Jakarta University Taps IBM Smarter Computing to Enhance Student Experience

Founded in 1951, UIN is one of the leading private universities in Central Java with a student population of more than 15,000 from across Indonesia. To keep pace with the growing demands of the academic community - which is the heart of nation's competitive engine - UIN turned to IBM Global Innovation Services to build a smarter computing infrastructure. The technical goals were to streamline learning processes, improve the economics of the administration system and increase overall computing and data storage utilization.

The university's quality

"We have been working on ways to increase the university's quality and involvement in solving the nation's problems through scientific approaches and advanced technologies for a number of years," said Agung Fatwanto, Head of IT Department, at Sunan Kalijaga Islamic State University. "With this project we wanted to simplify our IT environment and together enable it to provide learning and administrative services in a combined and collaborative manner, sharing processes and research within the campus and online."

In addition, the V7000's IBM System Storage Easy Tier research helps optimize system efficiency by automatically placing data at most strategic storage level. For instance, more commonly used data is automatically and dynamically placed on built-in Solid State Drives for fast access, during less frequently accessed data is placed on more cost-effective storage systems - all without disruption to applications.

IBM GTS's Networking, Site and Facilities Services focus on designing, implementing and managing networking and application environments optimized for integrated business communications, a necessity in a large campus like UIN's Sunan Kalijaga.

One of the early byproducts of the new infrastructure is UIN's first e-learning curricula for selected science, research and science education subjects, which was rolled out in the beginning of 2012. The technologies have as well helped the university more effectively manage dramatic peaks in utilization, while such times as registration of new students, course enrolment, exam schedule postings, grades posting and graduation enrolment - all times when students access the system in droves.

"From New York to Jakarta to Beijing, education is the engine of economic growth," said Fetra Syahbana, Country Manager Systems & Innovation Group, IBM Indonesia. "Whether we are talking about transportation systems, smarter cities or green energy, the discussion should always begin with education. IBM's smarter computing approach to IT is helping UIN Yogyakarta realize greater efficiencies, improved reliability and better performance, all at a lower cost. We strongly believe that this project will support UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta in enhancing the experience it offers its student and faculty population."