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Overview of PICC Office Automation (OA) System
　　 The Office Automation (OA) System for the People’s Insurance Company of China is one of ASTI’s largest projects. This system has been working well in PICC Beijing Branch for more than one year while ASTI continues to extend this system to all of PICC’s branch offices in China—a total of more than 40 branches!
　　System Structure and Functions
　　 The OA System for PICC is based on the underlying PICC Intranet and the Lotus Notes/Domino software. Various PICC office workflow tasks have been computerized, thus making them paperless.

　　 The PICC OA System Subsystems Include:
　　 ■Official and Legal Document Management
　　 ■Workflow Management
　　 ■Today’s Tasks
　　 ■Personal Office Assistant
　　 ■Archive Management
　　 ■Public information and Forum Management
　　 ■System Management

Key Features ＆ System Characteristics
Today’s Tasks
　　 Conveniently manage your tasks (from other workflow subsystems) in one location! Eliminates the need to go into each subsystem to check outstanding tasks!
Workflow Auto Reminder
　　 Automatically remind yourself of the important tasks to be done for the day by configuring a notification time interval and selecting a notification prompt. The notification style is also user selectable.
Voice Comments
　　 Insert voice comments into documents as well as text comments to let others hear your opinions—a quick, useful alternative to manual input!
Secured Official Seal ＆ Signature Authentication
　　 Authenticate and certify documents by inserting a graphical stamp of the company’s official seal or signature in a document. The stamp and signature are password protected to ensure security.
Visual Workflow
　　 Visually locate a document’s position within the overall workflow process and determine who is currently responsible for processing that document by viewing the “visual workflow area”.
Role Delegation
　　 Delegate your role to other people during extended absences to maintaining routine workflow in a normal and continuous manner.
Ease of Installation
　　 Execute a simple installation program to setup the system quickly. No need to hassle with the complexity of Notes installation.
Multi-Location OA Workflow Information Exchange
　　 Coordinate workflow needs in multiple locations! Send documents to any point within the workflow process regardless of the physical location.
ASTI’s OA Software Services
　　 ASTI’s experience and expertise with OA systems and tools enables them to evaluate a company’s OA needs, write the specifications, and configure and deploy an OA system in minimal time.
　　 Exploiting the powerful Communication, Cooperation, and Information Sharing functions of Lotus Notes/Domino, we can develop systems that automate various office workflows and reduce, or eliminate the paper. If necessary, we can help your company plan, establish and construct an Internet/ Intranet based software system.
Our Customer Success Stories
　　 ■OA system for the PICC headquarters and over 40 subsidiaries in major cities all over China. Implementing the document flow among/within all of the PICC branches to achieve a “paperless office” (Lotus Notes)
　　 ■OA system for the Beijing Branch, Agricultural Bank of China
　　 ■Meeting Management System for Sino-Pec

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.