Whether it is the "Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Innovative Development of Cloud Computing and Cultivating New Business Forms of the Information Industry" promulgated by the State Council in 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Central Cyberspace Administration of China issued in April this year the "On Promoting the Action of "Using Data to Use Data to Empower Intelligence" According to the notice of the “Implementation Plan for Cultivating New Economic Development”, after the black swan of the epidemic, companies have realized the importance of digitalization for management and business, and cloud migration has become inevitable.
China Software Network & Haibi research forecast data also shows: from 2019 to 2022, the overall scale of China's SaaS market will surge from 37.85 billion yuan to 83.03 billion yuan.
Although the future of the SaaS industry is promising, in the current post-epidemic era, Fu Yi, vice president of UFIDA Networks and general manager of the cloud market business unit, believes that the difficulty that hinders enterprises from going to the cloud and going digital lies in development: "In the past, the SaaS development field was relatively professional. , A professional environment, a professional team and a professional development method are required, which is not conducive to the blowout of the entire enterprise service market demand."
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Consistent ideas, complementary advantages
"So UFIDA must help reduce the difficulty of development and promote developers to produce more excellent works, especially to develop more practical works for use by enterprises." When it comes to UFIDA's original intention of holding the developer contest, Fu Yi's goal is clear.
In fact, this is already the second enterprise cloud service developer competition held by UFIDA. Unlike the first one, UFIDA chose to partner with HUAWEI CLOUD in the second developer competition. The two parties carried out in-depth cooperation in brand marketing, technical resource sharing, competition award design, and technical review. Huawei Cloud Cup" 2nd Enterprise Cloud Service Developer Competition.
"During the preparations for the second session, UFIDA communicated very well with Huawei Cloud. The two parties reached a consensus to invest in IaaS infrastructure, development platforms, expert empowerment and other resources to jointly attract more developers and developers. Partners and development companies promote development.” Fu Yi believes that holding a developer contest with Huawei Cloud is of great significance to promoting the development of China’s SaaS industry.
"The close cooperation between UFIDA and HUAWEI CLOUD can promote the development of the entire enterprise service industry, especially to bring developers a very complete and very intelligent integrated development environment. The results developed can also be incorporated into the future business realization of both parties. Going in the plan."
This is also the reason why Huawei Cloud decided to cooperate with UFIDA to hold this developer competition. "Huawei and UFIDA's target customer groups are basically the same, and the similarity of the developer groups is also very high. Both parties can use each other's ecology to benefit more enterprise applications to customers who need to use digitalization to complete the transformation." HUAWEI CLOUD Cloud BU Cloud Ecological Development Department Minister Xu Jinshuai said.
At the same time, Xu Jinshuai believes that this cooperation between Huawei Cloud and UFIDA is a very typical cooperation model: HUAWEI CLOUD has always focused on ICT infrastructure, and UFIDA has always focused on the application software market. The two companies, Huawei and UFIDA, are also very complementary.
As a result, HUAWEI CLOUD opened its IaaS resources and development environment to provide infrastructure resources for the operation of the entire developer contest; UFIDA also leveraged its deep development experience to provide its newly released low-code development PaaS platform YonBuilder and development part. At the same time, in terms of intelligence capabilities, UFIDA and HUAWEI CLOUD have introduced Zhiduoxing·Smart Enterprise Brain and HUAWEI CLOUD EI+Kunpeng Cloud services respectively.
It can be seen that this cooperation between the two parties is not just a simple product adaptation. In fact, in the process of research and development, they have done relatively deep innovation, integration and combination in terms of products and technologies. For example, YonBuilder itself runs on Huawei Cloud. Therefore, from a technical point of view, UFIDA and HUAWEI CLOUD provided an integrated end-to-end integration capability for this developer competition.
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YonBuilder, targeting China's largest cloud service development platform
Here, we can focus on the low-code development platform YonBuilder. This is an important part of YonBIP, a strategic product business innovation platform for UFIDA 3.0, and the core platform of this developer contest. It provides participants with a full life cycle of development and construction, open connection, release, operation and maintenance, and online operation. Ability to support the participating teams in building application development for actual business scenarios of the enterprise.
Specifically, based on cloud native technology, YonBuilder provides visual development capabilities with no code and low code for the entire ecosystem including original factory development, ISV development, localized development, enterprise self-built, and individual developers. Users can also Combine development asset reuse to realize fast and simple application construction.
Based on the needs of different types of developers and scenarios, YonBuilder is divided into two versions, standard services and professional services. Among them, the standard service version provides low-threshold no-code declarative configuration and online low-code functional development. The application construction platform provides multi-tenant, safe and reliable public engine support and operation and maintenance. Users do not need to care about code and deployment operations. Dimension, even implementers and salesmen without code development experience can get started quickly.
