CRG, the Leading Chinese Central State-Owned Enterprise, Draws a New Blueprint for Smart Development

CRG's understanding of traditional organizations and scenarios has been incorporated into the cloud platform planning and architectural design, which can give traditional enterprises a more appropriate digital transformation inspiration. It can also assist traditional businesses in making a more effective and secure transition to the digital world when used in conjunction with the cloud computing foundational services and agile management solutions offered by partners like H3C.

Xiao Haishan
General Manager of Resolink CRG Cloud

Faced with the disruptive changes brought by digital innovation, enterprises that dared to change have already established their unique competitiveness based on digital technology. Large Chinese central state-owned enterprises, as the benchmark of Chinese enterprises, inevitably have difficulties in transformation because of their large size. However, the successful transformation of CRG shows that even "big elephants" can dance gracefully.

The new business mode and capital mode generated due to the Internet, big data, and cloud computing technologies have recently disrupted the traditional business environment and even altered people's social behaviors, having a significant impact on traditional business structures.

In the face of dramatic changes experienced by traditional enterprises, CRG, China's leading central state-owned enterprise, believes it has a long way to go. For CRG, the only approach to increase operational capabilities and enhance service qualities lies in smart development and digital transformation. To achieve this goal, CRG has used the technology strategy of "Cloud Priority, Smart Growth" to build an "Enterprise Digital Brain" with the assistance of partners such as H3C Group, a subsidiary of Unigroup. It aims to meet the Group's requirements for infrastructure, platform, and software service capabilities during business development, support the digital development of various industries, make industries and production smarter, and enhance the Group's overall intelligence level.

Cloud Priority: Solving common industrial problems

The importance of the cloud platform in CRG's digital transformation is clear from the technological strategy of "Cloud Priority, Smart Growth". In January 2019, CRG defined its strategic positioning for cloud computing. In February 2019, it began cloud platform project planning. Within six months, it completed the construction of IaaS and PaaS, and the SaaS products were ready to go online. In September 2019, the cloud platform was officially released to the public.

CRG's cloud platform is constructed based on H3C Group's IaaS base, development platform, and CRG's understanding of the industry and business. The platform shapes the foundation of the next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) by creating a decentralized business platform. As an efficient and secure platform, cloud computing is the foundation for all future information construction, digital transformation, and smart development of CRG, and can help the Group better implement various transformations. Meanwhile, more than 200,000 upstream and downstream enterprises of CRG will carry out digital transformation and innovation on the basis of this cloud platform to build an ecosystem of digital innovation in traditional manufacturing industries. In this regard, Xiao Haishan, the General Manager of Resolink (the member company of CRG) CRG Cloud, stated, "CRG's understanding of traditional organizations and scenarios has been incorporated into the cloud platform planning and architectural design, which can give traditional enterprises with a more appropriate digital transformation inspiration. It can also assist traditional businesses in making a more effective and secure transition to the digital world when used in conjunction with the cloud computing foundational services and agile management solutions offered by partners like H3C. "

Smart Growth: Drawing a new picture of smart development

For the "Smart Growth" technology strategy, CRG is committed to promoting the deep integration of next-generation intelligence and information technology with business and transforming them into productivity, as well as transforming data into new driving forces. In this way, CRG will drive and lead innovation breakthroughs and industrial restructuring in business, management, products, services, and business models. The smart development and digital transformation of profit centers are completely promoted by CRG from a variety of aspects, including organizational capabilities, management processes, and institutional norms.

Along with developing a cloud platform, CRG is also working to create a process-oriented industrial Internet platform, a big data platform, and other smart application platforms. CRG aims to empower business through IT, expand "Smart +" applications, and enhance efficiency in production, operation, and management. Taking the industrial Internet as an example, CRG aspires to realize the strategic combination of industrial Internet construction and ecological construction. Because the entire industrial Internet chain is complex, it is necessary to develop collaboration with external partners and alliances.

In April 2019, Resolink, a member company of CRG, joined the H3C Group Industrial Internet Technology Alliance. The alliance brings together a number of well-known companies, including Resolink and Haier Group, and will support technical development, innovation, and industrial Internet practice through joint R&D, product customization, public cloud services, and other forms of collaboration. In CRG's practice of the industrial Internet, its own rich application scenarios have been gradually implemented with the help of partners such as H3C.

This "plane carrier" of CRG has entered a new era of intelligence and digitalization with the deeper integration of smart technology, Internet technology, cloud computing, and existing business. On the road to helping CRG and other enterprise clients transform and upgrade, H3C Group will, based on the "Digital Brain", promote the innovation of smart digital platforms and build a smart application ecology. This will help Chinese enterprises accelerate the integration of industry and information technology with digital power and complete a new round of transformation and rapid development.