Brief introduction to common sense of Zhongtai

1. Definition

Development friends have heard of backstage 、 Front desk concepts , So what is Zhongtai ？ The middle stage is a platform inserted between the foreground and the background , It is dedicated to providing better service and support for the front desk . Zhongtai is the product of enterprise digitalization to a certain stage .

2. Content

Zhongtai mainly divests the resources of enterprises , Extract the common parts of each system . Thus, reusable 、 share 、 A standardized platform . Resources that cannot be stripped remain in the background . The formed middle desk can quickly respond to the front desk , Play the role of cushioning and supporting .

3. The reason for this

Why is there a middle stage ？ Contradiction is the driving force for the development of things . With the development of enterprise digitalization , There are more and more contradictions , What shall I do? , Always find a way to solve . Therefore, Zhongtai appeared as a solution . These contradictions are reflected in the following aspects ：

3.1 Contradiction between front and back stage

As we all know, the front desk is in direct contact with users , The needs of users are diverse , Only by responding to the needs of users can we better establish competitive advantages , Then the requirements of the front desk are bound to be diverse and iterative , And require the backstage to support synchronously .

The backstage must support the front desk synchronously , Or build more system groups to support the diverse needs of the front desk . But the system group built is in data management 、 Maintenance will become more and more chaotic , It's getting more and more difficult , In this way, the stability and security that the backstage has been pursuing will be broken . It is difficult for the backstage to quickly respond to the demand changes of the front desk , This leads to the loss of business opportunities

Quoting Zhongtai can help solve this situation , Set up a middle stage in the foreground and background , The background system can be shared 、 The reused parts are aggregated , The new background system can directly reference the middle office , There is no need to start from 0 Start , Accelerate the construction of new business systems , So as to quickly support the front desk , Seize the market or verify the market . It is said that juyousuan was built in a month by their Zhongtai .

3.2 The contradiction between enterprise organization and resource management

After years of development , Its business is constantly subdivided and split , As a result, many business divisions have been created 、 branch office 、 branch , The organizational structure is huge and complex . These organizations will also build similar structures in the digital process IT System , As a result, the data resources of the enterprise are blocked in various business sets ,IT The operation and maintenance cost is high , Easy to form a new cost center .

Of organizations in the enterprise IT Data of the system , Because of being blocked , Failure to share leads to low utilization of data and information , As a result, the value of data cannot be mined .IT Repeated development of the system , Generate high internal friction . Such resource utilization cannot produce 1+1>2 The effect of .

3.3 The contradiction between enterprise and user demands

The reason why enterprises can continue to develop is that enterprises have been exploring 、 mining 、 Guide users' needs . Once this effort stops , Enterprises will also stop developing . But after many years of development, the enterprise resource organization structure and IT The fixed and rigid structure forms the burden of enterprise development , It hinders the flexibility of the enterprise , So many exploration and mining of user needs are not easy to carry out , So many business opportunities have been missed . This is also why Alibaba disassembled the business of China and Taiwan , Thinning middle platform .

After years of development , Alibaba has done a good job in Zhongtai , But now , Also began to appear some problems . One is that Alibaba's business development is too slow , The other is that the middle stage needs to be thinner . Alibaba's recent investment and development business direction , The reusability of zhongtaiben's height cannot be brought into full play . Zhongtai substation “ thin ”, In fact, it is to clarify the boundary of the middle stage , Extract the really Abstract underlying operation framework and logic . Make it lightweight , We should transform Zhongtai into a form more suitable for the current development of Alibaba .

4. The role of the Middle East

• Technical engineering ： Increase of efficiency , Reduce the phenomenon of repeated wheel making
• Data aspect ： Unified data 、 Specification data , by AI Provide data base , Explore new data value opportunities
• Innovation ： Because from a public perspective , It is easier to find problems that are usually difficult to find , So as to better respond to the market 、 Satisfy users

5. Type of middle stage

5.1 product （ Business ） Zhongtai

• Split and reuse business modules
• We have to use the middle stage to quickly assemble new software , It's like building blocks
• Example ： Order center 、 Pay for Central 、 The middle of the market , Such as Alibaba's payment center 、 Baidu's search center

5.2 Data center

• Collect data 、 Calculation 、 Storage 、 machining
• Application can be divided into two aspects ： First, data sharing , The second is the data model 、 Data operation methods are shared , Such as data desensitization Algorithm
• There are also two application scenarios ： First, there is no data source , The goal is to help customers build and serve their companies ： Shulan 、 Dip . The other is a company that has its own data sources and forms a third-party middle office to serve customers ： A push 、 Aurora

5.3 Technology Center

• Study which technology processing capabilities can be reused 、 There is no need to make wheels repeatedly
• Research on technical middleware 、MQ、 Distribution architecture HSF And all kinds of Open API
• Examples on the market , Such as Shence , Focus on user behavior analysis , Such as Fourth normal form , My major is data science .

5.4 Organization Center

• Make the organizational structure and responsibility division into a standardized management system
• difficulty ： Unified and standardized organizational structure within subsidiaries and business divisions

6. The opportunity of China's transformation into Taiwan

When is it suitable for an enterprise to develop its own middle platform ？ It can be considered from the following aspects .

• Resource conditions ： Middleware, which has been developed by enterprises for many years 、 Public business and data
• Market driven and internal will
• Technological development guarantee , That is, there are mature middleware on the market 、 Big data and other technologies
• There are policy support and initiatives
• More importantly, there are successful cases to refer to , Otherwise, you will feel the stone to cross the river

7. Zhongtai users

1. producer ： The product manager 、 R & D Engineer
2. consumer ： Business team 、 Customer service 、 Business analysts
3. Regulators ： The legal department of the company 、 Relevant national regulatory authorities

Conclusion ： Don't be a middle stage just to be a middle stage . After setting up the middle stage , When building a new business , You can find all kinds of support that have been formed in the middle stage , So as to meet the needs of new business .“ Reusability ” It is the keyword of the medium platform system , To what extent can the new business be reused from the existing midrange , It has also become an unavoidable point of the middle ground issue . When it is found that Zhongtai no longer has such advantages , It is necessary to consider the reform between China and Taiwan .