Unleash the value of the document middle platform ecosystem and empower digital innovation for government and enterprises

[51CTO.com original article] With the popularization of mobile Internet, people's demand for mobile office is increasing. Mobile office, which allows communication and collaborative work anytime and anywhere, not only brings new ways of handling work, but also further promotes the development of office software.

As a well-known office software company in China, Kingsoft Office has always focused on the research and development of software products in the office field. At the 2021 Kingsoft Office Developer Conference, it launched the "Document Middle Platform" product to provide developers with service-oriented and component-based technical solutions.

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After the meeting, Yang Gang, Senior Director of Product R&D of Kingsoft Office, and Yu Taoyue, Director of Product R&D of Kingsoft Office, gave detailed explanations to the media on the background and original intention of Kingsoft Office's release of the document middle platform, as well as the value of the underlying capabilities of the document middle platform in providing developers.

Mining the value of enterprise data and promoting the development of digital economy

Under the trend of digital transformation, data interoperability and collaborative sharing have become important goals for enterprises to achieve digital transformation. However, the management systems deployed by various departments of enterprises in the IT era have inconsistent standards between systems and independent businesses, making data interoperability extremely difficult.

Yang Gang said that Kingsoft Office has accumulated rich experience in document processing and cloud documents, and has the ability to process PB-level data. It can help enterprises use the cloud to uniformly manage document files, allowing these files to be interoperable, collaborative, and securely stored.

Due to the lack of unified business systems, the unstructured data generated is a pain point for enterprise data management. Kingsoft Office combines document processing capabilities with cloud document processing technology to help enterprises build data in an intensive manner, thereby achieving data management and secondary utilization.

Secondary use is reflected in data analysis, Yu Taoyue added. Digitalization is the general direction of development of my country's digital economy. Enterprises can discover business opportunities by mining the value of their own data, which is not only the demand of digital transformation, but also the strategic goal of developing the digital economy.

Make data manageable and controllable, empowering business systems

The most direct value brought by the document platform is to expand the application scope of office business, Yang Gang said affirmatively. In the minds of users, WPS is positioned as a document editor, and users only think of using WPS when editing documents, even though it has many additional functions around documents.

The document middle platform is different. It can be integrated into various enterprise business systems and turn document processing capabilities into services. Users can write and modify documents in the business system without installing Office software. It can also encapsulate Web Office and forms as components to enable business systems to have online collaboration capabilities.

In addition, from a management perspective, the data processed by the document center is more manageable and controllable, and the separation and control of permissions are clearer, further improving data security. These are capabilities that document editors do not have.

Unleash the connection capabilities of the middle platform to meet user scenario needs

There are many different opinions on the concept of the middle platform in the industry. In Yu Taoyue's view, the middle platform is more like a capability and data center for external connections. Therefore, in the process of building the document middle platform, Kingsoft Office has been focusing on the user's scenario needs, empowering the business system by providing the capabilities required by users without making large-scale modifications to the business system.

Yang Gang emphasized that the document middle platform product is very different from other products. The document middle platform is an optimization of the internal system of the customer's enterprise. Its purpose is to provide the internal system of the enterprise with the ability to improve efficiency, user experience, security and data analysis, making the system more useful, rather than replacing the previous system.

Such a capability platform also brings certain challenges to R&D. Other product development focuses more on business logic, and applying inherent thinking can form a complete closed loop of product development. However, the document middle platform needs to consider how capabilities are reflected in products, what kind of models are abstracted for developers, how new features are compatible with the system, etc., and the thinking also needs to change from product thinking to platform thinking, and then to ecological thinking. There will be more and more comprehensive things to consider.

Open technology ecosystem to build platform barriers

The digital transformation of government and enterprises requires a large number of digital systems to support it, so Kingsoft Office does not want to stick to the technical level of document editing, but hopes to explore the road of digitalization. Through the document middle platform, it will attract more enterprises and developers to apply, and on the basis of the platform, through technological innovation, it will form a platform barrier that is more solid and firm than the technical barrier.

In the future, Kingsoft Office hopes that various industries will be able to incubate more innovative industry applications on the open platform of the document middle platform, strengthen the document middle platform technology ecosystem, and form a platform ecological advantage that drives its own technology iteration internally and assists digital innovation externally.

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