Sigma Cipta Caraka started in 1987 as an IBM Business Partner, being the first company of what is today called as the Sigma-Group. Started with 8 persons and 3 customers it developed clearly into the banking-industry until 1990. The hardware-business was thrust into the background: With selling and implementation of self-developed core-banking-system ALPHABITS and system-integration for the partner ARKSYS, by then 50 IT-experts made 6.4 m US$ revenue with 20 customers.

The first half of the nineties already showed, what has become self-evident today: The proactive exploration of new markets and the spinning off of new subsidiaries with continuous extension of the existing competencies. While Sigma Cipta Caraka headed further towards consultancy and founded partnerships with Microsoft, Eracom and Vision Solution, Ekakarya Teknik Cikara (etc) who has been engaging in cabling & networking was spinned off. The Joint Venture AIT Sigma, co-founded with a Malaysian company, could successfully set up business in the securities industry. With the first Indonesian Internet-Service-Provider indo.net, the group opened up for private customers offering services related to the exploding internet. Supplemented by Signet for corporate customers and supported by partners such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Cisco, the achievements of the former years were carried on.

The Asian economic crisis in 1997 and the 1998 riots in Indonesia were not able to stop the positive development of the company-group. When others left the country, when banks closed down and investment cost rose manifold due to the exchange rate of the US$, Toto Sugiri, Chairman of the Sigma-Group since 1989, founded more than one new company. From 1998 on, BaliCamp serves the continuously increasing demand for software development. In the mountains of the paradise island today more than 100 software engineers are producing new IT-solutions on behalf of international clients.Sigma Solusi Integrasi offers integration of FM- and ERP-Solutions for the manufacturers and trade-companies, expanding traditional consultancy for the banking-industry. Thereby it can rely on partnerships with Infinium and I2.

In the field of customer care, Sigma was able to found the Microsoft Business Internet Competency Centre together with Microsoft and Compaq. This is a unique non-profit institution for the training and consulting of companies, which are forced to keep up with the employment of the information-technology. When the crisis also put a rising cost-pressure on the banks, Sigma Cipta Caraka offered this with new services such as a data-centre, ASP and integrated shared ATM.

Compared to the beginning of the nineties, the conditions and requirements of the sector have changed completely. A challenge, that all Sigma subsidiaries are facing eagerly. The development of electronic marketplaces, distributed office-environments and payment-systems are new services, which have become daily matters for all of us.

Today, the Sigma-Group earns a revenue of 20 m US$ at 150 customers with 500 employees