The professional service version not only fully covers the modeling process and designer capabilities of the standard version, but also provides users with the full life cycle of self-built application engine creation, scaffolding download, local development and debugging, CICD, release and launch, and ecological application listing management.
It is not difficult to find that the emergence of YonBuilder solves the problems of high technical threshold, high cost, long development cycle, flexibility, and poor agility in the traditional code development model. Users only need to simply drag and drop on the visual configuration interface to achieve seamless product multi-terminal cross-platform switching, which can not only improve product delivery efficiency, but also help companies save manpower and time costs.
Naturally, this innovative technology has attracted the entry of multiple types of vendors including native low-code vendors, cloud service providers, traditional software vendors, BI vendors, etc. Gartner also published the "Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Development Platforms" in 2019 and pointed out: By 2024 By the end of 2016, 65% of application development work will be completed through low-code.
This also means that YonBuilder is destined to inevitably compete with peers. However, Liu Kunpeng, head of the UFIDA Cloud Platform Architecture Department, is full of confidence in YonBuilder: "There are indeed many low-code development products on the market or products that claim to be low-code development platforms. However, many products are positioned differently, and some are developed for specific mobile terminals. ; Some specialize in solving AIoT scenarios; some are developed with simple forms and process-driven, which gives people the illusion that low-code development products can only be applied to edge businesses. But YonBuilder can support enterprise full-scenario applications and pan-terminal development, and can support The full life cycle of low-code development."
Liu Kunpeng’s confidence stems from: YonBuilder’s programming model is exactly the same as that of Yonyou’s business innovation platform YonBIP . It has accumulated many years of cloud-native technology platform, business platform, data platform and intelligent platform capabilities. "Based on these platforms and mid-stage capabilities, YonBuilder is able to build YonBIP, a business innovation platform for UFIDA. No application can't do it."
Fu Yi believes that YonBuilder has a good chance to become China's largest cloud service development platform. "YonBuilder is a professional, low-code development platform for enterprise complex applications; services developed based on YonBuilder can be deeply integrated and integrated with UFIDA’s core services (YonBIP, YonSuite, YouSpace, etc.); at the same time, YonBuilder provides a long-tailed Apply to full coverage of core complex applications; combined with UFIDA’s own strong operation and business model; these are the four core competitiveness of YonBuilder."
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Practical developer competition, boosting China's SaaS industry blowout
Eyes continue to gather this developer contest. The provision of two versions of standard services and professional services means that both enterprise professional developers, college students and individual developers can use YonBuilder to complete application development. This is also the two tracks of this developer contest.
"For corporate track players, we pay more attention to whether the applications they develop are closer to the actual needs of the company and whether they can be realized; for college track players, we pay more attention to whether their design ideas are close to the needs of the company, and their development is realized. , The requirements of the interactive interface are not that complicated." Fu Yi said.
From Fu Yi's answer, it is obvious that focusing on enterprise needs is the core concept of UFIDA and Huawei Cloud in hosting this developer competition. "This is also the difference between this developer contest and the first one." Fu Yi answered, "Last year, participants registered and selected topics by themselves. This year we and Huawei Cloud formulated a series of propositions around the needs of enterprises, such as Supply chain, CRM, corporate office, etc."
Fu Yi emphasized: "The application developed by the Developer Competition is not a research result, nor is it an academic achievement. In the end, it must be a practical result, which is easy to realize. This is also the criterion of this competition."
Based on the actual needs of the company, the application of YonBuilder, cloud native, microservices, ideological innovation, technical product functions, etc., the current developer competition has now selected awards from 600 outstanding teams and more than 3000 developer teams product:
First prize: Beijing Qili Chuanghui Technology Development Co., Ltd. warehousing barcode management system;
Second prize: Huidu Innovation (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. Digital Slaughter System;
Shanghai Keyan Software Technology Co., Ltd. TMS transportation management system;
Shanghai Nuojie Information Technology Co., Ltd. WMS warehouse management system.
Third Prize: Beijing Tianhe Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd. Smart Party Building System;
Shanghai Pingnan Information Technology Co., Ltd. Easy Cloud LMS;
Ziguang Software System Co., Ltd. file management system;
Beijing Wisdom Teeth Bochuang Technology Co., Ltd. online customer service system;
Sinobes (Beijing) Marketing Technology Co., Ltd. SmartOne product.
At the same time, the results of the developer competition will also be selected for the selection of the Youyun ecological preferred products.
On the other hand, the end of the second developer contest also means the arrival of the third developer contest. Fu Yi revealed that the third developer competition will take the next step: larger scale, more practical results, increased investment and faster incubation. "We hope to become the most influential developer competition in the industry by the fifth edition. UFIDA will continue to play the role of platform operator, realize national creation and innovation, and promote China's SaaS industry blowout."