Shanghai Pudong, Lujiazui, Huangpu River bank. Standing in the design-filled building of Shanghai HNA Tower, looking out from the tall, bright glass Windows, the Huangpu River flows quietly below, and the skyscrapers of Lujiazui in the distance are in stark contrast to the Bund complex. This is the headquarters of HNA Technology Group Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as HNA Technology). As the only industrial group headquartered in Shanghai, HNA Technology is like a new engine of HNA Group, carrying HNA Group's future-oriented strategy and in line with the pace of building Shanghai global scientific Innovation Center.
Exterior view of HNA Tower in Shanghai
Speaking of Hainan Airlines, many people are impressed by the quality service of Hainan Airlines. In fact, after more than 20 years of development, HNA Group has been promoted to the "trillion-level enterprise echelon", from a single local air transport enterprise to a large multinational enterprise group with technology, tourism, capital, industry, modern logistics, innovative finance and new media as the pillars. In 2016, HNA Group's annual revenue exceeded 600 billion yuan and its total assets exceeded one trillion yuan. In July 2015, HNA Group was listed on the Fortune Global 500 for the first time. In July 2016, HNA Group was ranked 353rd, up 111 places from the previous year.
At present, the largest industrial group of HNA Group belongs to HNA Technology, which is a large-scale industrial holding group facing the future strategic layout of HNA Group, with total assets of more than 220 billion yuan and revenue of nearly 330 billion yuan. How does a tech company with that size grow? What will his strategy be? At the time of the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center, can such a large technology group company settle down and make efforts here, bring new "innovation energy"? With this series of questions, the reporter recently visited HNA Technology.
Plan for the future
Hna Technology can be said to be both young and historical enterprise. He is young because technically HNA Technology Group was only founded in 2016, and he has history because he has grown almost in tandem with HNA Group, which can be called HNA's technology sector.
In the past 20 years, HNA Science and Technology sector has undergone a transformation from meeting internal needs, facing a single aviation information system and serving internal informatization construction to providing external solutions, promoting digital transformation in multiple fields and laying out future business ecology, and has become a strategic sector of HNA Group.
In March 1998, Hainan Jianheng Hi-Tech Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Jianheng Hi-tech) was established. In 2000, Hainan HNA Aviation Information System Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as HNA Information) was established as an independent legal entity after the development of HNA Group's science and technology team. In 2010, HNA Information reorganized Henggao and changed its name to Hainan e-Construction Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as E-Construction Technology). In 2014, e-Construction Technology was officially listed in the National SME Share Transfer System, becoming the first high-tech enterprise in Hainan to be listed on the New Third Board.
In early 2015, cloud computing was officially defined as a strategic emerging industry by HNA Group. In the same year, HNA Cloud Technology Company was formally established, marking the shift of cloud computing from solving the internal business of HNA Group to carrying out external business.
In March 2016, HNA Ecological Technology Group was formally established, with more than 10 innovative enterprises under its jurisdiction. Its business scope includes cloud computing, big data, wisdom +, cross-border duty-free e-commerce, electronic payment and other business forms. Thus, HNA Group officially entered the field of science and technology and actively transformed to "Internet +".
On November 23, 2016, the awarding ceremony of HNA Cloud Ecological Strategic Partner was held
Taking this as a starting point, HNA Science and Technology sector continues to promote international development, and has successively established the Innovation Laboratory of HNA Ecological Science and Technology Research Institute. Acquired Pactera Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Pactera), the world's leading provider of IT services and solutions, and Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest distributor and service provider of IT products, founded Hainan Data Valley, and released Hainan Cloud ecological strategy. Establish strategic partnership with well-known domestic and foreign information and communication technology enterprises.
In December 2016, HNA Science and Technology Group was established on the basis of HNA Ecological Science and Technology Group by integrating the resources in the field of science and technology of HNA Group, with total assets of more than 220 billion yuan and revenue of nearly 330 billion yuan, covering more than 160 countries and regions on five continents. It has nearly 70,000 employees worldwide, including 60,000 overseas employees and more than 23,000 technical research and development teams.
For HNA Group, the establishment of HNA Technology is undoubtedly the planning layout of Information Times Group for the future market. Previously, HNA Group's business was mainly concentrated in relatively traditional industries such as aviation, logistics, real estate, tourism and hotels. Although all business forms are actively embracing the Internet, HNA Group still needs an "Internet +" industry born in the era of big data to practice its future strategy. To some extent, HNA Technology shoulders the important task of promoting the innovative development of HNA Group and the historical mission of HNA Group's strategic transformation in the information age.
