A review of the Tencent Digital Ecological Conference·Wechat Low Code Special Session

On November 4th, the 2021 Tencent Digital Ecological Conference Micro-to-low-code special session ended successfully. The special session not only gathered Tencent technology and product experts, industry-leading low-code practitioners, but also global authoritative research institutions and proponents of the "low-code" concept. Forrester brings an interpretation of the latest trends in the low-code industry. In addition, Weida also released the Weida C2B connector at the conference, announcing the connection with Tencent documents, Tencent meetings and enterprise WeChat multi-scenario data, so that more developers and small and medium-sized enterprises can conveniently use Tencent’s rich scenarios to develop applications , Effectively lower the threshold of innovation. The following is a wonderful review of the topics of this special session:

Digital and real integration ecological

According to reports from research institutions such as Forrester, by 2023, more than 50% of large and medium-sized companies in the world will use low-code as one of the main strategic application platforms; by 2024, low-code application development will account for more than 65% of application development .

Wu Qisheng, vice president of Tencent Cloud, said on the spot that everyone used to be a product manager, but now everyone is a developer. As the integration of technology and the real economy enters the fast lane, the micro-build low code that integrates Tencent's product ecology and Tencent Cloud's various capabilities, as the technological starter of Tencent's C2B strategy, will provide a more open and active ecological policy and more complete We will open up more internal and external resources to support our ecological services, and we will be a “digital assistant” through resource blessing, technical support, and capacity training, and work with our partners to create the future of the industry.

We-Da Together

Trusted enterprise-level low-code platform

When low-code is becoming an industry boom, Wang Qian, product director of Tencent Cloud’s low-code product, analyzed the comparison with the existing low-code platforms in the market from four aspects: product positioning, capability panorama, C2B connector and benchmarking cases. , The unique products and ecological capabilities of the micro-pack. She also pointed out that in addition to the internal demand for efficiency improvement in the digital transformation of enterprises, there are also demands for digital business growth and marketing.

Compared with traditional low-code platforms, the Wechat low-code platform allows more traditional service providers and small and medium-sized enterprises to quickly integrate into the WeChat ecosystem. Based on the Wechat ecosystem suite provided by Wechat, it reduces delivery time, responds quickly to demand, and helps a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises. Realizing growth. We hope that more companies, developers and partners will work with us to build a micro-architecture and build a trustworthy enterprise-level low-code platform.

Ecological interconnection

Sharing the power of connection

The open ecological connection capability is one of the core functions of the mini-build low-code. Luo Qin, product manager of Tencent Cloud's low-code expert product manager, introduced this ability from three aspects from the shallower to the deeper: first, the evolution of the open ecosystem in the development of low-code, and then the open ability of the low-code and solving industry problems. In the end, I introduced some practical application scenarios based on the open capabilities of micro-building.

Luo Qin mentioned that the open system of Wi-Fi includes two main parts. One is the opening of data logic capabilities, which corresponds to the back-end logic of application development; the other is the opening of template design capabilities, which corresponds to the front-end logic of application development. Based on the core external extended data source, Widgets integrates enterprise-level capabilities such as data connections, scenario-based templates, custom components, and global marketing.

more than just taking

ultimate hybrid development experience

Can build the provincial health code project and well. What special architecture designs have been made at the bottom of the micro-layout? How do you get the ability to quickly build a small program/H5 in a few minutes? Zhu Zhan, technical director of Tencent Cloud's Weibo Low Code, gave the answer from a technical point of view.

Zhu Zhan participated in the whole process of mini-build low-code and its underlying cloud-dependent development of CloudBase. These two products were built from 0 to 1. He pointed out that although low-code is a new word, it is not a new concept in essence. The entire computer programming language The history of development is the process of continuous low-code development. The emergence of visual development tools can be traced back to the 1980s and 1990s. For example, ACCESS and VB6 are typical low-code development tools.

