Intel offers SME solutions to retailers

Intel offers SME solutions to retailers

YOGYAKARTA: Some 140 computer retailers from Yogyakarta
participated in the recent Intel Channel Conference held at the
city's Melia Purosani Hotel.

Speaking to journalists ahead of the conference, Intel
Indonesia Area Sales Manager Singgih Adwiarto said the program
was part of the computer hardware producer's worldwide small-
and medium enterprise (SME) solution campaign, which was
officially launched on Oct. 11 via the Internet.

"The program is aimed at providing Intel Channel retailers
with knowledge about business solutions it can offer to SMEs to
develop their businesses through the use of IT (information
technology)," Singgih said.

Small and medium businesses, which are defined as those that
have less than 100 employees, according to Singgih, showed a
potential market for IT products worldwide. In Indonesia, for
example, of the country's 1.9 million SMEs, only 27 percent used
computers to develop their businesses.

"That's the second-lowest in the Asia-Pacific after India,"
said Singgih.

The Intel Channel Conference in Yogyakarta is the second to be
held in the country after the Oct. 14 meet in Bandung, West Java.

The next four major cities on Intel's program are Jakarta,
Surabaya in East Java), Medan (North Sumatra), Denpasar (Bali),
and Makassar (South Sulawesi).

Intel Indonesia says it has some 1,500 retailers throughout
the country. -- JP