Author | Mr.K Editor | Emma
Source | Technical Leadership (ID: jishulingdaoli)
Software defines the future and everything is programmable, how will we define software development itself? The era of AIGC has come. The generative AI represented by ChatGPT can generate software code quickly and well. What kind of great changes will this bring to the field of software development? Under the economic cycle, besides layoffs, is there any way for the R&D team to reduce costs and increase efficiency...
With these questions in mind, Brother K chatted with friends in the UFIDA Developer Center and was quite inspired to share with you.
01
Starting from three "software development paradigm changes"
Let’s start with the software development paradigm change process:
With the birth of the first computer in 1950, software came into being, and people who wrote software as a profession began to appear. In the 1960s, American universities began to teach computer majors, marking the transformation of software development from "workshop" to "industrialization", and the prelude to the software development industry was slowly opened.
After more than 60 years of development, software development has undergone three development paradigm changes, namely: engineering paradigm, open source paradigm, and crowd intelligence paradigm.
1) Engineering Paradigm: Top-down, progressive refinement. This stage mainly solves the problem of software engineering standardization, and successively produced R&D management models such as waterfall, agile, and iterative. Thanks to the development of software engineering standardization, large and complex software systems such as Windows, Oracle, and domestic Yonyou ERP were born. It provides great convenience for people's production and life.
2) Open source paradigm: bottom-up, associated evolution. With the emergence of more and more free software developers, the developer community self-organization model has been born, and many influential open source software have been launched, such as: Apache, Tomcat, linux, Hadoop and so on.
3) Group Intelligence Paradigm: Combination of top and bottom, group co-creation. The result of fierce competition in the Internet industry has led to the concentration of traffic entrances and the monopoly of technology platforms, followed by the emergence of a software development model co-created by groups, that is, the group paradigm. Such as: WeChat applet platform, UFIDA development resource market, etc.
UF's classmates told me that as a software company established in 1988, they witnessed and participated in the transformation process of the entire software development paradigm. 35 years of technical precipitation and accumulation have converged into the "YonBuilder low-code development platform", which benefits many enterprise technical personnel and business personnel, and is the most classic practice of the crowd intelligence paradigm.
02
How can a low-code platform help reduce R&D costs and increase efficiency?
Brother K, as an old code farmer with more than ten years of development experience, and a technical manager with more than ten years of R&D team management experience, is very curious about how the YonBuilder low-code development platform can help the R&D team reduce costs and increase efficiency ?
UFIDA YonBuilder low-code development platform is based on cloud-native, multi-tenant, and model-driven technologies, and provides zero-code and low-code for the entire ecosystem including original factory development, ISV development, localization development, enterprise self-build, and individual developers. Visual development capabilities.
The YonBuilder low-code development platform can realize low-code application construction, low-code mobile development, low-code connection integration, low-code data analysis, low-code blockchain construction and low-code AI development, and then can provide users with brand-new application development, aiming at the original Factory application expansion, based on professional partners and customers from all walks of life to provide layered development capabilities.
You may say that low-code can only do some simple applications, and the traditional development model must be used for truly complex core business logic. If your understanding of low-code is still at this level, then the capabilities of the YonBuilder low-code development platform will surprise you.
The YonBuilder low-code development platform has the ability to carry complex core business systems of enterprises. The platform has more comprehensive functions. It not only has the ability to develop forms and processes by dragging and dropping, but also has the ability to integrate with the original technology base of the enterprise, so that it can carry the complex core business system of the enterprise.
Take the automobile manufacturing industry with the most complex business as an example. Automobile manufacturing belongs to discrete manufacturing and is known as the "crown of the manufacturing industry". Second, the production process is complex, including design and development, component manufacturing, assembly, painting, quality inspection, assembly, testing, etc.; third, the supply chain is super complicated, with hundreds of suppliers.
Due to the complexity of the manufacturing process, the management is more difficult. The FAW Group, known as the "eldest son of the Republic", has solved this problem through a self-built system. It turned out that FAW Group built an overall business system based on YonBuilder, and built an independent and controllable ERP platform for the domestic auto industry through a new generation of technology platform. The system includes: supply chain management (SCM), production planning and control (PPC), quality management (QM), Sales and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and more.
Low code can not only develop complex manufacturing ERP systems, but also develop financial systems that require extremely high data accuracy. A friend of UFIDA proudly told me that the business-finance integration system of Tomorrow Holding Group is based on UFIDA’s YonBuilder low-code development platform.
Zhejiang Tomorrow Holding Group is a large-scale group enterprise with a total operating income of more than 75 billion yuan. After more than 20 years of continuous development, the company has developed into an influential service provider of the plasticizing industry chain in the domestic market.
In recent years, Tomorrow Holdings Group has continued to carry out business innovation and transformation. The IT team of the group has developed an integrated system of business and finance based on the YonBuilder low-code platform, including applications such as online process, data creation, process collaboration, and refined management and control. Build the infrastructure for digital transformation.
From the above two cases, it is not difficult to see that the best practices of digital transformation of medium and large enterprises are based on the leading digital technology foundation such as YonBuilder low-code platform, and quickly build the core system of the enterprise, which is faster, better and more economical. realize the digital transformation of enterprises.
03
Platform empowerment: develop the resource market and facilitate the implementation of full-scenario applications
Seeing this, you might say, isn’t low code uncommon? Can it provide other additional value to developers?
This question has also been pondered by Yonyou. Now let’s take a look at the answer sheet they handed over: YonBuilder low-code development platform supports building block building applications. After the business logic is sorted out, the packaged components of the platform are rebuilt. Combining and building applications quickly, it is as intuitive and simple as building Lego blocks.
In addition, the development resource market on the platform also provides a large number of development resources, such as: functional components, integrated asset packages for flexible calls, and supports the implementation of enterprise full-scenario applications.
04
Ecosystem: low code, not alone
To measure whether a development platform is mature enough, just look at its ecosystem. A classmate of Yonyou introduced me to the ecosystem construction of YonBuilder low-code development platform.
UFIDA's low-code development platform has established a developer certification system, and provides opportunities for Kekai partners to undertake projects. Developers can quickly develop applications with industry attributes based on UFIDA's rich industry components.
In addition to the certification system, Yonyou has also established the "Yonyou Developer Center". Developers can not only use the YonBuilder low-code development platform to build applications, but also realize a complete user experience journey such as learning empowerment, technical exchanges, and professional certification.
Unlike most low-code development platforms, which only target enterprises and ISV developers, Yonyou has a complete customer development partner system. After passing Yonyou's qualification certification and ability assessment, all kinds of enterprises can obtain a large number of customer development projects provided by Yonyou on the YonMaker ecological customization platform as a customer development partner, and obtain commercial returns.
written in the last words
In the era of the "swarm intelligence paradigm" of software R&D, the path for the R&D team to reduce costs and increase efficiency is very clear, which is to quickly build enterprise applications based on the technology foundation of the low-code development platform, the developer center, and the development resource market. No matter how the external environment changes, focusing on the core business segment of the enterprise and reshaping the core competitiveness of the enterprise through digitalization can help the enterprise to go through the cycle and build an everlasting business.
Finally, Yonyou warmly invites readers of Brother K to experience the YonBuilder low-code development platform for free, limited to 100 people, click to read the original text .
The URL is as follows:
https://developer.yonyou.com/product/appdevelopment/modeldriven?dyc=100001