Enterprise cloud applications, represented by SaaS, are changing the overall it landscape

"Editor's note" The Hot market for SaaS investment has spawned a large number of startups, and many startups in the 2014 SaaS niche have received huge sums of money, which will provide them with strong support for future platforms, marketing and so on. Enterprise cloud applications, represented by SaaS, are changing the overall it landscape. SaaS services are popular with small and medium-sized enterprises because of their simplicity and ease of use, as well as the wide range of features and user-friendly SaaS applications, as well as the rapid performance of SaaS in the field of SaaS. In this respect, the CSDN cloud computing channel launched the "SaaS corporate elements of the periodic table" special topics, focusing on the SaaS market segments, such as collaborative office, CRM, BI, Finance, SCM, HR, industry applications, E-commerce and other representative start-up enterprises, this issue is the 2nd phase, We are launching a team collaboration on behalf of the Enterprise Worktile.

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In the interview worktile CTO Li Huijun process, let the author feel the deepest is his entrepreneurial experience, he lamented the step of entrepreneurship is not easy, walking on the entrepreneurial road to stop more difficult. Asked about his biggest experience since his start-up, he quoted Mr Yu as saying "Life is a struggle, but some people live a great life, some people live a very trivial life." If we have a great ideal, a good heart, we will be able to put a lot of trivial days piled up, into a great life. But if you are powerless every day, no ideal, and then stop progress, the future of your lifetime of accumulation will always be a bunch of trivial, is full of energy, mutual encouragement!

Worktile co-founder and CTO Li Huijun

Li Huijun had an entrepreneurial experience in 2010 and had pain in teamwork, and since 13, Li Huijun and Wang Tao have started the entrepreneurial path in the field of teamwork, working to create a great team collaboration tool that changes people's teamwork and productivity, Worktile platform is born, the platform since July 2013 on the line, the team number of breakthrough 80,000. Worktile The biggest value is the team collaboration in some common scenes are simplified, now if the team need to cooperate, as long as in the Worktile register an account can be, the team members are pulled in on it, is so simple.

Worktile existing features are completely free to users, talking about Worktile's profit model, Lee is not worried, in his view, when a product experience and value, so that users can not give up it, commercialization is only the added value of this product. After announcing the acquisition of broadband capital in November 14 tens renminbi a round of financing, the next worktile will be in three areas, the first is the full platform coverage, the current worktile has covered the web, IPhone, Android three platforms, There will be other platform clients coming out of the future, and the second is open api,worktile will focus on improving the experience and value of the product itself, and worktile things outside of the community to do, and the third is multi-language support, Worktile now has a large number of overseas users, All will be as soon as possible in the multilingual aspect exerting force.

Worktile team, user and build process

CSDN: First Introduce yourself and worktile, what is the current team situation?

Li Huijun: Hello everyone, I am Worktile co-founder, as CTO, currently mainly responsible for worktile products and research and development. At the end of 2012, I and Wang Tao two people together founded the present company, May 2013 began to develop worktile,2013 year November Worktile official online operation.

Worktile is a SaaS software that focuses on small and medium team collaboration, including task progress management, sharing files among team members, writing documents online, and scheduling a team's schedule. Worktile has already launched the Web, iphone and Android editions to meet the needs of different platforms. Worktile existing functions are completely free of charge to users, the future will be the introduction of paid value-added services.

The Worktile team now has 22 people, 70% of whom are technology. November 2014 won a round of investment in broadband capital tens RMB.

CSDN: Can you disclose worktile current user size? What are the heavyweight customers? What are the problems that users are concerned about? What methods did your team use to overcome these difficulties?

Li Huijun: At present, there are 80,000 teams in the use of worktile, of which the daily live team has about 20%. Now such as 36KR, Camera360, Sina Show team, silver Guest network and other teams are using Worktile.

