Driven by the dual forces of energy industry digitalization and capital market standardization, many state-owned oil and gas enterprises have begun IPO preparations. Standardized R&D expense collection, domestic IT adaptation, and Class-3 information security certification have become hard requirements for R&D project management software selection. A state-owned oil and gas development enterprise found itself deep in selection difficulties.
This case study features a state-owned oil and gas development company preparing for an IPO listing, urgently needing a standardized R&D project management platform that simultaneously meets four hard requirements: strict compliance with IPO financial audit standards, full-stack domestic IT adaptation, support for on-premises deployment, and completion of Class-3 information security assessment.
During the selection phase, the enterprise evaluated multiple project management products on the market, encountering recurring pain points: mainstream SaaS cloud products had architectural limitations and did not support on-premises deployment; some on-premises software was built on foreign technology stacks incompatible with domestic operating systems, databases, and middleware; and a few domestically adapted products lacked R&D cost allocation, expense collection, and record-keeping functions required by CSRC IPO R&D expense verification standards.
I. IPO Audit Compliance: Full-Chain R&D Cost Control
AceProject delivers end-to-end compliance capabilities from process control to cost accounting, specifically designed for IPO audit requirements on R&D expense management:
- Full-process traceable operations: All project approvals, task adjustments, timesheet entries, and expense allocations are fully logged with tamper-proof audit trails;
- Automated R&D cost allocation: Supports automatic allocation of labor, material, and travel costs to individual projects, eliminating manual Excel errors;
- Timesheet authenticity verification: Integrates with existing attendance and HR systems for intelligent validation of reported hours;
- Unified R&D asset management: Centralized repository for all R&D documentation with version control and permission management.
II. Full-Stack Domestic IT Ecosystem Compatibility
The product has been rebuilt from the ground up for domestic IT compatibility, fully supporting mainstream domestic hardware and software systems including Kunpeng CPUs, Tongxin UOS, KylinOS, Dameng Database, and TiDB.