This article is transferred from Yu Wen, the author of TechGate Technology Gatekeeper
"Now with the rise of AIGC, we know that the development of natural language interaction is relatively mature, and VPN is also very mature. Therefore, this year we launched a virtual robot digital intelligence employee , chat with it a few words, and the work will be handled automatically. "
Luo Xiaojiang, vice president of Yonyou Network, demonstrated the number of smart employees in a variety of typical application scenarios in his keynote speech at the 2023 Yonyou BIP Technology Conference. This is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the audience, because it is definitely a boon for enterprises.
We know that the traditional ERP is an enterprise resource plan, which is synonymous with difficult to learn, difficult to understand, and difficult to use. Today, even with almost automated data sources such as the Internet of Things, sensors, and social media, human-computer interaction is still cumbersome and requires professional knowledge. In today's BIP era, if a reliable digital assistant is built into BIP, who would refuse?
"Upgrading the enterprise's digital intelligence base is the core theme of this year's UFIDA BIP technology conference." Luo Xiaojiang put it simply and concisely. In addition to AI intelligence, what capabilities does UFIDA's BIP-iuap platform use to help companies upgrade their digital intelligence bases? The core lies .
Ecological integration, digital and intelligent base supports industry innovation and development
Due to the different scales and industry characteristics, the scenarios of digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises are ever-changing. But what remains unchanged is that there is a digital intelligence base behind all digital intelligence scenes. This base not only integrates the unique business logic of the industry, but also provides rapid innovation technology and development capabilities to meet the individual needs of the industry.
We have seen that in addition to the leading practice of industry-leading companies in realizing innovation and development based on digital intelligence bases, there are also many ecological partners who, based on UFIDA iuap's leading technology and architecture, carry out industry digital intelligence scenario innovations and achieve industry-scale development.
Shanghai Nuojie Information Technology, as a logistics software developer, left a deep impression on the author with its case of developing innovative applications based on iuap's low-code development platform YonBuilder and helping the industry's digital intelligence upgrade.
"In the past few years, Nuojie Technology has been honored to be recognized by customers in many industries such as chemical industry, steel, high-end manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, auto parts, retail e-commerce, and food cold chain." Vice President of Shanghai Nuojie Information Technology Co., Ltd. General manager Meng Xin said frankly that there are two points that customers are most concerned about in the warehousing and logistics industry: first, intelligence; second, supply chain management and control .
It should be said that even for the same warehousing and logistics business, the characteristics of industry segmentation are very obvious. For example, the warehousing and logistics of process chemical industry and discrete manufacturing are completely different. Founded in 2011, Nuojie Technology has obviously found a path that not only penetrates into the industry, but also expands its coverage.
"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and customers are the only criterion for testing products." Meng Xin explained, "When we were talking to customers 10 years ago, the questions they cared about were whether they could scan codes in warehouses and how to improve Warehouse operating efficiency; now when we talk about business with customers, customers in the manufacturing industry often talk about how to realize intelligent production, how warehousing and logistics serve the business model? How to carry out omni-channel management and control of to B and to C? Can it be done? To use and analyze the whole field, to provide more help for enterprise decision-making ?"
In fact, as early as 2016, Nuojie Technology had already stood out in the audition of UFIDA and became a partner of UFIDA U8; in 2018, it became an ISV partner of Baidu, and in 2020 won the second prize of the developer contest in the UFIDA BIP Developer Competition , and then increased investment in research and development resources, and released native products based on BIP in 2021.
According to Meng Xin, Nuojie Technology chose UFIDA iuap as the digital intelligence base. In addition to the characteristics of iuap based on containerization, microservices, low code, visualization, high expansion, and integration , it supports people who understand business to realize it in a very simple way. In addition to business process optimization, it also benefits from two points in particular. One is to support multiple sets of different application versions on the basis of one set of code; the other is to realize seamless connection between this set of code and the whole series of Yonyou BIP products .
