Some time ago, Zhou Buqi intentionally laid off Xu Liangjie.

For various reasons, it was shelved.

I plan to give him another 8-10 months to investigate and investigate.

I don’t know if he heard the news or if he felt that the time was ripe to roll up his sleeves and take action. During this period, he was particularly high-profile.

First, a new organizational structure of "small skin, big R&D" was proposed, which aroused widespread discussion.

After the A round, he proposed a new concept - office autonomy!

This is another big concept.

Because the last time we proposed the "small skin, big R&D" strategy, it caused a lot of controversy and even made many departments panic, feeling that their own interests would be violated.

So this time Xu Liangjie learned his lesson and came to discuss it with the big boss first.

“The office software we use usually falls into three categories: documents, communications, and video conferencing. Let’s talk about the first category first, documents. We use Google Docs. In the past year, our company created a total of 450,000 documents, all of which are

Stored in Google's servers. This is a huge uncontrollable business hazard."

For this report, Xu Liangjie compiled a nearly 20-page document and sat across from Zhou Buqi, cautiously and sincerely.

For Ziweixing employees, monthly reports, weekly reports, and daily reports are indispensable. Daily work arrangements also need to be reported, summarized, and backed up in the form of documents.

Writing work documents is an essential part of work.

These documents involve a large number of company secrets about Ziweixing's business, finance, personnel and many other aspects. Even directors are not qualified to know many things.

These documents have to be stored on Google's servers. Isn't this putting your life in the hands of others?

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but ask: "Google...has such a good reputation, isn't it?"

Xu Liangjie nodded, "It is never wrong to be independent and controllable. The uncertainty of Sino-US relations will increase us huge management risks."

This reminded Zhou Buqi.

In a few years, Google will no longer be able to survive in China, and Google Docs will have to withdraw from China. Even if Ziweixing can go through legal channels and continue to use Google services across the separation wall... But Google's servers have been withdrawn from China to the Hong Kong government.

If you go, there will be a serious delay in information transmission.

"Office document products, who else besides Google?"

"Google, Microsoft, and Oracle are also available in China, but their performance is very poor and the synergy is seriously insufficient. Just like Kingsoft's WPS, it is okay to do some document processing on a single machine, but if you want to collaborate, synchronize, and edit multiple machines, you can still do it.

Less than. This requires distributed technology.”

“Distributed again!”

Zhou Buqi’s head is so big.

During this period, he received hundreds of materials about distributed technology, many of which asked for money to do some research on distributed technology.

Xu Liangjie said solemnly: "We must do this! Due to the lack of distributed related technologies in China, this field is still blank. Domestic colleagues either do not use collaboration products and their office efficiency is very low. Or they can only use Google and Microsoft

This kind of foreign product. Enterprises are okay, but what about government agencies and public institutions? Aren't they going to coordinate? Online office work is a big trend."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "Don't slap me with such a big hat!"

Xu Liangjie smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, I mean that there will be huge market space for such products. Government and enterprise institutions will still tend to localize these products. Especially government agencies and public institutions, I think

I dare say that as long as we produce similar products, we can sweep this market. WPS is Jinshan’s money printing machine, why? Isn’t it just relying on procurement from national units?”

"Is it difficult?"

"It's not big. Once we understand the distributed logic, everything else is very simple. We have Weidian Notes, and we can upgrade certain functions based on this product. Or we can directly create a new product called

Microdot Document is not for ordinary users, it is just an enterprise-level office product."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Then let's create a new Weidian document. Weidian Notes is developing quite well, with more than 700,000 paying members, so don't touch it."

"Well, the second one is communication software. We also have shortcomings here, mainly in the use of MSN. I even see some people using QQ. This behavior must be resolutely stopped. I suggest that we strengthen control and prohibit any employees from using QQ in the office.

Use qq during this period."

"Can."

"We want to build our own enterprise-level communications product."

"No need."

Although Zhou Buqi is an outsider, he is not a complete novice under the influence of his ears and eyes. The communication software has no technical content and can be made by just a few college students.

Xu Liangjie misunderstood what he meant and said quickly: "I think our overall strategy in handling the open platform project is correct, but the details need to be optimized. We can try to make some excellent projects and incubate them internally. If they are used well internally

Once it is established, it can be opened to the market and form products and services for external sales.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said with a smile: "It must be done, but it is not necessary to have a separate enterprise-level communication software. There are many such products in China, but they have no real enterprise-level functions. They are different from the castrated version.

