企业背景

This large scale bus manufacturer is a giant modernized manufacturer which incorporates bus R&D, manufacturing and sales.  It has won the championship of sales of large and medium-sized bus in China for 14 consecutive years.  This company owns world's largest bus manufacturing base and among the 500 largest corporations in China.

With the fast development of business, the customer is exploring and cultivating the bus market.  Products and users are increasingly the focus of this company. So it requests IT to extend to product and user sides. Highly concurrent and highly available mass data and storage will bring huge challenge to this company, particularly its Internet of Vehicles products, which requires it to have a million level access capability.

面临的挑战和诉求

•        Internet of Vehicles product applications bringing big challenge to IT: Highly concurrent and highly available mass data and storage are needed, the Internet of Vehicles platform should provide access for hundreds of thousands of buses. Each day, over 10 thousands of vehicles are on line, and business requests are highly diversified.

•       Application architecture unable to cope with business changes:  Most of the IT applications are chimney-like single applications. Program packages are big and not flexible enough to meet the increasing demand of Internet based business. 

•        New functionalities going on line takes long time: The conventional resource-oriented delivery mode was used. At present, it usually takes 1 to 2 weeks to complete the processes from demand confirmation to code delivery, and the response is not timely. Besides, production and test environments have to be set up manually, which is very time consuming. 

•        Low resource usage: The structure of existing IT is rather complex. Using VMVare to perform virtual resources management results in low resources usage. The maintenance cost of the current technology stack is rather high.

解决方案

•        Using the container technology based on DevOps concept: It can build development delivery management (continuous integration and delivery), automated new O&M mode and service segmentation, product architecture optimization and microservice architecture implementation, and achieve unified and smooth transition from conventional architecture to microserviced architecture.

•       Establishing container cloud service platform: obtain container based flexible computation capability and implement business monitoring and automatic scale-up/down.

•       Setting up self-service cross-cloud IT platform: Helping businesses to implement cross-cloud, cross-environment infrastructure resources management. At the same time, it can interconnect with the account system of the company and facilitate resources application and cost management for IT section and implement self-service IT service.

客户收益

•        Easily coping with the flexibility of Internet of Vehicles business and the pressure for processing mass data: After the platform goes online, the data processing capability of Internet of Vehicles increased to 100,000 vehicle devices; it also can cope with changing business demand with ease. At the same time, the business application scalability was significantly increased, and the technical team can fast start and expand applications and effectively deploy, upgrade, and monitor the best practice of applications and establish systematic approach to ensure it will be well executed.

•        Improving vehicle business controllability and creating business value: By relying on effective big data analytics approach, accelerate new technology development. It can implement predicable vehicle maintenance, fleet management and demand forecast, traffic optimization, and the ability to create more business values.

•      Quickly launching new service and improving customer satisfaction: The business section is capable of creating high quality application for end users and offer more attractive expansion service in the ever growing Internet world.  Design, deploy and regularly iterate highly attractive and personalized experience for Web end and mobile end to improve the application market acceptance.