IDC and Defan Information jointly released the first low-code platform professional report on the market focusing on group companies as the research object - "White Paper on Low-Code PaaS Driving Group Enterprise Digital Innovation".
Different from the digital transformation of SMB enterprises, large group enterprises are often at the forefront of the transformation, and at the same time, enter the deep water area of transformation earlier.
As far as group companies are currently in the deep waters of change, IDC has deeply analyzed the internal and external reasons, and believes that in the face of challenges at this stage, due to the particularity of group companies as the backbone of the Chinese economy, digital innovation is more necessary.
It is precisely because of this that in this white paper, IDC and Defan jointly discuss and point out the direction of digital innovation for group companies in the future .
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Large-scale enterprises urgently need to use next-generation platform development technology to realize software innovation, realize the collection and processing of massive data, and the interconnection and intercommunication of internal data in the enterprise, so as to help customers realize digital applications in a low-cost, short-cycle, and high-efficiency way, and then empower Business Innovation. Based on this, IDC believes that platformization + low code is the key for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, respond to agile business needs, continue to promote digital priority, and get out of the deep water area of transformation .
01/ Situation
Digital transformation of large enterprises is more necessary
Global geopolitical tensions, under the background of the epidemic, problems such as lack of transparency in the supply chain, drastic changes in demand, and increasing transportation costs have been infinitely magnified, resulting in an uncertain future economic situation. On the one hand, as the backbone of China's economic development, large enterprises will account for 70% of China's annual GDP in 2021 ; Digital transformation enables overtaking on curves, reduces costs and increases efficiency, and builds digital competitiveness.
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Transition Deepwater
Through IDC's continuous tracking and comparison of enterprise digital transformation, it is found that the number of enterprises in stage three has decreased significantly, while the number of enterprises in stage four and five has increased significantly, indicating that the leaders of digital transformation are continuing to promote digital transformation and expand their leading advantages .
(5 stages of digital transformation)
However, this also makes its internal legacy data and technical assets more complicated, which virtually increases the opportunity cost of digital transformation. In addition, the organizational structure and business processes are complicated, and the integration of technology and business is limited, making it relatively early to enter the transformation Deep water .
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Digital priority, technology innovation drives business innovation
Digital transformation not only means the innovation of technology application, its more important purpose is to bring innovation to enterprise business , help users create a digital transformation roadmap based on application scenarios, and meet the business needs of long-term strategy and short-term coordinated development of industry users. successful digital transformation.
In the future, all enterprises should give priority to achieve business goals through the deployment and application of digital technologies, form a unified digital priority strategy covering all aspects of organization, process, product, service and experience, and move towards continuous, contextualized, With agile and large-scale digital innovation , this future-oriented digital business model will bring significant economic benefits to enterprises. After long-term operation, large enterprises have relatively mature business models and operating processes, and also have systematic advantages such as change management. With the rational use of digital technology, it is easier to generate large-scale benefits.
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Low-code PaaS provides the solution
In view of the large number of application systems, particularly large amounts of data, and particularly complex business processes of large enterprises, IDC believes that low-code PaaS can better meet the application needs of large enterprises, and more appropriately describe the value that low-code platforms bring to enterprises , that is (low code + platform) × as a service.
Use the fusion power of low code and platform to build an agile digital base for enterprises:
Empower applications with low-code, integrate data and systems with platforms, shield the underlying infrastructure differences, and realize complex application customization and expansion. Large enterprises have relatively high system and data assets. The platform must have the ability to grow agile applications on the basis of integrating existing assets, and match various business scenarios and complex business processes. Therefore, the low-code platform of a large conglomerate should focus on five elements : data-centric, multi-cloud and heterogeneous, carrying multiple applications, assisting process governance, and connecting ecological values.
Provide applications and services flexibly and easily both internally and externally in an "as-a-service" manner:
Low-code encapsulates high-code based on business needs and market characteristics, serves code capabilities, redefines the boundaries of code capabilities, and makes them easy to use, integrate, and expand. In this way, it can more quickly fulfill the needs of digitalization, achieve the openness and innovation of enterprises, and help large enterprises to export front-line development resources and experience to ecological partners, and coordinate industrial transformation and digital upgrading.
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The white paper also conducted one-on-one interviews with the digital stories of top representative companies in various industries. Great Wall Motors, Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator, China Resources Double-Crane Pharmaceuticals, Bank of Shanghai, R&F Properties, and October Daotian, the digital leaders of the six major enterprises, personally told their transformation stories .