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Acer Announces Quadrupling of Staff for its Cloud Business

2015/07/16 | By Ken Liu

Acer Inc. Founder & Chairman Emeritus Stan Shih says that the company's cloud-computing business, to keep up with the healthy growth of its “Build Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) service, will quadruple its new employees to 1,000 over the next year after having recruited 200-plus specialists since June last year.

The BYOC service allows the company's enterprise customers to create tailor-made cloud-based apps services for any connected devices on the Acer Open Platform (AOP), a cloud platform.

Shih says the business unit has recruited specialists for marketing and planning, information-technology software testing, information-technology hardware R&D, and project management.

To lure top talents, Acer offers benefits including 14-month yearly pay plus performance bonus.

In the stage two of the company's cloud business plan, Acer will further boost its apps for PCs, tablet PCs, and smart phones.

He says that the company has recently introduced several new cloud-based apps, including the abPBX plus series for enterprise customers and the aBeing series for office, household and individual, all of which require a multitude of talents.

General manger of Acer's cloud business group, Maverick Shih, says the company will open an experience center of abPBX plus and aBeing apps in Chongqing, China this October with a staff of 40-50 specialists sent from Taiwan.

Although the European market now accounts for around 40 percent of Acer's revenue, the Greek debt crisis has insignificantly impacted the company's revenue because of extremely low exposure of Acer's European operations to the debacle, according to Shih.

He says Acer will continue emphasizing corporate restructuring so that it is soundly equipped to cope with various crises.

Acer Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jason Chen points out that the Greek debt crisis definitely affects the European market and no one can fully predict the extent of the upheaval in the European market in the second half of this year.