"Cloud Management", Enterprise new starting point!

"Information Technology" is hailed as the third industrial revolution. The application of new technologies, such as cloud computing, mobile interconnection and social networking, has given birth to novel business and new management models. Cloud era quietly came, more and more traditional and non-traditional enterprises to the information, and even all the business move clouds management. In our country, the transformation and upgrading of enterprises will be accompanied by the implementation of cloud management and speed up the process, of which the financial strategy of the Group companies, the financial department's work responsibilities, organizational structure will be followed by major changes. However, cloud management brings convenience and cost savings to the enterprise, and also hides the information security risk. and financial information security is the core of enterprise information security, how to deal with the financial information security in the cloud era, enterprises need to prepare for a rainy day.

In China, the advent of the "cloud era" has two aspects of the representation. On the one hand, the "cloud computing" technology provider's strategic planning and cloud management services to provide the reality, on the other hand, the enterprise application of "cloud computing" technology, accept cloud management services. In recent years, Ufida, Kingdee and other large software providers have launched a "cloud strategy", wave in order to seize the cloud computing technology changes and valuable opportunities, it is proposed to raise 1 billion yuan to the cloud. And many enterprises also said to go in front of the trend of the times, early acceptance, familiar with the "cloud computing" technology, accept the "cloud management" service. Mr. Luo, general manager of a network company in Zhongguancun, Beijing, said to our correspondent: "' Cloud management ' is a comprehensive information management tool."

For our network companies, should be the first contact, but also the most willing to accept the ' cloud management ' service. Business digitization, will save a lot of manpower, financial resources and time for the enterprise. "According to the Ernst-and-research survey, 61% per cent of respondents are currently using, evaluating or planning to use cloud-based services over the next year. The survey is based on more than 1700 companies worldwide, about 8% of which are Chinese companies.

The introduction of "cloud computing" technology also has a significant impact on the enterprise financial management model, the corporate financial and business boundaries are slowly disappearing. such as the software provider Kingdee put forward, financial accounting to Management accounting transformation, through the information means to cost management, comprehensive budget, capital management, the smallest responsibility unit profit management in the enterprise landing; With financial sharing service platform as the support, to achieve strategic finance, business finance, shared financial stratification, Enhance the value of financial to strategic decision and business support. Enterprises, such as China Unicom has established a "large ERP system", based on the core ERP system, synchronous construction, including procurement, projects, funds, contracts, budget, reimbursement and other more than 10 subsystems, close integration together constitute a traditional ERP methods and ideas of the information system. "This platform brings the biggest benefit is the flat management: To achieve the whole group of business process Unified, the whole group of data information, so that all the management process of all units on a desktop, to achieve business processes, data information, etc. all placed in a plane." Chen Yu, deputy general manager of China Unicom's finance department, said.

The Cloud management platform provides a flexible deployment, operation, and management environment for business systems, shielding underlying hardware and operating system differences, and providing secure, high-performance, scalable, manageable, reliable, scalable and comprehensive security for applications, reducing the cost of developing, deploying, operating, and maintaining application systems. Cloud management platform can be widely used in data centers, E-commerce, gaming platforms and other information projects, has been in some areas of the formation of a series of typical applications.

An organization's important technology to drive business processes requires frequent software monitoring. Many organizations have used a variety of services provided by Third-party business process providers, such as credit checking and payment services. As more and more services are available in the cloud, services using Third-party vendors will continue to expand. These services will be linked to other services from a variety of internal and external vendors.

Software components of such business processes can migrate to the cloud, as long as the migration does not prevent monitoring of these processes. Therefore, all cloud recommendations need to be examined in advance to see if they affect the monitoring of business processes. How do you know that your cloud services are working according to their requirements? How do you know that the performance of the service is up to the right level? How can you tell that the data you requested for deletion two weeks ago has actually been deleted? It is not easy to judge the problems that may be associated with cloud services.

