Faced with the challenge of a shortage of enterprise IT professionals, Huawei Cloud Astro low-code platform provides innovative solutions. It allows non-programming professionals to quickly build and deploy applications, relieves the pressure on development resources, and highly integrates technical architecture to strengthen project communication and collaboration. Let each participating role find its own position and work with all developers to push the project forward.
Huawei Cloud Astro Platform unified low-code platform
Huawei Cloud Astro Platform is a unified low-code platform based on Huawei Cloud's 9 years of industry experience and 500+ practical industry assets. It is committed to efficiently building and launching data-driven services, organically integrating enterprise information modules, and allowing users to import departments. , roles, personnel and other information, thereby generating and mobilizing three major sub-services: Astro Flow workflow development, Astro Canvas visual large-screen development, and Astro Zero light application development. According to their own needs, they return to the core of the business to build. Huawei Cloud Astro Platform covers industry scenario applications and comprehensively promotes the digitalization process of enterprises.
Figure 1 Huawei Cloud Astro Platform unified operation platform interface
- Astro Flow workflow development
Integrate pre-configured components and templates that are widely applicable to office scenarios, including personnel, finance, administration and other matters. Employees can use the mouse to drag graphics to create applications, and customize the development according to the definition of corporate functions, converting cumbersome business processes into visual digital processes, avoiding human errors, allocating high-quality operational resources, and achieving the set goals of the position.
Figure 2 The left side of the Astro Flow operation interface is the component library
1. Introduction to product features: In addition to the drag-and-drop development method mentioned above, users can also automatically generate workflows through AI recognition of natural language. Astro Flow covers a large number of processors and templates to meet various data mining needs, and provides a large number of connectors Access SaaS applications. It has complete opening and access capabilities, integrating corporate address books, permissions and retention systems; through deep rewriting and customization of the open source BPMN engine, it has high performance and good functional scalability for carrying billions of data. Make full use of AI technology to achieve excellent performance in understanding and processing information and user dialogue. Supports complex dialogue process metadata and dialogue process orchestration; built-in multiple recognition algorithms to ensure recognition accuracy even with a small amount of data; high-performance semantic training and logical reasoning. Astro Flow can understand user needs through contextual analysis, perform corresponding operations based on preset rules or learning processes, and even predict the user's possible next action. Seamlessly integrate from original input to final output in a unified environment to reduce errors caused by result transfer. It also has built-in multiple recognition models to facilitate secondary training, and combines multi-scenario intelligent learning and training to build the "Huawei Cloud Astro" product portfolio solution to achieve a high degree of enterprise office automation.
2. Detailed explanation of advantages:
① Features: Astro Flow adopts powerful distributed computing and innovative parallel computing framework. It has obvious advantages when processing massive amounts of data. Whether it is batch processing or real-time processing tasks, it can be completed efficiently, meeting the business needs of different complex processes and scales.
② Ease of use and flexibility : Astro Flow not only reduces the user development threshold by defining nodes in natural language, but also supports micro-development based on Python or SQL for in-depth customization needs.
③ Robust functions : In addition to providing general ETL/EAI tools, Astro Flow also includes a series of enterprise-level features such as organizational analysis, operation monitoring, fault self-healing and other capabilities, supplemented by a complete rights management system to ensure that all data is safely stored and Correctly sent to the target location, greatly avoiding human errors.
3. Value analysis: With the help of Astro Flow, enterprises can greatly save time and labor costs, significantly improve production efficiency, and not only improve economic benefits, but also greatly reduce the black box situation due to the easy-to-use (low-code) characteristics of Astro Flow. , enterprise decision-makers can independently manage and monitor all implemented projects, and fully understand the input-output ratio.
4. Usage feedback:
In the past, if an enterprise wanted to implement a certain workflow, it had to invest a lot of manpower and material resources, such as establishing a technical team, purchasing hardware equipment, etc., which all required a long design and planning cycle and the support and cooperation of an expert technical team.
However, with the emergence of Astro Flow, enterprises only need to establish workflow models through language description to achieve their goals efficiently. And through intelligent configuration, the daily task of processing billions of data records can be shortened from the hour level to the minute level, speeding up operating performance by more than 10 times, and developers only need to spend 5% of their energy on coordinating and maintaining resources. . Intensive, time-consuming and error-prone manual labor is effectively replaced by AI, allowing employees to shift their attention to work that requires more creative thinking. Significantly improve the speed and efficiency of enterprise services, and expand coverage to 24/7. In addition, after optimizing the standard search and sorting process, the retrieval effect of relevant documents has been improved by 70%, and the error rate is 80% or more lower than that of human execution.
