Collaborative Development PlatformIBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)
The widespread use of mobile devices such as phones and tablets and new uses ...
Background of the solution :
With the rapid development of the Internet, virtual/remote collaboration has become a challenge that enterprises can't avoid. Acer AEB's collaborative development platform is intended to leverage outstanding IT tools to address issues in virtual/remote collaborative development, such as file management, version synchronization, team communication, and document approval.
About the solution :
Acer AEB offers clients a dedicated collaborative development platform built upon IBM ELM, with open standards, unified databases, modular architecture, consistent client application, and integrated server software. It includes the following products: IBM® Engineering Workflow Management IBM® Engineering Requirements DOORS® Next IBM® Engineering Test Management IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® - Model Manager
Highlighted benefits:
Project management tools supporting multiple standards: Providing Agile and Scrum, as well as standard project management flows and templates, with Agile style management tools including burndown charts, Kanban, and task boards.
Quantified project management dashboard: All data in the project development cycle is automatically compiled and presented in the form of dashboards and reports. Metrics such as progress, cost, quality, and personnel loading are organized to the CMMI ML4 standard.
Comprehensive change management: Changes in codes are associated to change sets, job orders, and defect tickets. The comprehensive change management system perfectly meets the requirement of baseline management and version change audit.
Subcontractor management with role-based access control: The IBM ELM platform features clearly defined roles and comprehensive audit flow.
With expanded automotive compliance templates, IBM ELM enables automotive best practice, offering ideal practice templates and tool sets to assist automotive electronics industry enterprises with ASPICE certification.
Case studies:
Manufacturing: Acer AEB helped a leading Taiwanese manufacturing enterprise in the deployment of the IBM CLM (later rebranded as ELM) full-range solution, covering hundreds of software projects. The client achieved paperless workflow, with traceable software development records. With the help of IBM CLM, the software development team reached maximum efficiency in communication and collaboration.
Telecommunication: The client's AP development plan involved the collaboration of four different parties, namely the project manager (Enterprise SI), onsite developer (Developer A), onside developer (Developer B), and the client's MIS. Under the guidance of Acer, the client successfully tailor-made a collaborative solution for all four parties based on IBM CLM, and built a flow template for the reference of subsequent projects.
Financial: Due to regulations in the financial sector, many transactions have to be authorized by different units. The development flow would be heavily hindered if petitions, correspondences, dispatch lists, defect tracing tickets, change notices, and version records were all processed in physical form. After the transition to IBM CLM, all development activities are integrated into the existing business flow in the form of digital files, greatly improving development efficiency while maintaining legal compliance.
For more information: Email: david.tt.wang@aceraeb.com
Electronic publishing provides significant benefits for publishing houses and company publishing departments, including substantial cost savings, greater subscriber satisfaction, increased publication circulations and mailing cost savings. Drawing on its many years of experience in the publishing industry, Acer AEB has introduced a new Walking Library e-publishing service platform using the latest Internet information technology. The platform provides a new reading experience by offering electronic publications that feel like paper publications. Readers do not need any specialist computer knowledge and do not have to go through the hassle of installing any additional reader apps; they simply use their computer's built-in web browser in the same way as they would to browse any webpage. This is all it takes to enjoy the convenience of e-publishing and experience a new kind of reading.
˙Benefits of the Walking Library:
▪Almost no investment risk with no need to purchase any system ▪Powerful circulation capabilities that enable market expansion ▪Reduced inventory risks and lower return costs ▪Perfect copyright management that safeguards valuable content ▪Clear accounting and rational profit distributions ▪Leveraging of diverse channels to develop overseas markets ▪Experience the publishing and editing platform today
Walking Library target audience
The functions of the Walking Library e-publishing service platform are suitable for publications in all fields and are flexible enough to fit business models in every industry. Acer AEB's professional team can also provide solutions that satisfy publishing companies' customization requirements and sharpen their competitive edge. In response to different publishers' products and operating characteristics, the Walking Library has already developed the following solutions to date to meet the varying needs of different publishing formats:
▪iMagazine: iMagazine's design philosophy always looks at the world from the perspective of the publisher and the subscribers. By lowering the total cost of ownership, iMagazine makes it easy for magazine publishers to move into this new e-publishing era. The iMagazine solution offers a brand new set of technology platforms and benefits that better meet publishers' needs:
♦The browser-based solution does not require subscribers to install any special reader software; subscribers only need a built-in web browser to read the e-magazine.
♦The iMagazine solution beautifully and exquisitely captures the feel of reading paper publications. This dramatically reduces reader entry barriers so that publishers can quickly expand their markets.
♦Free use of the production platform allows publishers full control of their publishing. As long as the publisher's editorial department has computers with built-in browsers, there is no need to install any e-book-making tools or editing software. With nothing more than built-in browsers, editorial departments can immediately edit and produce e-magazines and make corrections or change ad pages at any time to keep up with publishing demands in this era of ever-increasing speed.
