Construction of Enterprise Equity Incentive Management Platform

Based on ASP.NET

Jia Xu

Dalian vocational & Technical College, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

Keywords: Equity Incentive, Equity Management Platform, ASP.NET, SQL Server.

Abstract: The enterprise equity incentive management platform constructed in this paper is based on ASP.NET, and

under the Web technology system, it uses Windows+C #+ASP. NET+Visual Studio+IIS+SQL Server

technology stack provided by Microsoft to construct an equity incentive service scheme with comprehensive

functions and good performance. Two ports, administrator port and employee port, are set up on the platform,

and the administrators are managed by layers, so as to achieve comprehensive collaboration, information

synchronization and real-time communication, which provides visual equity incentive data for enterprise

managers and employees, so as to know equity information in real time, thus making reasonable decisions

and making equity management more scientific.

1 INTRODUCTION

Equity incentive is to give some shares and options to

core employees conditionally, so that employees can

participate in decision-making, share profits and take

risks, form a community of destiny with the company,

and enhance employees' sense of belonging and

cohesion. Equity incentive is adopted by more and

more companies as a method to retain and motivate

outstanding employees. However, at present, there

are many difficulties in the implementation of equity

incentive in enterprises. For employees, the relevant

information is not open and transparent enough, so

they can't see the current and future benefits

intuitively, and they have doubts about the equity

incentive plan. For the planning and implementation

departments, the design of incentive plan, the division

of incentive objects, the determination of total equity,

the standard of business assessment, manual

calculation and triviality are all great challenges. For

the decision-making level, the report documents of

each department are complex and unsynchronized, so

the actual effect of equity incentive can't be seen

directly.

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According to the above problems, the author of

this paper believes that it is necessary to design an

enterprise equity incentive management platform

with two ports, namely, administrator and employee,

to migrate the work of equity granting, signing,

maturity, exercise and trading online for

standardization, and to complete the management of

equity incentive in one stop, including incentive plan

management, employee management, equity

management, document management, visualization

of company profile and business development. This

platform can make equity incentive management bid

farewell to manual calculation, become professional,

simple and efficient, and ensure the maximization of

incentive effect.

2 KEY TECHNOLOGIES

2.1 Web Technology

Web is a network service based on the Internet, which

provides users with the required operation interface.

The core component of Web is webpage, which can

be divided into static and dynamic. Static webpages

are presented in the form of text, pictures, videos and

audio, while dynamic webpages can automatically

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Construction of Enterprise Equity Incentive Management Platform Based on ASP.NET.

DOI: 10.5220/0012030200003620

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generate new pages, which is convenient for users to

call other Web applications through webpages. As far

as current practical applications are concerned, most

of them are web pages that combine dynamic and

static.

Web development depends on the corresponding

technical support. On the whole, Web application is

divided into three parts: client browser, server-side

business logic processing Web server and subsequent

data storage database server. The corresponding Web

technologies are also divided into client-side

development technology, server-side programming

technology and database development technology, as

shown in Figure 1. The client development

technology needs to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript

three development languages, and cooperate with the

corresponding framework to complete the design and

development of web pages. In the server-side

technology, relying on powerful object-oriented

programming languages such as Java, PHP and C#

and the combination of various development

frameworks (J2EE and ThinkPHP) can greatly

simplify the development process of the server-side.

And the data development technology needs the

cooperation of database server. Most databases run on

the client-server model. When users execute SQL

statements in the data layer, the application will

connect to the corresponding database server and

send the SQL statements to the database server for

processing. The database server parses the requested

SQL statement. After the parsing is completed, the

database server executes the SQL statement and

returns the response required by the client. Common

data servers are MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc.

The whole Web application structure and specific

processing process adopt the "request/response"

mode, that is, the user sends a request to the server

through the client browser, and after the server gets

the request, it controls and processes the business in

time, completes the request response, and feeds the

corresponding result back to the client.

Figure 1: Technical structure diagram of Web development.

2.2 ASP.NET

.NET Microsoft provides a free and open source

application development platform, including .NET

core (cross-platform), .NET framework(windows)

and Xamarin (Android) solutions. ASP.NET is an

application development framework running on

windows under .NET framework system, and

provides a network template syntax for building

dynamic web pages with C#, which is called Razor.

When using ASP.NET backend code, it is written in

C#, F # or Visual Basic. Because ASP.NET will

extend .NET, it can use all .NET packages and

libraries, and can also create its own library.