"The most troublesome problem in many of our previous projects is to continuously branch and divide versions according to the needs of customers, and put forward higher requirements for our maintenance." Meng Xin said, "Yonyou iuap platform can realize the management of a set of codes. , seamlessly connected with Yonyou BIP’s full range of products, which undoubtedly provides a very powerful tool for R&D, solution integration, and product integration, and we can even release six versions of a set of code without any problem.”
It is worth mentioning that Nuojie Technology has witnessed the entire logistics industry upgrade from traditional OWTB orders, warehousing, transportation, and billing to car-free carriers and online freight platforms in just 12 years, and now gradually stepping into the The era of smart logistics.
To a certain extent, how fast the upper-level applications of industry software develop, reflects how fast the base supporting these upper-level applications develops. The rapid development of the base must be based on a forward-looking architecture and a highly engineered digital intelligence platform .
Because of this, not all platforms are called digital intelligence bases.
Data intelligence is everywhere
Going back to the data intelligence staff at the beginning, we know that the foundation of AI is data, algorithms and computing power. The integration of data is the foundation for both large-scale models and today's industry applications such as smart logistics software.
"More and more customers are concerned about the management and control of the entire logistics node. As the management and control of the entire supply chain, it can be used and analyzed in all fields, and provide more help for corporate decision-making." Meng Xin said, "So in We have done in-depth research on the logistics control tower, and the middle execution point needs to be coordinated with MES, PRM, CRM and other businesses. It is expected that we will launch the logistics control tower project product based on the BIP platform at the end of this year and early next year.”
In fact, UFIDA iuap consists of six major parts, three major platforms, and three middle platforms. In addition to the low-code development platform just mentioned, it also includes a technology platform, a connection integration platform, and a business middle platform, a data middle platform, and an intelligent middle platform. . The technology platform mainly has the ability to be cloud-neutral, whether it is Alibaba Cloud, Tianyi Telecom Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, private cloud, or Xinchuang Cloud.
From the development practice of Nuojie Technology, it can be seen that the low-code development platform of UFIDA iuap is a low-code platform that understands business, and it can directly connect with the business domain between UFIDA. Label a receipt, analyze it in a few minutes through the data center, and finally use the natural language output of the digital intelligence employee "Smart Friends" to assist the company in decision-making.
" If you encounter heterogeneous systems, including China Union Bank, you can use the connection integration platform to connect them; when you encounter different business collaborations, you can use the business middle platform to connect them; when you encounter data sources defined by different rules, you can use the data middle platform to manage, Get through ." Fan Guanjun, executive vice president and CTO of UFIDA, explained, "For example, business drives finance, standardizes business through data, and drives future intelligence through data."
Fan Guanjun, Executive Vice President and CTO of UFIDA
In fact, UFIDA has launched a cloud-integrated intelligent analysis cloud this year, with more than 2,400 pre-set business models, which UFIDA has accumulated in ten major fields such as finance, human resources, and medical treatment over the years. It is integrated into the business and empowers Customers, making data intelligence more inclusive .
"Yonyou has also preset more than 100 resource packages of digital intelligence employee images, incorporating more than 1,000 out-of-the-box RPA, VPA, and rule engine robots, covering more than 1,000 applicable scenarios." Luo Xiaojiang explained that these digital intelligence Employees can use the newly constructed knowledge graph of UFIDA to learn and grow by themselves. In the future, if you imagine the scene of UFIDA BIP, thousands of digital intelligence employees will form group intelligence to help enterprises do more scene optimization.
According to Luo Xiaojiang, now UFIDA BIP is basically smart everywhere. Based on the knowledge map, it can not only create portraits for enterprises, help customers manage suppliers, but also provide intelligent customer service . "In our production and manufacturing, some algorithms of the knowledge map can help us effectively optimize the process to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and form the ability of intelligent ingredients." Luo Xiaojiang gave an example, including the ONA organization network, which can help enterprises in the development of HR talents. Find core key talents, and formulate corresponding matching talent development plans for key talents.
It is reported that UFIDA has even started the enterprise service large-scale model plan-based on the enterprise data and models of sufficient magnitude accumulated by UFIDA for many years, the large-scale model can be well trained. In the future, these models will come from the scene and serve the scene.
