Application Solutions & Technologies Inc.

Providing complex IT solutions that are tailored to business needs inherently requires a consulting process with our clients. The consulting services are in our view the most value leveraged ones we offer. Whether we are talking about business efficiencies through IT, governance models or IP right issues, our approach is based on transparency, trust and thus fostering long-term relationships.

Our domain knowledge within banking & securities, insurance, government, telecom, education and the auto industry allows us offer solutions stemming from intensive analysis as well practical experience.

Besides consulting our clients, ASTI has also acted in a consultative role with the local government. Some of the themes were:
　-　In 2001-2002, ASTI has submitted ten consulting proposals to the Shanghai municipal government. Four consulting projects were approved by the mayor.
　-　Dr. Ju (Vice Chairman of ASTI) consulted on the topic of “How To Implement the State Policy Industrialization Driven By Informatization”
　-　The hosting of a “Global IT Outsourcing Summit 2003” in Shanghai
　-　Regularly invited to participate in government projects
　-　CMM Consulting & SPI
　-　Technical consulting on agile development methods for software vendors
　-　Production of a country report on China’s software industry to IEEE software

Many foreign companies have successfully outsourced to China. The benefits ASTI can offer you are:
　-　An experienced partner in China. Consultative knowledge transfer from projects experience (international and local)
　 -　Fluid procedures within the Chinese administration
　 -　Bridging the gap, both in terms of technology and culture
　 -　Transparency in all processes

In localization project within China, training is an inseparable element of consulting, outsourcing as well as application development. ASTI’s strong ties with the academic world as well as the industry create a natural affinity for training functions. With this vision ASTI has developed its own training center and is also partnering with other suppliers where a need exists. The training focuses mainly on topics of high-level application development (UML, OOAD), project management skills, ISO and CMM guidelines.

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.