Jianglai Data is a very young technology innovation enterprise, with not many employees, but full of vitality. In 2018, the JL Party building mobile platform developed by Jianglai Technology Institute was fully applied by Lujiazui, Shanghai. Through this application, it solved many problems such as the lack of data of Lujiazui Comprehensive Party Committee, the lack of party affairs management for branch secretaries and the “two-new” party members the articipating in Party building in fragmented time. In November 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping fully affirmed the innovation and feasibility of the JL Party building during his inspection of the Lujiazui Party building.
General Secretary Xi Jinping inspects the Lujiazui City Party Building Service Center on Nov 6, 2018. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter/Xie Huanchi)
Jianglai Data is a high-tech enterprise focusing on data application innovation. Even with excellent products and unique technology as support, Jianglai Data still has its own current troubles. As a small and micro enterprise in the huge market of big data, Yao Nan, CEO of Jianglai Data, has a unique view of the current situation. Let’s listen to President Yao’s explanation to issues about the market views of Jianglai and its positioning on itself.
01 | The profit cycle of big data track is long.Small and micro enterprises shall anchor their own new capability coordinate
Big data is not a new concept. Mr. Yao has been involved in this industry for a long time. At that time, he worked in Youzu, which invested heavily to acquire a big data company and he was responsible for exploring the cashability of mobile big data. In 2016, the Shanghai Data Exchange Center was established and the government attached more importance to big data. However, the big data industry has entered a vicious circle: valuable data cannot be traded and tradable data is not valuable. The whole industry kept burning money for quite a long time.Due to the doubts of the market on data sources, various data applications are still in the cultivation stage. Added with data practicability after desensitization and other problems, these all make this road endure great hardships.
At the end of 2018, Mr. Yao resigned from Youzu and founded the Shanghai Jianglai Data Technology Co., Ltd., together with some of the core members of the original team, keeping forging ahead on the track of data. Yao thinks big data is not big in data, but a change in production mode. that Data is the core of information development and data-driven business is the general trend.”Yao always thinks he is right to choose the big data track. He said: Big data is an industry that needs long-term accumulation. It covers a wide range of business fields, including technology, customers, project experience and data business understanding, all requiring long-term accumulation. For small companies, they should anchor their own advantages, starting from small data and from a profitable business. Every journey begins with the first step.Yao found out through analysis that he did not have huge data assets and large-scale client base, but he had the ability to develop the game technology and some of his own views on the data industry, which could bring tedious tables of data to life and combine with simulated virtual scenes similar to games for a richer presentation effect. Therefore, Yao chose the field of data visualization, so that enterprises can survive first and then seek to live well and longer.
02 | From watching data to using data
The main product line of Jianglai Data is SpaceData linkage and JL mobile party building platform the. Mr. Yao said:Data visualization is the main business of the company at present, and we get in touch with the application needs of many industries relying on the advantage of data visualization.In the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2019, the “Zhangjiang AI smart school - Luwan First Experiment Elementary School, and the smart community – Beixinjing Street, undertaken by Jianglai Data, were both displayed as the benchmark projects recommended by the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission. The two projects are both virtual platforms created on the basis of Jianglai Data’s Space Data product, but these kinds of projects are over when they're done.Through the implementation of various projects, we found that most visualization projects are customized delivery projects and their functions only stay at the level of viewing, while many of the displayed data are dead data. In order to make the data come alive, it is necessary to penetrate into the application level, making the product visible and usable.
On this basis, Jianglai Data focused on the first available productJL party building.The party building platform we invested in had a lot of manpower to build an online party building service platform, which aims to make party affairs more orderly and convenient, enable party members to participate in Party building efficiently and make the platform data more alive by increasing user stickiness.Now, Lujiazui’s party building data visualization no longer shows dead data, all the displayed data reflect the real situation of the regional Party building in real time. The party members and party branch in each block, party construction activities, evaluation feedback and online number in each enterprise are clear at a glance, beautiful and practical. At the same time, the use of the platform frees up the working time of party affairs so that party affairs workers have more energy to organize high-quality activities and attract more party members to participate. Through years of accumulation, Jianglai Data found that only live data can achieve sustainable development.
03 | The production path is long and full of barriers and enterprises have to continue to explore the new
As Yao said, the industry needs accumulation and a long profit cycle. At present, the main problem facing Jianglai Data lies on how to productize the project, which is to standardize each innovative application before promotion.Our company has many ideas, but whether or not it can be implemented is a problem and whether or not it can be made into replicable products after implementation is another problem. Jianglai Data has undertaken a number of government benchmark projects in recent years, which mainly stems from the innovative ideas and attempts of Jianglai and its application in many industries. For Jianglai Data,there is no lack of projects and even projects sometimes cannot be finished in due time, but how to achieve productization transition is worth considering. When talking about the company's most groundbreaking JL party building, Yao said that although it has been effective and received a lot of favorable comments, it requires a stable team and cannot be completely outsourced. And the communication cost in cooperation with units is too high and a lot of enterprises just pay lip service for party building. All these have hindered the large-scale promotion of the JL party building products.Therefore, Jianglai Data takes party building product operations as training and strategic investment, to prepare for the future.
Yao talked about the current state of the business, and in addition to productization, he also mentioned the concept of insight. Insight is to judge, through our systematic analysis, what is promising, what is worth investing in, what is unreliable and what must be abandoned. Of course, in this process, our insights about the industry are still limited, and we still need time accumulation and communicate and exchange views with the outside world. But anyway, we always believe that through years of precipitation and accumulation, through continuous exploration and innovation, Jianglai will find the market desert and make good data application products. We have always believed ‘the future will witness our dreams’.
04 | Establish an evaluation system and make in-depth personality jointing
Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer has been committed to creating a unique mode of industry-university-research cooperation, focusing on the training of corporate chief technology officers. Xinjiang Data attaches great importance to the integration of industry and education. The research of university teachers has a theoretical framework and many research directions are very cutting-edge. However, the scope of knowledge of enterprises is limited after all. If enterprises can cooperate with university teachers, it may open a door for enterprises. Sometimes companies have some creative ideas and market needs, but don’t know whether or not they can be realized.”For this situation, Yao proposed to establish a project evaluation mechanism, in which enterprises propose creative and implementation plans, and professors and researchers in universities can evaluate the feasibility of the implementation of the plans. In his opinion, this kind of cooperation that enterprises and universities make discussion and research on whether or not specific projects can be implemented is also extremely needed by enterprises.
With more and more projects of Jianglai Data, many projects have obtained good evaluation and excellent results. “As the scale of single projects gets bigger and bigger, “we often need to solve the problem of ‘writing’, which is a headache for enterprises,” said Yao. We need talents who know about the industry, have good writing skills and know some technology to write solutions.”In addition to the problems of scheme writing and publicity, Mr. Yao also mentioned the need for college students.” We also welcome students to practice some auxiliary work. I think students may not necessarily gain less from a complete project in an enterprise than from a course in school.”The industry-university-research cooperation is not only at the macro level, but also can be started from small things to gradually form a cooperative relationship of mutual trust and stability. In this regard, Jianglai Data is also actively planning a number of cooperative projects with colleges and universities. At the moment when the state is vigorously promoting the high-tech industry, we believe that Jianglai will find its breakthrough point in the near future and become a remarkable data application company in the industry.
Source | CTO School Think Tank Team
Authors | ZHU Wangning, ZHANG Zhening
Editor | XIA Mei