OA is what people do not clarify the concept, but this does not affect the rhythm of the rapid development of OA as a process, and a realm, OA with social and technological progress, with one office procedures and practices and change management thinking change, the deeper and more extensive areas of continuous advance.
Today, OA is not only limited circulation, such as documents, send and receive text management, file management, basic functions. With the computer technology and Internet technology to enhance, OA has become for all information processing and management of the collection. As most members of the community's understanding of the OA OA has not kept pace with their fast-paced development of the industry beyond the OA have been proposed over the "synergy" concept, so "OA out of date", "OA abandoned" the view prevalent, For a time, the original manufacturers have playing in OA synergy that banner, it seems "overthrow the old world, establish a new society" revolutionary passion. Opening cumbersome to this, mainly to clarify this to the integration of OA articles as OA in the development process is instantaneous, omissions inevitable inadequacies.
Web 2.0 appears on the OA had a great impact, when we determine that it is not limited to individual applications, the future will access enterprise applications, so it has been Internet-oriented for the field of OA is not caused by the impact, but a new business opportunities. In fact, we have some of the technical concept of Web2.0 and application software products into gold which, gold products such as knowledge management, work log, Blog, Wiki collaborative creation, RSS customization, SOA desktop integration and so on, but we are too social to the characteristics of the enterprise. Web2.0 is required because of a relatively loose environment for social enterprises, and enterprises are now required is a rigorous and structured organization, so we will continue to concern the introduction of such development and grasp the opportunity.
OA to the real ground in the enterprise, the need for front-end and back-office business systems integration. Mentioned here, including the integration of management and technical level. Simple integration of the basic front-end tool for OA, addressed the issue of office efficiency; and back-end business systems integration and synergy to the management elements of OA, is to enhance organizational efficiency and management effectiveness target. The so-called management-level integration is whether the new generation of OA with the advanced management ideas of the operational tools to OA, the current call "synergy" is actually the main factor in this regard include, in addition to the work organization or team collaboration also includes the management collaboration. Management of OA is full of wisdom that only the software can bring real benefits to the enterprise, and only with the arrival of OA software management ideas to get the favor of entrepreneurs, gold represented by coordination to C6 OA, just on behalf of this client value proposition.
Technically, how OA and the combination of deeper integration of Internet use; how to implement front-end integration and the integration between different systems and so require further technical improvements. Currently, there did not see the front of domestic OA demonstrated a strong sense of integration. We believe that OA integrated suite of front end or the problem solved, or the problem of office tools, the problem as long as the back-end applications, processes, and integration with other systems an extension of their users appear difficult to solve complex problems.
out of the BOx can solve some common or, more elementary problems; and by S + S model provides the enterprise management software will help solve the operational efficiency of enterprises and organizations. We also note other software packages such as office2007 also to this direction.
So, the original boundaries of enterprise applications and the OA mainly where the core issue of integration can not achieve what?
Roughly divided into two levels of enterprise application management and business operational level applications, such as gold and software already covers the major management functions, consider the operational level with major vendors of systems such as ERP, CRM, EAM, and integration of HR and so on.
We believe that although different levels of enterprise applications vary widely, but the boundaries of enterprise applications and the OA is quite obvious, in general, can be divided into: production-related and business applications (such as EAM, BIlling, financial, ERP, PLM, SCM etc.), and the boundaries of management-related content, gold and more understanding of the OA level of management and control functions.
OA from the field of view, and enterprise application integration is still at the theoretical level, what to do for the existing number of islands, far from a complete solution. Specifically relating to the provision of enterprise application vendors, the problems are different. Large mainstream manufacturers to start thinking very early SOA open similar business / system interfaces, integrated suite vendors for integration are a high cost. For the non-mainstream manufacturers products, only the data level integration, in addition to the high cost of other, there is technology risk. However, we also see a number of specific facilities, corporate results, the main resort is to take BI as a tool (or similar analysis and aggregation function), as a means to demonstrate the integration of PORTAL. Although this approach allows managers to see the relative integrity of business data, but not with the means and methods to control and adjust the associated, may only "islands of information a map", rather than the actual connectivity.
This situation of domestic manufacturers of small OA is very unfavorable, not only do small businesses, and the fate of any risk of being replaced.
For example, the current government to vigorously promote e-government, information technology vendors are working on related products. Difficulties do not e-government solutions in the product and the results are still to implement, in a large systems integration moving forward. The difficulties of their integration reflected in the data level integration, a more decentralized system of government data, and diversity; office process reengineering; social inter-departmental coordination. After a number of them gold and software implementation of the project has been in e-government based Management Platform has accumulated experience and mature platform based module has been polished, a new generation of systems into SOA architecture and design to take into account all future system integration needs.
In addition, the industry giant IBM launched ND8, Microsoft vigorously S + S strategy, these large enterprises have already begun to address the current Office front-end integration. We believe that the launch is IBM ND8 by the back-end enterprise application development to the direction of the civilian population, is also used with this field boss LOTUS Microsoft desktop direct grips. View from the desktop client, ND8 switch to Eclipse environment, this move is very powerful, making ND8 directly into a client based on open standards desktop platform, in essence, will always be respected IBM SOA into the front end, this is an important progress, mainly from Lotus for years user experience and technology accumulated.
We are also concerned that Microsoft's S + S strategy, integration can be understood to mean "service + client + server" side, of course Microsoft's user experience is accumulating advantage now to see more.
Thus, the intent of this front-end integration is already very obvious difference is that IBM either directly deployed in the Notes may also be in the Eclipse platform to external components and plug-in way to deploy a third-party applications can be directly integrated; and Microsoft The Office needs to develop its platform. In any case, OA will become the development trend of front-end integration.
With Web2.0 warming, corporate Mash-up reflects the combination of SOA reuse and capacity. Rigor from enterprise applications and content complexity, the synthesis by the client deal with the results, will better reflect the logical manageability. Gold and very concerned about the management software in the field of new technologies and new directions and there is a very accurate judgments and control technology to improve the capacity of the rhythm, every step of the improvements in technology really give value to our customers, this is a degree problem. In fact the technology on the road in gold and in front-end integration of OA leader in this field was. For example, the aforementioned Web2.0, the desktop of the SOA integration technology, mash-up technology and business process-oriented SOA management interfaces, both in gold and embodied in the products, but also in those areas we've got a lot of practical application experience.