apps still more superior added value through collaboration with services that have been mentioned before. Through Google Docs or Google Spreadsheets, we can also edit documents created by Microsoft applications. At a later time, Google's service will be against the hegemony of Microsoft's Office. It is no secret that Microsoft pan sac dolarnya the most is from the operating system and office software such as MS Office.

Is still considered "Bubble"

From the above explanation, which should be recognized is the business revolution, the Internet has created Google in a short time become a global company calculated many more parties. In fact, said Google may be richer than most small countries. The question, the Internet revolution in Indonesia?

Some business consultant in Indonesia is still considered a business on the Internet is something that still Bubble, is too much to be discussed, much moonshine. These conditions occur when indeed in 2000, which triggered many Internet entrepreneurs, so do expectations encourage more quickly to get the IPO to make quick fortune, even menggelembungkan operational costs due to expectations will get a fortune in fast time. However, this is not balanced factors such as the business market conditions, culture, and others.

This is not only happening in the United States, a similar kind in Indonesia, many Internet entrepreneurs like KopiTime roll mats, Mweb, true, and the other. The difference, in the most influential factor is the penetration of the Internet infrastructure and the direct impact on market conditions.

These fears are apparently not reaching for some companies. If the previously mentioned Google as the King Midas of the Internet, also have Indo.com, Bhinneka.com, Detik.com, Masterweb.net, Techscape.com, and many others still exist even begin reap the fruit of hard work consistency in the results business on the Internet. Here will not be written about the classification of the types of business, which is considered reap fortune in the Internet business, or how the perpetrators of that business to do so. So that the center of gravity is Now is the time revolution, the Internet business.

Although still need to keep trace data to see when conditions in the Internet, the Internet when market conditions changed, and this is relatively better than previous years. So, as saying that dipopulerkan Peter F. Drucker, "The best way to predict the future is to start" Now is started and we must start.

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World revolution in information technology or IT, which requires all people to follow progress


Information technology not only covers the device komputerasi (hardware) and applications supporting applications (software), but also human resources that use it (brainware).
In this decade, the use of technology by intitas business continues to increase. Many computer systems used to help the performance of an organization, for example, a system of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) of connect the business process in each individual work units.



Utilization of this technology revolution is one of the prerequisites for improving the management of the organization. In this case the application of technology in Indonesia Foundation deliveryman, I Refine into two factors that are related to each other, the software support organization and the user (human resources). Both these factors can not be separated. Technology can not be implemented without the organization. And the organization will not be effective without the application of information technology.

At a certain point, technology innovation affect not only the technical competence of human resources, but also stimulate "technology knowledge" of human resources in the organization, which form the basic assumptions and patterns of human resources perspective to the process of internal and inter-organizational units.

Utilization of information technology in the messenger and the Foundation on the implementation of the tasks and functions of human resources in creating the color Foundation for the Management Foundation. Application of Information Technology, aims to improve the competitiveness of the organization. Information technology will become one of the backbone of a competitive, if applied with the appropriate technology will be able to with all aspects of entities in the foundation.

Viewing from the goal, then the investment is a need for IT foundation. IT investment and the implementation of this will impact on the lives of several areas of the organization, such as systems and organizational structure
or human resource management model.

The implementation of some benefit in the field of IT human resources is


- The system allows the IT human resources play an active role in strategic planning organization

- IT integrate and store all information deliveryman in a databank, and is therefore in the process of planning, the human resources can take a global perspective on supply and demand for human resources development interpreted in a way that is more effective


- Human Resource Management Information System to facilitate storage and access to the records management data deliveryman vital for the organization. In addition to internal data, with the Intranet facilities built in the foundation, the human resources can benefit from direct access to the databank that contains information for the preparation of the strategy of empowering the deliveryman.


Speed changes in the IT and application systems and a process of internal organization will be hampered if human resources does not have sufficient skills to operate the technology and system. For that human resources will be given training and development in the formulation of the appropriate stages of implementation with the IT system. With the development of human resources will be capable of adapting to berubahan pattern of work there.