Endpoint Technology: A one-stop digital transformation platform for enterprises

[51CTO.com original article] Endpoint Technology focuses on the development and service of new business software. Endpoint Technology's new business intelligence solutions cover business systems such as procurement, management, sales, marketing, and large supply chains. It has end-to-end business delivery capabilities and provides customers with one-stop implementation and operation and maintenance services.

Zhao Fengwei, founder and CEO of Endpoint Technology, said that in order to make the enterprise system capable of being driven by data, it is necessary to build a complete system. There are usually three ways to build such a complete digital system.

The first method is to purchase many single-field industry software products to build each link and then connect them together.

The second method: purchase a lot of SaaS and connect them to form all business systems.

The third option is to purchase a large software platform, use this platform to build all the capabilities of the enterprise, and open up all links based on this capability.

Today, some leading companies mostly adopt the third approach: buy a large platform, build all business capabilities on this platform system, then connect these capabilities in series and build a data platform, obtain various models and driving capabilities through the data platform, and feed them back to the business system to drive business forward. Endpoint Technology also hopes to practice this concept with more customers.

Zhao Fengwei believes that "for enterprises to achieve digital transformation, the software they purchase is not only a business capability, but more of a capability to continuously build the future, that is, the ability to continuously build a platform."

Three steps to build a large platform that continuously drives business development

Based on this goal, Endpoint Technology has planned a detailed path.

First of all, from the perspective of positioning, Endpoint Technology hopes to use "Salesforce's system to do SAP content". He believes that SAP represents the core business of running an enterprise, and Salesforce represents the capabilities of the entire platform. Endpoint Technology must have the ability to expand the platform. Under this goal, Endpoint Technology must first find a way to expand its software. In China, many companies' software is for a single field or a single industry, and Endpoint Technology wants to make products and solutions for all industries and fields.

The second step is to make the entire large product SaaS-based. Endpoint Technology believes that SaaS represents a form of software. SaaS can make the software form more stable, from a stable product form to a stable R&D system, and then to a stable ecosystem. Only SaaS can ensure that all customers are using the latest version.

The third step is to be able to interconnect enterprises on this basis. We hope that each system will have its own open platform and the ability to interconnect between enterprises, connecting customers and suppliers.

A complete enterprise digital ecosystem

With this route planning, Endpoint Technology has established a complete set of Terminus enterprise digital ecosystem, with core products including enterprise digital platform-Erda, software production system-Trantor, software design system-NUSI, intelligent integration platform-Mule, unified intelligent business platform-Gaia, etc. The technical base is mainly composed of Erda and Trantor. Erda is the R&D base, including multi-cloud management, DevOps, microservice governance and fast data platform; Trantor is the R&D system, running on Erda, providing low-code and efficient development capabilities.

Among them, Gaia is an intelligent business platform for large-scale enterprises, based on master data, atomic capabilities, and business processes, covering the entire digital domain of enterprises. Gaia's goal is to provide full-link models and data precipitation for the information flow, logistics, and capital flow of enterprises, drive business operations with data intelligence and achieve performance growth, and at the same time serve the upstream and downstream of the enterprise supply chain, so that the "procurement and sales collaboration" based on massive data analysis can be truly implemented.

Erda is an application-centric, one-stop enterprise digital PaaS platform that covers the underlying multi-cloud management system, the DevOps system of the R&D process, the microservice governance system, and the fast data platform. Through these four systems, it meets the needs of various scenarios in the digital construction of enterprises, forms the business middle platform and data middle platform of the enterprise, and ultimately forms solutions through the combination of middle platform capabilities to help enterprises successfully transform into digital ones.

Trantor is a software production system for rapid development and delivery of mid- and back-end applications. By abstracting the application metadata modeling mechanism, abstracting the interaction form of the mid- and back-end, and abstracting common usage scenarios, a complete proprietary standard development system is established, thereby providing low-code modeling and interface compilation capabilities, and ultimately improving the development efficiency of mid- and back-end applications. At the same time, Trantor provides modular assembly, two-open isolation, and visual rapid integration mechanisms, allowing businesses to be delivered quickly and upgraded sustainably.
NusiDesignSystem is a professional design system launched by the Endpoint Technology design team for Endpoint Technology's current commercial software. It consists of design guidelines, tools and other resources. NusiDesignSystem builds unified interaction and visual specifications in each product line.

Providing end-to-end solutions for enterprise transformation

It is worth noting that Endpoint Technology's customizable SaaS-like products can achieve continuous upgrades and composable and customizable product forms, allowing Endpoint Technology's products to maintain high-frequency iterations to dynamically respond to customers' various business needs, significantly extend the enterprise management radius, and provide enterprise customers with end-to-end solutions.

With its all-round leading new generation system platform technology, Endpoint Technology recently announced the completion of RMB 600 million in Series B financing. It is reported that this round of financing will be mainly used for the construction of PaaS platform, further improvement of product SaaS, expansion of product line, and expansion of team size.

At present, Endpoint Technology has served nearly 100 Chinese and Fortune 500 companies, with clients covering retail, real estate, energy, manufacturing, finance and other fields, including ExxonMobil, CNOOC, Xinhua Bookstore, China Overseas Land & Investment, Zhongnan Land, Haier, etc. Overseas, Endpoint Technology's business scope has spread to Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America and other regions.

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