ASP.NET technology inherits the excellent hypertext

transfer web page attribute of ASP technology, which

not only can realize single view design, but also is

more stable and feasible than ASP technology. The

advantage of ASP.NET operation mechanism is that

it can avoid a lot of duplicate codes, and it can build

MVC code. ASP.NET can be fully implemented, and

can be flexibly arranged. It only needs to consume a

small amount of hardware resources, and its function

has strong scalability. In addition, the development

modes of ASP.NET include ASP.NET Web Form,

ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core. Developers can

choose the development mode according to their own

technical background and specific needs. The running

process of ASP is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: ASP operation process diagram.

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2.3 C#

C# is an open-source, cross-platform, object-oriented

programming language and the most popular .NET

development language. C# program consists of one or

more files. Each file contains zero or more

namespaces. A namespace contains classes,

structures, interfaces, enumerations, delegates and

other types or other namespaces. At runtime, if a

variable of reference type is declared, this variable

will always contain the value null until the class

instance is explicitly created by using the new

operator, or until an object of compatible type that

may have been created elsewhere is assigned to this

variable. C# can be a null type to prevent variables

that do not refer to allocated objects; Exception

handling provides a structured and extensible method

for error detection and recovery; Lambda expression

supports function programming technology;

Language integrated query (LINQ) syntax creates a

common pattern for processing data from any source;

Asynchronous operating language support provides

syntax for building distributed systems. (Li, Liu,

2022)

2.4 SQL Server

SQL Server is a kind of relational database

management system, which is widely used. Its

advantages mainly lie in its scalability (it is suitable

for various platforms and provides rich interfaces),

integration (it provides the function of data

warehouse and can be closely related to many server

softwares), ease of use (graphical interface, more

intuitive and concise) and high efficiency (it reduces

the time and cost for users to manage data). Query is

one of the most powerful features in SQL Server,

which is used to troubleshoot performance and

improve the stability of database workload. Query

storage is often described as the "flight recorder" of

SQLServer, which enables SQLServer to store query

text, query plan and query performance history within

the database scope. It gives a new method to

troubleshoot and stabilize the database performance

of applications without changing any line of

application code or database compatibility level. (Li,

2022)

2.5 Development Process

According to the introduction of the above related

technical contents, we have completed the

configuration and deployment of the development

process of the enterprise equity incentive

management platform. The bottom development tool

of this platform is Visual Studio 2019, and the

operating system is based on Windows 10.0. In terms

of web server, IIS version 10.0 is selected to improve

the operation capability of the server, and SQL server

2019 is selected as the data storage tool.

First, build the environment. ASP.NET needs to

run in. NET environment, and the construction of.

NET environment needs to download and install.

NET SDK (software development kit) from

Microsoft official website. Enter the command dotnet

new webapp -o MyWebApp --no-https -f net6.0 to

create the program. After the program is created

successfully, open the Index.cshtml file located in the

Pages directory in any text editor. After code

replacement, save and refresh it to create

successfully. Download official website C#, install it,

configure the "name" variable, and then loop through

all the "names" using foreach. The same is true for

SQL Server, which is downloaded and installed in

Microsoft official website. When the environment is

ready, start creating the project.

The development tool of the system is Visual

Studio 2019. Create a new required project in the File

part under the file, select ASP.NET Web in the

application, and then preset the configuration

attributes and paths of the new project. Click Next,

select MVC in the pop-up working window and name

it, then you can create the ASP.NET MVC project for

subsequent writing. After the specific functional

modules are configured, the simulation test is carried

out. Publish the generated website to IIS without

error, then create a new website project in IIS, select

the advanced settings in the Manage Website page,

and select the physical path. After the basic

configuration is completed, the platform can be built.

Through the description of the above key

technologies, we have roughly planned the overall

framework, and made clear the feasibility of

establishing the enterprise equity incentive

management platform.

3 FUNCTION REALIZATION

3.1 Administrator Port

Administrators log in to the enterprise equity

incentive management platform, and they will see

two login ports: "administrator port" and "employee

port". Click on the administrator port and enter the

account number and password to enter the

administrator platform. There are 8 sub-page buttons

at the top of the homepage of the administrator, which

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are: enterprise profile, plan management, equity

management, employee management, transaction

management, business report, document management

and fiscal and tax management.

There are five columns in the "Enterprise Profile"

page, which are basic information of the enterprise,

equity penetration chart, shareholder shareholding

ratio table, financial data table and company

valuation. The data is provided and updated in real

time by the enterprise credit reporting agency with

official records. The system has no information

modification authority, but only provides data display

function, which can be used as a reference for

operators to formulate and optimize equity incentive

plans.

Click on the "Plan Management" page, and the

administrator will see the list of incentive plans. Click

to enter the details page, which is a dynamic pie chart,

histogram, etc. automatically generated by the system

according to the relevant reports of incentive plans

uploaded by the administrator. The code for

automatically generating statistical tables of data is

shown in Figure 3. For example, the pie chart of

options in the first incentive plan includes the total

number of shares in option pool, the number of

options granted and the number of restricted shares

granted. Click "View Details" to view the details of

equity.