As the largest industrial group of HNA Group, HNA Technology Group is committed to the three business areas of infrastructure solutions, customer solutions and digital services. Hna Technology Group has become the world's largest and leading company in data displacement, data intelligence and data innovation. By providing the world's best platform and leading technology, HNA Technology Group helps enterprises to transform digitally and helps small enterprises to become "big". Big enterprises become "small" and form long-term partnerships to enable customers to achieve sustainable growth.
Have a "gold mine" and a "cloud"
As a technology group company with total assets of 100 billion level, what are the advantages and strength points of HNA Technology compared with other technology enterprises? What kind of "new world" will it create?
"Hna Cloud Ecological Strategy" is a "new world" that HNA Technology is building. Maybe big data and cloud computing have been known to many people, but how these technologies will be implemented seems to be far away. In fact, only when these technologies become a system, become the basic environment for the operation of every enterprise, and become the inevitable scene of every person's life, and their application is as "natural" as the use of electricity and mobile phones today, can these technologies profoundly change the behavior of enterprises and change people's real life, and the so-called technology-induced change can become a reality. In this great change, there are already thousands of troops and horses in the conquest of cities and territories, for strategic advantages, HNA Technology is one of them.
Hna Cloud aims to become an advocate and leader of industrial cloud in the era of industrial Internet, based on HNA Group's rich industrial background, global capital operation experience and comprehensive technical cooperation ecology.
The industry cloud of HNA Technology is based on the development concept of openness and sharing, integrating the industrial value chain to form an open ecological platform of resource sharing, value transmission and industrial circulation. The ultimate service object of the whole ecosystem is government and enterprise customers and entrepreneurial teams. Driven by industry, data and capital, it provides one-stop industrial cloud services and solutions. It can not only solve the customer base's cloud service needs, but also open up business opportunities, customers, resources, data added value between enterprises.
This open ecological platform includes industrial cloud ecology, application cloud ecology and technology cloud ecology. Industrial cloud ecology will focus on industrial integration and build new business models, digital platforms and ecological systems; Application cloud ecological aggregation of the world's advanced cloud applications, providing one-stop sustainable cloud application services; The technology cloud ecology provides a comprehensive cloud technology platform.
Technology cloud ecology is the underlying architecture of the whole HNA ecological cloud, which provides customers with a variety of professional cloud computing services such as infrastructure, cloud platform, big data, Internet of Things, security, operation and maintenance. Hna started early on the road of cloud computing. Eight years ago, HNA started to migrate its systems to the cloud, and now nearly 80% of its systems are in the cloud. In this process, HNA has got to know many outstanding companies with distinctive features in the open source market. Hna leaders realized that, faced with such a big market, why not establish an ecological cooperation relationship, replace confrontation with cooperation, replace competition with ecology, and cooperate with the best companies in the industry. For example, HNA's partners include the best companies in distributed storage, log, performance monitoring and security, so as to face this market and share profits together.
The application cloud ecosystem, from a business perspective, is not concerned with the virtualization of storage, computing and network resources, but with what kind of applications. Hna's application ecology is to build Cloud Marketing through partners to provide one-stop services, integrated billing and consistent service quality assurance for various enterprises or industry customers. For example, Salesforce CRM and Cisco's WebEx use the underlying PaaS to bring these services together, ultimately forming a win-win application ecosystem.
Industrial cloud ecology. Now HNA's basic assumption for the future is that all enterprises in the era of information civilization are digital enterprises and technology enterprises. Industrial Internet or industrial cloud will be the transformation road for enterprises to digital platforms for a long time in the future. Industrial Internet is not the technology itself, but the use of industrial capital, financial capital and data capital, and finally realize the integration of industrial chain, digitalization and platform.
On December 19, 2016, Foresight · Ingram Micro International customer and media meeting was held in Shanghai
The biggest advantage of HNA Technology, as GUI Haihong, president of operations, said, "We have a gold mine of industrial scene." Because this reform is not only a technological change, the landing of technology needs a corresponding application scenario, requires capital to lever the pulley, and requires many enterprises to co-evolve and interact under the market rules, which is a more complex and huge system. Hna, as a diversified industrial group among the World's top 500 companies, has covered more than 70 fields and can form an industrial cloud ecology through the cross-industry combination of physical resources and virtual resources, so as to become the mother nest of incubating more innovative value-added fields in the future and bring more opportunities for enterprise innovation.
