Jakarta, 13 April 2023 – Telkom Indonesia is strengthening its collaboration with Microsoft in accelerating the digitalization of Indonesia by powering metaNesia with Azure Media Services. This Azure capability will enhance the capabilities of metaNesia to bridge the digital and physical world by providing tools and platforms that empower people to collaborate, communicate, play, create, and learn in immersive environments, while placing security, privacy, and trust at the forefront.
Anton Pramono, Principal Expert, Group of Learning Expert, Innovation & Research, Telkom Corporate University Center said, “In the spirit of bringing greater synergy between Indonesia’s State-Owned Enterprises, private sectors, and MSMEs, we are excited to accelerate our growth with Azure Media Services. Its professional standards, secure protection, and scalability enable us to build more solutions on metaNesia faster, protect our customers stronger, as well as empower digital innovators for Digital Indonesia greater. Together with Microsoft, we are looking forward to open more digital opportunities across Indonesia and accelerate the country’s digital transformation, hence realizing digital sovereignty.”
Utilizing the extensive features of Azure Media Services, metaNesia is now able to boost its media discoverability and performance by automatically extracting advanced metadata, supporting modern content distribution with encrypted media extensions, providing an enriched & adaptive cloud streaming experience, and scaling delivery according to needs. These capabilities won’t only empower more than 20 organizations and institutions who have been using metaNesia’s services, but also the 76 individual creators of metaNesia to achieve more. This will be adding even greater variety to the 300 immersive content collections that have been built on metaNesia ever since it was established in August 2022 – less than a year ago.
“Immersive experiences captivate participants with interactive elements and multi-sensory stimulation, hence creating a highly memorable and impactful interaction. Powered with Azure Media Services, we expect that the engaging experience of metaNesia can be used by corporations as a key differentiator in engaging customers, creating brand awareness, and enhancing brand loyalty in today’s hybrid world,” said Fiki Setiyono, Azure Business Group Lead Microsoft Indonesia.
The use of Azure Media Services is only the first phase of metaNesia and Microsoft Indonesia’s collaboration. Both organizations will continue exploring the collaboration to bring more Azure innovation to metaNesia, including the Azure AI capabilities.
“At Microsoft, we believe the roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself, but in what these tools and platforms enable people to achieve. The potential for technology also rests in the ideas, and in the intention, of people who create it. That’s why we are delighted to power metaNesia with Azure, which will enable us to continue bringing our mission to life – empowering Indonesia,” closed Fiki.
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