For Worktile, the most important problem is data security, which is a common problem for SaaS products. The team put security issues first from the start, we mainly from three aspects to ensure that: first, the customer's data can not be lost, the current worktile in the data backup has been a great effort, in Beijing, Hong Kong, Qingdao, several places in the United States have a backup; second, customer data can not be peeping, The team has a very perfect operation and maintenance system, such as strict control of the number of people who can access the server, as long as the login server for operation and maintenance operations, must have two people at the same time, a single person can not directly operate the server; Third, to ensure that the user's account security, Worktile in the domestic SaaS products pioneered the two-step verification mechanism, after the two-step verification, if you want to log into the Worktile account, not only need the account password, but also need to generate dynamic password on the phone.

CSDN: Can you tell me more about the construction process of this platform architecture? What technologies are used, and what do they do separately?

Li Huijun: Worktile platform architecture is the standard score architecture, that is, MongoDB + Express + angularjs + nodejs, using MongoDB to do data storage, back-end services using NODEJS, front-end display using Google's angularjs. The worktile are all deployed on the Ali Cloud, as shown in the picture:

The core value of Worktile platform

Csdn:worktile's core goal is to improve user productivity in a lightweight, simplistic way, so what are your experiences in building lightweight team Synergy software?

Li Huijun: In Worktile, we abstract some of the common problems in teamwork into several basic elements: tasks, files, schedules, topics, documents, chats, and messages. Tasks and schedules solve the problem of efficiency in teamwork; topics, chats, and messages focus on solving communication problems in the team; File resolves team resource sharing problem, document resolves team record problem, form team Knowledge base. In these basic elements, the task is the core of the deployment.

All of these basic elements are not independent of each other, they relate to each other and form a matrix model. Emails, for example, can be easily entered into worktile through personal inboxes and shared with team members as a topic, while worktile tasks, topics, or documents can be shared by email to Team outsiders.

Worktile, we've introduced a mechanism of concern that is different from the attention in social networks, where we focus on people, and when the people you care about are updated, you get the latest news, and in the worktile, we let that concern change. You can focus on tasks, files, topics, documents, schedules, etc. that are of interest to you, and when these things are updated (such as completing a task, commenting on a topic), you can receive the message in a timely fashion as a person of interest.

In the design of Worktile, we also introduce the idea of synergetic management rather than the traditional management concept, more emphasis on the central. Collaborative management concept more emphasis on the role of everyone in the team, we cooperate with each other, fully cooperate, and ultimately achieve the goal of unity; in traditional management concept, the role of the leader, the leader to coordinate various resources, coordination between team members, and finally achieve the goal.

Last but not least, in worktile, we emphasize the transparency of team information, which includes not only upward transparency, but also downward transparency, transparency of planning and objectives, and transparency of progress. Make sure that members of the team are aware of what other members are doing and are making progress. The transparency of this information is significant for improving the team's efficiency.

CSDN: What do you think is the greatest value worktile for users?

Li Huijun: I once had a pioneering experience in 2010, when the team all the tools used to collaborate on their own build, such as our own host to build a file-sharing server, a team of people through the sharing of folders between the way to pass documents, Deploy your own open source wiki system to write your team's internal documents, and the data between the various collaboration tools is not interoperable, and sometimes you don't know which files to share. Olives is looking for a wiki, and now it seems that these collaborative communication methods are very primitive.

Worktile's biggest value is the team collaboration in some common scenarios are simplified, now if the team need to cooperate, as long as in the Worktile register an account can be, the team members are pulled in on it. No need to consider the security of data, do not consider data backup, do not consider software upgrades. With team members for task management, scheduling, file sharing, and online documentation, these major collaborative scenarios can be accomplished in worktile.

Worktile what to do after a round of financing

CSDN: After the recent a round of financing, you will be in the existing free services outside the introduction of value-added services, and set up for Third-party services access to open API platform, which is based on what kind of considerations?

Li Huijun: This is actually two problems, worktile 2 months ago announced that all the current features free of charge, after the provision of value-added services, the reason to adopt this strategy, with our choice and judgment. We are not satisfied with the status quo, although worktile from the birth to the current product interaction and experience have made great progress, but we think that distance from a good collaboration tool still some gaps, so we hope that more users to help us better improve the product, rather than very quick to commercialize. When the experience and value of a product, so that users can not give up it, we believe that commercialization is only the added value of this product.