♦Full copyright protection and a diverse range of reader management methods: With complete mechanisms to protect their valuable digital content assets and a greater variety of reader management methods, publishers can consider more diversified business models to create new revenue streams, including models such as corporate e-magazine group purchases and consumer book rentals.
▪iBook: The iBook e-book solution, which comes with full copyright protections, allows publishers to dramatically cut printing costs, reduce logistics expenses and overcome the inventory, returns and billing difficulties that often result from long supply chains and complicated distribution channels. Whether you are a large publishing house or a freelance writer, the iBook solution makes it easy for you to reap the new benefits of e-publishing, including benefits to your publishing activities and your business operations.
▪iBrochure: Acer AEB's iBrochure solution provides multinational companies with a fast online publishing solution. Without any upfront investment in digital information, companies can use Acer AEB's iBrochure online solution to digitally publish their Chinese and English briefs, product catalogs, regular customer care materials and other publications, thus immediately leveraging the benefits of e-publishing to expand their global marketing vision, strengthen relationships with their partners and make their customer service faster and more sophisticated.
▪iCatalog: Large-scale merchandisers regularly mail out large volumes of member catalogs, special sales publications and anniversary materials. This expense often represents a huge part of their annual budgets. Yet due to members' addresses constantly changing, these publications often do not get the anticipated results even though the merchandisers have invested heavily in mailing them out. The Walking Library created the iCatalog solution to address this unique industry issue. iCatalog enables large-scale merchandisers to maximize the benefits of e-publishing to significantly reduce their annual catalog budgets while increasing member satisfaction and quickly responding to competitors' promotional moves. iCatalog allows merchandisers to help members and prospective customers quickly understand their business dynamics, get product information, receive event updates and more. With iCatalog, you get guaranteed and timely results for your business revenue.
▪iKnowledge: Traditional full-text search functions invariably undo all the effort publishers put into perfecting both the text and the illustrations in their products to make for highly enjoyable reading. The old method means users can only read publishers' works in text mode. Acer AEB's iKnowledge solution not only provides a powerful cross-book keyword search function, but it delivers a full, high-quality reading experience with multimedia-embedded finished works filled with both outstanding text and attractive illustrations. iKnowledge is especially suitable for magazine, academic journal and textbook publishers as a solution for building a publication database. A publication database allows publishers to consider more varied business directions and licensing models.
▪iMemory: Acer AEB's iMemory solution fully combines the advantages of traditionally published photography with the benefits of digital multimedia. This makes it the ideal solution for school graduation memory books, wedding photo collections, personal photos, family photos and other materials for which the emotional component of the viewing experience is important. The result is a brand-new viewing experience as well as a 24/7 web service for readers. Wherever they are, whenever they want, readers can add to and enjoy their collection of beautiful memories of growth and development.
For more information: Email：ebook.service@aceraeb.com
Solution: A new graphical interface reality that transforms 4GL systems
The widespread use of mobile devices such as phones and tablets and new uses of cloud technology have forced companies to...
Usage background:
The widespread use of mobile devices such as phones and tablets and new uses of cloud technology have forced companies to restructure their legacy systems and upgrade to more efficient integrated operations. Especially in visual and graphical applications, systems need to match user and cloud scenarios to offer instant communication and allow users to take in information at a glance.
The solution:
Based on the 4JS Genero tool, this solution enables radical GUI, web and mobile changes in original 4GL applications while preserving the logic of the original programs to quickly and easily make the original systems graphical and visual. Traditional system interfaces are beautifully transformed to bring them up to date with the new generation's trend toward graphics and visuals.
Features and benefits:
Reduce unnecessary redevelopment costs and increase developer productivity.
Protect the results gained over time in specific areas and quickly meet market demands for constant changes to application systems.
Provide the latest user-friendly interfaces that can run programs simultaneously on desktops, in web browsers, on mobile devices and in the cloud.
Even without recompiling, run programs on Unix, Linux and Windows platforms without noticing any difference.
Break through previous restrictions and connect to databases of different brands at the same time.
Acer AEB Cloud-Based Ticketing Platform provides ticket vendors (e.g. art exhibitions, entertainment shows...
Application areas:
Acer AEB Cloud-Based Ticketing Platform provides ticket vendors (e.g. art exhibitions, entertainment shows, sporting events, transportation, tourist attractions, stadiums, etc.) and ticketing agencies with full IT service applications, including architecture design and planning, system operation and maintenance, traffic analysis, ticket sales monitoring and real-time extension adjustment. In digital marketing, the platform provides a variety of tools, combines multiple sales modules and develops e-tickets in apps to effectively improve the ticketing performance.
Solution architecture:
Features and benefits:
• Total solution service design: One-stop service including virtual access to websites, mobile app ticket sales/verification, physical ticket office sales, ticket sales and collection at machines in convenience stores, backstage management, data reporting, personnel management, etc. • Long-standing expertise in ticketing: With decades of practical experience in operating B2C ticketing websites, we are very familiar with the requirements of event organizers and can provide professional advice to help reduce costs. • A wealth of experience in successful ticketing projects: The development team has an average of over 10 years of ticketing experience covering art, entertainment, shows, sporting events, tourist attractions and transportation. • Reliable technical resources: Integrates relevant hardware, application systems, data analysis, information security and other specialist areas within the Acer Group to provide services. • Always developing value-added applications so we can grow with our customers: Focusing on mobile applications and developing value-added applications such as mobile app ticket verification, QR code and RFID ticket entry and KIOSK ticket sales and collection.