Figure 3: Data automatically transfer to statistical figure code (part).

On the "Equity Management" page, the

administrator will see various current equity

classifications of the company, such as options,

restricted shares, virtual shares, and equity. Click on

each equity page to view the list of holders, including

the total number of grants, the mature number, the

number of exercisable rights, the number of exercised

rights, and the exercise unit price. All data systems

automatically calculate, realize centralized database

management, and import and export in batches.

Visual management of equity, tracking key

information such as equity holders' situation, equity

signing status, equity transfer and holding

agreements, making the equity structure and option

issuance clear at a glance, making equity

management efficient and convenient. (Hu, 2020)

On the "Employee Management" page, the

administrator can see three lists of shareholders, core

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employees and ordinary employees, which include

information such as employee stock ownership,

personal performance, team performance and

seniority. Managers can intuitively see the

performance of employees, so as to judge the equity

incentive. Super administrators have all the

permissions of the system, grant other people the

identity of administrators, open different permissions

to different administrators, and realize the authority

grading of different levels of departments.

On the "Transaction Management" page, the

administrator can see the situation of each

transaction. Transactions are divided into grant,

transfer, transaction, repurchase, etc. A series of

reports related to the transaction support online one-

click generation and batch downloading. It bid

farewell to cumbersome processes and EXCEL which

is difficult to maintain, automatically manage the

maturity of options, and inform the company and

employees in time. After the administrator reviews

the exercise qualification, employees can exercise

online. (Luo, 2018)

There are business reports submitted by various

departments in the "Business Reports" page,

including those of individuals, teams and companies.

Here, the most important thing is to realize file

synchronization and integration, with the code shown

in Figure 4. The business is displayed by line chart,

compared with the implementation process of equity

incentive, and the actual effect of equity incentive is

displayed intuitively.

Figure 4: File synchronization code (part).

On the "Document Management" page, the

system generates online agreement templates

applicable to different employees, and offline signed

grant agreements can be uploaded to the system,

intelligently generating a complete set of high-quality

legal documents related to equity, helping customers

to manage legal documents efficiently and realize

electronic management. In addition, the system

supports the data archiving function, which greatly

improves the efficiency of file preservation and

sorting.

In the "Finance and Tax Management" page, the

intelligent electronic tax calculation function can help

managers efficiently solve the tax accounting and

withholding problems of employees, and adjust the

tax amount according to the specific situation.

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3.2 Employee Port

There are four main functions of employee ports:

enterprise profile, shareholding situation, online

application and personal documents.

The "Enterprise Profile" page is the same as the

administrator port. When employees log in to the

personal platform, they can know the company's

assets and operations at a glance, and decide their

investment on this basis.

In "Shareholding Status", employees can check

the equity held by themselves to show the information

of their current options, including the total number of

options, the number of exercisable rights, the number

of exercised rights, mature plans and other

information. The information of equity includes

equity rights, total investment, holding methods, and

the plan of releasing restrictions, which can

intuitively see the value of incentives and maximize

the incentive effect.

On the "Online Application" page, employees can

directly submit the exercise and sale application

through the platform during the window period,

eliminating offline communication and paperwork,

and directly submit the application online through

one-stop operation, so that the corresponding

transaction costs, taxes and profits can be displayed

immediately. The system supports online signing, and

employees can sign the grant agreement directly

online. The system supports the signature of trace

records in the background to ensure the compliance

and validity of the signed agreement. When the

individual option is mature and within the exercise

window set when the incentive plan is established, the

employee can apply for exercise, wait for the consent

of the company, and visually check the current

signing process and signing progress. (Cai, 2018)

In "Personal Documents", employees' personal

documents are fully managed electronically.

Employees no longer need to keep a large number of

paper documents separately, and all document

contracts can be stored electronically for easy

viewing.

4 CONCLUSIONS

The enterprise equity incentive management platform

based on ASP.NET has completed the whole process

of equity incentive online, standardized the

implementation process, reduced the workload and

error rate of manual accounting, and solved many

problems of equity incentive from planning to

implementation. The data in the system equity

incentive is changed from a large amount of EXCEL

to a more intuitive statistical chart, which helps

managers and employees of enterprises to make

judgments quickly and accurately, helps enterprises

to realize the incentive and retention of talents, and

also encourages the long-term development of

employees and the company to create greater value

for the company. In the future practice, we will

continue the research and implementation of

enterprise equity incentive management platform to

make equity management simple, scientific,

convenient and visual.

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