Rising in Taiwan, enterprises in succession in Taiwan!

In 2015, Alibaba, the founder of Zhongtai, proposed the zhongtai strategy of “large and medium Taiwan, small front desk”. Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba Group at the time, said: “Front-line businesses as front offices are more agile and can adapt quickly to the rapidly changing market; The middle office will integrate the group’s operational data capabilities and product technology capabilities to provide strong support for all front desk businesses.”

About the Zhongtai, Huawei put forward “let those who can hear the sound of guns call to the gunfire” **, which vividly interprets the strategic significance of “big Zhongtai, small front desk”.

By 2019, Tencent, Huawei, Baidu, Xiaomi, JINGdong, Didi and many other domestic leading technology companies have also put forward their own Strategies for China and Taiwan from different angles, and reformed their corresponding technology systems, business models or organizational structures.

This year, the popularity of the concept of Zhongtai reached a new height, and people called 2019 the first year of “Zhongtai”. “Zhongtai” has become a “fashion”, in the IT industry, people can not communicate three sentences without “Zhongtai”, if you say you do not know zhongtai, will certainly be laughed at: “From Mars!”

Led by the major head technology companies headed by Ali, not only technology companies are building in Taiwan, many traditional enterprises have also put “in Taiwan” on the agenda……

Taiwan cool, enterprises panic?

In December last year, A tweet by Lao K titled “Alibaba has completely destroyed the Middle Stage!” “Zhang yongjin posted an article on Alibaba’s internal network saying that he is not satisfied with the current Middle stage of Alibaba. He bluntly said that the current business development of Ali is too slow. We should make the middle stage thinner and more agile and fast,” the article said.

“Ali demolition center” the news on the network of the boiling uproar, for a time, the workshop of the center of the voice of doubt everywhere!

Those who began to advocate the middle of the people, during that time no voice, become silent.

Those who were initially skeptical of The Chinese leadership seem to gloat: “See, I told you so…”

As a matter of fact, the news of “Ali’s demolition of The Central Taiwan” was reported by the media as early as May 2019, and Ali immediately responded: “Fake!”

But this time, Old K broke the news of “Ali completely in the middle”, ali did not respond for a long time. People began to wonder: “Is Ali really tearing down central Taiwan this time?”

As a result, ciOs and architects of many enterprises panic:

“I’m already building it. Will it stop?”

“I’ve built it. Will it go to waste?”

“I’m going to build it, do I have to cancel it?”

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Do thick medium: new operating system

May 28, 2021 Ali Cloud Summit, Ali Cloud intelligent president Zhang Jianfeng said that 2021 has four words are very key, can also summarize the development direction of Ali Cloud this year, namely: do deep foundation, do thick in Taiwan, strengthen the ecology, do good service.

“The middle platform includes middleware, database, operating system, big data platform, etc. The middle platform is the core of the future” cloud “can be further rapid development”.

In a conversation with Sina Finance, Zhang jianfeng said that ZHONGtai is a new operating system. His view is as follows:

“Our original information system is relatively simple, the business process is understood clearly, programmers can turn the business process into an information system. However, today’s information system is facing a very big change, because today’s information system is not a simple business flow problem, but also data flow, mobile, artificial intelligence through big data mining, and so on, which is not encountered by the previous information system.

This requires a new type of operating system, we originally called the middle stage, in fact, it is beyond the original processing system represented by Windows, do simple information development above. From information to digital era it needs a new operating system, we are facing big data, intelligent, IoT, mobile, the development of their own applications become more convenient.

Different industries have different characteristics, some are retail, some are industrial, they can continue to build their systems above the middle stage. So zhongtai is actually a cloud era, big data era, intelligent era, mobile era of a new operating system.”

Well, this time Ali said: “to do thick medium stage”, and gave the medium stage higher positioning: “new operating system”!

So excuse me: this time, you still follow?

Recognize the essence, do not tangle and confusion

As long as we recognize the essence of everything, we will not be confused and will not be influenced by other people’s views. No matter he is called China, called the new operating system, essentially, is a kind of “centralized platform for the ability to reuse” * * * *, including the enterprise ability of data operation and product technology, through the “reuse, collaboration, ability combination” promote the development and operation efficiency, to form a strong support on the front desk business.

From a technical point of view, this “centralized, standardized, modular, service-oriented” pattern is not too different from the core concept of SOA. More than 10 years ago, major banks engaged in the “unified platform”; The unified data assets of telecom companies all adopt this model. But Ali gave him a more exotic name called “zhongtai”, adding some new technology to be packaged, this down-to-earth word suddenly “fire”.

Of course, the advantages of the middle stage are also obvious:

1. The middle Platform modularizes and servizes the general capabilities, which is conducive to the rapid establishment and delivery of new businesses and avoids the “repeated wheel building” of each business end.

2, the center will deposit the core data in the center, more effectively provide business and management use.

3. The “centralization” mode of the center has strong control ability, standardization ability, unified scheduling and reuse ability, which can greatly reduce the overall development and management cost of the system.

In my opinion, ZHONGtai is not a purely technical concept, but more of an idea, an architecture and a method, the core of which lies in “merging similar items and reusing common capabilities”. There is a downside to centralisation: once built too big, it can become bloated and inefficient.

Others say that only large enterprises deserve to be in the “middle Stage”. This is not only because conglomerates have many duplicate wheels, but also because the middle stage is too expensive for conglomerates to afford.

In fact, whether it is large enterprises, small enterprises, as long as recognize the nature of the central Taiwan, in accordance with the central Taiwan mode of thinking for system construction, to form reusable components or services of general ability, can effectively support the business development of the enterprise is enough, whether it is called central Taiwan? For making thick or thin, enterprises can completely control according to their own needs, without blindly following the trend and imitation.