Internship Report

Internship Report - PT. Vikasa Infinity Anugrah

Information Technology 2014 Leonardo Kurnia

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INTERNSHIP REPORT PT. Vikasa Infinity Anugrah

by

Leonardo Kurnia 11402017

Internship Report

Submitted to

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STUDY PROGRAM

Edutown BSD City Tangerang 15339

INDONESIA February 2016

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SWISS GERMAN UNIVERSITY



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APPROVAL PAGE

15-02-2016

Supervisor Head of Study Program

Hery Atmadja Dipl. -Inf. Kho I Eng



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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Hery Atmadja, President Director of

PT. Vikasa Infinity Anugrah for providing me an opportunity to do my internship at

Infinity Solutions.

The internship has been a very good experience for me that it has given me a

chance to learn in so many different areas related to the ERP solution outside the

classroom. I’ve learnt a lot about the office environment, work ethics, and self

independent allowing me to improve significantly.

I sincerely thank Mr. David Salim and Mr. Ivan Wirawan for their guidance

throughout the internship in both functional and technical area of ERP. I also wish

to express my gratitude to Mr. Iwan Prasetya, Ms. Atika Wijayanti, Ms. Aryani, Ms.

Ghimaris Ghivaris, and all other family members of Infinity Solutions who always

rendered their help during the period of my internship.

Last but not least, I would like to thank our loving and almighty God for giving me

the opportunity to learn so many new things during my internship experience and

also for providing me the strength and knowledge to carry out the assignments

given to me throughout my internship.



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL PAGE ......................................................................................... 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................... 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................. 4 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 5

Internship Placement .................................................................................. 5 A Brief of the Company ............................................................................... 5 Purpose ...................................................................................................... 6 Benefits ...................................................................................................... 7

CHAPTER 2 - LEARNING EXPERIENCE ...................................................... 8 General ...................................................................................................... 8 Specific ...................................................................................................... 9 Major Obstacles ........................................................................................ 12 Suggestions .............................................................................................. 12

CHAPTER 3 - CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 13 REFERENCE MATERIALS .......................................................................... 14

Bibliography ............................................................................................. 14 Pictures .................................................................................................... 14



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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION

Internship Placement

Company Name PT. Vikasa Infinity Anugrah

Address Wisma Presisi 2nd Fl.

Jl. Taman Aries Blok A1 No. 1

Meruya Utara – Kembangan

Jakarta Barat 11620

Indonesia

Telephone +62 21 5890-2022

Department Technical

Department Head Name Mr. Ivan Wirawan

Supervisors Name Mr. Hery Atmadja

Email Address [email protected]

A Brief of the Company

Infinity Solutions is the vehicle chosen by the founders who aspire in developing

and harnessing open source based IT solution for small and medium enterprises

to improve their business. Backed by an extensive IT consulting and system

development know-how from their past experience both as IT service supplier as

well as industry operator, the company thrives in providing a practical and

beneficial solution for the clients. Since 2008, the company have been providing

consulting service, application development and technical support to clients in

various industries, including manufacturing, health care, banking,



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telecommunication and marine transportation. The company’s success has been

and will always be measured by the success or values realized by the clients.

As a company or a family rather, Infinity Solutions is a group of experienced and

well rounded team in implementing Odoo solution. That expertise is also

complemented with years of implementing other tier-1 ERP solutions in large

enterprises across multiple industry sectors in previous career paths.

As the longest tenured Odoo Partner in the country since 2010, the primary focus

has been delivering Odoo based solutions. Why Odoo? Because, the company truly

believe that everyone and every organization deserves to enjoy a business

software that gives freedom. Freedom from being vendor-locked-in, freedom of

improving the solution itself, freedom of ultimately owning the solution itself....to

say the least.

Infinity Solution is the currently the oldest Odoo partner providing service along

with other Odoo partners around the world. Odoo S.A. itself is the software editor

of the Business Application Suite called Odoo. Formerly known as OpenERP, Odoo

S.A. was founded in 2004 by Fabien Pinckaers, its current CEO. The company

consists of 250 employees, 6 offices (Belgium, San Francisco, New York,

Luxembourg, India and Hong Kong). Odoo thrives in a unique and fully open

ecosystem combining the resources of its open source community, partners and

resellers. With activities in 120 countries, Odoo can count on its vast network of

more than 550 official partners who provide the solutions locally.

Purpose

a. To develop an understanding of employment work ethic and responsibility.

b. Experience working at the office along with co-workers.

c. Get to know new people and build connections for the future.

d. Put into practice the lessons that have been taught in class from previous

semesters.

e. Obtain knowledge that can be useful for the future.