Zhu Zhan also mentioned that under the traditional development model, businesses often need to pay attention to the basic configuration and process construction of the front-end and back-end full links, while in the serverless mode, the developers' focus has changed from the details of the full link to UI/ At the logical level such as data, this is the shift of focus from secondary tasks to primary tasks. Weibo combines Serverless and low-code to create a technical base that is separated from the underlying resources, allowing the business to only focus on logic development, saving a lot of R&D costs.

move first

Low code platform unlocks new value

Forrester, an internationally renowned market research institution, first proposed the Low-Code concept in 2014. Forrester analyst Lu Guannan also mentioned at this conference that from mobile applications to PWA (progressive web applications) and small programs, companies are embracing lightweight applications in the process of digital transformation.

Companies can take advantage of this trend of lightweight applications and rely on the mobile-first low-code development platform to realize four new values: creating new speed-demand to present, introducing new developers-business personnel, and covering new channel opportunities-WeChat Ecological, become a new management tool-end-to-end life cycle management tool.

Forrester analyst Lu Guannan also pointed out: The current process of digital transformation of enterprises is the process of reshaping the business model. Forrester believes that companies will advance their digital transformation process from four dimensions: digital experience, digital operation, digital innovation, and digital ecology. In the process of digital transformation of enterprises, process optimization and automation transformation are the key points that enterprises should pay attention to in their digital transformation. The implementation of this goal requires the support of an automated architecture. Low-code platforms and tools can accelerate this process.

Recently, Tencent Cloud Weida low-code has also been selected into the "The State Of Low-Code Platforms In China" released by Forrester, and has provided representative enterprise application practice cases. see >>>

In addition to building a wealth of low-code platform capabilities, Weida has also been committed to providing diversified solutions for different industries.

Quick response to the "last mile"

helps best practices in government affairs

Hu Min, Product Director of Tencent Cloud WeDa Low Code Proprietary Edition, introduced the practical application of WeDa in the government affairs industry. She mentioned that government affairs applications generally have the characteristics of long processes, urgent needs, fast iterations, and high security requirements. Digital construction still has problems such as insufficient precipitation, limited investment, insufficient coverage, and untimely response. At the same time, there are also certain risks in the security and compliance level of application development.

In response to the above-mentioned current situation and problems, WeDa's proprietary version provides complete product solutions for government informatization and digital construction needs, and provides users with a "1+1+X+N" application agile development system. Based on a Tencent Cloud native base, developers can implement multi-end application types on a low-code development platform, including small programs, APP, H5, government WeChat applications, etc. It can support n application scenarios, such as government affairs, education, medical care, cultural tourism, finance, and urban services, to improve development efficiency. WeDa provides more than 100 basic components, more than 50 business components, aligns WeChat open capabilities, and also provides custom component functions , ISV can make the previously accumulated business into its own components. Rolling reuse in subsequent projects.

In December 2020, the province’s unified "Sichuan Tianfu Health Pass" was quickly launched online. Synchronize the online location code, foreigner declaration, offline code, intelligent customer service and other functions. Based on WeDa, the Tencent team achieved 18 days to go online to support 90 million people in the province to use the mini program. When the Ruili epidemic broke out in Yunnan in 2021, the Tencent team once again accepted the task. Through the components and capabilities that WeDa accumulated during the Sichuan health code, it only took 5 days to complete all the online preparations.

Fuyou Pay

Weibo unlocks new ideas for the catering payment system

Shanghai Fuyou Payment Service Co., Ltd. is a technology-driven payment company with a history of 13 years. It is also one of the earliest payment companies that self-developed offline commercial SaaS software. Fuyou Payment has launched the Fu shopkeeper applet, focusing on creating a personalized order and payment system for the catering industry. According to Tang Zhicheng, Director of Commercial Digital Marketing of Fuyou Payment, when docking with multiple business parties, Fuyou Payment found a series of problems: most of the business management tools for docking merchants are not perfect, especially the lack of mobile terminal tools; the traditional docking Agents have long been stuck in the dilemma of single product, lack of expansion methods and insufficient revenue; internal R&D projects need to improve efficiency and ensure high-speed delivery.

For this reason, Fuyou Payment has connected to the WeChat low-code platform, relying on WeChat to quickly build small programs, simplify the development process, and customize the small programs, which can not only meet customer delivery requirements in advance, but also effectively reduce R&D costs.

