Academics, SOEs team up to drive business performance

[:id]Stefani Ribka

THE JAKARTA POST/JAKARTA

The State­Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Ministry and Padjajaran University (Unpad) have officially opened the BUMN Center of Excel­lence (BCE) at the state university, which is will serve as a platform for BUMN and scholars to team up in developing solutions to help maxi­mize companies' business perfor­mance. The center, located at Unpad's campus in Bandung, West Java, will use an integrated data warehouse system to compile various busi­ness ­related data provided by state­ owned companies to allow Unpad researchers to come up with innova­tive answers for their problems. Among the information compiled in the system is manpower data and product specifications, Unpad rec­tor Tri Hanggono Achmad said. "Currently, corporate data is scat­

tered everywhere. We already have the data hub system, what we need now is to build a culture of data shar­ing among state­owned enterpris­es," he said on the sidelines of the launching of the BCE in Jakarta on Monday.

State­Owned Enterprises Min­ister Rini Soemarno said the center would allow business players and academics to exchange thoughts and knowledge. "Their [collaborative] research will help solve many problems. They

can lead to inventions, for example, on how to process tins into value­ added products and how to produce

the raw materials of drugs to reduce imports," she said. As many as 26 state­owned en­terprises, including pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma, train opera­tor PT Kereta Api Indonesia, oil and gas developer Pertamina and tele­communications provider Telkom­sel, have signed cooperation agree­ments with the university to provide relevant corporate data for the new­ly launched center. In the future, the center is expect­

ed to build collaboration with all the country's 119 state enterprises. The launch of the center, Rini said, was in line with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's vision to pull all the state enterprises under one roof. Among the analyses being con­ducted at the center are those relat­ed to the distribution of subsidized fertilizers for farmers and the map­ping of present and future potential tea plantations in Pandeglang, West Java, in cooperation with state­ owned plantation firm PTPN VIII. Telkom Indonesia deputy for re­search and big data Komang B. Ary­asa also underlined the importance of data integration for scientific re­search. "With the advancement of tech­nology, state enterprises advance as well in their data storage, thus leading to an exponential growth of data as time goes on. This huge data amount of needs to be integrated and analyzed, but the manpower [to carry this out] is still limited. "Thus, 'Data Warehouse' is made for academics to help business prac­titioners process the data," he said.

Source : The Jakarta Post

[:en]Stefani Ribka

THE JAKARTA POST/JAKARTA

The State­Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Ministry and Padjajaran University (Unpad) have officially opened the BUMN Center of Excel­lence (BCE) at the state university, which is will serve as a platform for BUMN and scholars to team up in developing solutions to help maxi­mize companies' business perfor­mance. The center, located at Unpad's campus in Bandung, West Java, will use an integrated data warehouse system to compile various busi­ness ­related data provided by state­ owned companies to allow Unpad researchers to come up with innova­tive answers for their problems. Among the information compiled in the system is manpower data and product specifications, Unpad rec­tor Tri Hanggono Achmad said. "Currently, corporate data is scat­

tered everywhere. We already have the data hub system, what we need now is to build a culture of data shar­ing among state­owned enterpris­es," he said on the sidelines of the launching of the BCE in Jakarta on Monday.

State­Owned Enterprises Min­ister Rini Soemarno said the center would allow business players and academics to exchange thoughts and knowledge. "Their [collaborative] research will help solve many problems. They

can lead to inventions, for example, on how to process tins into value­ added products and how to produce

the raw materials of drugs to reduce imports," she said. As many as 26 state­owned en­terprises, including pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma, train opera­tor PT Kereta Api Indonesia, oil and gas developer Pertamina and tele­communications provider Telkom­sel, have signed cooperation agree­ments with the university to provide relevant corporate data for the new­ly launched center. In the future, the center is expect­

ed to build collaboration with all the country's 119 state enterprises. The launch of the center, Rini said, was in line with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's vision to pull all the state enterprises under one roof. Among the analyses being con­ducted at the center are those relat­ed to the distribution of subsidized fertilizers for farmers and the map­ping of present and future potential tea plantations in Pandeglang, West Java, in cooperation with state­ owned plantation firm PTPN VIII. Telkom Indonesia deputy for re­search and big data Komang B. Ary­asa also underlined the importance of data integration for scientific re­search. "With the advancement of tech­nology, state enterprises advance as well in their data storage, thus leading to an exponential growth of data as time goes on. This huge data amount of needs to be integrated and analyzed, but the manpower [to carry this out] is still limited. "Thus, 'Data Warehouse' is made for academics to help business prac­titioners process the data," he said.

Source : The Jakarta Post[:]