Interview with Hu Great Wall, an enterprise workflow management expert

 

I had this idea for a long time and wanted to visit the first-line enterprise software technical experts in China. Because their perspective allows us to see the most authentic Chinese enterprise software market. At the same time, you can also listen to their stories about Chinese software people.

Today, according to a friend from infoq in China, he happened to be Hu Great Wall, a technical expert in enterprise workflow management. He is a person who is willing to share with others, A typical technical blog has written a lot of work experiences. Hu Changcheng is a senior software engineer at tibco China R & D center. Through chatting with Hu Great Wall, I feel that although EAI and BPM are only vertical segments in the domestic software field, they reflect some of the current situation in the Chinese enterprise software market.

Enterprise Workflow Management applications are currently a hot topic among Chinese enterprises. Although the demand is so strong, system software vendors in the corresponding fields in China have not gained enough opportunities to grow. There are many reasons. The impact from products of foreign software vendors is one of the important factors, hu Great Wall tells us that many large enterprises and a large number of orders in some industrial application markets will be snatched by BEA/IBM and other international manufacturers, the market space of domestic manufacturers is squeezed into a relatively small range. On the other hand, many small and medium-sized enterprises do not show sufficient confidence in domestic products. So that domestic manufacturers have to choose to provide customized services for enterprises in the form of projects. However, this does not mean that there are no good products in China. He mentioned justep in particular. Song xinglie is a legend in his eyes and is full of expectations for his 5.0 product.

However, there is still a large gap between similar software products at home and abroad, mainly manifested in the design capability of the overall software architecture. Hu Great Wall tells us that tibco has a software architecture design with a lifecycle of more than 10 years. In China, there is a lack of such talents to design a strong enough software architecture in the beginning. This is also related to the domestic software environment.ProgramAfter 5 or 6 years of work, employees are generally more willing to choose to manage their careers, china has not provided them enough space to continue to grow into an outstanding architect on the technical line. In many foreign software enterprises, an architect usually has about 10 years of first-line technical experience.

In addition, an objective disadvantage of the growth of software products in China is that many foreign software vendors have entered the Chinese market, attracting a large number of outstanding software talents. For domestic software vendors, the reserve of senior technicians is insufficient. Therefore, for domestic software, it may not be necessary to have more technical experts, but to have more people who insist on leading the development of Chinese software.

The circle of technical experts in specialized fields is a good way to jointly promote the development of technical products. Hu Great Wall was very excited and excited when talking about a gathering of Beijing workflows and platform vendors in last July, and said he was preparing for the first workflow activity this year.