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On March 30th, Amazon Cloud Technology held an innovation conference with the theme of "Comprehensively Embracing the Serverless Era", sharing the technological innovation, application scenarios and innovative practices of global customers that Amazon Cloud Technology has led the development of Serverless for 17 years.
At the meeting, Chen Xiaojian, general manager of the product department of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China, said: "Just as cloud computing liberates customers from complex physical infrastructure, Amazon Cloud Technology further extends this process to the virtual infrastructure on the cloud through Serverless. Facilities and cloud services. We hope that every line of code written by customers is business logic, and Serverless is making it a reality."
Over the past 17 years, Amazon Cloud Technology has continued to promote the development of Serverless, bringing the ultimate flexibility and automatic expansion capabilities provided by Serverless to more and more customers. Today, Amazon Cloud Technology Serverless services have been widely used by customers.
Among them, Data Ape noticed that Siemens Mendix, as a low-code development platform, with the help of Amazon Cloud Technology's Serverless service, has increased the speed of application construction for enterprises by 10 times and reduced resource requirements by 70%. In the critical period of digital transformation, cost reduction and efficiency improvement are the key for enterprises. What magic power does Siemens Mendix have to achieve such an efficient layout?
In this regard, Data Ape interviewed Wang Jiong, general manager of Siemens Mendix China, and Ruan Ming, technical director of Siemens Mendix Greater China, and hoped that the low-code platform and digital transformation, as well as the combination with Amazon Cloud Technology's Serverless service can achieve what kind of assistance and other issues, to discuss the development ideas and practical experience of Siemens Mendix.
Low-code helps enterprises digitally transform
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "China Digital Economy Theme Report (2022)" in July 2022. The report pointed out that the development of industrial digitalization has entered an accelerated track. In 2021, the scale of my country's industrial digitalization will reach 37.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%, accounting for 32.5% of GDP. All walks of life have fully realized the importance of developing the digital economy.
Digital transformation can indeed help traditional industries better adapt to market changes. However, it is not an easy task to successfully realize digital transformation, and enterprises need to consider all aspects. Especially in the use of technical means, technologies centered on low-code development, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence can obviously improve R&D efficiency, reduce R&D costs, and improve the market competitiveness of enterprises.
Among them, low-code, as a "new paradigm of software development", has been widely concerned by the industry because of its ability to visualize and quickly build digital applications. Regarding the high degree of attention that comes with low-code, Ruan Ming said: First, more and more companies have gradually realized that low-code has become a paradigm for enterprise application development, a standard that can quickly reduce technical risks. Second, many businesses are now focusing on resilience. Toughness is bending under the action of external force but not breaking, elastic. That is to say, enterprises must have the ability to resist blows in the face of crises and challenges.
For example, a chain supermarket has new business needs during its development. It hopes to quickly display store sales data to meet the management needs of high-level managers. The product realizes the purchase alarm and so on.
At this time, low-code can play an obvious role. Supermarkets can quickly develop applications through the low-code platform, realize the management and control of the entire process of people, finance, affairs, and things within the enterprise, and promote the implementation of new retail business by reducing costs and increasing efficiency. .
Wang Jiong explained that enterprise customers who choose low-code are equivalent to choosing a rapid development method. This is mainly reflected in two aspects: the first is to quickly win orders. For example, an application that originally took 6 months to develop is now 1 The revenue brought by these 5 months is related to the value of the customer's application; the second is the saving of people/day. In the past, it took 5 people to develop for 5 months, but now it may take 1 person to develop for 1 month. It's over, reducing labor costs.
For enterprises, half a step ahead of competitors in the market can lead a large market, which is also an inevitable trend of digital transformation. Siemens Mendix, as the provider of the technology side, also pays more attention to user experience, focusing on business users in the entire application life cycle, from conception and demand management in the continuous feedback process to direct participation in development using visual models. Siemens Mendix allows development teams to adopt a DevOps way of working with a strong focus on business users.
In fact, low-code is indeed becoming the digital transformation tool of choice for many organizations.
According to the survey data released by IDC, the market size of low-code in 2018 was only 370 million yuan, but in the next few years, the low-code industry has achieved rapid growth. In 2022, the market size of low-code has reached 3.92 billion yuan. It is estimated that In 2025, it will reach 11.84 billion yuan.
The market penetration rate is getting higher and higher, and low-code can deliver applications with less code and faster speed. It has naturally become the preferred tool for enterprises. It can alleviate and even solve the supply and demand between complex and changeable business needs and IT productivity. Unbalanced contradictions.
Collision between low code and serverless
In order to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises, Siemens Mendix has joined hands with Amazon Cloud Technology, the pioneer and leader of cloud computing, to provide enterprises with a faster and easier way to develop better applications and help enterprises realize the speed of building applications 10 times, resource requirements reduced by 70%.
The two parties have cooperated since 2015 for joint development and sales. At the bottom layer, Siemens Mendix has been deeply integrated with Amazon Cloud Technology. The bottom layer uses Amazon Cloud Technology's container and serverless services. In terms of application integration, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge and other services are used, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is used during system operation. , Amazon Managed Grafana builds observability.
