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With the rapid development of new-generation artificial intelligence technology around the world, all fields of society are transforming from digitalization and networking to intelligence. How to further release data productivity and accelerate intelligent transformation has become a compulsory course for enterprise development.
On April 25, 2023, the "NetEase Shufan Low-Code Business Strategy Conference" kicked off in Beijing as scheduled. In the face of the wave of "intelligence", NetEase Shufan released a low-code business strategy and launched the CodeWave intelligent development platform. With "intelligent large model and full-stack low-code" as the core, it continues the characteristics of "low threshold and high upper limit" to realize development Intelligentization of the whole link of software production, such as testing, operation and maintenance.
Low-code (low-code) allows developers to quickly create software application development methods by writing a small amount of code or even zero code through graphical interfaces and visual modeling. Its advantage is that it accelerates the development and delivery process of applications, greatly improves development efficiency, reduces development costs, and makes program development more flexible and convenient. At the same time, the front-end and back-end development languages are unified, the differences in programming languages are smoothed out, and non-professional developers are allowed to participate, which greatly reduces the development threshold. Today, low-code is not limited to the development of software applications. Any method that is completed through visual interaction belongs to the category of low-code.
Relying on NetEase's technology accumulation and practical experience in internal and external applications, NetEase Shufan has achieved a number of "first batch" achievements in the low-code field. Become the first echelon of low-code manufacturers in China: the first batch of selected member units of the low-code/no-code promotion center of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology; the first batch of low-code development platforms that passed the standard compliance evaluation of the "Low-code Development Platform Capability Requirements"; selected as a representative manufacturer Gartner's first China low-code report in 2022.
In the field of AIGC and related technologies, NetEase is also one of the major Internet companies with the earliest deployment and the largest technical reserves in China. NetEase launched GPT (Generative Pre-Training) model research as early as 2018. At present, it has self-developed dozens of ultra-large-scale pre-training models, covering natural language, text-image cross-modality, text-sound cross-modality, and intelligent capture. , emotion perception and many other model fields.
Today, combined with low-code and AIGC, Netease Shufan will subvert the traditional development model and develop enterprise digital productivity centered on the construction of "digital assets", injecting intelligence into the digitization of the industry, and in software production Continuous innovation on the entire link. As Netease CEO Ding Lei said, this is an era in which productivity is about to multiply, and it is also a new opportunity for a company to make digital transformation.
Living up to the mission of digital China, Netease Shufan rides the wind and waves
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward the "mission of building a digital China". Putting the building of a digital China in the same position as building a manufacturing power and a transportation power means putting forward new requirements and a more arduous mission for the software industry. Wang Yuan, executive director of NetEase Hangzhou Research Institute and general manager of NetEase Shufan, said that the core of building a digital China is the need to develop the software industry. IDC also predicts that by 2025, more than half of China's top 500 companies will become software manufacturers, more than 90% of applications will be cloud-native applications, 50% of the code will come from outside, and the number of developers will reach 1.5 times the current number.
However, compared with my country's manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure and other fields, the supply capacity of the software industry still has a very large gap. On the one hand, according to the data from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of professional software talents in my country is about 5 million, which is an order of magnitude behind the well-developed fields such as manufacturing and infrastructure. On the other hand, the traditional development method has a long R&D delivery cycle and is difficult to maintain. The cost of customized custom development is extremely high, and the level of software supply is severely restricted. Therefore, Wang Yuan believes that in order to build a digital China, the software industry urgently needs a supply-side reform, and breakthroughs in the talent training system and core technologies can truly solve these problems.
To meet this challenge, the Netease Shufan team relied on its long-term technical strength and rich industry experience to upgrade "Qingzhou" to the CodeWave intelligent development platform, and through the talent training mechanism of low-code certified engineers, it has trained more than 1,000 people for the industry. Successful low-code certified engineers have gone through an industrial talent training system. Wang Yuan believes that there are two core variables for software supply-side reform, one is intelligent large-scale model technology, and the other is full-stack low-code technology. "As long as we make a good breakthrough in these two key technologies and maintain a mature training system for software talents, we can better solve the problem of software supply."
The CodeWave intelligent development platform launched this time fully integrates two core technologies, and basically realizes the entire link of software research and development, covering the whole link of software design and development, testing, operation and maintenance, and operation. The purpose of making software production simpler, more efficient, and more intelligent has achieved a low threshold for talents and a high upper limit for technology in software development.
Rewrite low-code with AI, CodeWave accelerates intelligently
The potential value of AI technology continues to grow, and it also provides unprecedented opportunities for the digital transformation of enterprises. However, despite fully realizing the benefits of AI technology, many companies still cannot find the way to implement it. The faster AI technology develops, the farther away companies that have less knowledge of technology or are unable to combine business with AI systems will be left behind, which creates a "digital intelligence gap".
If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. This time, Netease Shufan upgraded the Qingzhou low-code platform to CodeWave, an intelligent development platform, based on Netease's self-developed intelligent large model (intelligent large model refers to a neural network model with more than 100 million parameters, which can realize human-like self- Learning and self-evolution, so that it has a certain ability to choose and judge independently), using low-code as a development tool, only need to write a small amount of code, and quickly develop applications through natural language description and visual drag and drop.
