The entrepreneurial story of China's "cloud computing" partners

Chinese partners to integrate entrepreneurship under cloud computing

A Chinese partner's film doesn't know how many young people are eager to start a business. And six graduates from Hkust, Tsinghua University to the United States, in the Global 500 strong work more than 10 more than 20 years (Jinan Tianbao founder and CTO Xu Shoupo in Bell Mobile, Wal-Mart, IBM, Microsoft has 77 years overseas experience), dabbling in the financial industry, telecommunications and logistics industry, three major enterprises in technology application of the strongest industries, The six industry elites who have accumulated the most cutting-edge enterprise-class architecture have brought us a unique entrepreneurial story in the context of cloud computing.

Foreign superior life, and did not let them stop, but brought them to rethink, their era of the country to pay for school, now have a strong desire to serve the motherland. This idea now seems very old-fashioned and remote, but it is really six people back to the source of entrepreneurship, to return to change society, create greater value.

So six people back home to do some business, with the world's top enterprise-class architecture, the resources and experience to integrate their own to see whether and the forefront of the Internet technology to merge and innovate to serve the modern service industry in China. Unlike domestic entrepreneurs who frequently change their industry and idea, Xu Shoupo and his partners are not impatient, insisting on the various modules and technology investments and research and development needed in the modern service industry for three consecutive years, each of us has his own elite circle and keeps the same direction. These three years of accumulation is very important, all aspects of resource integration gradually explore a sustainable development path.

Stones

After three years of accumulation, they spent a day working with China Tourism Group on cooperation. They are looking for travel partners around the world, find the resources of the industry to find out what kind of bottlenecks in tourism, find the problem, how to break through, to study new models, how these models to support such a model, and did a year of such in-depth research, add up to four years. Then they finally decided to integrate the things they had developed into the cloud. On the surface is a start-up, in fact it is a lot of early foreshadowing and vision. For example, when Jobs made the iphone, some people said it was too clever, like suddenly an iphone overnight, their accumulation started from the ipod, a little bit of the beginning, may be quietly developed for three or four years, is not known to others. This great thing is to come out and touch, and our great leader, Deng Xiaoping, said, Stones, without passing, it is impossible to know the river is so. This foreshadowing process is a process that must be experienced.

"Too smart" is not really smart, more stupid people, often there will be innovative

Chinese people are not willing to do a few years of production, this is China's entrepreneurial mentality. The entrepreneur is not really concentrated to start a business, but to want to earn money, want to become famous, or want to be the limelight, this determines whether you can innovate success. Early Chen, he is a painstaking research, his pioneering work, research, the results of inventions, is innovation. Now lack of down-to-earth, willing to spend a long time to innovate, because innovation is not very fashionable slogan, it is an accumulation, a thick accumulation of a thin hair of a thing. Not to shoot a forehead, there is a good idea, looking for investors to invest money to do something. Should be a lot of learning to study, to find people with common ideals, long-term in a cross-border collision, produce this spark, and knowledge fusion, and then to adhere to, and then not necessarily produce results. Like Edison so smart, to try more than 1000 times, but also hit, the Chinese may hit 10 times, eight times forget. The more stupid person, often has the innovation, Xu Shoupo feeling is like this.

Why choose the tourism industry?

Chen Shoupo and partners back home some of the experience of foreign countries, not only in technology, including the business model of some thinking and experience, but also into the domestic innovation, entrepreneurship, the status quo of some thinking and views. They summed up a set of several do not do.

First, do not do pure Internet projects, must be combined with a vertical industry depth. China's internet monopoly phenomenon, Tencent and Baidu do the same thing, he has money, brands, but also technology, and there are so many thousands of users, almost no chance to win, can not change this kind of thing, Chen Shoupo around, do not do pure Internet. The selected industry, must be the line of a traditional industry, do not invent this industry, and the industry itself for decades, even hundreds of years, Chen Shoupo think how to use the Internet technology to make more efficient, more optimized, lower cost, better user experience, or the cost of operating between enterprises more efficient and more intelligent.

Second, not to do pure business enterprise, but from the enterprise optimization, integration, efficient start, real enterprise backstage, or a service chain optimization, with lower cost, better service experience, to serve consumers.

Third, do not do such as Jingdong Mall, when, Fank and other based on the flow of things, based on the flow of services. Because of the heavy investment in warehousing, transportation and so on, Chen Shoupo and his partners want to be able to avoid this invisible, do not need warehousing and transportation, but also we have the advantage of the field, and finally locked similar to tourism, financial services.