Siemens Mendix realizes end-to-end digitalization with a low-code platform thinking, revitalizes many technical points at the bottom layer, from research, development, testing to deployment and launch, and can fully integrate services such as Amazon cloud technology serverless technology points and containers, and the benefits achieved are very obvious.
With 17 years of technology accumulation, Amazon Cloud Technology has launched a full-stack serverless service to help enterprises further get rid of infrastructure and complex operation and maintenance problems, and accelerate digital transformation and innovation. Serverless services have widely covered computing, storage, networks, containers, and databases , application integration and many other aspects.
So, what are the benefits of combining Serverless and low code? Combining the two can further simplify application development and deployment. For example, a low-code platform can be used to create a front-end user interface, and then handle back-end business logic through Serverless functions. This combination can reduce much of the traditional coding effort while providing a highly scalable and elastic application architecture.
It should be noted that although serverless and low-code can accelerate application development, when selecting and using these technologies, the development team still needs to consider factors such as application requirements, performance, security, and maintainability.
Siemens Mendix and Amazon Cloud Technology have cooperated in many cases. For example, Royal Dutch Post serves nearly 20 million people every day. It has encountered several challenges: the first is that the business volume has increased by 20% year by year. In the Netherlands, Europe, express delivery below 22 euros is exempt from value-added tax, and 95% of daily express delivery is in the form of small parcels, resulting in a large increase in the business of Royal Dutch Post, and the core system is overwhelmed. The second is that technically their system is an old core system, so it needs to be modernized.
In the end, Royal Dutch Post adopted the Siemens Mendix low-code development platform, which met the following four requirements:
First, rapid production deployment, operation and maintenance on-line.
Second, rapid development of scene applications.
Third, decouple the complex core system and split it into nearly a hundred microservices.
Fourth, low code can represent high logic and can exhibit high performance.
The effect achieved in the end is very obvious. Royal Dutch Post completed a backlog of 2 years of work in just 6 months, with fast development and high performance, capable of handling 1.5 million orders per day. Amazon cloud technology saves a lot of labor in infrastructure operation and maintenance, reduces costs by 80%, and can complete a month's development work in a few hours.
Another example is Thailand’s Chia Pokphand Group, which developed 200 apps in one and a half years, with an average of at least 8 apps launched every month.
More and more enterprises are migrating their business to the cloud and adopting cloud-native technology in the process of doing some transformation, which reflects the greatest value.
Ruan Ming said, "Only by better combining the underlying Serverless and rapid software development methods can real value be achieved. Now everything is ready, with the rapid provision of Amazon cloud technology infrastructure and the application development of Siemens Mendix, and more importantly, With all of you here, together we face the challenges, become more resilient, and build a better digital world."
Create differentiated advantages and reach more users
By combining serverless and low-code technologies, development teams can accelerate the application development and deployment process, thereby bringing applications to market faster and reaching more users. This helps to improve the market competitiveness of the application and better meet the needs of users, thereby achieving higher user satisfaction and user retention.
Of course, for enterprises such as Amazon Cloud Technology and Siemens Mendix, creating a personalized, differentiated, and customized low-code platform is the "soul" of the enterprise.
What are the unique advantages of Siemens Mendix?
Wang Jiong explained that the Siemens Mendix enterprise-level low-code platform can not only develop applications, but also debug and tune them, which is a great advantage.
In addition, Siemens Mendix has low code and high logic, and can build complex applications. Besides, its language is flexible enough. For example, if you buy a point-and-shoot, fully automatic camera with many modes, the mode you use must be the easiest. If you choose a SLR camera, the camera is very important, but the "brain" behind it is more important. You have to use the brain behind to control and do more refined work. Siemens Mendix is more like such a platform.
As we all know, the previous cooperation between Siemens Mendix and Amazon Cloud Technology was mostly concentrated abroad. What kind of collisions will there be in China in the future? Wang Jiong mentioned:
One is the integration of technology . On the Siemens Mendix website, the Mendix Marketplace has dozens of connectors with Amazon Cloud Technology, including Amazon Lambda components. In other words, Siemens Mendix is closely integrating with Amazon Cloud Technology in terms of technology integration.
The second is the integration of go-to-market at the sales level . The Siemens Mendix low-code development platform has been launched on the Amazon Cloud Technology Marketplace globally, and Amazon Cloud Technology sales can also get this credit. The two have formed a joint sales model. Whether it is an existing customer of Amazon Cloud Technology or a potential customer in the future, those who have rapid application development needs are their common customers.
It can be seen that both the low-code platform of Siemens Mendix and the serverless technology of Amazon Cloud Technology are the backbone of today's digital transformation. As digital transformation becomes an inevitable trend of enterprise development, the low-code platform as an innovative Application development methods are rapidly emerging. As a leading enterprise-level low-code platform, Siemens Mendix has become the engine of digital transformation for many enterprises by virtue of its unique advantages. It is believed that Siemens Mendix can reach more users in the domestic market by combining various technologies of Amazon Cloud Technology, reduce costs and improve efficiency for enterprise users, and promote sustainable business development.
Text: Yu Xiaoyu Data Ape
