Business Opportunities for IT Companies: Urban Informatization

The urbanization rate of Chinese cities has reached 49.68% in 2010. According to incomplete statistics, there are already more than 50 administrative regions in China that clearly put forward development plans with the meaning of smart cities. In this context, the acquisition of new-generation business opportunities in urban informatization, centered on smart cities, has become the focus of IT companies. How to tap into the opportunities and how to use these opportunities to accelerate the development of software and information services. The reporter recently interviewed Li Cunguo, general manager of Smart City Innovation Center of Tai Chi Computing Co., Ltd. He disclosed that currently Tai Chi is mainly locked in three directions in the smart city market: First, top-level design, second, engineering construction, and third, operation and maintenance services. Tai Chi’s strategy for smart cities has some implications for Chinese companies to tap into the opportunities.

First, high-end business consulting services will be an important opportunity. Smart cities are a new type of urban development model with interconnection, interoperability, full integration, coordinated operation, and innovation and development capabilities. It should be said that before the concept of smart city came out, the informatization of many cities has advanced to varying degrees. Whether it is digital cities, wireless cities, safe cities, or intelligent transportation, food safety, etc. Expand. Up to now, the greatest demand for smart cities is to integrate and realize the coordination and interaction of various systems. To achieve integration, it is necessary to provide services for smart cities. IT vendors need not only the technical capabilities themselves, but also need to have a deep understanding of the business and have more consulting and consulting capabilities on the institutional mechanisms and service models and integration innovation. It is precisely because of this huge demand that Tai Chi sees the development of high-end business consulting as the focal point of corporate development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. Li Cunguo revealed that in order to further enhance Taiji’s ability in this dimension, Tai Chi established the “Smart City Innovation Center” at the beginning of the year and combed the methodologies accumulated in the promotion of government informatization and major project construction in order to form its own unique wisdom. Urban knowledge base. At present, there is a huge demand for the construction of smart cities in China. If we want to stand out among many IT service providers and gain more influence and discourse power of smart cities, we should consciously cultivate and strengthen the advisory capacity of urban businesses in these areas. Due to the uniqueness and particularity of the development of the Chinese market, there are currently no consulting firms with absolute advantages in these areas. Chinese information service companies should seize these opportunities to highlight their capabilities in this area.

Second, there will be huge room for development on big data integration and mining. The core of a smart city is “wisdom.” How can we more intelligently operate and manage cities and how to stimulate more innovative capabilities in cities? We need to make more in-depth analysis of various data in cities and look for these data. Out of the rules, gain insight and competitiveness. The large amount of data in the city, the complexity of the type of data beyond imagination. Responding to big data, the traditional technical architecture in the past has been unbearable. By participating in the construction of major projects in the city, we can synchronize the development of the next generation of enterprise computing technology platforms. This is a very good opportunity for simultaneous interaction. Tai Chi has a large number of urban construction projects. At present, Taiji is undertaking the construction of the "Beijing Internet of Things Application Support Platform". In the future, all of the data of Beijing's IOT devices will be accessed and integrated through this platform. Tai Chi has taken note of the opportunity for big data integration and has begun to make relevant arrangements in this regard. Two years ago, Tai Chi invested in the database vendor NPC to take advantage of big data.

Third, O&M services will have more and more market space. At present, more and more city managers have begun to purchase IT services through the purchase of services, through the professional IT companies to operate and maintain the city's related information systems, either from a scale cost perspective or from a professional perspective All can bring great benefits to city managers. It should be said that as the core IT system of a smart city, it will also face more and more challenges in the future. How to manage these systems effectively and how to make these systems more effective and need better professionals to support them? It is precisely because of this trend that Taiji is considering and building a huge cloud data center to support the next-generation operation and maintenance services business. It should be said that under the concept of smart cities, more and more urban services will be shared more widely, and more and more organizations will become users of IT operation and maintenance services, bringing IT service and maintenance services to China. A huge space for development.