Tag: SME

Indonesian Government To Regulate Entrepreneurship And Technology Incubators

Indonesian government through its Ministry of Cooperations and SME recently announced that they’re soon to launch a regulation on entrepreneurship and technology incubator development for SMEs (yes, that includes tech startups). This regulation has been processed for quite some time in conjunction with ASIAN Economic Society program effective in 2015. Continue reading Indonesian Government To Regulate Entrepreneurship And Technology Incubators

Working with Microsoft, ASEAN Foundation Will Train Young Entrepreneurs in Four Indonesian Provinces

ASEAN Foundation will hold an information technology and communication workshop for young entrepreneur in four provinces in Indonesia, namely West Sumatra, West Java (Bandung), North Sulawesi and West Nusa Tenggara. This program is organized with the support of Microsoft.

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Competing with IndoNetwork, IndoTrading Freshen Up Their Website

Back in 2010 (yes, 2 years ago), Rama had said that he thought that the sites such as Karir.com and Indonetwork.co.id are the example of conservative, not modern website but can keep on making money. I don’t know how both website looked like at that time but seeing from their current look, I think both websites’ design is similar with the web design at the beginning of the internet.

But both websites are proven to be able to survive, maintaining the design but still making profit. But what if other website appears with similar business plan but better design? I will not talk about it here. I will only talk about Indonetwork having a competition with similar business but with a –in my opinion- better design, IndoTrading.

IndoTrading website’s design is arguably look a like IndoNetwork’s. At the top, both sites display various “Company” and “Product” tabs and there’s a search facility based on province under it. At the left column, both display list of company categories. Upper right displays login form and in the middle displays some lists of companies and products. It’s difficult not to say that IndoTrading is inspired by IndoNetwork. The difference is IndoTrading comes a bit more modern by using red color and changing image slider.

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Comparing Three Online Small and Medium Enterprise Directories

Wiku once had written his opinion on a wide-open opportunity to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In that opinion, he said that despite SMEs owners’ knowledge about the internet is increasing, opportunities for business development as well as helping SMEs owners to develop their businesses, remains wide open.

This may be true because until today, this kind of business model keeps on sprouting. When I googled the keyword “SME Directory”, I found many websites have SME directory, whether it’s there for a very long time or newly made. But in my opinion, there are only 3 websites that deserve to be mentioned in providing listing service to SMEs in Indonesia. Those three websites are Promo UKM, Bisnis UKM (beta) and PlazaID.

This many not meet Wiku’s hope at the time to give a service that’s different and combine two or more existing services. The three directories are still a container to be a place to promote products and services offered by SMEs. At least, that can help SMEs to meet prospective clients. Let’s compare the three based on several things below.

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TelkomCloud for SME Provides Customized Service Solution

This year’s cloud service competition seems more rigorous with the existence of various foreign services and sprouting local services. To be the leader, excellent service is key to differentiate. TelkomCloud, a cloud computing service owned by the biggest state-owned business entity, PT Telkom, is trying to provide a robust complete solution compared to its competitors in this area.

TelkomCloud divides its cloud service into two major consumer categories, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) and Enterprise. For SME, TelkomCloud provides a customized service solution in the form of SaaS (Software as a Service) that is specifically dedicated for various fields of business. TelkomCloud provides e-Bengkel, e-Kelurahan, e-Travel, e-Akademik, e-Hotel and e-Sekolah softwares. In addition, it also sets up M-Force that can be used to optimized sales force activities in the field.

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TelkomCloud untuk UKM Sediakan Solusi Layanan Terkostumisasi

Persaingan layanan cloud tahun ini nampaknya makin ketat dengan mulai masuknya berbagai layanan asing dan menjamurnya layanan lokal. Untuk menjadi yang terdepan tentu saja diperlukan layanan unggulan yang menjadi pembeda. TelkomCloud yang merupakan layanan komputasi awan milik BUMN Telekomunikasi terbesar, PT Telkom, berusaha memberikan solusi yang lebih lengkap ketimbang pesaingnya di area ini.

TelkomCloud membagi layanan cloud-nya menjadi dua kategori konsumen besar, Usaha Kecil Menengah (UKM) dan Enterprise. Untuk UKM, TelkomCloud menyediakan solusi layanan terkustomisasi dalam bentuk SaaS (Software as a Service) yang spesifik untuk berbagai bidang usaha. TelkomCloud menyediakan piranti lunak e-Bengkel, e-Kelurahan, e-Travel, e-Akademik, e-Hotel, dan e-Sekolah. Selain itu mereka juga menyiapkan M-Force yang bisa digunakan untuk mengoptimalisasi kegiatan tenaga penjualan di lapangan.

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Bersamaan dengan Dirilisnya Bisnis Go Online oleh Google, Para Pelaku E-commerce Mendirikan Sebuah Asosiasi

Pada hari Rabu minggu kemarin, Google bersama dengan sejumlah mitra di Indonesia baik dari sektor swasta dan pemerintah, meluncurkan sebuah inisiatif untuk membawa 100.000 usaha/perusahaan kecil dan menengah di Indonesia ke ranah online sebelum akhir tahun 2012.

Dinamakan Bisnis Lokal Go Online, inisiatif ini didorong oleh kurangnya adopsi internet oleh perusahaan-perusahaan Indonesia meski lebih dari 40 juta orang Indonesia telah memiliki akses Internet. Karena mayoritas pengguna internet di Indonesia menghabiskan waktu mereka di jaringan sosial, ini bisa menjadi peluang bagi bisnis lokal untuk membawa kehadiran mereka secara online dan meningkatkan kesadaran serta kepercayaan untuk mendapatkan konsumen dan berinteraksi dengan mereka.

Meskipun Google merupakan inisiator utama program ini, dukungan juga hadir dari tiga kementerian pemerintah, KADIN, PANDI, penyedia layanan internet Melsa dan Bakrie Connectivity, Multiply, serta Aptikom – asosiasi perguruan tinggi ilmu komputer dan informatika.

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As Google launched Bisnis Go Online, E-commerce Players Band Together to Set Up an Association

On Wednesday, Google, along with a number of Indonesian partners in both the private and government sectors, launched an initiative to bring 100,000 Indonesian small and medium businesses/enterprises online by the end of 2012.

Dubbed Bisnis Lokal Go Online, the move is spurred by the lack of adoption of the Internet by Indonesian companies despite having more than 40 million individuals logging time on the Internet. As the majority of these people spend their time on social networks, it’s up to local businesses to bring their presence online and improve awareness as well as trust to get consumers to interact with them.

While Google is the primary driver of this program, it is also being backed by three government ministries, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, PANDI, the Indonesian Internet domain agency, Internet providers Melsa and Bakrie Connectivity, Multiply, as well as Aptikom, the higher education association of computer science and informatics.

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SME (Small Medium Enterprises) and Internet : an ‘Old Song’ or New Chance?

There are two press release came to wire@dailysocial last week. Both of them give information about SME, one of them is SITTI and another is Belibu.com.

In their press release, SITTI explain that they are preparing initiative for SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) in Indonesia through SITTI359. This program will collaborate with Satutempat.com. The initiative is called as “Kedai UKM SITTI”. It is an end to end solution for SME to improve their selling through digital marketing. This program will be launched in October 2011, the video about it has been released on August 17th, 2011.

Meanwhile Belibu.com gives online media service and get local entrepreneur and SME as the target, also as their users’ reference. Belibu.com also provides facilities such as writing review on enterprises then upload it to their website.

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