Chen E, general manager of Netease Shufan Cloud's native and low-code product line, said: "We want to provide a low-threshold programming language that everyone can master, without having to learn professional programming such as front-end and back-end Java and JavaScript. The language needs to lower the threshold, and then we need to provide an extremely standardized software design specification, design and develop such a specification, so that when humans or AI develop software, the knowledge that needs to be mastered can be greatly reduced. The last one is to provide Modularization and highly service-oriented encapsulation allow developers to only focus on business logic."
CodeWave takes the meaning of "Code code" and "Wave wave", implying that waves gather into waves and the technology world ushers in a new era of intelligent development. Behind this is Netease Shufan's new practice and innovative thinking on low-code-based software production. By introducing the technology of intelligent large models into low-code, an intelligent development platform can be realized, providing developers with a low-threshold, high-limit development experience, allowing people to become the protagonist again, and injecting intelligence into the digitalization of the industry to further liberate productivity. It is also able to continue to innovate in the whole link of software production, bring more subversive experience, and effectively promote the digital transformation of enterprises in the construction of digital China.
Since NetEase released the low-code platform, relying on NetEase's accumulation in programming languages, cloud native testing and other technical fields, NetEase Shufan has provided visual programming, automated testing/operation and maintenance capabilities, and created a low-threshold, high-limit low-code platform. With the in-depth practice of low-code software production, functions such as automatic UI derivation, automatic program analysis, and automatic data operation and maintenance have been provided to improve the development and operation experience.
In the future, the intelligent development platform will also deepen the application of AIGC, adding functions such as intelligent design, intelligent D2C, intelligent business analysis BA, intelligent asset operation, etc., as a thoughtful intelligent development assistant, helping developers solve repetitive and simple tasks.
"From the process of technological development, we have seen the possibility of infinitely lowering the threshold of digital transformation of Chinese enterprises. Today, the value of artificial intelligence is guided to the front line of social production. It can develop complex intelligent products that support tens of thousands of people." At the press conference, Ding Lei pointed out the future prospects of AI + low code.
Jointly build a win-win open ecology and act as a catalyst for a smart world
Digitization and intelligence are profoundly affecting everyone's life, affecting the governance, operation, and business models of various industries, lowering the threshold for digitalization and intelligence, improving the ability to implement key applications in complex industries, and making business intelligence readily available at low cost. Now is the time for code development. The birth of CodeWave is to take advantage of the trend and chase the waves, and it is also the inevitable choice for Netease Shufan to stand on the cutting-edge technology and lead innovation and transformation.
Zhang Hanwen, general manager of Netease Shufan's low-code business center, believes that there will be two unifications in the digital transformation process of enterprises in the future: a unified infrastructure and a unified software development platform. The past decade has been a decade of unified enterprise IT infrastructure, and the next ten years will be a decade of unified enterprise software development infrastructure. In order to accelerate the intelligent application of the entire industry and meet the needs of customized complex scenarios, the CodeWave intelligent development platform provides a "1+6+10" one-stop solution. Through an intelligent platform, it covers the six major industries of government, finance, manufacturing, new retail, automobile and pharmaceuticals, covering daily office, production management, project management, customer management, user operation, employee management, procurement management, precision marketing, intelligent manufacturing and For ten important scenarios such as retail management, CodeWave will empower the platform and product capabilities accumulated by Netease Shufan to enterprises, allowing developers to focus on business logic itself.
Travel fast alone, travel far together. In terms of ecological construction, Netease Shufan also released the "Wave+" ecological growth plan, which integrates the strength of the four major partners in strategy, solutions, distribution, and delivery, provides marketing, technical and other support, and jointly promotes the implementation of complex applications in the entire industry , Create new value in the industry. Zhang Hanwen said that NetEase Shufan will always adhere to the strategy of NetEase NETEASE, let partner developers become a decisive force, and jointly build solutions with partners and developers.
In the next 5 years, NetEase Shufan will gather more than 10,000 partners, and create 100,000 jobs and develop With 1 million developers, low-code development has become a new career choice for more young people.
Today, we are in an era of digital development, and the AI technology frenzy initiated by ChatGPT has brought us unprecedented changes and opportunities. The birth of the CodeWave intelligent development platform not only provides developers with more efficient and intelligent production methods, but also provides strong support for the digital transformation of enterprises. It has made a major breakthrough and has become a new engine of the era for the transformation from digital to intelligent.
Xu Enqing, Director of the Government and Enterprise Digital Transformation Department of the Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said: "Low-code has some opportunities in the development of the intelligent age, and there are still many important things to do. Second, pay attention to the construction of the ecological system, pay attention to the openness and interconnection of the platform, and avoid becoming an isolated island; third, pay attention to the diversified development of software, penetrate diversified scenarios, and truly Let low-code be popularized in the actual work of many enterprises; the fourth is to pay attention to the development of standardization and standardization, and use everyone's strength to promote better standards and enable more standardized development of the industry."
Entering the era of CodeWave, Netease Shufan will continue to explore more possibilities of combining low-code and AI technology, accelerate industry application, create an ecological and talent cultivation mechanism, lead the low-code industry transformation, and promote the realization of national strategic goals.
Text: Sanja / Data Ape