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Benefits

a. New knowledge in the area of ERP, Python programming, and setting up VM

servers.

b. Get a better understanding in the area of Wordpress management and

Ubuntu OS.

c. Improved confidence and self-independence along with presentation skills.

d. Get a better understanding on proper communication between clients, co-

workers, and managers/supervisors.

e. New experience working at the office.



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CHAPTER 2 - LEARNING EXPERIENCE

General

Throughout the internship I learned a lot of important thing in the company in

which most of them are related to soft skills. Although this may not be clearly seen,

soft skills are very crucial in the business world.

My supervisor said that it is important for us as someone working in the IT to

develop our communication skill since it is as important as our technical skills.

Often times people working in IT does not have a good communication skill; hence,

they are not able to communicate well with the client.

During my internship, I observed and learned a lot the proper way to communicate

with client. Not only as simple as being polite, but the variety and selection of

words that is used to converse with the client. I observed that my supervisor used

a lot of professional terms while explaining the product to the client.

I also learned a lot of new technical words or terms that are used at work. For

example, instead of download we used pull, and instead of upload we used push.

Teamwork is also one of the important things that I learned throughout my

internship. I can see that all the employees consider each other as not only a friend

but as a family. When one has a problem, others will be willing to help despite of

the difficulty. Personally I encounter so many difficulties when carrying out some

of my tasks. No matter how simple my question is or even how silly my question

is, my co-workers are always willing to help me although I’m just an intern. Not

only my co-workers but my supervisors are always available and willing to help me

when I encounter difficulties.

I also personally learned a lot from my supervisor. Instead of being a boss he is

being a leader. He sits among us and having the same desk with us rather than

being in a private room for himself. This way it doesn’t only show that he’s humble

but it also allows his employees to communicate well and better with him. He

positioned himself among us rather than above of us.



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Specific

Instead of just learning one specific knowledge or concept throughout my

internship, my assignment varies in different areas of IT from creating salary rules

while configuring the payroll module, experience learning the ERP’s business logic,

setting up VMware servers, setting up Ubuntu server operating system, assisting

in web development of the company’s website, analysing python codes, to

research and development of Odoo database migration.

My first assignment during internship is more of an introduction to the ERP. My

assignment was to setup the proper environment to run Odoo version 9 and 7 to

carry out my assignments. This is when I put to practice the lessons I learned

related to the object oriented programming, although the programming language

used is Python, which I have never learned before, rather than Java. From this

assignment I started to feel how the Python programming language is much

simpler but yet more powerful compared to the Java programming language.

Through this exercise I’m also getting used to using the Ubuntu Linux command

line and reading error logs which I have only experienced a little at the first

semester database class.

After successfully installing the environment, my next task is to research methods

of database migration from the currently used OpenERP version 7 to Odoo’s latest

release version 9. This task is one of the most if not the most challenging task

since I still have a lot to learn about the basics of ERP and python programming.

This also requires me to recall my knowledge about PostgreSQL since the database

used by the OpenERP is not the usual MySQL but rather PostgreSQL which I’m not

used to deal with. In this assignment, I have to be able to analyse all the

architecture, structure, and flow of the ERP in both version 7 and 9 to be able to

carry out the migration. This assignment is very challenging since there are very

less online source or documentations that I can refer to. Most of the documentation

and online guide available are about the migration to version 8 of Odoo instead of

version 9. This is also a new experience for me since I have to research and try



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solving problems with less assistance from online references; moreover, the tools

and support for migration to version 9 are still under development.

Beside doing some research and experiments on migration, my supervisor also

shifted my assignments temporarily to focus more on assisting in the completion

of the company’s web development. In this assignment, I will put to practice some

of my knowledge from my second semester web programming lesson; however,

the company website is not configured or developed using a direct web

programming codes, but using Wordpress content management system in which I

have little experience and knowledge about. I learned that using Wordpress or

similar content management system can reduce a lot of work load required while

coding web from a blank page, and thus speeds up the web development process.

While carrying out the migration task, I experimented on a tool developed by the

Odoo Community Association (OCA) called OpenUpgrade to perform migrations at

different Odoo database versions. This tool, nevertheless, only supports migration

up to version 8 of Odoo. OpenUpgrade for branch 9 is till under development. This

assignment requires me to read and learn a lot from an online documentation

provided by OCA including utilizing the information available their GitHub. While

experimenting with OpenUpgrade I encounter a lot of difficulties and errors which

I have to troubleshoot and resolve with less online resource or guide.

Another assignment that is given to me is to configure the payroll module

requested directly from the client. This assignment is not only focusing on the

technical side of ERP but also the functional side since it requires me to understand

the flow and some of the business logic used at the employee payroll module.

