The 4 ICT pillars of cloud, mobile, social and big data are disrupting the marketplace with new opportunities and challenges. ICT buyers, businesses, consumers and government entities, are grappling to understand these solutions, the innovations they can deliver, the improvements they can bring to their businesses and lives and the imperfection they should manage. Emerging markets like Indonesia where innovations have to be developed and delivered at super-economics level and where good margins often mean generating low-value transactions in volume, where do the 4 pillars play? As a IT vendor, channel partner, ISV player, services firm or telco provider, where are the better opportunities?
In this opening session, Sandra Ng, IDC Asia/Pacific ICT Practice Group Vice President, will provide a comprehensive understanding of these 4 pillars, benchmark and best practices in terms of market entry and positioning, bringing relevance and context to the Indonesian ICT marketplace. She will also be sharing the consumption perspectives and preferences across the 4 pillars in Indonesia among consumer, micro- and small business as well as large enterprise and where the future lies for as players compete to stay ahead in this 3rd emerging market super-power of the Asia/Pacific region.

As 2012 dawns, the Republic of Indonesia is moving through a transformative phase, where ICT plays a major role in enabling traditional economies and the society. Continuous influx of foreign interest into the country will cause an inadvertent positive impact for the overall ICT market. While the forecast looks sunny for the economy in the coming year as foreign interest and domestic consumption continues to grow, seat belts should be fasted securely as unexpected dips could occur at any given time

One of the key ingredients to make the mobile revolution a reality is the devices themselves: smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks, and many more. Not only do we expect to see continued evolution in the physical form factors of the devices, we´re also seeing an evolution in the platforms upon which these devices run. The end result is a staggering array of devices that are giving consumers and business users an incredible range of choice; possibly more choices than the market can bear. While many eagerly anticipate the killer device or platform that will meet all of their needs, others question whether such a thing will ever exist, and whether there really is any need for one. In this session, IDC will present an in-depth look at the impending device war and lay out a vision for where the world of mobile devices is headed.

This IDC study provides our 2012 predictions for the services market in Southeast Asia. As a whole, IDC looks forward to another year of double digit growth for the Southeast Asia IT services market. Key to this year´s prediction will be the impact of local country developments in 2011 that will shape the outlook for 2012 and beyond. The game changers like cloud, business analytics are also here to stay and its far reaching impact will be more apparent as the dots are connected. "2011 was a colorful year, from Economic transformation programs in Malaysia to the inflation battle in Vietnam, from Cloud advancements in Singapore to the PALAPA ring in Indonesia, from a transitioning government in Philippines to the flood waters in Thailand. With the Southeast Asia canvas painted with country level activity IDC sees key opportunities that are driving IT Services growth,"says Roger Ling, Research Manager - ASEAN Services Research Group, IDC Asia/Pacific

IDC wishes to discuss and bring to light the growing maturity of Indonesia as a country as it becomes a third big economic power in the Asia/Pacific region after china and India. As we have observed and learned the pattern form similar trends in China and then India - IDC finds itself in a unique position to provide direction on trends we feel will be most pertinent to Indonesia in the next few years