It’s similar to QQ. We can’t do this. If we want to do it, we must also make a super product.”

"Super product?"

"Building a bunch of office software for employees to use is too cumbersome. Why not make a super product and integrate all the functions? Google Docs also has a chat function, right?"

"Yes, but it is a comment function for documents. Employees use comments to discuss and assign work based on the content of a certain document."

"We might as well be simpler and add the instant messaging function. You can set up several chat groups at any time, so that the document collaboration and internal communication of a project can be put into one product. It is best to also integrate the email address."

Zhou Buqi once again used the advantage of foresight.

Otherwise, it would not be troublesome enough to check my email, use Google Docs, and use MSN at the same time, jumping back and forth.

Word is the originator of office software.

But Super Document is the next generation product of Word, which allows multiple people to communicate, edit, share links online at the same time, and send to groups with one click.

The team leader's arrangement of documents can be known to all team members in just one sentence.

If it is the traditional wordmsn method, it will be troublesome, with endless replies. Even different word versions may not be recognized.

Zhou Buqi said: "A voting function can be added. For some lightweight decisions, when the team leader is difficult to make a decision, he can initiate a vote and let the team members choose. In short, through this super document, we can greatly improve

Work efficiency.”

Xu Liangjie felt that this boss Zhou was really an excellent product manager and had a deep understanding of the product. Following this line of thought, the next thought became smoother, "So, the video conferencing function must also be added."

Zhou Buqi said: "More than that, let me give you an idea, you can... well, large-scale tool integration for chat groups, file integration, unified search. Bind our micro-search."

Xu Liangjie sincerely admired it, "If this is the case, it would be inappropriate to call it Microdot Document. This will be a super powerful office product, more powerful than Google Docs. The name 'Document' is a bit limiting."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "We'll talk about the name later! Make the product first and use it internally first. We'll tell you when we start serving it externally!"

He thought further.

After the cloud computing platform is built, this product can be put on it. This is software as a service, and it is building its own ecosystem.

Why did Microsoft Cloud catch up from behind and develop so fast?

Because Microsoft is the world's largest software company and has the most powerful software ecosystem. In the construction of a software-as-a-service ecosystem, it is much better than Amazon Cloud and Google Cloud.

The three levels of cloud computing are infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service.

Each level is very difficult, but the difficulty points are different.

The difficulty at the first level is money. It requires investing billions of dollars to build a data center with dozens or millions of servers. Amazon has been losing money in order to do this.

The second level of difficulty is technical constraints and big data processing.

The third level of difficulty is to build an ecosystem and provide customers with all the enterprise services they need through the cloud platform. This is what Microsoft is best at. Microsoft does all IT-related businesses, and its technical reserves are complex and powerful, covering almost everything.

All IT companies are far from being comparable to Amazon and Google.

Ziweixing still has a long way to go in cloud computing.

No matter what, standing still is not an option.

It is very meaningful to make this super document. It is useful now and will be more useful in the future.

The idea of ​​office autonomy was recognized by the big boss. Xu Liangjie was very happy. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm, he began to express his views again, "I think all Ziweixing's businesses should be autonomous!"

"oh?"

"For example, for anti-virus software, we have Weidian anti-virus. Why do we need to purchase foreign anti-virus software?"

"Um."

Xu Liangjie said: "Compared with the personal version of anti-virus software, the enterprise version of anti-virus software has increased in terms of functions, but not much in terms of technology."

Zhou Buqi was helpless, "We didn't do it before because we didn't have enough manpower and limited resources. To make an enterprise version of anti-virus software, we would have to form a team of twenty or thirty people at least."

A team of 20 to 30 people has annual expenses of 5 million.

But now MSI has about 1,500 people and only needs to purchase 150 sets of anti-virus software, which is US$100,000 a year, which will save a lot.

Xu Liangjie said: "In the past two years, the company faced many difficulties in its development. We could only focus on the big ones, let go of the small ones, and focus on the key points. But it is different now. We have just completed financing. When the news is released, the industry will definitely be shocked. We are completely

We can take advantage of this spring breeze to recruit more talents. For example, for some recent graduates who have rejected Ziweixing and signed tripartite agreements with other IT companies, we can give them another chance to choose."

Zhou Buqi refused, "I have other plans for this matter, and we will discuss it later. However, it is still necessary to expand recruitment. I will communicate with Wang Haiyang later. The more technical talents the better."

The expected target at the beginning of the year was 2,000 people.
Chapter completed!