Specifically to travel, because Chen Shoupo and entrepreneurial partners in tourism have a lot of relationship, undergraduate is the foreign university graduation, so many students are all kinds of international organizations Brother, international Tourism Organization we have a good relationship, their chairman, or the Secretary of the World Tourism Organization, are Jinan Tianbao advisors, Chen Shoupo in the global exposure to many high-end hundred companies, the tourism industry is rich club. Domestic words, with the Chinese tourism group, have come back from abroad to have decades of experience in international tourism, as well as the National Tourism Administration of the Foreign Affairs Department, the Secretary for international cooperation of Shen, did more than 30 years of tourism, is the teacher sister, to travel very understand, she retreated to become a director of China Tourism Group, The domestic and foreign resources are provided to Jinan Tianbao. Of course, the tourism industry is sunrise, because it is too big, people in addition to work, are all tourism, we are called Eating and living tour shopping entertainment.

Smell opportunity

Basically the past more than 10 years, is the Internet booking air tickets, hotels, is the most advanced technology services. The traditional travel agency also many, does not use the enterprise class, including Ctrip, Chen Shoupo all thinks basically is the plagiarism Web2.0. The Chinese long is basically this model, there have been more than 10 years, there is no change, perhaps the site has done a little bit more beautiful, Chen Shoupo and his partners see another business opportunity, is the next era, fully intelligent, with the existing cloud computing High-tech various sophisticated enterprise-class applications, coupled with the Internet's existing cutting-edge technology, A technology that can have a qualitative leap, and Chen Shoupo thinks they have the technical ability to do this thing. Today, Jinan Tianbao is a science and technology enterprises, played a leading role, this is not a small travel agencies, and even big travel agencies want to do and can do things. Because Jinan Tianbao has a long-term enterprise-class accumulation, Windows Azure this cloud, can quickly put the enterprise-class environment to build up such a convenient and convenient, Jinan Tianbao dare to do this thing, they have this experience and ability, there is this spirit of innovation, they have to do the next era to solve the problem of tourism, Completely with the present Ctrip, Yi Long is not the same.

Innovative service in the age of wisdom--the wisdom of wandering

Now the current status of service is that the 50 generation of travel agencies, to the middle of 90, the generation of the second generation of tourism services sites, a variety of booking network. By the middle of the 2000, a variety of tourism networks, such as the MA honeycomb, this generation, in fact we are in progress, more personalized, very clear this route. But each has its limitations, from a certain angle and a strategy to meet personalization, and does not really completely meet the user's personalized needs.

China Travel Group, and Jinan Tianbao together, want to do this one of the innovative things-"wisdom wandering", wisdom wandering to find the entire industry bottlenecks, and break through this bottleneck, with technology and innovation breakthroughs.

Bottleneck：

1. Typical travel service chain (front-end travel website & Travel Agency-Midrange reservation center-back-end supplier) inefficient. Front-end counter is a pair of hand-work services, more detailed content needs to fill out feedback is very inflexible.

2. Background processing orders belong to single processing, still one-to-one, one order upstream 60, need to make 60 calls, inefficient and manual operation can not provide personalized things.

Breakthrough：

1. Build a cloud intelligent platform, is the core of intelligent tourism

2. The front-end launch of SaaS Services, and cloud real-time interaction.

With Microsoft Cloud Acceleration

Enterprise internal research and development, platform, tourism resources are enough, initially decided to build a data center, but consider the risk of investment, research can be implemented by Third-party cloud computing, Chen Shoupo as the entire architect, based on Microsoft Cloud Platform is a variety of technology integration of the excellent choice and price is not expensive, adhere to the Microsoft platform, and willing to take all the risks, Then learn about the Cloud Accelerator project and get selected in the start-up competition.

The Microsoft Cloud Accelerator provides the following help to Jinan Tianbao:

Brand Effect: Microsoft's Accreditation represents authority

High support from the Government: full support of Zhongguancun Management Committee

Mentor Resources: 16 External Entrepreneurship instructors, 22 Microsoft in-house experts as mentors, covering the main direction required by the entrepreneur

World-class free office space, with many innovative enterprises together, the atmosphere is very good. Microsoft's corporate culture itself encourages innovation. So this spirit of innovation has been in the enterprise of Microsoft, including in the community has been the dissemination of the spirit of innovation, in the Microsoft Accelerator, can feel the culture of innovation, and the subsequent non-technical aspects of these and innovation-related DNA.

60,000-hour Windows Azure free resources, with a cloud platform such as Microsoft, it has this CDN's service and data center all over the world, makes the enterprise dream easy to realize, this is another kind in the business, and the technical support ability acceleration.

