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Microsoft Indonesia, Product Marketing Manager
The combination of high cell-phone usage and low desktop internet penetration in Indonesia is fostering a vibrant market for mobile applications. In 2013, software-development company Sangkuriang Internasional targeted this opportunity in mobile banking, creating EMASS (Encrypted Messaging and Secured Services), a secure instant messaging service that allows financial institutions to make payments via cell phones.
To launch EMASS as a service, Sangkuriang needed a cost-effective way to host the EMASS backend systems for each mobile app.
“We are a software-development company, not a service provider. We wanted a partner to host EMASS for us, but their service had to be reliable, easy to work with and affordable,” said Oka Sugandi, Director of Sangkuriang Internasional. “For financial institutions to trust us, it also had to be 100 percent secure.”
Sangkuriang also needed to select a cloud service that worked well with the wide range of EMASS technologies, including Linux for core server messaging, and support multiple device platforms, including Windows, iOS, Blackberry, and Android.
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