The upgrade of digital intelligence base requires four major capabilities and two major systems
The digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises requires rapid innovation, and it is even more necessary to upgrade the digital and intelligent base. So how to upgrade, what abilities are needed?
"Based on the needs of enterprises, we have summarized the direction of upgrading the digital intelligence base into four major capabilities and two major systems ." Luo Xiaojiang explained, "Actually, data-driven intelligence is the first of the four major capabilities. "
In Luo Xiaojiang's view, data-driven, AI first. The essence of digital intelligence is data service. "It's not that the process is gone, but the process plus data-driven DSaaS, and data governance has also moved from the enterprise to the industry, from DevSecOPS to DataSecOps, and the entire operation service scenario has been built." Luo Xiaojiang said that in fact, UFIDA iuap launched in the data domain Three databases, one is a multidimensional database, the other is a time series database, and the third is a hyper-converged database. Among them, Duowei has achieved 1,500 enterprises, can merge tables in real time, has the ability to respond to billions of data in seconds, and the compression ratio of time series databases is also very good.
Luo Xiaojiang, Vice President of UFIDA
The second capability required to upgrade the digital intelligence base is extreme speed innovation . "Extreme speed innovation is not just low-code. For example, YonBuilder, a low-code low-code platform, integrates the complete platform capabilities of the background, supports layered development, provides a complete set of source code management system, and truly empowers the ability of engineering agility to low-code development. .” Luo Xiaojiang explained.
It is worth mentioning that Yonyou iuap is a set of codes on the cloud, which can be obtained from RPA on the public cloud to automatically conduct large-scale stress tests on the code. With the help of a set of tools on the Yonyou YMS microservice platform, the current Performance bottlenecks, where are the breakpoints, fast tracking, and fast problem solving. In addition, there are more than 2,000 asset libraries and more than 1,000 APIs on YonLinker, forming a good development connection capability and enabling rapid innovation.
Luo Xiaojiang gave an example: a domestic alternative project for a domestic automobile replaced oracle and mySQL, which involved tuning in many business analysis scenarios to solve technical difficulties of high performance, high concurrency and high availability. This is the third major capability of the upgrade of the digital intelligence base - a resilient IT engineering system is the cornerstone of the flexibility of the digital intelligence system .
"At present, UFIDA supports BIP's external services based on UFIDA's iuap capabilities. There are currently more than 16,000 microservices on UFIDA BIP, with more than 11,000 pipelines, a total of 167,771 pipeline executions, and a total of more than 58,000 service releases." Luo Xiaojiang Said, "Without a good set of engineering management capabilities, it is difficult to manage and control such a cloud-native microservice system."
The fourth capability required for the upgrade of enterprise digital intelligence base is Xinchuang security . In fact, UFIDA is the leader unit of the ERP of the Xinchuang Working Committee, and has 237 Xinchuang adaptation certificates, basically covering mainstream domestic software and hardware manufacturers. Here, UFIDA has built a safe and reliable framework, which can completely develop from safe development to safe operation to safety audit. Based on such a framework, the security from the host to the network application also includes services such as digital certificates and trusted signatures.
"To sum up, there are two major systems that support the four major capabilities of the digital intelligence base : one is the digital intelligence project development and management system, and the other is a sustainable operation system ." Luo Xiaojiang gave an example, "When we were working on the FAW project, we even Introduce the R&D management system to FAW, including quality control, shift from process-driven to data-driven, form a data service model, and have high availability and high performance capabilities."
It should be said that in the era of the Internet and large-scale model intelligence, new technologies are becoming more and more accessible. At this time, the key to using new technologies is not simple stacking, but the understanding of business and engineering capabilities. This is efficient development. and the cornerstone of continuous innovation.
From this Yonyou BIP technology conference, what I feel most deeply is not only the large-scale model as a service in cooperation with Baidu and Alibaba Cloud, not only the digital assistant with natural language interaction, but also an engineering development management system and The digital and intelligent base supported by the sustainable operation system empowers customers and ecological partners in various industries , and truly releases the business innovation potential of UFIDA BIP.