Hna Industrial cloud ecology is to build a platform. On the supply side of the platform, it is to unite many technical partners, application partners and industrial partners to provide corresponding cloud services, thus forming an industrial cloud ecosystem of "N to N" and "a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend". With the continuous enrichment of services at all levels on the platform, It will attract more and more industrial customers. At the same time, relying on the rich industrial and data resources of HNA Group, HNA Technology has built a complete business ecological chain and strong industrial capital capacity, the "HNA Cloud ecological strategy" is not far-fetched.
Rooted in Shanghai, it has become the engine enterprise of "Science and Innovation Center construction"
Focusing on scientific and technological innovation, HNA Technology has completed a series of major initiatives in a very short period of time, including deep strategic cooperation and joint ventures with Rocket space, a famous accelerator company in the United States, and the establishment of science parks in major cities in China to support China's entrepreneurial community. On May 23, HNA Technology's Hytron and RocketSpace,Inc. The joint venture, RocketSpace, Inc.(China), held an official opening ceremony in Shenzhen. In the future, Liancai Workshop will be located in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi 'an and other major cities in China. i3, a global New Concept Internet of Things investment alliance jointly launched by GE, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Tata Group, Pitango and Tel Aviv University; Held HNA Ecological Technology Innovation Summit and released cloud ecological strategy; Completed the acquisition of Ingram Micro International.
The opening ceremony of Liancai Workshop in Shenzhen, May 23, 2017
This series of actions has paved the runway for the take-off of HNA Technology, and will also trigger innovation and change in many industries. Today, HNA Technology Group is headquartered in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, which is a mutual "favor" between this innovation-oriented company and this innovative city. Taking Shanghai as the headquarters will help to give full play to Shanghai's geographical advantages, accumulate global resources, attract talents at home and abroad, and build an outstanding scientific and technological innovation enterprise with global influence. At the same time, this is also in line with the development needs of Shanghai to build a science and innovation center. Hna Technology has the strength to become one of the "engine" enterprises in the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center.
According to the development experience of the world famous science and technology innovation center, a science and technology innovation center with global influence is supported by a group of enterprises with global influence. These companies with global influence are called "engine" companies because they are the engines of the formation of global science and technology innovation centers. The emergence of a number of innovation "engine" enterprises with international visibility and industry control is also a major symbol of the formation of a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence.
Silicon Valley has become the most influential technological innovation center in the world because it has nurtured a large number of world-class technological innovation leaders such as HP, Intel, Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Twitter, Facebook and Tesla. Similarly, Tokyo has become a center of technological innovation with global importance because it has nurtured a large number of internationally renowned companies such as Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, SONY, Hitachi, Canon, NEC and Fuji.
Shanghai is the largest comprehensive economic center city in China, with advantageous geographical conditions, solid industrial foundation, high concentration of talents and good infrastructure. It has good conditions for building a scientific and technological innovation center. Compared with typical cities of science and technology innovation centers in the world, from the perspective of endogenous driving force of science and technology innovation center construction, the innovation ability of local enterprises is still important. Shanghai must have a number of "engine" enterprises to build a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence.
In the future, another important goal of HNA Technology Group is to build a global ecosystem of mass entrepreneurship and sharing.
In this ecosystem, the group's internal and external innovation teams, venture capital institutions, the world's top universities and global users will participate in the ecosystem, maximize the expansion of collaboration, accelerate the cross-border and regional collaboration of personnel and the global flow integration of capital flow, information flow and other four streams. Finally, the realization of talent, technology, capital injection and innovation cultivation and development of a virtuous cycle. Hna Technology has built such a self-circulation platform for sharing resources and benefits within HNA. In the future, HNA Technology will build such a global resource sharing and benefit sharing platform in China and even the world. At present, HNA Technology has built an open ecology of "API interface + sharing mechanism" based on the existing business and application scenarios of HNA Group, carrying the business dream of "HNA on the Cloud". In the future, HNA Technology will embrace and integrate global industry, university and research resources, build a global mass innovation sharing platform with surging information, talent flow and capital, and carry human's career dream of "digital survival".
This move will surely stimulate more innovation momentum, and we believe that this engine company will unleash more innovation energy to help build the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center.