- Astro Canvas visualization large screen development
Realize the sharing of enterprise data imaging between PC and mobile devices, support 2/2.5/3D components and streaming media low-latency fast rendering, support real-time linkage of data, generate dynamic reports and information boards in real time, and convert massive data into intuitive and clear Information is presented to decision makers.
Figure 3 Mechanical work board, one of the common development scenarios of Astro Canvas
1. Technical features: Astro Canvas enables PC and mobile devices to share enterprise data presentation, supports 2/2.5/3D components and streaming media low-latency and fast rendering capabilities; built-in city and GIS maps, supports voice control. It is developed using drag-and-drop method, which is convenient for non-professionals to operate. Supports three-party permission docking to protect customer data security; has access capabilities and access specifications for custom components to support customer customized scenarios. Compatible with other Huawei Cloud Astro series products, such as Astro Flow and Astro Pro, ensuring flexible switching of data sources and high-speed processing.
2. Application scenarios: In business analysis, structured data is often used to express deeper insights, such as marketing status, financial reports, etc. Astro Canvas can be used. As for the dynamic interaction function, it can be applied to real-time data update scenarios such as data monitoring and equipment operation status.
3. Usage feedback:
Previously, users may need to use professional imaging software to create visual charts, which required a long period of study and practice to complete the task well.
Astro Canvas greatly simplifies the large-screen production process, and people with non-technical backgrounds can easily get started. Users can easily and quickly create exquisite visual large-screen screens, saving about 80% of labor costs compared with before. At the same time, due to the clear and reliable visual expression of Astro Canvas, the efficiency of information transmission can be increased by 20%-30%.
- Astro Zero light application development
Allow employees to use drag-and-drop to build applications in a few minutes with no or minimal code to quickly respond to business needs. Enterprises can safely delegate R&D, deployment, and operation and maintenance tasks to various departments to complete, effectively alleviating development fatigue, shortening the time to market, ensuring stable and efficient project delivery, and conveniently realizing innovative practices in IT scenarios.
Figure 4 Astro Zero template center can directly apply the generation program
1. Technical characteristics: Astro Zero supports zero-code and low-code collaborative invocation, cloud development, off-cloud deployment, flexible deployment, does not occupy local resources, and combines industry characteristics to organize data, system engineering, command control and other links to achieve the minimum process yield Create clear applications and greatly lower the development threshold. In addition, Astro Zero unifies the OSQL engine and integrates AI capabilities, such as OCR recognition, translation, etc., to empower data analysis and processing to enhance development intelligence.
2. Application scenarios: Astro Zero is widely used in enterprise internal information creation, query, management, approval process, etc. It can be completed by simply dragging and dropping options with the mouse. It is suitable for employees without programming foundation to develop enterprise applications.
3. Value analysis: Astro Zero effectively reduces technical learning costs and development time, making the originally complex and lengthy front-end development work intuitive and convenient, thereby quickly responding to business needs and demonstrating commercial value.
4. Usage feedback:
Without using Astro Zero, users must first master HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other languages or frameworks, and write code line by line to implement interface design and connect backend data.
After adopting Astro Zero, users can develop applications through graphic editing, simply set parameters for light application design, and at the same time call a rich template and component library to quickly build programs. Enterprise IT workload can be significantly reduced, saving about 70% of development time, allowing employees to focus on business-level optimization and expansion.
Based on Huawei Cloud Astro's collection of industry characteristics and customer personalized needs, it matches industry-specific business series models and best practices. , up to now, it has gathered 13 types of cloud services, providing 3,000+ API partner capabilities; the number of registered users has exceeded 100,000+, the number of enterprise developers has reached more than 9,000, the number of partners has exceeded 20, and the output of applications has exceeded 100,000. Enterprises More than 7,000 level applications. With its excellent efficiency, intelligent technology, strict security prevention and control system, and wide range of industry applications, Huawei Cloud Astro low-code platform responds to market demand with actions and outputs growth momentum in the digital era.