IT observation: System integration reflects the core competitiveness of the software industry

Although statistics show that the system integration business revenue only accounts for about 20% of China's software business revenue, in fact, the system integration in the entire software industry chain is far more than one-fifth of the weight.

Traditional system integration heavy hardware light software. The quotation of hardware is much higher than the quotation of software, and the quotation of software products is much higher than the quotation of software services. One of the results of the informationization process for so many years under this price-oriented process is that the hardware is booming and the software has been tepid.

In fact, system integration is definitely not a concept of “carrying boxes”, but a link that connects hardware and software products from R&D to actual applications. Especially in large-scale applications, there is seldom a single software product or hardware product that can complete an application. Instead, it is the result of integration of many software and hardware products. If you want to integrate a large number of different standards and different interfaces of hardware and software in order to achieve the best application results, integration capability is the key.

System integration capabilities determine the level of development of the software industry. With the further development of system integration, it is not only limited to the implementation of this small piece of the system, but extends to the front-end planning, design and back-end operation and maintenance. If a company's system integration capability is strong, then their recommended hardware and software products will be more easily accepted by users and thus play a similar role as product distributors. Historically, system integrators have been very important in the promotion of hardware and software products. Foreign IT giants, such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, have repeatedly won the bid for projects. It is very important that their system integration capabilities are strong and attract upstream and downstream companies in the industry chain to gather around them. With the extension of the front and back ends of the system integration concept, they firmly grasped the entire industry chain of upstream and downstream, and thus grasped the key of the industry.

In emerging technologies such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things, system integration is also very important. We have found that in these areas, technological innovation is not so strong. Many technologies existed in a few years or even decades ago, and more were the integration of existing technologies and products. For example, virtualization technologies, servers, data centers, and networks in cloud computing are all traditional things. So who can build an information system like cloud computing? This is another test for system integration capabilities. Therefore, if we want to use what we already have in these emerging fields and create new ones, we have put forward new requirements for system integration capabilities.

Therefore, to fully see, regardless of the past, present, traditional applications or emerging applications, system integration capabilities are core capabilities. We need to pay attention to the development of it, use various policies, qualifications, standards and other methods to promote system integration companies to enhance their capabilities, bigger and stronger.

To learn advanced companies, face system integration innovations, not just simple "moving boxes." Learn from IBM, HP, and other leading companies and build system integration methodologies and knowledge bases. Make more efforts in channel accumulation, project accumulation, and talent accumulation. Don't try hard to lower prices and reduce quality for the immediate one or two projects. .

We must change the mode of development and achieve transformation and upgrading as soon as possible and become bigger and stronger. To provide customers with basic system solutions to help them achieve strategic goals such as improving efficiency, lowering costs, enhancing innovation capabilities, enhancing management decision-making, and strengthening market service capabilities, and create real value for customers. win.