Tang Zhicheng pointed out that the selection of Wi-Fi as the R&D platform is mainly based on four points: 1. Rich custom components. For low-code platforms, components are essential. In the widget, you can use the components provided by other service providers to quickly add functional modules to your own mini programs, and integrate the strengths of each family; second, rapid deployment. The existing code of the project can be easily deployed through the external data source of unique 1619e3053b6949 quick registration small program capability . In just a few simple steps, you can own an enterprise or personal WeChat applet, and quickly settle on the WeChat platform; 4. WeChat supports calling external interfaces. By calling the OCR recognition interface, the automatic entry of the menu license plate is realized, which is convenient and fast. In addition, the rich shopkeeper also called the dish gallery on the platform to achieve one-click matching according to the dish name.

Save health

Hand in hand with WeChat to help the medical business quickly break through

The Wuhan-born brand "CunHealth" is a leading SaaS service provider in the medical industry, focusing on providing member management solutions for retail pharmacies across the country. At present, the company's business covers 29 provinces and cities across the country, serving more than 110,000 chain stores, and helping pharmacies serve nearly 400 million members. Yuan Chong, vice president and head of technology of Cun Health, also brought sharing based on real business scenarios in this special session.

Yuan Chong mentioned that although the storage health business has matured, as the market changes, there are still some pain points that need to be resolved, which are often related to the customers' own conditions and needs, such as the location of the pharmacy, the scale of the chain, and the mode of operation The difference in demand, high degree of personalization, rapid change, and even multi-terminal adaptation issues all put forward high requirements on the standard services provided by Cum Health.

After in-depth communication with the micro-packing team, Cun has a healthy choice to use the low-code micro-packing platform for technical upgrades. With the help of Wechat, the management of the entire chain of applications has been realized, including enterprise WeChat, mini programs, official accounts, and so on. In terms of specific business realization, processes and functions are realized through drag and drop. Based on the cloud-native underlying service of WeChat, the applet developed by Cum Health supports auto-scaling and expansion to ensure the reliability of the service. At the same time, provide industry common components. Take the chronic disease management project as an example. It takes more than 20 days for some business function modules to develop through the traditional model. However, using the micro-build, the final realization took only 10 days, and the time and cost were significantly reduced.

Round table dialogue

How to build a low code to help the digital transformation of traditional enterprises

In addition to the theme sharing, this time we also invited many entrepreneurs in the low-code industry, who are also leading practitioners, to talk about how low-code can help companies realize digital transformation, and listen to the truth from actual business. sound. Zhao Ying, Director of Tencent Cloud Ecological Products and Strategic Cooperation, Che Guan, Chairman of Netcom World Technology, Lu Hao, Director of Transaction Banking Products of Ping An Bank Co., Ltd., Wang Linle, Founder of Youhao Duo, and Yan Jianou, Chairman of Wuxi Pan Asia participated in the discussion.

The meeting focused on three topics: sharing stories about helping customers' digital transformation, new possibilities for digital transformation of companies working with WeChat companies, and expectations for low codes in WeChat companies. All the guests explained how to use WeChat companies based on their own business operations and practical experience. Low-code platforms can better serve traditional enterprises for digital transformation.

The guests agreed that most of the application scenarios can be completed with low code due to low application complexity and relatively straightforward business processes for enterprises in traditional industries, and even small and medium-sized enterprises. Micro-build low code provides better products with high flexibility, facilitates the expansion of enterprise application functions, and can adapt to the frequent functional iteration needs in the rapid development of small and medium-sized enterprises, so that innovation can be implemented more quickly.

Since its official release in March 2021, Tencent Cloud's low code has been verified in the commercialization of industries, retail, education, government and other industries, effectively assisting customers in completing business construction and quickly achieving digital operation.

Adhering to the principle of "opening and co-construction", Wepad hopes to join hands with more ecological partners to create small program templates and industry solutions based on the Wepad platform for all walks of life, and extensively help enterprises achieve digital upgrade acceleration and common prosperity with low code Development of the market.