Quickly develop an APP for HR? There are PaaS, not dreams!
According to IDC's latest Tracking Report on China's Public Cloud Market in the second half of 2018, the overall market scale of China's public cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) in the second half of 2018 exceeded $4 billion, among which the IaaS market growth rate reached a new high, with a year-on-year growth of 88.4%. The PaaS market grew by 124.3%. According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market is expected to grow 17.5% this year to $214.3 billion, up from $182.4 billion in 2018. The emerging PaaS segment is expected to grow 21.8%.
He who gets PaaS gets "the whole world"
In recent years, with the development of cloud computing to a certain stage, the importance of PaaS has become increasingly prominent, especially after more and more enterprise applications use the cloud. Because the traditional application architecture is different from the distributed architecture of cloud computing, this heterogeneity leads to the difficulty of using the cloud in the traditional application. In order to truly realize the cloud in the traditional enterprise business system, a comprehensive architecture upgrade must be carried out. As the capability layer in the cloud computing model, PaaS can help enterprises move from "cloud on infrastructure" to "cloud on system and application", optimize the enterprise software development mode, and become the inevitable choice for traditional enterprises to carry out digital transformation and architecture upgrade.
PaaS are the industrial chain with the highest barriers to cloud computing, and the barriers lie in technology and ecology. On the one hand, PaaS is a developer platform corresponding to the traditional IT operating system, database, middleware and other basic software, but also carries artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of things, industry cloud and other functional applications, in terms of technical barriers are higher than IaaS and SaaS. On the other hand, PaaS platforms also serve both customers and third party developers (ISVs), and have two-sided network effects (whereas IaaS and SaaS are more one-sided). For traditional enterprise SaaS, without the support of PaaS platform, there is no advantage. It is impossible to support users and meet the individual needs and development of each tenant, which is also the biggest obstacle faced by SaaS. Therefore, Only by encapsulating the latest technologies such as enterprise-level artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, enterprise instant messaging and design, and Internet into services, can we build the integrated solutions of PaaS and SaaS to greatly reduce the development and application costs of enterprises. This shows that the future of enterprise SaaS will be dominated by PaaS.
The PaaS Road in North Forest
Enterprise-level cloud services are ultimately SaaS+PaaS services, and the platform is indispensable. Therefore, more and more enterprises begin to choose the selection scheme of digital construction based on the platform. Beisen, as the earliest SaaS company to introduce "customer success service" into China, has been adhering to a set of SaaS+PaaS business model. Beisen is positioned to serve large and medium-sized enterprise customers. The business challenges it faces come from different enterprises and industries, different ceos and managers, and different talent management methods use the same software to meet different demands. Faced with such diverse customer needs, Beisen chose to build a PaaS platform at the bottom. iTalent, an integrated talent management cloud platform at the front end, ensures the efficient integration of the whole process business of customer talent management, and uses the personalized development PaaS platform at the back end to meet the personalized needs of different enterprises. Under this business model, PaaS has become the core competitiveness of Beisen.
After owning PaaS platform, Beisen has significantly improved its product development cycle and development cost. The traditional software needs 6-12 months to complete the development cycle, on the PaaS platform of Beisen can be completed in 1-4 months, and a development can be automatically adapted on multiple terminals, which reduces the development cost by 70%, which injects stronger competitiveness into the development of Beisen. With the support of the bottom PaaS platform, Beisen has created more than a dozen product modules including talent evaluation, Gene model, recruitment system, online examination, IDP and learning, 360 evaluation, performance, succession, employee survey, ability system, organization, employee, salary and fake attendance, which can be said to cover the whole process of HR business. New products are launched every year, and this year on-boarding and Employee Eco-services are On the way.
At the beginning of 2018, Beisen adjusted its organizational structure around PaaS, that is, the divisional structure of large middle desk and small front desk. Turn each product line into a small front desk, face the market with an independent business team under the divisional system, turn the PaaS platform division into a large middle desk, focus on high-performance technology, and use data technology to undertake business in the middle desk.
