Article 1730 of "Neutrosophic Observation"
Author: Mu Yi
Editor: Yi Han
Editor: Yang Xiaotian
Header image source: Qiye Cloud
"Qiye Cloud builds tools for scenarios, rather than selecting scenarios for tools." This is a sentence repeatedly mentioned by Qiye Cloud founder & CEO Wang Congming in the interview.
At the same time, Wang Congming decisively gave an opposing answer to the industry's view that "applications built on low-code platforms can only be used in lightweight long-tail scenarios".
The above two paragraphs imply that Qiye Cloud will be a low-code vendor that is different from the traditional perception of the industry.
And it is true. Compared with most low-code vendors targeting all walks of life, Qiye Cloud only targets industrial Internet scenarios; compared to low-code platforms, Qiye Cloud prefers to call itself a fusion code platform. The so-called fusion code refers to a collaborative and complementary development method based on the same architecture, providing no-code for business personnel and low-code for developers.
Driven by the Pain Points of Industrial Internet Construction
There is no doubt that low-code has become a popular fried chicken in the ICT field, which can be seen from the influx of capital and the participation of cloud service providers/software manufacturers.
The " 2022 China Low-Code and No-Code Market Research and Selection Evaluation Report" released by China Software Network and Haibi Research Institute shows that the scale of China's low-code and no-code market is expected to be 4.06 billion yuan in 2022 . The growth rate is 42.9% , and it is expected to reach 11.85 billion yuan in 2025 .
But Qiye Cloud is by no means a company chasing low-code trends, but is driven by the pain points of industrial Internet construction. This is confirmed by the timeline. Wang Congming revealed, "When our project was launched within the group in 2010, there was no concept of low-code in the industry. Our original intention was to create a productivity platform for large-scale personalized, complex and serious industrial system construction and delivery for industrial scenarios. .”
With a specific goal, Qiye Cloud keeps moving forward in the unnamed "fuzzy" technology. In 2012, the first demo version of Qiye Yunrong Code Platform was released and verified internally, replacing the system used by the group itself; in 2013, Qiye Yunrong Code Platform piloted the first external customer delivery; 2014 In 2018, Qiye Cloud supported the transformation of the parent company's unified platform project delivery; in 2015, Qiye Cloud was upgraded from the R&D department to a business department; in 2018, Qiye Cloud officially operated independently and became one of the core subsidiaries of the group; Subsequently, the concept of low-code swept the world, and Qiye Cloud witnessed that the direction of its own exploration has become a huge emerging track.
At the same time, due to nearly 20 years of construction of the group service industry system where Qiye Cloud is located, a large number of industrial mechanism models including production processes, equipment operation and maintenance, and safety risk models have been deposited. These know-hows in the industrial field have become Qiye The internal gene of Yunrong code platform.
The integration of IT+OT makes Qiye cloud service industrial Internet like a fish in water. In just four years since its establishment, Qiye Cloud has served about 1,000 large-scale industrial customers, and dozens of ISVs have developed industrial SaaS based on this platform .
There is a scene first, and then there is a fusion code
Since OutSystems became a unicorn in 2018 and Siemens acquired Mendix for US$700 million, low-code has become a hot topic in the industry after several years of development in China, and some phenomena have emerged:
One is that there is a clear distinction between players on the track. The entire low-code track is gradually divided into two types of players: manufacturers who provide low-code platforms for professional developers; manufacturers who provide no-code platforms for business personnel. However, it is rare to see manufacturers that provide both low-code platforms and no-code platforms. It seems to be an unwritten rule to choose between low-code and no-code platforms.
The second is that many people think that low-code platforms can only be applied to enterprise edge business scenarios, and it is difficult to support core complex systems. Especially in industrial fields with heavy assets and long processes, low-code platforms have no place to play.
In this regard, Qiyeyun has a different view. In terms of trend one, Qiye Cloud chose to be an "all-around player". "We very much agree with the vision of no-code, especially for the lack of so many professional developers in industrial scenarios. No-code empowers business personnel to realize business innovation independently. However, it is necessary to introduce the power of professional programmers through low-code to make up for no-code. The two forces are combined to participate in industrial digital innovation. We are oriented by scenario goals and problem solving, not by sticking to a certain technical concept.” Wang Congming said.
Therefore, Qiye Cloud's integrated code platform provides both no-code and low-code capabilities, both of which are based on the same architecture and interoperable at the bottom layer. Business personnel can use the no-code capability to build their own needs, and when no code can't meet the needs, they can seamlessly connect with colleagues in the development department to complete personalized innovation together.
As for Trend 2, the Qiye Yunrong code platform is built based on the industrial Internet scene. It has the scene first and then the tool, and it has the ability to penetrate into the serious and complex system of the industrial Internet. "The reason why the industry says this is that many manufacturers are looking for scenarios for tools, and want to avoid some difficult scenarios. This view has naturally formed over time." Wang Congming replied.
An industrial Internet platform that takes a differentiated route
Under the background of intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation, the industrial Internet will undoubtedly be the focus of digital China construction in the next few years. Therefore, it can be seen that service providers providing industrial Internet, in addition to professional software vendors represented by Qiye Cloud, also have There are many service providers of different origins.
From the perspective of origin, these service providers can be roughly divided into two categories: one is cloud service giants represented by Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud; Technology companies incubated by industrial giants. It is not difficult to see that these service providers are superior to Qiye Cloud in terms of brand and scale, especially the latter, which has a deep understanding of industrial scenarios.
In this regard, Wang Congming believes that the competition Qiyeyun faces is not as fierce as imagined. "Gigants like Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud are more inclined to provide low-level general-purpose technologies. They are not necessarily familiar with the know-how in the entire project practice . After winning some projects, they will actually find manufacturers like us to deliver."
However, the industrial Internet platform incubated in real enterprises tends to integrate and expand the industrial chain. The positioning of Qiye Cloud is to provide the technical platform support required for industrial chain integration for leading entities, and to help customers realize their own industrial chain optimization strategies.
In the future, Qiye Cloud will continue to improve and optimize the fusion code platform by strengthening the integration of AI and industrial scenarios, upgrading the hybrid cloud architecture, strengthening fusion code modeling and compilation efficiency, and continuing to take a differentiated development route. And on the basis of focusing on actual combat and R&D priority strategy, it began to focus on improving the priority of brand building, and strived to make the product concept of Qiye Cloud's advantages known to more customers.
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