Application Solutions & Technologies Inc.

ASTI (Application Solutions & Technologies Inc.), as a professional software development & service provider, located in Maryland, United States, was founded by venture capital in 1990. ASTI has two foreign wholly-owned subsidiary companies in Shanghai and Beijing, and one development center in Xi’an, China. During the past 12 years, we successfully provide professional software solutions and services for oversees and domestic enterprises. The motivation is to provide quality software services and to accelerate the customer's time to pave the way for successful project transfer and delivery in Asia and USA. Combined with top talents from world famous companies and institutes, ASTI has both strong technical team and management team to accumulate extensive experience in product and technology development. The focused industrial areas include: Finance, HR Business & Services, manufacturing and so on. Maintaining a focus on the business problem supported with on-demand solutions/software customization greatly shortens the development cycle and leverages our customers' IT investment. Besides, we have long term business partner relationship with multi-national companies, like IBM, Microsoft, Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, and Advent Software etc., to provide application software development, legacy application system migration, software localization development, software testing, and support services.

ASTI has high commitment to the quality for our customers. ASTI is one of key companies to initiate Shanghai Software Quality Consortium and Shanghai SPIN. Our professional team and quality system are the key factors to ensure ASTI to meet the quality, schedule and cost requirements of the most demanding customers. Through our seamless international infrastructure and best business practice, we would like to share our successful experience with our multinational companies.

Our customer, a commercial bank in US, realized that Internet banking is on a track to become a strategic necessity to promote its competitive position. ASTI, as their long term consulting services and software development provider, finally was selected to implement internet banking solution for them……

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	iNTACS e.V. (registered association) was founded as a non-profit organisation on May 11th, 2006. 27 representatives of different companies from 15 countries signed the foundation protocol. Peter Bölter (SQS AG) was unanimously elected President of iNTACS e.V. The Vice Presidents are Dr. Ludger Meyer (Siemens CT) and Prof. Dr. Dehua Ju (ASTI Shanghai, China). Klaus Dehmel (Delphi Grundig) has been elected to the board as well. Within the registered association iNTACS e.V., representatives of consultancies, automotive industry, finance and supply industry come together as well as scientists and researchers. The association is based in Berlin. One of its tasks is to provide for a worldwide standardised training for SPiCE assessors. Prof. Hindel had initiated the official foundation after he had been pushing the idea of this standard training together with former representatives of the Bootstrap Institute and the SPiCE user group since 2003. The International Assessor Certification Scheme (iNTACS) has been developed in response to requests from industry for the purpose of education and certification of process assessors compliant to ISO/IEC 15504.

	ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society recognize Dehua Ju for Outstanding Contributions to the Software Engineering Community as Conference Coordination Committee Co-Chair of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006)

	Prof. Dehua Ju won the Lifetime Achievements Award for Software Engineering Excellence from United Cultural Convention, U.S.

	In Global Year of Science 2006, Prof. Dehua Ju has been officially awardedThe Archimedes Award for significant contributions to Software Engineering Research and Education, given by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.

	Prof. Dehua Ju accepted an honor invitation to be the founding member of the International Assessor Certification Scheme (iNTACS) Association and elected as a board member of iNTACS, to jointly promote the international standard for software process improvement SPiCE/ ISO 15504.