Innovation at the Frontier

Microsoft Indonesia and SENADA, a project funded by USAID for competitiveness acceleration, announced the first three winners of iMulai competition out of more than 100 participants. The winners deserved the awards not only for their distinctive concepts, but also for their innovative and creative ideas which would bring merit to industries in Indonesia.
iMulai Competition which was held from November 15th to December 31st 2007 has successfully selected PT Dycode Cominfotech Development, Logistics Lab and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) ITS Surabaya, and PT Sentra Solusi Integrasi, as the first three winners respectively. Dycode presented port management portal (PORTMAP), a web-based application to manage port’s activities. LSCM proposed on software development to optimize consolidation of product delivery to cluster industries. While Sentra Solusi presented development of Mobile Application for Inventory Management System (MAINS).
“iMulai opens an opportunity for us to contribute in developing local software industry” said Yugo Goutomo, Business Development Manager PT Sentra Solusi Integrasi.
Tony Chen, President Director Microsoft Indonesia, pointed out Microsoft’s commitment to stimulate and empower what so called Local Software Economy (LSE), with iMulai as one of its initiator. He expects the winners to become Independent Software Vendor (ISV), through which the need of infrastructure and application in the country could be served, or even to enter a global competition.
Steve Smith, Project Director SENADA, stressed on innovation as the most important factor in increasing the competitive value. All SENADA programs are focused to numerous innovations, not merely to generate products but develop strategy and from 18
diverse institutions. “We really proud of the winners as their ideas reach out more than just product innovation, but also answer the quest on wider competitive value” he added.