Speaking of the "human" factor in industrial development, Zhong Ershun believes that people who engage in technology should go deep into enterprises, grow with products and take risks together, instead of letting go of technology to an enterprise and then applying for new project funds. "The system of our country may be bound, but the most important thing is the human factor. Now the policy is still relatively open. The flexibility of the system is relatively large. People who do science and technology must go all the way to the end and really go to the enterprise. Zhou once said that the best mode is to go deep into the enterprise. The United States and Israel are all like this. The U.S. Defense Research Office has an image compression technology. When it arrived at 1998, this technology evolved into a product. After paying a certain copyright fee to the research room, the personnel came out to engage in enterprises. " It is said that many employees of SuperMap Company are graduate students who came out by Zhong Er. When an industry is just upgraded, there will be many new models. As the basis of many applications, GIS industry has also become a platform for industrial creativity. "This industry is still on the rise in China and the world. There are many things that geographic information technology can develop, such as mobile phones and networks. It can also be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or an industry, for example, some companies do water conservancy industry alone. Combining GIS with other technical management to create a model can be popularized throughout the country and solve employment and management problems. GIS is an integrated technology and can be creative. "
For example, a Japanese company has a national database of 1 20,000, and a database of land prices. Connecting these two databases, we can know the changes of land prices in the past two years, which is a kind of creativity.
SuperMap strongly assists industry developers and supports more than 400 partners to develop industry application systems, which not only develops technology but also expands the market. For example, Beijing Ka Pucci Company has developed a cable TV facility management system based on SuperMap, occupying half of the market share; Cooperate with Nanjing ztesoft to expand the telecom network resource management market; Help Guangzhou Blueprint to develop urban planning and tap water facilities management market and so on.
"Every endpoint in the industrial chain has its own characteristics, and every link has its own characteristics and development and innovation. For example, our platform software must conform to the current development trend of information technology, and the closer the connection, the better. At the same time, geographic information technology itself has a large amount of data, and any map is just a few G's, which also has the problem of scale. Need to integrate different data formats. If you want to process such data quickly, the technicians must have a very close relationship with the users. Examine the usability of the product, how to develop it quickly, how to conform to the user's process, and how to update the data. " Zhong ershun said.
If an industry is optimistic, there will be enterprises that want to do everything. At this time, a focused attitude and clear strategic positioning are very important for the development of enterprises.
The development of hypergraph software products began in 1996, which was 10 years later than the earliest domestic counterparts engaged in GIS software development. At that time, some domestic GIS software products were mature and formed certain brand advantages. International counterparts started earlier and monopolized the GIS software market in China at that time. Where to start is an important topic in front of hypergraph. If SuperMap develops GIS software according to this idea, there is almost no way out. Later, SuperMap found that both management-oriented government and enterprise application systems and products oriented to public information services need seamless integration of GIS software technology and other information technologies, so a development platform independent of desktop platform is needed. Only based on such an independent development platform can industry application developers develop systems and products that better meet the application requirements for the government, enterprises and individuals. Being positioned as a GIS platform software needs to be able to withstand loneliness. Platform software is still in the research and development stage at the beginning, so it is very difficult to maintain the continuous investment in core technology research and development. IT is said that in the winter of IT industry, Zhong Ershun once turned white overnight for the company's rapidly growing employees, and finally saved the team without losing anyone. SuperMap has a research and development team of 100 people, and 30% of its sales revenue is invested in research and development. The positioning of platform software not only avoids competing with excellent application software at the same time, but also establishes an irreplaceable position in the industrial chain. There are not many vendors of GIS platform software. The whole plate is only a few hundred million, but SuperMap products, as the flagship brand of GIS in the Asia-Pacific region, have a strong appeal in the industry and can drive more than 20 enterprises. "We hope to make the brand up in the future and say a few words in the industry." Zhong ershun said that the future development will still not change the caution of the academic school.
"If you follow someone else's path, you can't. No matter from the microscopic point of view of hypergraph or from the national point of view, it must have its own characteristics. For example, we have a network geographic information system for a long time, and we have long been targeting the network, so now all our products can be networked. " At present, domestic products are based on foreign operating systems, so they generally follow foreign countries. But the whole structure of an enterprise must be new in order to be more competitive.
"Because it is changing, everyone has a chance." Zhong Ershun often regrets this sentence.
Always keep up with the latest technology trends in the industry, SuperMap has formed its own system in technology, and its products are constantly introducing new versions. At the end of 2005, SuperMap was first released based on. NET technology and super-MapObjects Java, a large-scale all-component GIS platform based on Java technology, provide a component GIS development platform based on the latest technology for industry developers. The localization requirements of e-government system make Zhongke Hongqi, NPC Jincang and SuperMap cooperate together, and SuperMap will launch products based on Linux system. SuperMap first released its products in June 5438 +2000 10, but in July of that year, a joint venture company, Japan SuperMap Co., Ltd., was established in Tokyo. "The Japanese market is very good. The president of our Japanese company will receive a group of guests every 20 minutes. Going out of our products is not only a problem of GIS software, but also a problem of the entire software industry. " In the following years, SuperMap established a large number of successful application cases in Japan, which was widely recognized by users. In Japan, more than ten Fortune 500 companies use SuperMap to develop GIS application systems for enterprises and governments. In government departments, almost all ministries that need GIS, such as Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, are using SuperMap.
"Japanese customers' demanding and even rigid requirements for products have greatly improved our products. "Zhong Ershun said that Japanese users have always been known for their rigor, and their requirements for product functions and quality are very demanding. The application and promotion in Japan not only tests and improves the product quality of SuperMap, but also brings more confidence to the accelerated internationalization of SuperMap in other countries and regions.
In the international market, the market situation varies from country to country. For example, the United States and Canada are relatively open, while Britain is relatively conservative, which restricts the development of the market to some extent. However, this does not hinder the cooperation enthusiasm of some European and American customers. From time to time, foreign projects throw olive branches. "We can't be too hasty, otherwise the uncoordinated development will be broken. So we put two and a half people in Hong Kong first. " The so-called half-person, is to share the secretary with other companies. SuperMap established SuperMap International Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong, based in Hong Kong, to explore the international market in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Japan is only the first stop, and the internationalization of SuperMap still has a long way to go.
SuperMap set out to establish a nationwide sales channel and service network, hoping to make money from services in the future and enhance SuperMap's brand. Bentley has been trying to buy SuperMap, but it has failed. Some people say that it is good to get some money. In this regard, Zhong Ershun said: It is very important to keep this brand.