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

For various reasons, it was shelved.

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

I don't know if he heard the wind, or felt that the time was ripe for him to roll up his sleeves and do a big job. During this time, he was particularly high-profile.

First, a new organizational structure of "small skin, big research and development" was proposed, which aroused extensive discussions.

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

This is another big concept.

Because the strategy of "small skin, big research and development" was proposed last time, it caused a lot of controversy, and even made many departments panic, thinking that their own interests would be violated.

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

"The office software we use usually falls into three categories. Documents, communications, and video conferencing. Let me talk about the first category, documents. We use Google Docs. In the past year, our company created a total of 450,000 documents, all of which Stored in Google's servers. This is a huge uncontrollable commercial hidden danger."

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

For Ziweixing employees, monthly reports, weekly reports, and daily reports are indispensable. The usual 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.

And these documents involve a lot of company secrets about Ziweixing's business, finance, personnel and many other aspects. There are many things that even the directors are not qualified to know.

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

Zhou Buqi couldn't help asking: "Google... has such a good reputation, can't it?"

Xu Liangjie nodded, "It's never wrong to be independent and controllable. The uncertainty of Sino-US relations will add huge hidden dangers to our management."

This reminded Zhou Buqi.

In a few years, Google will not 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's services across the wall... But Google's servers have been withdrawn from the mainland to the Hong Kong government, and there will be serious delays in information transmission.

"Office document products, who else but Google?"

"Google, Microsoft, Oracle. There are also domestic ones, but they are poorly done and the synergy is seriously insufficient. Just like Kingsoft's WPS, it's okay to do some document processing on a single machine, but if you want to collaborate, synchronize, and edit multiple machines, you can also do it. No. This requires distributed technology.”

"It's distributed again!"

Zhou Buqi's head is getting bigger.

During this period of time, he has received hundreds of distributed materials, many of which are applications for money to do some research on distributed technology.

Xu Liangjie said in a deep voice: "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 collaborative products, and their office efficiency is very low. Or they can only use Google, Microsoft This kind of foreign product. Enterprises are fine, what about government agencies and public institutions? Are they not coordinated? Online office is a big trend.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Don't put a big hat on me!"

Xu Liangjie said with a smile: "It's not a big hat, I mean that such a product will have a huge market space. Government and enterprise organizations will still tend to localize such products. Especially government agencies and public institutions, I Dare to say that as long as we make similar products, we can sweep this market. WPS is Jinshan’s money printing machine, why? Isn’t it just relying on the procurement of state units?”

"Is it difficult?"

"It's not that big. After figuring out the logic of distribution, everything else is very simple. We have micro-notes, and we can upgrade certain functions on the basis of this product. Or directly create a new product called Microdocument is not for ordinary users, but an enterprise-level office product."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Then create a new Weidian document. The development of Weidian Note is quite good, and there are more than 700,000 paid members, so don't move it easily."

"Well, the second one is communication software. In one piece, we also have shortcomings, mainly using MSN. I even see that some people are using QQ, and we must resolutely stop this behavior. I suggest strengthening control and prohibiting any employees from working in the office. Use QQ during the period."

"Can."

"We want to make our own enterprise-level communication product."

"It's not necessary."

Although Zhou Buqi is a layman, he is not a pure novice under the influence of his ears and eyes. Communication software has no technical content, and any few college students can make it.

Xu Liangjie misunderstood what he meant, and quickly said: "I think our big strategy in dealing with the open platform project is correct, but the details need to be optimized. We can try to create some excellent projects and incubate them internally. If the internal use is good 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 is definitely necessary to do it, but there is no need for a separate enterprise-level communication software. There are many such products in China, but they don't have the actual functions of the enterprise level. QQ is almost the same. We can’t do it like this, if we want to do it, it’s also a super product.”

"Super product?"

"It's too cumbersome to create a bunch of office software for employees to use. Why not make a super product and integrate all the functions. Google Docs also has a chat function?"

"Yes, it's just a comment function for documents. Employees discuss and assign work through comments on a certain document content."

"It's better to be pure and add the instant messaging function. You can pull several chat groups at any time, so that the document collaboration and internal communication of a project are all put in one product. It is best to even inherit the mailbox."

Zhou Buqi once again used the advantage of foresight.

Otherwise, you have to check your mailbox, use Google Docs, and use MSN at the same time, jumping back and forth, which is not troublesome enough.

Word is the originator of office software.

But super document is the next generation product of word, it can communicate online, edit, share links, and send in groups with one click.

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

If it is the traditional word+MSN method, then it will be troublesome, and there will be endless replies. Even different word versions may not be able to recognize it.

Zhou Buqi said: "A voting function can be added. For some light-weight decisions, when the team leader is not able to make a decision, he can initiate a vote and let the team members choose. In short, through this super document, it will be greatly improved. work efficiency."

Xu Liangjie felt that Boss Zhou was really an excellent product manager with a deep understanding of products. Following this line of thought, the next thinking will be smooth, "So, the function of video conferencing should also be added."

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

Xu Liangjie admired it from the bottom of his heart, "If this is the case, it would not be appropriate to call it Weidian Docs. This will be a super powerful office product, even more powerful than Google Docs. The name 'Document' is a bit limited."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I'll talk about the name later! Make the product first, and use it internally first. Let's talk about when it will serve the outside world!"

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 to build its own ecology.

Why did Microsoft Cloud come from behind and develop so fast?

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

There are three levels of cloud computing, 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 of the first step is money. It needs to invest billions of dollars to build a data center with tens of millions of servers. Amazon has been losing money in order to engage in 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 required enterprise services through the cloud platform. This is what Microsoft does best. Microsoft has done all businesses related to IT, and its technical reserves are huge and powerful, covering almost all IT companies, which is far beyond the comparison of Amazon and Google.

There is still a long way to go for Ziweixing to do cloud computing.

Either way, standing still is not an option.

It is very meaningful to make this super document. Useful now, more useful in the future.

The idea of ​​office autonomy has been approved by the big boss. Xu Liangjie is very happy. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm, he began to express his opinion again, "I think all the business of Ziweixing should be autonomous!"

"oh?"

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

"Um."

Xu Liangjie said: "Compared to the personal antivirus version, the enterprise version has increased in terms of functions, but not much in terms of technology."

Zhou Buqi was very helpless, "I didn't do it before because of insufficient manpower and limited resources. To do the enterprise version of antivirus, at least a team of 20 to 30 people must be formed."

A team of 20 or 30 people costs 5 million yuan a year.

But now Ziwei Star has about 1,500 employees, and only needs to purchase 150 sets of antivirus software, which is 100,000 US dollars 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 and let go of the small, and focus on the key points. But it is different now. We have just completed financing, and when the news is released, the industry will definitely be shaken. We are completely We can take advantage of this spring breeze to recruit more talents. For example, some recent graduates who have rejected Ziweixing and signed a tripartite agreement with other IT companies, we can give them another chance to choose."

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

The expected goal at the beginning of the year was 2,000 people.

Looking at it now, this goal must have been set small.