Information Technology and Innovative Business Model Research Center

Director of the Center

Ming-Chia Hsu Assistant Professor

Office

T1025

Tel No.

886-6-23853131 ext. 8225

Academic Experience

Chihlee University of Technology

Chinese Enterprise Resource Planning Society

Academia Sinica

Industrial Technology Research Institute

Policy Research Consultant

E-Business Consultant

Area of Specialty

Enterprise Resource PlanningBusiness IntelligenceData MiningBlockchainInformation Project Management 


.Purpose of the establishment of the research center

Information technology now a days is advancing with each passing day, but in the cultivation of industrial talents, it is facing the problem of insufficient cultivation capacity. As a result, the industry always lacks suitable talents to help enterprises in the application and update of information technology in the introduction and application of new technologies.

In view of this, the center was established with the purpose of cultivating professional e-talents needed by the industry, which includes four core technologies and energies: SAP S/4 HANA, iCoder intelligent programming, Block Chain Services and Smart eVision which sets up Enterprise Situation Room. Through the promotion of information technology teaching to cultivate relevant talents, in order to achieve the goal of teaching, internship, employment, and industry-university cooperation is our teaching purpose.


. Tasks of the Research Center

A. internal and external courses offered

  • Cultivate future talents: Offer courses such as SAP S/4 HANA, iCoder, Block Chain, etc. for students on campus.

  • Industry function improvement: ERP, iCoder and other courses are offered for people who are working or transferring outside the school.

  • Down roots education: ERP start-up seed teacher programs for high school classes serving teachers, E-business concept will take root down to the younger students.

B. Discernible rationale license exam

The center is authorized by the National Central University ERP Society to establish the only cloud certification center in Tainan. Through the establishment of this center, teaching and certification exams are more closely linked. By holding enterprise E-based professional certification exams every semester, learning effectiveness is confirmed by the professional license, which also allows the students to get extra points on the resume, and enhances the employment competitiveness of the students.

C. Student Practice and Employment Matching

The center regularly sends students to the National Central University ERP Society,

HAND, Taiwan MTC and other companies to do ERP consultant internships every year, and actively builds bridges between schools and companies, expands students' opportunities to learn ERP, and values SAP's actual combat capabilities.

In addition, every semester, the center also tries to match outstanding students to get jobs in good companies, so as to narrow the gap between companies that can’t find suitable talents and students who can’t find good jobs.

D. Cooperation Project

Assist companies in developing professional WorkFlow systems, and provide education and training courses tailored to the needs of the company.


. Core Technology

A. SAP S/4 HANA

SAP is the world's largest supplier of enterprise management software and solutions. SAP S/4 HANA is the latest and most complete ERP system in the industry, with complete sales and distribution, procurement management, inventory management, financial management, cost analysis and personnel management and other functions. SAP has 50 years of experience in system development since it launched enterprise management software solutions in 1970, making SAP S/4 HANA the best choice for enterprise management optimization. SAP S/4 HANA can help companies reduce operating costs, improve operational performance, and enable companies to stand out from global competition.

B. iCoder Intelligent Programming AI Platform

  • Feature
  • Support various functions required by Workflow
  • Fast development, support system analysis file transposition to cloud system Support mobile commerce (APP)
  • Can print forms, export to Excel
  • Kanban management
  • Work Procedure function

  • Final Approval functionMulti-level approvalCountersignSignature
  • Permission settingCreate Users and Groups (role)
  • Organization structure:OrganizationRankAgent setting
  • Process argumentation:Ready-to proceed、Processing、Notification
  • Integrate mail and App
  • Support digital signature
  • Report printing (Form containing digital signature)
  • Kanban management


C. Smart eVision combat information center

  • System function
  • Dashboard page (Introduction of diversified components: Word cloud, map, Data table , light, trend, summary graph…etc)
  • Company characteristics and needs, support DW, OLAP, OLTP data sources and condition and size categories. (Multiple file types and pages)
  • Mobile device (App for AndroidiOSWindows 10)
  • PowerPoints Multi-page and situation room output.
  • Quickly produce the required dashboards and analysis reports through drag and drop

    • Dashboard
    • Analysis report
  • Support multiple data link methods

  • OLTP/OLAP
  • DW(Data warehouse)
  • Situation room presentation

  • Support a variety of situation room presentation methods
  • The situation room can be exported to multiple formats
  • Situation room output into PPT
  • Support mobile business


D. Supply Finance BlockChain

Blockchain is the world’s largest digital currency technology. It has been widely used in the financial industry. Its decentralization, non-modification and anti-counterfeiting features make the blockchain one of the world’s top 10 emerging technologies in the future, and it also attracts attention which has been paid to medical, insurance, education, manufacturing, retail, logistics and other industries, and then blockchain technology has been introduced into different industries for a wide range of applications.

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology is leading other domestic colleges and universities. In addition to incorporating blockchain into formal teaching courses, it also issues digital currencies circulated in the market. The center has also developed a financial blockchain system of teaching for students to learn.



All departments in the College of Business were accredited by ACCSB during August 2014-July 2018.


The College of Business was accredited by AACSB in May 2017.
The College of Business passed the AACSB Continuous Improvement Review (CIR) in February 2022.