On the practice of hybrid development in enterprise-level projects with "Palm East" as an example

Mention "Palm East", a lot of people will suddenly think of another application "Eastern Airlines", then, what is the role of this enterprise-class application? What is the relationship or difference between "Eastern Airlines" and "Oriental Aviation"? Recently, at the Beijing International Conference Center at the Appcan Mobile Developers Conference, the East Airlines Mobile Internet Project manager Zhang flew, the "Palm East Airlines" in a detailed interpretation.

Zhang, project manager of China Eastern's mobile Connectivity department, flew to speak

"Palm East Airlines"-Growing

As we all know, "Eastern Airlines" is the East airlines to the various passengers of a Web application, and "Palm East" is the entire East China Airlines internal employees enterprise-class use of an enterprise-class products.

In the year, China Eastern Airlines will integrate its business, divided into a beautiful stewardess of the field, handsome captain of the field of flight, to protect the field of clothing and luggage safety, to ensure air safety in the field, to ensure the flight on-time rate of operation areas, marketing areas and innovative technology research and development areas, such as eight categories, Then formed the "palm of the East" embryonic form.

Initially, China Eastern's technical team used native technology to develop the APP .        With the development of the time and the rise of the mobile internet, hardware manufacturers constantly update the iterative product equipment, China Eastern must invest a lot of manpower cost to maintain the platform, to ensure the hardware performance adaptation rate.

In the year, China Eastern Airlines contacted the positive mobile Appcan, after a long period of inspection and evaluation, Eastern Airlines resolutely abandoned the original technology behind the framework closed mobile platform, instead of choosing Appcan Mobile platform, as its " The support platform for the mobile strategy of China Eastern Airlines ' fingertips. Appcan Mobile is a new Mobile information-based solution for China Eastern Airlines, which brings the original platform of China Eastern Airlines to the hybrid development model, puts forward the concept of enterprise-class mobile application store, and deploys the original business application to a platform, which facilitates the normal use of the enterprise employees, thus improving the efficiency. At this point, the platform-level application of China Eastern Airlines "Palm East"2.0 version officially launched.

in the year, "Palm East" application to reach 202 , a variety of different forms of application, so that the East Airlines staff to see dazzling. At this time, China Eastern Airlines proposed flat design concept, launched a new version of the 3.0 , that is, for each user's account number and the field in which users recommend the appropriate APPtoensure the normal work of employees, at this point, Enterprise Application "Palm East" mobile coverage reached 85% around.

years, based on the new 3.0 products, the application of China Eastern Airlines to 247 , from the mobile side to open up the eight areas of nerve endings, The complete mobile closed loop of the entire business is realized, and the mobile coverage is increased to 91%. In addition to the rest of the aviation Bureau, NASA's part of the process, due to special circumstances can not achieve the electronic mobile process of business, China Eastern basically all realized the mobile.

At present, China Eastern Airlines based on the original 247 application, is combing to create a brand-new "Palm East"4.0 Platform, the platform will be from the user's role, account, work areas, to comb the user's daily work tasks, And in a fixed time, automatic for each employee push, and thus greatly improve staff efficiency, realize the active flow of information, through the multi-information channels, to achieve "things to find people" goal.

According to Gartner Analysis Report, There will be 2/3 of people no longer use the computer, the East Airlines informatization Department of the "Thirteen-Five" end of the goal is to achieve in China Eastern Airlines PC , so that all employees are mobile, mobile device-based.

"Palm East"--speak with data

According to statistics, up to 5 months, "Palm East" Cumulative Installed capacity to reach the million, the active degree of each sub-application , to reach 84%, each application Daily average cumulative statistic, reached tens million times.

Through the statistics, we can see that the employees of China Eastern Airlines basically use the "Palm East"appevery day, and each employee may have more than one device on hand, and download the "Palm East"app. If you follow the APP 10 times per login, you can complete a normal business processing to calculate, daily cumulative statistics reached Tens of thousands of times, meaning the original from the PC End processing of a business process, after moving to the mobile processing, each process processing time, probably can save ten minutes, because employees can also make full use of a lot of fragmentation time to handle to-do function. In this way, the "Palm East" total of each employee can be a daily savings for Eastern Airlines for nearly 4 years.

Innovative technology application--through cooperation with Appcan , continuously innovate China Eastern Airlines mobile technology

as the leading mobile development and technology support platform in China, Appcan provides developers with free and convenient one-stop mobile application development support services, and also actively provides reliable mobile technology support and enterprise mobility solutions for enterprises and institutions. With the cooperation of China Eastern Airlines,Appcan also continuously improve the technical strength and service support level, providing continuous innovation vitality and technology for China Eastern Mobile construction.

This year,Appcan First added a speech recognition plugin to "Palm East", where all users could use voice, query information or invoke applications. For example, when an airline employee opens an app, if he or she is working on something that is being processed, or is serving a passenger, a voice search can be used to meet the needs of the business. In addition, the daily flight time, the remaining number of seats, etc., can also be queried through the voice search function, currently, "Palm East" has been able to support more than 100 scenes of voice search.

The service department wants to pass inside the airport interior navigation, lets the staff carry on the patrol, then carries on some special events to escalate the demand, the East airlines through the newest Bluetooth 4.0 Technology, unifies the entire appcan newest Bluetooth support plug-in, Through the Bluetooth positioning technology, detection of patrol trajectory. Now, the front-end as long as the mobile phone, staff in the field, check-in counters or terminals inside, if you find a backlog of passengers or flight delays and other special events, can be escalated, backstage can be real-time positioning to the position of the staff, and then quickly deal with emergencies, improve work efficiency.

Every morning at eight o ' clock, the East Airlines staff will be piled up downstairs, queuing up. In order to solve this problem,Appcan through the iBeacon Technology, let employees hold "Palm East" mobile phone, come to the office building, as long as the Bluetooth is turned on, the default attendance is successful or has been off duty, It is easy to solve the phenomenon of past queue clock by phone punch-in technology.

As an important part of national economy, the application degree of informatization of aviation enterprise has been paid much attention. Since the beginning of the year, the East Airlines and the positive mobile Appcan has been in hand through more than 3 years of time, the future, there is a positive move Appcan Such excellent cooperation team, I believe that China Eastern Mobile will continue to innovate, the real realization of the work into the pocket.

On the practice of hybrid development in enterprise-level projects with "Palm East" as an example