Exclusive interview with Progress Zhang Dagang: Cloud Platform for the whole industry

With the hot development of cloud computing, cloud industry has become the focus of major enterprises, and as an important component of the cloud industry PAAs in the enterprises in the growing weight. According to Gartner, PAAs Services earned about $1.2 billion this year, but its output will reach $2.9 billion trillion in 2016. IDC says PAAs services will grow at an annual rate of 30% per cent over the next four years. The prospect of PAAs services is limitless.

As a huge potential of China's cloud computing market, foreign cloud computing manufacturers have to occupy the Chinese market in order to take advantage of the opportunity to seize market share. Cloud computing maker Progress also into this wave, with its cloud computing products to join the Chinese market. Progress Company participated in a recent cloud computing summit to promote its software products to the Chinese market, including the flagship PAAs platform Progress OpenEdge. At the summit, the Chinese cloud Network reporter to Progress China District senior business consultant Kwing just conducted an interview.

Progress China senior business consultant Kwing

For the entire industry to provide a cloud platform, and customer win

Mr. Zhang Dagang first introduced the progress company. While progress is a new company in the Chinese market, progress is a 30-Year-old software company that started with databases and has been driven by customer demand, he said. Development so far, progress company attaches great importance to cloud computing, it thinks cloud computing is it's big trend, and cloud really represents customer's demand. Therefore, the progress company has proposed in the cloud computing era goal: in the Cloud utilizes progress company many years to accumulate the software superiority for each industry to provide a response type cloud platform, realizes the mutual benefit with the customer.

Progress has a database based autonomous development language, with a series of enterprise suites such as BPM engines. Mr. Zhang Dagang stressed that progress's products also include a pass platform, with more than 600 applications currently deployed on foreign cloud platforms. In addition, the easy deployment of product applications in the cloud is another advantage of progress.

When it comes to http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7762.html "> Domestic market, Mr. Zhang Dagang that the domestic supply of IAAS solutions more manufacturers, the market relatively mature. However, the IaaS platform is only for the completion of hardware virtualization, and can not bring direct value to customers. "For example, I have an operating system, what is the use." Your operating system is empty. I can't play games, do development, do business. "He thinks the cloud is imperfect and lacks the coordination of PAAs platforms. The progress PAAs platform is mainly on the empty operating system to help enterprises build a development platform, the platform has a variety of enterprise components, at the same time easy to manage, can bring direct value to users.

When it comes to planning for the future, Mr. Zhang Dagang says progress's products are mature, the solution is excellent, and adapting to China's national conditions is the most important work, which is also one of progress's important strategies. Although there are some differences in domestic and foreign markets, the progress PAAs platform can adapt to the domestic environment, such as upgrading and updating the Chinese in multi-language. Mr Zhang Dagang, confident that progress has done the tests, coupled with an understanding of the industry, can fully adapt to the Chinese market.

At the same time, progress will help customers do some customization of the needs of the work, and provide the relevant software experience, according to customer needs, to help customers business application analysis. In Mr Zhang Dagang's view, the client's advantage lies in his knowledge of the market and industry, but it may not have much knowledge of the cloud platform and architecture. "We complement our customers and do a real cloud platform, deploy applications on top of it, and then achieve the goal of winning." ”

Progress solutions are not divided into industries. Mr Zhang Dagang says progress has partners in many industries. He explained: Domestic manufacturers Qad is one of the core partners, mainly engaged in ERP industry, customers focus on the automotive industry, manufacturing industry. These customers use Qad ERP software. Qad ERP is actually a software platform based on progress. So, Qad's client is Progress's client. Of course, progress also has a lot of partners in the software industry.

Big data is not the point

Mr. Zhang Dagang also expressed his views on the current hot and big data in the industry. He pointed out that the current large data has several concepts, one is how to manage a large number of binary files, one is large capacity database, one is large capacity files. He does not think that the data is big or big. At present, it is difficult for the industry to put some data, especially images, video and other binary data data into the database system, mainly because it can not be indexed after the deposit. Indexes are created by fields and indexes. Once the enterprise will deposit these data, it will bring low efficiency and unfavorable to management.

Asked whether the big data is the future direction of progress companies, Mr Zhang Dagang says big data is indeed a trend, but not a progress focus. Mr Zhang Dagang said: Progress products can be fully linked to large data-related products such as Hadoop.

PostScript：

Now the cloud computing market in the ascendant, from the concept of speculation into the landing of cloud applications, the cultivation of the market is slowly maturing, the entire industry's output value is growing. As a new entrants into China's cloud market, progress can stand firm in the rush of many it giants, whether to use their advantages to impress the Chinese users, we will wait and see.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)