Open Openapi, is also our established strategy, as we do on the worktile more and more, some functions completely rely on worktile built-in function has been unable to complete, for our team, will certainly focus on maintaining worktile core functions and experience, And some peripheral things to the community to do. If you use Worktile, you find that there is a place that doesn't meet your needs, and you can use OPENAPI to expand it yourself. So Worktile can play its greatest value.

Csdn:worktile to get a round of financing is just the beginning, there are many things to do in the future. Worktile want to maintain the advantage, need to do more distinctive, the future worktile will focus on what aspects?

Li Huijun: Getting a round of financing is a new beginning for us, and it gives us the resources to realize a lot of ideas. The future worktile will be mainly in the following areas: The first is the full platform coverage, the current worktile has covered the web, the IPhone, Android three platforms, there will be other platforms in the future client out, basically the work of the platform involved in the We will provide the corresponding client, and the second is open api,worktile will focus on improving the experience and value of the product itself, and worktile things outside of the community to do, we will open the open API this year, it can be very convenient to use it with the existing system to do integration, or to provide extensions for worktile; the third is multi-language support, Worktile now has a large number of overseas users, there are many teams because the team has non-Chinese users and can not use the worktile, all of us will be in many languages as soon as possible.

CSDN: A light collaboration tool for small and medium-sized enterprises in China at present, facing the homogeneity problem of function and interactive convergence, many enterprises choose "upfront free" or "fixed number of small team free" strategy, such competition strategy lead to these products are difficult to the final fee profit change, before the market forming, the industry each other's internal friction burn money , what do you think about that?

Li Huijun: Yes, this is indeed a domestic enterprise for small and Medium Enterprises Team collaboration tool field currently facing a problem, but in fact each field in this market started, will appear this situation, product homogeneity serious, through the free strategy pull users. For the product homogeneity of this problem, I think is only the initial stage of a normal phenomenon, after all, the market is immature, which is not willing to take the risk to find the breakthrough point.

Worktile at the outset, although the function of some of the competing products, but quickly through the product iterations and user analysis, and competing products opened a gap. We are faster and more powerful, and have been rising rapidly in just a year.

The development trend of team collaboration tools

CSDN: What are the imaginary spaces for the future development of team collaboration tools?

Li Huijun: The team collaboration tool, should be considered in recent years to become popular, it can only be regarded as an enterprise-class SaaS market branch, but compared to other direction, I personally think that there is more space for imagination.

First, simple, team collaboration tools are not related to specific business processes, we focus on solving common scenarios in team collaboration, including task management, scheduling, file sharing, online documentation, and more. Because simplicity means that the cost of using a collaboration tool is very low for any team, no training is needed, and every employee is quick to get started.

Second, flexible, unrelated to specific business, make the team collaboration tools in the design can be very flexible, as long as it involves several people to do things together, you can use the collaboration tool to complete the cooperation between each other, you can use it to do a simple CRM, use it to do project management, or to do the internal recruitment management, So the team collaboration tool has a lot of imagination space in the use scene.

CSDN: Can you share your views on the domestic enterprise-level SaaS market?

Li Huijun: At present, domestic enterprise-level SaaS market is still in a relatively chaotic period, each manufacturer is trying to find their own breakthrough point. Have to do sales automation CRM, such as to enjoy, sales easy, have to do form research, such as wheat customer CRM, have to do small and medium-sized team collaboration, such as Worktile, and online customer service system, such as Yat-chong Cloud customer service. Some are entrepreneurial teams like worktile, and some traditional old software providers are moving towards SaaS.

Relatively speaking, the previous years are still in the training and education market stage, the 2015 domestic enterprise-class SaaS market will be a very cruel year, some manufacturers will be out, there will be more manufacturers into this field.

CSDN: So far, what experience and experience to share with you?

Li Huijun: It's not easy to take the entrepreneurial step, it's harder to stop on the road to entrepreneurship. Mr Yu once said such a phrase, with all the students in the start-up or preparation for entrepreneurship: The Life of a person is a struggle for life, but some people live a great life, some people life is very trivial. If we have a great ideal, a good heart, we will be able to put a lot of trivial days piled up, into a great life. But if you are powerless every day, no ideal, and then stop progress, the future of your life accumulation will always be a pile of trivial.

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