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takeaway: Digital transformation has been respected as an important strategic direction in all walks of life. From enterprises to government organizations, they are paying close attention to and actively exploring digital construction. However, what is the goal of digital transformation, and how to successfully achieve the transformation, both need a deep thinking and overall planning. Today’s article covers the necessary conditions for digital transformation from the infrastructure dimension.
A shaky foundation shakes the earth
The core purpose of enterprise digital transformation is to use digital technology to make the business online, use big data, fast data and other technologies to fully explore the value of data, drive the innovative development of business, so as to create or restructure a new business model to adapt to the changing market.
The effect of digital transformation is not as significant as we imagined. Most enterprises still encounter failure, delay or reduced expectation even after investing a lot of financial, human and material resources in digital transformation.
Why the enterprise digital transformation tends to become weaker and weaker, unable to achieve the desired effect, the problem may lie in the foundation.
As the saying goes, “if the foundation is not solid, the earth shakes.” The foundation determines the superstructure. The deeper and more stable the foundation is, the higher and more solid the superstructure can be built. For an enterprise, the digital infrastructure is the foundation.
The challenges of digital transformation
After the investigation and analysis of a large number of enterprises, we found that the current situation of enterprise infrastructure problems are prominent, concentrated in the infrastructure cloudy mixed, technical architecture can not be unified, business chimney architecture, data island and other aspects. These problems lead to many problems in the process of digital transformation of enterprises. If they cannot be solved, the previous financial, human and material investment of enterprises will be wasted.
For enterprises, especially traditional enterprises, a new understanding needs to be established: the core driving force of enterprise digital transformation will come from the construction of a new generation of digital infrastructure.
The three engines define the next generation of enterprise digital infrastructure
We know very well that for an apple seed to grow into an apple tree and continue to produce good apples, it needs the right environment (soil, temperature, water) for the seed to grow, plenty of fertilizer, and regular weeding and deworming to produce a good harvest.
If we think of an enterprise’s business application as an apple seed, then the infrastructure that runs the application, the management of the r&d process, etc., is the “environment in which the seed needs to grow”. It’s important to note that businesses often need not just apples, but entire orchards, where all seeds can germinate, grow, blossom and bear fruit.
In other words, enterprises facing the complex business system, need a one-stop covering “cloud architecture, business development, data development” three digital scenarios, and can solve the problems faced by enterprises to build infrastructure unified platform.
The big picture of the next generation of enterprise digital infrastructure capabilities
As a new generation of enterprise digital infrastructure, Erda has three core engines: hybrid cloud management, micro-service R&D and governance, and fast data governance. Erda provides enterprises with a unified operation platform for unified resource scheduling, rapid business construction, and data integration and analysis.
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We will examine Erda in detail below.
The entire DevOps process is automated
From beginning to final delivery, a system generally includes planning, coding, building, testing, releasing, deploying, and maintaining. If it’s a simple system, one person can do it; But today, with the increasing complexity of systems, a team is needed to implement the development and delivery of the entire system, and a clear system management process is needed to control the production process of the system.
A true DevOps platform covers the entire system development process from requirements management to delivery. In this way, the whole r&d process can be properly controlled.
Cloverleaf microservices R&D governance
The application R&D process is complex and diverse, from project collaboration to development process to service governance monitoring. The details involved in this process are very complex and challenging for infrastructure construction:
- First, it should be highly compatible and user-friendly to the application technology stack to reduce the cost of migration and transformation of the application infrastructure.
- At the same time, it should have integrity, and the scope of governance should include the underlying infrastructure, applications, middleware, data, etc., so as to effectively ensure the safe and stable production of application + data;
- Finally, we should have a visual analysis platform, so that managers can be clear at a glance, and all the problems can be solved.
Unified hybrid cloud console
Since few enterprises directly start digital transformation from scratch, it is difficult to abandon the thick business system and data of the system itself and completely migrate to the public cloud. This also determines that hybrid cloud is the inevitable trend in the future. Its value is not only exposed to the risk of being bound by a single cloud vendor, but also can flexibly choose the advantages provided by various cloud ecosystems, taking advantage of hundreds of strengths and making up for its own shortcomings.
Therefore, for a new generation of enterprise digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud management capabilities are required to ensure stable operation of services in a complex cloud environment, and provide capabilities such as capacity expansion, performance optimization, security deployment, and resource analysis.
Data governance based on real-time computing
McKinsey, a globally renowned consulting company that first proposed the advent of the era of “big data”, said: “Data has penetrated into every industry and business functional area and become an important factor of production. The mining and use of vast amounts of data is heralding a new wave of productivity growth and consumer surpluses.”
In today’s society, big data occupies more and more fields, and its advantages are more and more prominent. With the rapid development of big data, e-commerce, O2O, logistics and other fields continue to help enterprises develop new businesses and innovate operation modes. Take a simple example: under the traditional marketing, most businesses are using mobile phone number information for marketing. However, with the increasing number of platforms, businesses can obtain data from various channels, which also means that a user has a variety of data in one or even multiple channels. In order to better depict the portrait of users, we need to identify the real “people” and carry out marketing to “people”. This is the value of the big data era, which can reduce operating costs, improve business conversion rates, and drive rapid business growth.
As intelligent business scenarios have higher requirements for the speed of data computing, the era of big data is moving towards the era of fast data. In the new retail industry, with the development of the industry, the products purchased by users are becoming more and more diversified and personalized. In order to better understand the users and recommend the products more suitable for the users, we should judge the buying tendency of the customers in real time according to the browsing path of the users and give the products more in line with the customers’ mind. This is an intelligent recommendation scenario with fast and simple data, in which the real-time and accuracy requirements for data computing will be higher. Only the data governance architecture integrated with streaming and batch can truly realize the multi-heterogeneous global data fusion governance.
Full-stack service and data fusion
Business digitization and digital operationalization in the new generation of infrastructure will no longer be an empty concept, but can be truly implemented.
The unified cooperation of business and data has realized the unified entrance management, broken the barriers between the system and the platform, and made the data governance process easy and fast. This allows for better use of data to drive business growth and enables businesses to be more numerically described, resulting in more refined operations.
Unified business management and unified data collection make the process of business data precipitation become standardized and standardized. Continuous business data precipitation lays a solid data foundation for the digital transformation of enterprises.
Business + full stack data fusion technology practice logic, to consider the business data service mixed deployment, guarantee the reasonable use of resources, unified heterogeneous task scheduling engine to realize the business service, data flow batch calculation on the assembly line for unified scheduling, finally can realize a business + data platform integration development governance.
Open source, jointly build and share the new digital ecology
As one of the few open source container application platforms in China that supports both business development and data development, Erda is an innovator and defining of a new generation of enterprise digital infrastructure, and its core capabilities are fully aligned with the vision of a new generation of infrastructure. Over the years, Erda has completed more than 40 version iterations and served more than 50 industry leaders.
Erda has open source more than 700,000 lines of code, with a more open attitude and communities, enterprises to jointly build and share the new digital ecosystem. Welcome more people to participate and create a better future!
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