Creating the "Threshold" that cannot be ignored for enterprise PaaS Platform
As the Chinese enterprise SaaS market increasingly calls for PaaS platform and continuously penetrates into PaaS layer, the R&D investment in PaaS platform is also increasing. However, this does not mean that any enterprise can do PaaS well.
PaaS development is a high-investment, high-risk, long-cycle business, and the leading SaaS companies in Silicon Valley do not start PaaS until after they have gone public or become profitable. Driven by the market, the domestic SaaS industry is generally in the process of changing time by financing to not only do a good job in SaaS, but also start to do PaaS, which is a very high challenge for fast-growing companies.
Enterprise PaaS is a three-dimensional platform, whose core characteristics are mainly reflected in the management of the corresponding life cycle and the support for the construction of enterprise application scenarios. Different scenarios require different technical capabilities, and the degree of intensification of these capabilities also determines the efficiency and cost of cloud architecture from development to operation and maintenance. The capabilities of different vendors of enterprise PaaS vary. The PaaS platforms introduced by IaaS vendors are not vertical and sophisticated enough to be close to traditional enterprises; The PaaS platform introduced by the traditional infrastructure software providers usually only provides the corresponding PaaS service according to the strong part of their traditional software. The PaaS platform provided by the traditional integrated application software giants wants to carry too much content, so that all kinds of enterprise applications can realize rapid research and development through the platform, and its objective effect will often meet great challenges.
In terms of cloud security, because cloud computing emphasizes the automation of resource sharing, network accessibility and management, these problems are prone to the risk of error spread and expansion. At the same time, the technical framework of cloud computing is more complex than the traditional application technology stack, and the introduction of new technologies will certainly bring new security risks, which requires the construction of a trusted cloud environment by means of protection. This is the most complex and risk-prone key point.
The deeper an enterprise is in the cloud, the more urgent will be the need for cloud computing management platform, and then to create the right and sustainable enterprise PaaS cloud platform becomes the top priority.
North's obsession with PaaS
Although PaaS platform development is not an easy task and Beisen encountered many problems on the way to the initial PaaS, Beisen always insisted on the idea of SaaS without PaaS.
In 2016, the technical level of PaaS platform of Beisen was basically mature. However, after the product was launched, it was found that although PaaS platform could quickly build a native SaaS application, it lacked unique features based on HR business and could not well support customers to realize usage scenarios. To this end, it took Beisen another three years and more than 300 engineers to further unify the highly abstract business architecture of business scenarios with the highly available and highly extensible technical architecture, and gradually improve the PaaS platform by constantly polishing it.
Thus, Beisen now has a PaaS platform that can fully cope with the challenges brought by commercialization.
With the gradual improvement and maturity of PaaS platform, Beisen even more firmly insists on his own PaaS platform. In addition to continuously improving the open ability of PaaS platform to meet the individual needs of independent development of large and medium-sized enterprises, it also provides customers with zero code configuration, low code development and full code development on PaaS platform.
Faced with the unpredictable future, Mr. North is well prepared. The opening of PaaS platform of Beisen will be divided into three steps, namely PaaS for Customer in 2019, through which customers can deliver personalized business; In 2020, PaaS For Partner will develop and build a partner system, and ecological partners will provide customers with customized development services; The 2021 PaaS for ISVs will allow isVs to build their own applications on the PaaS platform and then sell them.
Today, the PaaS platform processes more than 1 billion pieces of data per day, has more than 700 R&D staff, and has more than 200 product iterations per year, enabling more customers and partners to benefit from the PaaS platform in a sustainable way. The training of PaaS application development skills in Beisen will cultivate more PaaS technical talents to create diversified applications, continuously update applications for the app store, and continuously serve customers successfully. With such a complete and mature PaaS platform, Beisen is bound to go further on the road of HR SaaS.
On August 8th, the fourth session of iTalentU Beisen User Ecology Conference is about to land in Beijing National Convention Center. The "PaaS Application Arbitrary Door" session in the afternoon will focus on PaaS application, kind out the pain points of human resource industry, and explain how to use PaaS platform for flexible configuration and customization. And how to independently develop apps suitable for their own enterprise applications, so that enterprises and application providers can easily cope with the current difficulties.
