Cloud Services Business Group President He Zhiqiang ushered in his new position in the media debut

After the adjustment of Lenovo's four business groups in April of this year, He Zhiqiang, president of Cloud services group, ushered in his new media debut on the job. For many people, this business unit is relatively unfamiliar. So what is the main responsibility of He Zhiqiang, the chief executive of the cloud business group from CTO? What is the mission of this business group in Lenovo Group? He Zhiqiang received the Sohu it interview, and the cloud business group's structure and work were combed.

At this stage, cloud services business group has about thousands of employees, in the words of He Zhiqiang, this is a "clique." At present, Yuanqing to He Zhiqiang set the quantifiable goals are: Eggplant Fast Pass + le security to reach 300 million of the number of users. According to He Zhiqiang, set up cloud services group and assume the business group president, Yuanqing and He Zhiqiang for two years before and after, finally He Zhiqiang selected in the business unit, according to He Zhiqiang and Lenovo Group's overall planning, He Zhiqiang mainly dry 5 things.

1, Virtual carrier business

In early 2014, Sohu it exclusive disclosed Lenovo MID H Group of senior management adjustment, the former smartphone business head Feng Jue transferred Lenovo Cloud Services business Group, its position by Zhang Hui successor.

The appointment has led to a variety of interpretations in the industry, which now have the most plausible explanation. He Zhiqiang said that Feng Jue's main task is to participate in Lenovo's virtual operator business, the reason for the Feng Jue, because Feng Jue was previously in the letter work, the virtual operators of the business operation is very familiar.

By interviewing Feng Jue's colleagues we learned that Feng Jue was an early carrier of billing, and the core of the virtual operator is the billing system.

He Zhiqiang revealed that the choice of virtual operator business as a starting point, there is another reason is Lenovo has a successful case can be referenced and integrated. Lenovo has acquired a company called Medion in Europe, and the company is particularly adept at doing virtual operator business.

But an unnamed celebrity told Sohu it that Lenovo chose the business "because the profits were too high." ”

As for Lenovo's progress in this business, He Zhiqiang admits that it is just beginning to apply for a licence.

2, Android ecosystem

He Zhiqiang to do, mainly including music security, personal cloud, Lok store. The Department is mainly responsible for the Changcheng. In addition, the interconnection between equipment synergy is also the focus of He Zhiqiang group research, such as the rapid transmission of eggplant.

and Lenovo Group in the global large-scale mergers and acquisitions of the model, Lenovo based on the ecological structure of Android will also consider mergers and acquisitions, but this merger is very few, Lenovo prefers to do upfront investment. 2010, Lenovo set up a music fund, dedicated to early mobile Internet project investment.

Research based on equipment synergy is an important part of cloud service group. In the quantitative target of Yang's He Zhiqiang, one of the most important is that the number of the eggplant fast and Le security users to reach 300 million.

For commercialization, He Zhiqiang said he was not worried. Data show that the number of eggplant fast-transmitting users has more than 100 million. He Zhiqiang that when users are large, they will naturally find opportunities for commercialization. It is reported that the rapid transmission of eggplant is a team of more than 20 people to do, the next goal is to start the mobile phone and the synergy between the PC.

In the Android ecosystem, He Zhiqiang that Lenovo has 2 advantages. The first is pre-installed, Lenovo has more than 100 million annual sales of intelligent terminal Equipment, this pre-installed is one of the important advantages of Lenovo. In addition, Lenovo can do both hardware and software, leading to the birth of some new ideas. For example, the advent of the rapid spread of eggplant is the first time to do the flash, Lenovo staff research equipment between the interaction resulting in the rapid spread of eggplant.

3. Windows Business Optimization

According to He Zhiqiang, Lenovo has a dedicated Windows team, the team also grouped into the Lenovo Cloud services business group. Mainly responsible for system security and system optimization, including system optimization combined with hardware.

In addition, some of the pre-installed work is done here. For example, some manufacturers want to integrate some apps into Lenovo's products, such as Bing, so Microsoft will pay for Lenovo. Of course, Lenovo is paying for a strong product like Windows.

4, Enterprise cloud storage

Enterprise storage is a relatively lucrative sector in Lenovo Cloud services, which has a team of corporate cloud storage, after Lenovo acquired a US corporate cloud storage company.

Initially, Lenovo is mainly engaged in some enterprise cloud storage work, now, Lenovo will be from the enterprise cloud storage to do some platform-level services, including video sharing. He Zhiqiang disclosed that Lenovo Enterprise cloud storage Service customers retention rate of more than 70% per year.

5, Video Call-Friends

Like the virtual carrier business, Lenovo's video call friends, but also just into the field. Currently, the product is pre-installed on some Lenovo phones, but this product has not been large-scale promotion.

From a functional perspective, the friend is a bit like FaceTime, and it is a free video communication tool. Support mobile phones, computers, tablets, TVs. Large screen Video call. However, Lenovo executives denied it, saying "it involves a lot of background operations, this is the main difference point"

From the interface, the main features of this friend are commonly used contacts, historical records, High-definition video calls, Full-screen mode and show map and so on.