Thursday, March 18, 2004
Ng: Largest technology users in RP
By Wilson Ng
WIRED DESKTOP
ANNUAL LIST. I am studying a report by MIS magazine. Among the lists is its annual listing of MIS100, which gives a glimpse of Asia’s largest users of technology.
For 2003, the database consists of 9,588 organizations or companies, and how they use information technology (IT).
The organization should have at least 20 employees to qualify. Please note that there is a bias toward larger companies and institutions in the listing.
The organizations came from Singapore (22.5percent), Hong Kong (20.5%), Malaysia (18.5%), Philippines (12.9%) Thailand (12.8%) and Indonesia (12.8%).
The total of the organizations’ terminals (desktops, laptops or even dumb terminals) shows that the Philippines is almost the smallest market for IT.
Indonesia had a total of 643,871 terminals, Singa-pore 576,966 terminals, Hong Kong 552,371, Malaysia 510,363, Thailand 314,112, and the Philippines only 281,329 terminals.
The top server operating systems were Windows NT (73 percent), Windows 2000 (62%), Sun Solaris (54%), IBM AIX (42%) and HP UX (36%).
Among the database systems, Oracle was leading with 84 percent, SQL Server 65%, DB2 36%, Sybase 29%, and Informix 20%.
The biggest IT user was the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, which has more than 274,350 screens, as well as an IT department of more than 220 people. IT was mostly used for running an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system and a tax e-payment system for corporations and individuals. There is also a project to complete an online tax assessment and electronic tariff payments initiative.
In second place was the Hong Kong Jockey Club with an IT department of 436 people and over 168,000 terminals.
Hong Kong Jockey Club hosts horse racing, and most of these terminals are for betting. Their new initiative is to use systems that will be touch screen, and self vending.
In third place was the Ministry of Education in Singapore, which is embarking on its Masterplan II for IT in education which aims to let teachers use IT effectively for professional and personal growth. The IT department has 90 people and they have over 90,000 computers.
The biggest Philippine IT user in the database was the Philippine Long Distance Co., which has an IT department of 224 people, and 8,250 computers.
Key areas of use were back-end support systems, IT service delivery management, customer billing applications, and hosted data and messaging services.
In second place, actually 60th place overall, was AMA Education System with more than 5,500 computers. AMA has over 250 schools and campuses within and outside the Philippines.
In third place from the Philippines was 72nd placer Bureau of Internal Revenue, which has 4,500 computers, and an IT department of over 2,180 people.
We look forward to the Philippines continuing to be on the forefront of IT.
We know IT use is not only in the number of computers, but the effectiveness and innovativeness in using it. I am sure in this area, given the right focus, we can excel.
(e-mail: wilson@esprint.com.)
(March 18, 2004 issue)
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