AsiaInfo Helps the Continuous Delivery Capabilities of Huarong Technology’s DevOps Reach the Leading Level in China

2021-01-13 AsiaInfo

Recently, “2020 GOLF + IT New Governance Leadership Forum”, which is hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (hereinafter referred to as: CAICT) and supported by China Communications Standards Association, Internet Society of China, Cloud Computing Standards and Open Source Promotion Committee, was held in Beijing. The conference released the evaluation results of tenth batch of the continuous delivery of DevOps capability maturity. Huarong Technology’s “Business Evaluation System 2.0” DevOps project which was built in cooperation with AsiaInfo successfully passed the Continuous Delivery Level 3 Evaluation of CAICT’s R&D and Operation Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model, which indicates that the continuous delivery capability of the participating project has reached the leading level in China.

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Agile and efficient IT infrastructure supports the digital transformation of financial asset management

In recent years, the asset scale of banking industry in China has continued to increase, and the demand for business innovation is soaring. As a financial technology company focusing on non-performing asset management, Huarong Technology actively adapts to the stream of the digital and intelligent times, and continuously improves the level of research and development in order to guarantee product delivery efficiency, quickly respond to business needs, and insist on using technology to make innovations in the disposal of non-performing assets.


Business evaluation is an important section in the pricing of non-performing asset acquisitions, and is also one of the main references for acquisition decisions. As a key system for non-performing asset evaluation, the importance of Huarong Technology’s “Business Evaluation System 2.0” is self-evident - it faces the entire group of users, integrates demand management, project management, release management and statistical measurement, carries the online circulation and monitoring of all evaluation processes of non-performing assets, and provides high-quality and high-efficiency technical support for business risk management and control with clear job responsibilities and standardized work processes. The realization of system agility is of great significance to better implement the requirements of risk management and control, optimize business evaluation process analysis, improve evaluation and decision-making efficiency in the process of non-performing asset acquisition, and even accelerate the digital transformation of Huarong Technology.


Supported by AsiaInfo, the “DevOps Continuous Delivery Platform Software Product Facilities, Integration and Custom Development” project of Huarong Technology covered the works including consulting and planning, platform construction, implementation promotion, and standard rating. During the project implementation, the client has formed an organization-level agile system and culture with its own characteristics, which effectively guided and implemented agile transformation; has established a project-level agile R&D model, which improved the efficiency of continuous integration and continuous delivery; has simplified the work process and the seamless connected with related systems of data center, which greatly improved process efficiency.


After the completion of the project, the comprehensive capability of the R&D operation and maintenance system of Huarong Technology has been effectively improved. The average demand delivery cycle of the pilot project has been shortened from 20 days to 5 days, and the compilation and construction time has been shortened from 30 minutes to 4 minutes; the reproducible agile implementation process, technology and management method have been formed. Qualitative improvements have been achieved in various competency domains including demand management, environmental management, configuration management, continuous integration, automated testing, automated deployment and measurement systems, greatly improving R&D efficiency and quality, and quickly unlocking business value.

The solution of integrated R&D and operations facilitates cost reduction, efficiency increase and agile transformation in vertical industries

 

AsiaInfo not only provides standardized DevOps products, but also provides the solution of integrated R&D and operations covering project consulting and planning, system construction and delivery, and operations. The solution consists of a full set of efficient tools from demand development, testing, delivery to operation, as well as personalized on-site consulting and coaching services, which truly realizes the “end to end” continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring, supports the user’s business operations with high-quality rapid delivery, and transforms tool productivity into the “operating capacity” of enterprises.


The solution of integrated R&D and operations has the following features:

1. A sound tool chain of dual-mode development system


AiDO DevOps, AISWare’s integrated R&D and operations product, supports both the traditional waterfall development mode and the emerging agile development mode, forming a dual-mode combination of the R&D system. Its tool chain includes agile and lean development management, code quality management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, open source governance, operations monitoring, measurement feedback, etc., sufficiently promoting the efficient coordination of various teams. A good closed loop also greatly improves the overall output, facilitating all stages of software development to delivery to be “agile” in its true sense.

 

2. A mature platform with openness and customization capabilities and supporting modular function call


AiDO DevOps platform not only integrates the capabilities of AsiaInfo’s products, but also supports deep integration of third-party platforms and open source tools. Meanwhile, AsiaInfo attaches great importance to the delivery experience of products, which can provide customized services according to the needs of customers in different industries. In addition, the platform components and products are loosely coupled to facilitate modular call of product functions.

3. High certification standards to ensure quality and improve efficiency


Benefited from years of technology accumulation, product development and project practice, AsiaInfo became the first batch of members of the DevOps Standards Working Group, and deeply engaged in the preparation of Maturity Model of Development and Operation Integration (DevOps) Capability, the first DevOps standard document at home and abroad. In line with maturity standards of the development and operations integration capability, AISWARE AiDO continues to optimize and improve on the premise of meeting “Level 3 Standard Certification” of DevOps of CAICT to satisfy the requirements of high quality, high efficiency and high availability of software R&D;

4. On-site agility and engineering coaching service provided by the experienced coach team


The professional and experienced DevOps agility coach and engineering team can provide on-site guidance for customers based on the actual situation of the project, and guide the team to promote the implementation of agile transformation under the premise of observing the DevOps agile principles;

5. Systematic construction and visible effects


AsiaInfo provides the staged and stepped DevOps system construction service to facilitate customers to clearly feel the actual effect of each stage, helping continuously improve and enhance the IT support capabilities of customers.

 

Oriented by the goal of improving software delivery quality and operations efficiency of customers, AsiaInfo combines the integrated R&D and operations product AISWare AiDO with its own strong consulting planning and customized service capabilities, and continues to provide customers in finance, communications, transportation, energy and other industries with “agile momentum” that reduces costs, responds to fierce competition and promotes digital transformation of enterprises.