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Appeon - New Offices

By: Chris Pollach

Nov. 19, 2011 11:06 PM

** News Special **

Shenzhen, China

Appeon Corporation just had a grand opening of the their new office in Shenzhen software park. Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area is one of China's most successful—Special Economic Zones (SEZ). It also currently holds sub-provincial administrative status, with powers slightly less than the province. Shenzhen's modern cityscape is the result of the vibrant economy made possible by rapid foreign investment since the institution of the policy of "reform and opening" establishment of the SEZ in the late 1970s. Both Chinese and foreign nationals have invested enormous sums in the Shenzhen SEZ. Shenzhen is now reputedly one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Being southern mainland China's major financial centre, Shenzhen is home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as well as the headquarters of numerous high-tech companies. Shenzhen is also the third-busiest container port in China, after Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Main Entrance at Appeon

The new Appeon office can hold up to a maximum of 120 people and has a great view of the Shenzhen software park. Shenzhen Software Park is located on beautiful Shenzhen Bay, which is integrated with Shenzhen Hi-tech Industry Park. The Shenzhen Software Park now has over 400 member companies, employing over some 40,000 people. After just several years of construction and development, the Shenzhen Software Park has become one of China's most important software product research and development centers.

Enjoying a workout in the new gym.

Appeon built their own gym room that houses state-of-the art equipment, weights, tread-mills, board games, table tennis and much more. This gives the employees an area where they can relax and recharge before returning to their work area. Appeon has also provided the employees with a video games room inside the main office for the employees. Appeon's CEO Armeen Mazda explained that "We’re trying to bring a little Silicon Valley culture to China to spur creativity, productivity, and loyalty" - much like they see in other North American high technology companies.


Jason Zhang (left) Regional Sales Director with CEO Armeen Mazda

Appeon Corporation was founded in 1999. The name “Appeon” is composed of two words “app” + “eon”. “App” is for application of course and “eon” means for a very long time. The significance of the name then is to help companies build really great applications that will be useful for a very long time. Appeon was funded by Sybond Ventures, the investment arm of SMC (Shell Electric Manufacturing Corporation) in Hong Kong. Now Appeon today is a subsidiary of SMC. The SMC group of companies consists of electronics contract manufacturing service (CMS), real estate investments (in China, Hong Kong, and USA), and technology businesses (like Appeon, semiconductor company, private cloud service provider, etc.). The SMC group currently employs 5,600 staff worldwide.

New work offices in the main building.

All of Appeon's core technology was created in-house and developed independently (that means no OEMing or licensing of 3rd party technology). As such, Appeon has had to build up a team of the strongest and most knowledgeable PowerBuilder developers in China. It has taken many years and over USD 20 million to get their flagship product – Appeon for PowerBuilder – to the point it is today. By growing the company and product themselves has given Appeon the benefit of the strongest Web deployment product on the market and 100% control over the technical direction, design, support and customer satisfaction (a big factor for the company). Appeon were the first company to commercialize an AJAX solution for Web application development. In fact, they were doing AJAX before it was built-in feature of today's Web browsers! So Appeon had to come up with our own way of doing it without adding to the web browser over-head like other solutions. This was so successful that Appeon now have US patents on their unique AJAX approach. To this day they continue to use their own AJAX engine instead of the one built-in to Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, offering significantly greater performance and reliability.

Developing Appeon v7.0 - Hmm on the xBox? :-)

Appeon is now working hard on their next version of the product - version 7.0. Not only will this add significant features into the current web enabling base product, it will also add new tablet and smart phone capabilities that will allow any PB Developer to extend their new or existing applications towards today's hot technologies. These extensions will target HTML5 browser deployment and native compiled applications for the Apple, Android and Blackberry O/S based devices on the market today. In fact, Appeon's CEO Armeen Mazda was on hand at Sybase / SAP's Techwave event in September, 2011 located in Las Vegas demonstrating the new mobile product's capabilities on the iPad! So stay tuned for some great new software from Appeon in 2012!

All the best in your new offices in Shenzhen from your friends at the Ottawa Sybase User Group!

Regards ... Chris

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About Chris Pollach
Chris Pollach is a Senior Consultant with over 25 years experience in Systems and Software Analysis, Development, Maintenance and Technical Support, mainly in the areas of GUI Design, MS-Windows Programming, Java / .NET Programming, Wireless, Application / Web Server Design & Programming, Object Oriented Development Tools and Methodologies, Data Base, Data Communications and Network application development. He has participated in numerous technical, planning and management roles, as well as consulted and educated in these fields for a diverse clientele. He is also the owner of “Software Tool & Die Inc.” a company dedicated to provide custom software and education solutions on Object Oriented business systems.

As an educator, Chris is certified to teach PowerBuilder (first in Canada), MS-SQLServer, Sybase’s Enterprise Application Studio and EAServer integrated application/web development environment. He is former Certified SilverStream developer (CSSD) and current Certified PowerBuilder Developer – Associate / Professional (CPD-P) as well as a Certified Sybase Tools Instructor (CSI).

Chris has written numerous articles in various popular personal computer magazines, newsletters and is the author of the PowerGuide and PowerExpert products. Currently, Chris has developed a Foundation Class library for PocketBuilder development on PDA devices using the PocketPC Operating System (similar to Microsoft’s .NET strategy). He has also developed a similar Framework for Sybase's PowerBulder and EAServer that integrates JSP or ASP web development that supports Section 508 and CLF web standards.

Chris recently became a 2nd Degree Black in the TaeKwonDo martial art and has developed a Martial Art multimedia study guide using the Component-One “Doc2Help” and Sybase PowerBuilder products. Since the fall of 2004 he became a TaeKwonDo instructor for the City of Ottawa’s Goulbourn program. He has also been certified with the World TaeKwonDo Federation (February 2005 - 1st Dan and October 2008 - 2nd Dan).

Chris was awarded the Sybase “Innovation and Achievement” award for 2005 as voted for by the International Sybase User Group (ISUG). This award was presented for innovations to the PocketBuilder mobile development product, contributions to the PowerBuilder News groups and support of the Ottawa Sybase User Group.

To round his management and leadership skills, Chris is the former president of the Kiwanis Club of Goulbourn and still volunteers his time with the service clubs in his area. He is also the coordinator of the Ottawa Sybase User group and a certified NAUI scuba instructor. For the last three years, Chris has been voted onto the ISUG Board of Directors and holds the position of "Director - North American User Groups".