Since the country proposed the digital economy in 2017, elephants with the "Chinese prefix" as the backbone of the national economy have danced one after another, and as the vanguard and forerunner of digital transformation, they have carried the banner of digital and intelligent construction of the country and industry.
However, everyone knows that the digital transformation of enterprises is not only a technological innovation, it is no longer a partial business reengineering, but an integration and subversion of strategy, business philosophy, organization, operation and other aspects. "Taking a new path" with the traditional thinking of enterprise IT construction will never work.
What's more, what about central enterprises? They are large in scale, diverse in business and complex in system, and often face greater challenges than other enterprises. These enterprises need to eliminate the barriers of mechanisms and systems, and at the same time, do a good job in top-level design. By building a brand-new digital intelligence transformation platform, we can achieve the unity of organizational strategy, integrity, normativeness, coordination, security and operability, thereby promoting the realization of the vision of digital China.
However, in order to achieve such a goal, it is not enough to rely on the service providers currently on the market. For this reason, since 2020, central enterprises have begun to integrate resources, and have successively established about 500 digital companies. With the halo of the "National Team of the Digital Economy", they cater to the policy direction of the digital economy on the one hand, and are also driven by market demand on the other hand.
So, what impact has the emergence of digital technology companies had on the digital intelligence service market of existing central state-owned enterprises? How will they better serve the digital and intelligent transformation of the group company, and how to speed up the marketization process?
The call of duty of the digital economy national team
Let me first talk about the positioning and mission of the company.
In fact, there has been a long history of central enterprises teaming up with digital companies. Baosight Software, established as early as 2000, and Petrochemical Yingke, established in 2002, set a precedent for the entire industry. With the intensification of the digital economy, many central enterprises such as State Power Investment Corporation, PetroChina, China Energy Construction, etc. have established digital technology companies, which has been out of control.
In fact, most of these digital companies are positioned as professional companies for the digital transformation of large enterprises. Externally, they accelerate the deep integration of real industries and new-generation technologies, create new development models, and seek the development of external market resources; internally, they optimize resource allocation, change traditional IT functions, and update Quickly respond to market changes.
Taking SDIC as an example, although the group has spared no effort in investing in digital intelligence projects in recent years, problems such as scattered overall system construction, inconsistent data standards, difficult system upgrades and iterations, and inability of the group to manage and control are still emerging.
In order to break the above situation, they established a professional digital intelligence technology company called "SDIC Intelligence". Through close cooperation with various business sectors of the group, it fully supports the implementation of digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises.
The same is true for China National Building Materials Group. Faced with hundreds of business systems in the whole group, in order to build a "world-class material industry investment group with global competitiveness", they strengthened internal coordination, strengthened resource sharing and optimized allocation, and established Sinoma International Digital Technology Company. This not only realizes the unification of the digital intelligence platform, empowers the high-quality development of the company's business, but also actively leads innovation, and builds a cement intelligent factory construction service system with the cement industry Internet platform and intelligent expert optimization system as its core products.
In short, central enterprises' involvement in the field of digital technology is not only a result of their strong capital, resources, and business advantages, but also a concrete measure for them to implement the concepts of platformization, marketization, specialization, and innovation, and seize opportunities for digital economic development. . Only in this way can we truly become the national team of the digital economy!
Non-competition and synergy with traditional manufacturers
Let’s talk about their relationship with established service providers and ISVs.
In the digital intelligence service track, traditional software companies, Internet giants, and innovative companies are the three main players. They complement each other in products and services to meet the digital and intelligent transformation demands of all enterprises today. Of course, this also includes central state-owned enterprises.
Then, some people will definitely ask, with the continuous establishment of digital companies, will the old players in this track face threats? The answer is no.
For digital companies, their advantages are very obvious, that is, the professional control of the central state-owned enterprise management model, business model, and scenario requirements, as well as the ownership of data. However, compared with mature digital intelligence manufacturers, their external market-oriented operation, lack of internal project management, lack of personnel, and lack of R&D efficiency, engineering capabilities, and IT organizational governance have become obstacles for their development. constraints.
But, more importantly, the "digital intelligence base" has become the biggest weakness of these companies. Lack of data intelligence applications, weak global support capabilities, rigid architecture, and even weak adaptability to hybrid clouds have caused them to encounter difficulties repeatedly in the process of serving the group and external customers .
As the first professional enterprise service provider to gain insight into market changes, UFIDA has explored it early on and dismantled it in combination with the strategic goal of digital transformation of central state-owned enterprises. They believe that digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises should be carried out around three aspects: organizational change, business scenario innovation and data drive.
By building an agile digital organization, based on the organizational middle platform, the ability sharing of organizations and personnel can be realized, and the seamless link between organizations can be established to establish a cross-departmental and cross-functional open platform for information exchange, data sharing, and digital symbiosis; through technology and The deep integration of business scenarios makes the applications in finance, manufacturing, supply chain and other fields more intelligent, drives the continuous innovation of business models, and realizes business digitalization through multi-channel collaborative interaction inside and outside the enterprise and the industrial chain; through data-driven enterprises, it provides customers with personalized services. Process services and experience provide real-time data indicators for management decisions, and ultimately realize the operation of data assets.
