Facing the era of "uncertainty" with an open mind
In the past year or so, uncertainty has undoubtedly become the new normal of the world. For government and enterprises, digital transformation has entered the deep water area, and how to deal with the uncertainty brought by "no man's land" will be the core question to be answered in the next stage.
1. The user environment is undergoing tremendous changes, and "digital native" users will become the mainstream. They are characterized by 24-hour online service, like mobility and seconds kill, and are keen on the Double Eleven shopping spree. In addition, Shenzhen, the city where Huawei is located, has begun to define new species such as digital citizens and digital currency. These unknown user behavior changes are full of uncertainties.
2. The market environment brings great opportunities and risks with the policy traction. During the 14th Five-Year Plan, the government and enterprises will continue to develop in the deep-water area of digital transformation, and in the future, building a digital industrial chain around central cities and urban agglomerations, and reconstructing the ecological environment around AI and intelligent manufacturing will also bring uncertainty. What the CEO or top leaders are most concerned about is how to reap the greatest development from this wave of market dividends.
3. At the same time, technology is also developing rapidly, especially the cloud native technology represented by AI, edge and container is becoming more and more mature, and the shortage of talent pool for government and enterprise customers will become the most anxious problem for CTO, so the industry puts forward the concept of "digital anxiety". In this case, the traditional technology may fail to solve the business, such as controlling traffic congestion and fighting epidemic situation, and more advanced technology must be adopted to deal with new problems. At this time, the Matthew effect will also be amplified. The stronger the strong, the weaker the weak, and the enterprises that cannot make good use of the technology of the cloud native era for transformation may eventually be eliminated.
the process of digital transformation is a process in which government and enterprises continue to deal with all kinds of uncertainties with an open and inclusive attitude. Keeping pace with the times and facing difficulties are the correct countermeasures.
From business translation to cloud-based biochemistry
Since its establishment, Huawei has been striving for survival and development in an "uncertain" environment. In order to adapt to the harsh competitive environment, Huawei's IT has effectively supported the company's sustained growth through gradual cloud-based evolution. The overall process can be roughly divided into five stages:
Huawei's digital transformation process is a typical non-digital native enterprise's gradual transformation to cloud-based. It is an effective path that can be referenced by traditional government and enterprises. Combined with Huawei's own practice, we believe that the key route of cloud transformation of government and enterprises can be summarized as two major transformations:
Transformation 1: the transformation from the traditional IOE architecture to the Cloud- Based architecture, mainly through the way of business translation, using virtual machines, containers, big data and other platforms to realize the redeployment of business, realize the centralization of data and applications, and gradually form a cloud infrastructure from the perspective of enterprises;
transformation 2: the overall transformation from Cloud- Based to cloud native architecture. This stage can be subdivided into two scenarios: first, using new technologies to solve old problems and break through the original business and data breakpoints, such as transforming the original business through a network office, and getting through the data and business between various commissions, offices, provinces and municipalities, so as to realize the application for approval during the epidemic; The other is to use new technologies to solve new problems, that is, business innovation. For example, Huawei has developed a large number of digital employees to handle and conclude contracts, which greatly improves efficiency. This development curve shows a complete gradual transformation process, and it is also the core method for the successful transformation of Huawei's non-digital native enterprises.
Matching the customer's business transformation and enabling the intelligent upgrade of government and enterprises
Based on the key roadmap of cloud native transformation and combining the two dimensions of business and technology development, Huawei Cloud Stack refines the landing sand table of key technologies, which can be summarized into 3 levels, 4 stages and 12 key technology points.
level 1: build a cloud from the user's perspective through resource pooling, realize the management of super-large-scale infrastructure, and get through all breakpoints within the cloud, at the edge of the cloud and between the clouds to form resource collaboration;
level 2: application containerization and business distribution open up isolated islands of data applications and realize business collaboration and * * * enjoyment;
level 3: on the basis of resource, data and application collaboration, combine innovative technologies such as AI with industry scenarios, build industry agents based on industry Know-How, and truly realize the intelligent upgrade of core production systems.
Cloud distributed application: its core is to transform the traditional centralized application in a distributed way and support one-click deployment to any decentralized infrastructure. In addition to the containerization of infrastructure, the application and data are connected through the new generation integration platform ROMA Connect to realize the service of legacy systems, and the new and old applications and frameworks are managed by unified service through ASM's non-invasive service governance framework without transformation. Taking government agencies as an example, through distributed operation, data and insight can be obtained faster, which is the basis for achieving efficient government governance and service. At the same time, it is the top priority for the government to apply cloud native technology to ensure the security of government data and applications, as well as the flexibility of infrastructure in response to emergencies. Taking Shaanxi Finance as an example, they migrated data and applications to the cloud native architecture, and the online cycle of applications was shortened from month to week, and the efficiency was improved by 6% to 8%.
Cloud Big Data: Huawei Cloud Stack has created a new data computing mode, namely logical data lake, and data can be calculated without moving through the logic of data entering the lake. Especially in view of the fact that the data of government and enterprise customers are scattered at headquarters, branches and edges, Huawei Cloud HetuEngine can realize efficient cross-source and cross-domain system analysis and query without data relocation, which greatly improves the efficiency of data analysis. Take the financial industry as an example, they accelerate the innovation of financial services by supporting the platforms of emerging technology stack such as big data and artificial intelligence. With the help of FusionInsight big data capability, China Merchants Bank is used to store and inquire about credit information, realize rapid card opening, credit line review and bill inquiry, and realize credit card transaction, payment and risk control in retail system through big data real-time decision-making platform. Through unified access interface and service sharing, manual processing links are reduced, real-time risk control of credit cards is realized, losses are effectively reduced and accuracy is improved.
Cloud AIoT (artificial intelligence internet of things): the integration of IT and OT is an inevitable trend. in the future, a large number of businesses need the cooperation of central computing power and edge computing power. Huawei provides IEF's edge cloud collaborative operating system, which allows the AI algorithm to freely flow from the center to any edge, thus realizing intelligent innovation of the edge. For example, the edge cloud collaborative solution is applied to the "one network" management of expressway, which reduces the traffic time from the previous 15 seconds to 2 seconds, and the business efficiency can be improved by more than ten times.