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annual report 2006 23
Easy does it for iASPire.net
With the strength of its reputation for making IT simple
for enterprises, our associate company, iASPire.net Pte Ltd
(“iASPire”), has landed a number of new accounts in the
year for its diverse offerings that range from enterpriseclass
infrastructure to managed service subscriptions.
Enterprises like FCI Asia, Rodyk & Davidson Advocates &
Solicitors, Golden Concord, P4 Engineering and Bumi are
some new clients enjoying the benefits of iASPire’s range
of hosted services, Internet Protocol (IP) and Voice over IP
(VoIP) communications solutions. During the year, iAspire
also successfully introduced its modular, scalable iAccess
Hospitality Solution to a number of customers in the
hotel industry, including the Crown Hotel chain and the
Somerset group of service apartments in Singapore.
New 3D Animation Service Offerings
During the year, Frontline formed a new business unit to
provide IT services in remote 3D Animation Rendering and
Digital Asset Management through the acquisition of the
Managed Computing Competency Centre (“MC 3 ”). MC 3
was originally established by Sun Microsystems, Nanyang
Technological University (Singapore) and IDA to provide
pilot projects for engineering and digital media utility-based
services. MC 3 ’s prototype for 3D Animation Rendering
Service was launched at Frames 2000 (India).
The incorporation of MC 3 into Frontline will enable the
3D rendering service to be developed at MC 3 ’s incubation
facility for commercial deployment, enabling us to better
serve and add value to our local and regional customers in
the media, communication and entertainment industries.
The new business unit will be working closely with IDA
and Sun Microsystems to further enhance our services
offering beyond pilot projects to a full-scale production
environment.
Moving Ahead
Going forward, we will continue to pursue Intellectual
Property development in our core competencies through
an on-going effort to better our delivery methodologies
and practices. Amongst our plans is the streamlining of
Frontline’s ITIL Framework to allow us to better understand,
design, implement and manage our clients’ IT infrastructure
needs, aligning them to their business objectives. Other
Intellectual Property development efforts include the
enhancement of our IDEA (Inquire, Develop, Execute,
Appraise) methodology for accessing and defining an
enterprise customer IT security requirements from a multidimensional
perspective that includes services, processes
and infrastructure. Our RAPID (Redefining Advanced
Processes in Redevelopment) Framework is a suite of
building blocks for enterprise applications that can be
reused from project to project for different clients. Frontline’s
SOa TM , owned by our associate company Ecquaria, is a
business process platform that delivers a secure, scalable
and reliable process-driven infrastructure for all enterprise
applications.