Rich Training and resources

With Microsoft City Next

After being selected for the Cloud Accelerator Project, Microsoft Asia Pacific CEO believes that Jinan Tianbao is more suitable for the overall strategy of Microsoft's Smarter city. At the same time, it is affirmed that Jinan Tianbao is the best in the world, and it is an innovation in the Asia-Pacific region that surpasses the United States and Europe. Hope that in the tourism industry subdivision, and Jinan Tianbao has more depth of cooperation.

Coincidentally, Jinan Tianbao and Hainan has two times to help Hainan to build a smart tourist island, and at that time, Microsoft has also cooperated with Hainan for six months, intends to build a smart tourist island. Microsoft's strategy is not to go with the partner, it has a holistic solution and framework, there are a variety of partner to work together to win the total to achieve a certain industry solutions, so the Jinan Tianbao become an important partner city next.

Government support

Foreign countries do not like the domestic policy, Jinan government free of charge Jinan Tianbao 2 million financial support, Chen Shoupo pay close attention to government policy release, with the aid of government policies and financial support, the development of modern services. At the same time, he argues, the government should complement and better integrate projects such as Microsoft's cloud Accelerator to provide software and hardware help for start-ups.

"Huangpu Two" graduation imagination

Chen Shoupo said that Microsoft Cloud Accelerator project for the Whampoa Military Academy, training and help a large number of enterprises to succeed in entrepreneurship, and to graduate in this, and Jinan Tianbao hope to provide help to other enterprises. Chen Shoupo is persuading the group's directors, including third party investors, to be working with Microsoft's top executives to build their own incubators, which is also Microsoft's strategy. Microsoft Cloud Accelerator will be a series of strategies in China to encourage, including entrepreneurial capital, incubators of cooperative units. Because this is just a point, he hopes this point, there are more Windows cloud this incubator across the country, using these models to train more enterprises.

Jinan Tianbao Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Founded in 2011, Jinan "5150 cited only plan" key enterprises. The team creatively plays the rich experience which accumulates in the world 500 strong enterprise, has created the "Global Real-time intelligent Modern service common platform"-"the GRI Universal platform", which integrates the cloud computing, artificial intelligence, triple net fusion and so on many times information technology. The core of the service chain is to integrate the upstream and downstream enterprises into real-time intelligent "virtual enterprise", to achieve efficient business collaboration across the enterprise.

"Wisdom Wandering" is the first Industrialization application project of GRI platform. To achieve a variety of tourism resources in real time, efficient allocation, and in order to real-time intelligent interactive way to provide tourists online 100% personalized travel customized services. is a model of "Chinese creation" in the field of tourism service.

Intelligent wandering--gathering the dynamic of tourism enterprises, providing 100% personalized service

Jinan Tianbao Information Technology Co., Ltd. "intelligent wandering" internet platform for the global tourist to provide full self-service, 100% personalized travel real-time custom service. The core technologies adopted by the company are: Cloud + End Intelligent Interactive technology, multi-network fusion real-time communication technology. Relying on the original "intelligent roaming" platform, we hope to become a highly automated new travel booking service provider – Tour operators.

B2B2C business model

Front End C: Users with high intelligent human-computer interaction, and the cloud "expert system" real-time interactive, in the intelligent tips, suggestions to help achieve full self-service, 100% personalized travel real-time custom service. Backstage B: Cloud "intelligent Center" original automatic, high concurrent processing can efficiently handle orders. At the same time, various service providers by virtue of the multi-network fusion technology and "intelligent Center" real-time link, without installing software, fully in the browser to achieve all business collaboration.

Leveraging Microsoft Cloud Platform PAAs mode for business

The company's platform is an enterprise-class application, and choosing Windows Azure can exempt itself from building data centers and a large number of hardware and software infrastructure designs. The PAAs service of Windows Azure provides us with all the necessary platform services for enterprise-level system development, and it has its own functions of automatic management, configuration, optimization, monitoring, backup and so on, it can save a lot of manpower and material resources, and the enterprise could only focus on the research and development of the business. We mainly use the Azure Web role, the Worker role,sql Database, service Bus, Cache and CDN services.

Through the Microsoft Expert's audit to our platform architecture, it helps us to make adjustment to the important architectural decision, especially to the C # language asynchronous programming, ASP.net asynchronous technology, and service bus asynchronous processing makes the reasonable disposition and the plan.

"With Windows Azure, we saved millions of of our initial hardware and software inputs and the human input from our operators," he said. Our current business is to provide Chinese tourism products and services to the world's tourists, only through Windows Azure, we can quickly replicate, expanding our business to provide tourism products in a number of countries, such as the global delivery of Asian tourism products. This kind of situation, previously was not possible at such a fast speed, so low cost to achieve. ”

--Xu Shoupo Jinan Tianbao Information Technology Co., Ltd. founder and CTO

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