Tan Xiaofang that resource-based cloud services should be no different from resources in your own environment, but that they are physically resident in the distance. Ideally, cloud customers will have a full view of the resources they use today or that might be used in the future. Although this seems easy, it is not so easy to achieve. In most cloud environments, customers see only the services they buy. The entire application may be based on cloud services, and development tools will be cloud-based. In fact, there can also be cloud-based testing and monitoring environments.

When organizations consider moving applications into the cloud, the biggest problem they encounter is the problem of software dependencies. How does an organization handle dependencies between different services? Theoretically, all applications running within the organization's data center share the infrastructure and data. However, when companies start migrating applications or data or storage functions to the cloud, they must address the issue of technical independence.

Therefore, before moving any part of the datacenter into the cloud, you must separate it from existing dependencies. In order to move clouds, it is necessary to consider all applications and systems holistic, and decide which ones must move together. Dependencies will determine this, whether from a hardware perspective, from a platform perspective, from a software perspective (they need to be tightly coupled to other related applications) or to mix results from any of these reasons.

The successful enterprise's business ability, the operation pattern mostly builds on the enterprise structure, the cloud computing and the enterprise structure help the enterprise transformation to have the typical case, for instance: South Africa petrochemical. Allenbrown, president of the Open Group, said that nearly 1 billion of South African petrochemical gains were obtained through theopengroup technical standards. Today, companies are facing changes and challenges to it, and users require it to support business process optimization and transformation, Guo Xin stressed, "to deal with change, In business process optimization and transformation, the cloud is the core, the enterprise architecture can help the cloud actually landed. "Zhangliangjie a unique view of the enterprise structure," for enterprise development, the top design is the blueprint, Enterprise architecture is the blueprint design and planning capabilities. ”

"Cloud management" molding, involving information systems construction, Logistics Base construction, organizational structure adjustment, process optimization, and so on, is not only the company on the chain management concept of continuous upgrading, curing process, but also the process of radical transformation of the company, The continuous learning and pursuit of the essence of the appliance chain industry by founders and senior management team is the key to the success of the reform.

However, with the development of ' digitalization ', the enterprise will move the business clouds environment and the physical boundary disappears, the enterprise risk distribution also changes. Ran, a partner at the Ernst and the Information Security Advisory service in Greater China, said in an interview with our correspondent. According to the survey, 72% per cent of respondents thought the level of risk had increased as a result of external threats, and 46% per cent believed that risk levels had increased as a result of internal weaknesses.

"Digitization is bound to be associated with risks, such as information leaks, hacking, etc., such as data leaks that occur in csdn." However, we can not ' unworthy ', as long as the relevant information security measures, it is still possible to prevent. Said Mr. Luo. Late last year, China's largest developer community CSDN was hacked, stolen about 6 million users of the account information, a time mail service providers such as NetEase, Sina, etc. are issued to reset the password notice. Last year when the online shopping site was suspected of leaking a large number of user information, the business and reputation of the company caused no small trouble.

Lin Yu-min, director of information technology risk consultancy, pointed out to our correspondent that financial information is a part of enterprise information, and its risk in addition to its own traditional risk, but also includes data disclosure, hacker attacks, contract issues, technical security and corporate finance personnel to cloud services do not understand and so on.

The problem of enterprise financial information security is a talked new problem. With the development of information technology, the problem of financial information security is not only the traditional error of financial information, the leakage of inside information, etc. correspondingly, the continuous application of "cloud computing", the enterprise financial information also increases the more easily leaked way ——— outsiders are also likely to acquire, and is a lot of access to corporate financial information. But to prevent the occurrence of these risks, in the final analysis, is "people."

Therefore, from the perspective of corporate finance personnel, the cloud era, not only to understand the business of financial accounting, but also to understand computer technology. Of course, it is impossible for an enterprise to require all the financial staff to become an IT master, but it will require the financial staff at least basic computer knowledge.

From the use of Excel, Enterprise financial computerization and other day-to-day applications to the industry network construction, note will test the implementation of machine test and other industry development issues, and then to enterprise financial information security issues to prevent, accounting people have any reason to say no to computer technology? The tide of courage is the right path!

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)