For more information: Email: fenny.lin@aceraeb.com
Microsoft Azure Accounts and Performance Analytics Dashboard (APAD)
While Azure has many technical advantages...
Scenario:
While Azure has many technical advantages, it has an obvious problem in practice: Its account entries and resource usage reports are not user-friendly. If officers wish to know the details of the usage, they rely on IT staff to spend time helping them. To manage Azure transactions and resources more efficiently, Acer AEB launched the Microsoft Azure Accounts and Performance Analytics Dashboard (APAD), which visualizes the account details of Azure in an easy-to-read way. A high level of interactivity of Power BI reports allows customers to easily navigate their account contents.
Target audience:
• People who have already used Microsoft Azure but whose requirements are not met by the base reports. • People who need account analysis to help control and use resources.
System software: : Power BI Pro
Architecture diagram: (No translation required)
Features and benefits:
• Provides Power BI cloud reports for users to easily analyze usage information and use Azure efficiently. • Accounts categorized by need: To easily check the total cost of an individual service (department) and the cost entries. • Resources categorized by need: To easily view the resource usage graph of an individual service (department) and quickly determine the performance status. • Real-time alerts for abnormal usage: Actively provides alerts indicating a potential capital security issue if resources are abnormally high. • Discover the secret to saving money: Easier master of the relationship between costs and resource usage offers you the opportunity to discover whether you need to change the subscription level to maximize the efficiency of your budget. • Advanced analytics tools: Uses Power BI for analytics to gain more insight and view reports on mobile devices.
Acer AEB was the first to introduce credit card payment...
Application areas:
Acer AEB was the first to introduce credit card payment capabilities into supply chain cash flow operations, allowing upstream and downstream vendors in supply chains to quickly and securely move cash in and out after completing ordering transactions. The solution uses purchasing cards provided specifically to upstream suppliers and downstream purchasers, along with card-issuing banks and acquiring banks working in existing credit card operations systems to provide buyers and sellers with cash flow services for purchases. The purchasing cards may be issued to corporations—with the card holder being the corporation—or, if necessary, to an individual. In this scenario, the card-issuing bank can provide an advance on the purchase amount, and, thanks to the acquiring bank's payment guarantee and fast charging, the supplier who accepts a purchasing card can reduce accounts receivable and collections costs.
Solution architecture:
eSupplier Hub features and services:
• Full web interface allowing easy-to-use, real-time online authorization, checkout and querying functions • Provides both API system integration and PayPage interfacing to work with supply chains that have different order processing methods • Offers business model consulting and planning services • Provides system interfacing services for the bank side and the supply chain side • System flexibility to address supply chain needs For more information: Email: vivian.chang@aceraeb.com
Remote Working — Check-In/Out for Work and Check-In for Meetings
Scenario:
Microsoft Teams addresses the needs of companies in relation to remote working, enabling colleagues who are not in the office to collaborate—for example, file exchange, instant messaging, video conferencing and task assignments—all on the same platform. The system is able to record work content, but it is difficult to track when employees are online or offline. We therefore provide a check-in function at the workplace to record when and where employees actually check in or check out, to ensure that employees are productive. We also provide a meeting check-in function to collect presence and absence data for employees.
Target audience:
The world has changed, and many businesses are now opting for the WFH (Work From Home) working pattern.
In accordance with the Chinese Labor Standards Act, authorities and units are required to provide working time records.
System software:
Windows 8.1 or later
Power Apps
Architecture diagram: (No translation required)
Features and benefits:
• Remote-working employees' check-in and check-out time and location. • Remote conference check-in feature and dashboard display to determine the presence and absence status of employees.
The AEB CMP (Cloud Management Platform) integrates technology...
Scenario:
The AEB CMP (Cloud Management Platform) integrates technology, people and programs to help transform the data center into strategic and flexible business assets. The management services focus on the management of various environments, automation as well as virtualization and cross-platform integration and management, offering businesses peace of mind and a wide range of cloud services. Public clouds provided by each original factory adopt the same basic architecture, development tools and management programs, and feature the corresponding application systems and services. Companies can choose between public, private or hybrid cloud services and, depending on actual operational requirements, switch to AWS or GCP cloud service models at any time.
Target audience:
Those who have already used virtualization technology and are using multiple original public clouds to increase computing power. Those who want to increase the flexibility of use and have no concerns about the agility of data movement.
System software:
• Microsoft Azure • AEB CMP Architecture diagram: (No translation required)
Features and benefits:
With the AEB CMP, enterprise customers can use the Self-Service Portal to measure the workload and generate monitoring reports for management or billing. Provides the type of service that meets the customer's needs. Scale-out and backup of service performance can be easily provided through the cloud.