The basis for all the above work is the construction of a systematic digital intelligence base, which will promote the overall coordinated development of the enterprise in conjunction with the platform engineering system and digital intelligence IT organization construction.
Therefore, in the new enterprise service ecology, the relationship between digital companies, ISVs and UFIDA will be closer. First of all, they will focus on the Yonyou iuap platform, combine the platform's engineering system and leading practices, or jointly create, or create professional services, or deeply cultivate industry scenarios, to meet the demands of digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises.
Secondly, Digital Technology Company will also create more joint operation innovation centers with UFIDA. Its value lies in the digital intelligence base based on UFIDA BIP, which can realize all-round capabilities from consulting, product research and development to implementation and delivery, and then to product operation. Construct. This new cooperation model will make the positioning and responsibilities of each role clearer, and ultimately maximize their respective values in the process of digital and intelligent transformation of central state-owned enterprises.
Knows enterprise-level technology best, understands enterprise-level business better
Let’s talk about the Yonyou BIP PaaS platform, that is, the Yonyou iuap platform, which is a digital intelligence platform that understands business better, has advanced technology, and has a complete system.
After years of iterations, the UFIDA iuap platform has redefined the enterprise-level PaaS platform with a number of industry-first technological breakthroughs, social business architecture breakthroughs, and scene-based digital intelligence application breakthroughs, and has also become the leading enterprise digital intelligence platform in the industry. chemical base.
Yonyou said that it focuses on "data intelligence, sustainable development and Xinchuang security". After more than 10 years of polishing and market verification, based on a number of advanced technologies and industry-leading application architectures, it has created 10 core business services and more than 400 An innovative service, and created many core patents and software licenses, won many firsts in China's aPaaS cloud market.
UFIDA iuap platform provides technology platform, business middle platform, data middle platform, intelligent middle platform, connection integration, low-code development and other services and solutions for the digital and intelligent transformation of large enterprises, and helps enterprises upgrade the digital and intelligent base. At the same time, based on a unified platform and public services, the overall efficiency and quality of product development in the field and industry will be improved. In addition, at the ecological level, it has created a strong foundation for business innovation ecology, and has become a unified platform for UFIDA and the overall business of the ecological future, providing ecological ISVs with a comprehensive solution covering design, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, operation and maintenance, and operation. Life cycle services, and support the sharing and co-creation of enterprise service industry ecological partners, thus becoming a digital intelligence business application infrastructure platform and a sharing and co-creation platform for enterprise service industries.
In the face of such a powerful strength, through this platform, digital technology companies can quickly make up for the above-mentioned various deficiencies, and quickly build the underlying basic capabilities of digital intelligence. Moreover, they can also obtain leading practices in various industries to meet the diversified business layout of the group company; in addition, they can also lower the threshold of technology use and achieve low-cost innovation, and create personalized scenario applications in combination with market changes.
From the perspective of marketization, digital technology companies can also improve their capabilities in various aspects in a short period of time, promote the commercialization of products, and then empower the high-quality development of the digital economy.
New cooperation models still need to be explored
At present, with the acceleration of the localization replacement process, UFIDA has provided relevant products and solutions for many central state-owned enterprises, and has accumulated rich experience in enterprise management models and business scenarios. It is the first choice for many central state-owned enterprises to transform digitally and intelligently. .
However, cooperation with digital companies is still a new topic for digital intelligence manufacturers like UFIDA. Exactly how this path should be taken is still unclear. However, many cases have proved the value of this new cooperation model.
In order to become a world-class mobile travel service company, China FAW is committed to building the first independent and controllable ERP in the domestic auto industry through a new generation of technology platform.
In the process of the company's project promotion, problems such as insufficient technical personnel reserves, insufficient platform technical support capabilities, and insufficient R&D process management have emerged, which pose severe challenges to its own business transformation and the company's strategic development.
In order to achieve the goal, they re-planned the top-level design of digital intelligence, with the middle office as the core and data as the engine, and reconstructed ERP based on new digital intelligence technology. In the process of cooperation with UFIDA, based on the UFIDA iuap platform, FAW Group not only built the entire digital intelligence base, but also reconstructed the processes of the three main businesses. More importantly, in terms of basic capacity building, the company combined the iuap implementation methodology to create an agile project management process and agile R&D system that can be delivered quickly and iterated quickly, and realized project management, R&D, integration, testing, and release based on DevOps The digital closed loop of the whole process. This immediately stimulated the innovation gene of the enterprise. On the basis of the original OTD project, there was a strong demand for the cloud, and the ERP core module was successfully moved to the cloud.
Through the cooperation between UFIDA and China FAW Digital Technology Co., Ltd., the digital investment cost of enterprises has been reduced by 20%, the development efficiency has been improved by 20%, the product iteration cycle has been shortened by 20%, and the operation and maintenance efficiency has been improved by 30%. Moreover, the micro-service architecture has been fully utilized to allow IT resources to be fully utilized. use efficiently.
All in all, no matter which level you look at, the emergence of digital technology companies is a positive benefit for industries, enterprises, and even the development of the national digital economy. In the future, how should they fulfill their mission, how to coordinate resources on a platform, and how to cooperate with existing digital and intelligent manufacturers to output more value and create more results?
These still deserve our continued attention.