While carrying out this assignment, I learned about the payroll flow from

employee, employee working contract, salary rules, salary structure, and the

employee pay slip. My assignment, specifically, is to configure the salary rules

considering the local taxation rules and insurance which requires me to do a

research about the Indonesian tax rules, then create the python code for all the

salary rules. This is another quite challenging task for me since I have never before

dealt with taxes. The assignment allows me to become more familiar with the local



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tax calculation rules which will be very useful for me in the future. After configuring

the salary rules, I was assign to validate and test the salary rules along with one

of my co-workers who is a business analyst; this assignment requires me to

practice team work being able to work with my fellow co-workers. Since the

assignment is related to the company’s ongoing project, I have to be able to pace

myself to finish my work and allow some time for my work to be tested together

with my co-worker before the deadline.

After completing the configuration of the salary rules I’m also really grateful that I

can have the experience to come along in a training session meeting with client as

an observer and seeing my work being tested directly in front of the client as well.

This way I am able to see the whole process from development up to the

presentation for the client.

Beside working with salary rules python expressions, I was also assigned to create

some scheduled action configuration related to the payroll module itself to resolve

problems faced due to limitations of the salary rules python expressions; moreover,

I was also assigned to create a file upload import configuration for overtime

calculation allowing the user to upload a spreadsheet in form of CSV then importing

the data to the database.

Another task assigned to me focuses in the area of operating system level. The

company’s internal server experienced a crash and therefore need to be completely

reinstalled. This assignment is an opportunity for me to learn setting up a VMware

server platform from a blank start. This assignment challenges and pushes me

further to learn and get used to the Ubuntu Linux command line since the server

operating system does not have any GUI. I was assigned to reinstall the VM

operating system for both the company’s website and the company’s internal ERP

system. I learned a lot of new things from configuring network of the VM operating

systems, SSH connections, setting up apache server, and the management of

multiple VM itself. This can be one of the most important knowledge that can be

very useful for my future study and work.



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The last task assigned to me is related back to the database migration to version

9. I was asked to research about another tool developed by another IT

development group that can be used for migration called ETL (export, transform,

load). This method is very similar to the export-import method of the Odoo data

migration and looks more promising to migrate data to version 9. The module is

initially configured to run migration up to version 8; I was assigned to modify some

of the codes and resolve errors to allow migration to version 9. This assignment is

another challenging task for me since there is absolutely no English version

documentation for this migration method, therefore I will be required to analyse

the flow of the module and later attempt to perform the migration.

Last but not least, I was also asked to create a documentation for the research

that I have made in relation to the Odoo database migration from OpenERP version

7 to Odoo version 9.

Major Obstacles

Personally, I do not face any major obstacle throughout my internship. My only

concern during my internship is my punctuality and adaptation to the work

environment. Since there is no strict time constraint at the office, I’m having a

difficult time to practice commitment and punctuality which is one of the area that

I have to work on improving. This is also my first experience not having a long

holiday during Christmas which I still have to get used to when working in a

professional world in the future.

Suggestions

To be able to solve my punctuality issue I believe that a specific start time have to

be enforced at my working environment and practice on my self commitment so

that I may improve myself. I realize that punctuality will be a great concern for me

when working in a larger company which may considers tardiness. I should not

keep on compromising my commitment to my schedule.



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CHAPTER 3 - CONCLUSION

The internship has been a really useful experience for me that I can learn a lot of

new knowledge that will definitely be useful for my future study. I’m grateful that

my assignments have a lot of variety instead of just focusing on a specific area.

This allows me to be able to learn more and also challenge myself to overcome

many different kinds of difficulties encountered during my internship. Having many

assignments also require me to manage my work time efficiently prioritizing the

urgent tasks.

Some task requires me to do a research with less available online documentation,

other task requires me to make attempts on works that I have never experienced

before just by learning from documentations. Although the tasks may be difficult

and overwhelming sometimes, I’m really excited to push my skill to the limit and

carry out those tasks assigned to me.

Beside technical skills, I also observed and learned a lot of soft skills from my

supervisors and my co-workers such as professional communication and

teamwork. I have also learned a lot from my supervisor who’s always willing to

help me when I face difficulties and also willing to share a lot of his knowledge

and wisdom to me from his past experience.

My internship experience has definitely improved my hard skills in IT and sharpen

my soft skills a lot more than I expected. It have shaped a better mind-set in me

and motivated me to keep on exploring and challenging myself in the world of

information technology.



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REFERENCE MATERIALS

Bibliography

• Infinity Solutions Website

http://www.infi-nity.com

• Odoo Website

https://www.odoo.com

Pictures



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