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One of the huge effort in Microsoft’s software technology to achieve interoperability with other vendors is to promote the portability of data through three steps.

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Microsoft Corp., describes the three steps to create an open format, allowing export and import data and technology architecture support.

“Interoperability is very important for computing devices, software and services used by consumers and growing are manifold. Industrial [IT] to be very heterogeneous,” he said, speaking in the Regional Innovation Forum 2008 this morning.

In terms of data formats, go Brad, Microsoft has opened the technical documents related to the data format used by the software company. Documents protected trade secret laws and that closed earlier today anyone can learn, including developers, allowing sourcce open exchange of data.

The next step is to realize interoperability allows the import and export files in formats different. “Our products can read data from other products, and vice versa. Then our product can save files in formats other products, and senaliknya,” said Brad.

Interoperability is achieved by designing the architecture that supports various formats of other products, one of them via a plug-in technology, Microsoft. Plug-ins in general is a component of accessory to the software that can perform certain functions, in this case the data exchange.

Busines Software Alliance (BSA) re-organized the Regional Innovation Forum 2008 with a focus on the theme of competitiveness and public policy in the IT sector, as well as reduction Cybercrime. Seminar and panel discussion was attended by over 100 delegates representing the software industry, government agencies, law enforcement agencies, universities and IP practitioners from several countries in Asia.

The Indonesian delegation of eight people from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Research and Technology including Penkajian Agency and Application of Technology (BPPT).

“This forum is a place to share and exchange ideas with delegates gather background different so as to bring diversity of perspective,” said Robert Holleyman, President & CEO of Business Software Alliance (BSA) in the opening speech this morning.

The first theme will discuss the factors necessary to foster competitiveness and create the information technology sector. The second theme discusses how public policy role in promoting the availability of technology options can push this industry, especially software. The third theme to talk about prevention Cybercrime and faktir factors to create the information technology industry is sustainable.

“It’s time for Asian countries to speak. The position of Asia become increasingly important as the engine driving the growth in the technology sector and the economy,” said Geoffrey Yu, Deputy Chairman, IP (Intellectual Property) Singapore Academy.

Speakers in the Regional Innovation Forum 2008, among others, comes from Microsoft, Washington University School of Law, the Economist Intelligence Unit, BSA and government agencies Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and the Philippines. BSA is an anti-piracy organization whose members are world-enterprise software company, founded in 1998 with offices in 80 countries.