‘Santoso Indonesia’ goes Regional
Wonder how you can benefit from latest platform of Microsoft ? Nice graphics, Aero Glass, DVD Maker, Games is all there - I don’t need to explain further for those great stuff. But really, how’s a company justify the value of investment towards Microsoft latest build ? That’s what we challenge internally to recreate the demo culture so that people understand the benefit of Ms innovation.
We prepare the 10 minutes demo scenario of medium size company call Santoso Indonesia. You might often hears about fiction company in every Microsoft demo called ‘Contoso’ rite ? 
For the sake of refreshness and bring local context, we choose Santoso. Its a medium Indonesian craft exporter company who just recently using Vista and Office 2007.
The snapshot above is part of the 10 minutes demo, it’s a scorecard gadget for Windows SideBar - which initiate the business scenario we try to convey. Next time I will drill down through each capabilities of better together Vista & Office 2007, to cut the story short - this scenario was choosen to represent Indonesia compete with other countries in South East Asia. My team, Roy - is all out to win the competition and bring us to the next level. Tough competition will be coming from Singapore, Malaysia, Phillipines, but we’ll see… We’ve got to win, and make our way to Redmond. I hope..
Btw, if you want to find out more about the Santoso Dashboard Gadget that I created.. You can download it here, all you need is a Windows SideBar (in Vista), install it and let me know what you think. Source code is also available, you may use it for demo purpose only.
http://hadiwinata.net/ioDashboard.gadget
