Atma Jaya Catholic
University of Indonesia
Case Study
Objective
Upgrade the University network to
integrate three campuses and improve
student learning
Approach
Developed a project plan with HPE
Networking, a long term supplier, a local
HPE partner
IT Matters
• Simplifies management and
maintenance of the network through
one supplier
• Completes upgrade within agreed
timescales with appropriate knowledge
transfer to in-house team
• Guarantees lifetime of hardware,
allowing IT budgets to be spent,
with confidence, on new project
Business Matters
• Connects three campuses, with the
means to add fourth campus
• Delivers the network strength to
develop e-learning services
inspires a generation
HPE Networking creates connected learning
experience for Indonesian students
Atma Jaya Catholic University
of Indonesia has consistently
focused on providing and
improving quality education.
To deliver an eective learning
environment it needed to
upgrade its core network,
linking three separate
campuses. HPE Networking
has designed, planned and
implemented the upgrade.
Challenge
Education to drive a nation
Indonesia’s population of 255 million has
more than doubled in the last 40 years.
That makes the world’s fourth most
populous country incredibly youthful:
one quarter of Indonesians are
aged 14 or under.
This presents the country with a huge
challenge, and a huge opportunity.
Rich in natural resources and on the
doorstep of the Chinese, Japanese and
Australian economies, Indonesia is well
positioned to capitalise on regional
growth – if it can tap into the potential
of its young population.
Case study
Atma Jaya
Catholic University
of Indonesia
“The HPE servers and switches proved to be cost-eective, particularly
in terms of power consumption, simple to deploy and easy to manage. In
addition, HPE provided oicial clarification its products would not aect
our technical equipment.”
— Danny Natalies, head of IT, Atma Jaya Catholic University
Industry
Education
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The government ploughs $7 billion a year
into education, and every child is guaranteed
nine years education. Higher education
has grown dramatically in recent years.
In 1950, the year after the country
established independence, there were
just 10 higher education institutions
in the country. Today there are more
than 3,000.
Enabling the best universities to grow
In June 1952, the Bishops at an all-Java
Bishops Meeting first dreamed of founding
a Catholic institution of higher learning.
The inspiration took form on 1 June 1960
with the establishment of The Atma Jaya
Foundation. This institution later founded
Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia.
Today, the University, located just south
of Jakarta, caters for around 10,000
students across seven faculties. Since 1967,
Atma Jaya gradually moved to the campus
at Jalan Jendral Sudirman, now known as
the Semanggi Campus, and then also to the
Pluit Campus in North Jakarta which houses
the Faculty of Medicine and Atma Jaya
Hospital and; a third campus in BSD City,
southern Jakarta, opens in 2017.
“For now, we want to integrate the three
existing campuses. Students and sta
should be able to share, communicate and
collaborate from anywhere,” says Danny
Natalies, Atma Jaya head of IT. “We also
want to put in place the infrastructure
to enable remote, e-learning. Education
providers have a role to play in bringing
greater access to the internet for all
Indonesians, not just those on the
university campus.”
Indonesia, spread across 17,000 islands, is a
prime candidate for e-learning. Longer term,
says Natalies, the University wanted to take
advantage of opportunities within Cloud.
“We needed a solution that had an open
platform, that was easy to configure
and came with the lifetime guarantee,”
he explains. “This last point was critical.
Having an open platform would allow us
to add other devices – including students’
own laptops and tablets. We also need the
solution to be planned and implemented
with minimum downtime. We don’t
have the resources to deal with
implementation problems.”
From an IT perspective, Atma Jaya Catholic
University of Indonesia faces several
challenges. It must meet strict government
regulations on IT standards, in terms of
facilities and broadband access, and,
as a private institution, it must meet these
without the aid of government funding.
The University aims to grow to 25,000
students by 2020, and plans to add a
fourth campus.