Shi Kai: ThoughtWorks creates a competitive advantage for you

[51CTO.com original article] On December 1-2, 2017, the WOTD Global Software Development Technology Summit hosted by 51CTO will be held in Shenzhen Zhongzhou Marriott Hotel. The theme of this summit is software development, and dozens of expert guests will bring many wonderful technical content sharing. At that time, Mr. Shi Kai will share with guests the keynote speech "Data-driven Strategy and Innovation" in the special session on big data system architecture design, and elaborate on the challenges and opportunities of enterprise digital transformation development. 51CTO sincerely invites you to come to the conference and share the joy brought by technology with us.

In the digital age, all industries and all enterprises are facing the challenge of digitalization. Speed ​​is king, boundaries disappear, and platforms rise. Therefore, digital transformation is not something that an enterprise can choose to do or not, but a trend of the times.

ThoughtWorks creates competitive advantage for clients

ThoughtWorks was founded in 1993 and is a multinational company with 42 branches in 15 countries. Since its inception, the company has been at the forefront of the software industry and has been committed to using excellent technology to enhance digital innovation practices, helping customers and their teams to carry out digital transformation at the organizational level, improve operational efficiency, and create competitive advantages.

ThoughtWorks has been providing advice and services to clients in a variety of areas, both formally and informally, since its inception. Our services cover the following areas:

- Delivery: Tailoring software for customers is the core business of ThoughtWorks. ThoughtWorks excels in complex and innovative software products and enterprise-level system applications, including all services from product concept design, experience design, agile delivery, deployment to product life cycle evolution. At the same time, the company helps customers create communities for their users, allowing users to participate in product positioning and optimization while meeting the two-way needs of end users and enterprises.

- Consulting: Helping the IT organization of enterprises improve software development methods and drive business development with technology. ThoughtWorks' consulting services include: intelligent service consulting, lean and agile transformation, IT strategy consulting, IT organization optimization, microservice architecture design, design thinking introduction, digital platform strategy, etc.

-Design: Deeply participate in the complete software product development process, practice lean design ideas and processes, and help promote digital innovation services from a high perspective. ThoughtWorks' services include: product and service strategy planning, new product and service experience research and analysis, continuous product design and evolution, and innovation culture introduction.

- Products and solutions: ThoughtWorks provides customers with industry or field-based products and services, including intelligent services, big data platforms, ScaleWorks cloud platform, mobile development framework, etc.

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【Shi Kai, also known as Brother Kai, is a digital evangelist and the author of "Evolution, the Path to Digitalization of Traditional Enterprises". With 15 years of experience in enterprise IT strategy consulting, management consulting, and architecture, he has provided digital transformation consulting and implementation services to many large enterprises. He has served clients in industries including aviation, banking, energy, retail, manufacturing, government, and the Internet. He is currently the director of data and artificial intelligence business at ThoughtWorks. Innovative technology drives industry change, and digitalization makes the world a better place】

The difficulty in implementing a big data platform lies in security

Mr. Shi Kai is currently the Director of Data and Artificial Intelligence at Thoughtworks. In addition to introducing the company's current main business and service model, he also has insights into building a big data system architecture and establishing a big data analysis platform. When talking about the key indicators for building a big data platform, Shi Kai frankly said that the frequency of use of the big data platform and the continuous participation of corporate employees are important indicators of the success of the data platform. The difficulty of technical implementation lies in security, and data is an important asset of the enterprise. It is necessary to provide all-round protection for data for different institutions, organizations, and users. At the same time, it must meet the functional requirements of the data platform such as openness, and then the requirements of performance.

In the process of big data acquisition, storage, management, and analysis, ensuring data security is a very important topic and is also the primary concern and consideration for all companies when building a data platform. There is a complete framework for this. (See the figure below)

The most important benefit of a big data platform is its value, from the identification and construction of data assets to the utilization of data assets. The construction of a big data platform must have both top-level design and strategic thinking, and must be based on income, value-driven, and built using lean thinking.

Artificial intelligence is our top strategic priority

As the world's leading software consulting and delivery company, artificial intelligence technology is ThoughtWorks' current top strategy. We will find that in today's world where artificial intelligence drives business transformation and innovation, the most important business value is the combination of data, intelligence and engineering capabilities, which are ThoughtWorks' traditional strengths.

China is ThoughtWorks' largest market in the world, and we attach great importance to China's artificial intelligence business. We position ourselves as a service provider with the best engineering capabilities in the field of AI innovation.

Through Intelligent As A Service, we provide intelligent innovation services to customers from all walks of life in the process of digital transformation, from intelligent strategic planning to the establishment of intelligent platforms, and then to the realization of front-end innovation scenarios. Intelligence is everywhere, the future is here, and innovation is timeless.

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