Astra Nusantara records 24% growth
Astra Nusantara records 24% growth
JAKARTA (JP): Digital Astra Nusantara, owned by Digital Equipment Corporation of the United States and PT Astra Graphia of Indonesia, recorded a growth rate of 24 percent last year, the highest since it was established in 1993.
"Our growth here is particularly driven by the Alpha 64-bit system which last year grew by 52 percent," Warwick McLisky, a director of the company, told The Jakarta Post yesterday.
He said that based on a study conducted by Dataquest, the growth of the computer industry worldwide was only 12 percent last year.
The joint venture, which is the first of its kind here, provides a full range of Digital's consulting and support services, including hardware and software maintenance, system and network design, application development and project management services.
McLisky said Indonesia's computer market remains promising but that growth is limited by infrastructure problems as well as a lack of trained staff and funding.
"But with the coming age of globalization and a borderless ASEAN, Indonesian companies will need to increase their utilization of information technology to improve their productivity and responsiveness to market changes," he said.
In addition to Indonesia, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Because 64 percent of the company's customers are Indonesian companies, McLisky said that market demand in Indonesia will continue to focus on low-end to mid-range client/server systems.
Digital's worldwide strategy is to compete in four segments: components, system platforms, connectivity software and client/server services.
According to McLisky, personal computers are still the largest product sector here (48.9 percent) followed by services (13.1 percent), printers (12.9 percent) and mid-range servers (11.7 percent).
He added that his company's revenues were estimated at more than Rp 60 billion (US$26.32 million) last year. (13)