Geely How To Swallow The Elephant – Enterprise Architecture Decisions For The Future
Geely how to swallow the elephant – enterprise architecture decisions for the future
March 28, 2010, China’s Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Ford Motor announced that it has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement, Volvo Cars received 100% of the Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery and related assets. Thus, the acquisition of Volvo has settled Geely, the Chinese enterprises once again staged She Tunxiang myth.
Many people are worried that earnings from automotive operations last year, only 200 million U.S. dollars of Geely how to revive pre-tax loss of 653 million U.S. dollars in the Volvo? She Tunxiang later, Geely will not suffer indigestion? While the international financial crisis, through a relatively low-cost overseas mergers and acquisitions, companies can more easily get to the dream of an international brand, the core technology and international marketing channels, such as Lenovo’s purchase of IBM, TCL acquired Alcatel. But the acquisition, Geely will be how to successfully build a new corporate structure, is a measure of the acquisition is an important criterion for success – Geely first established a governance structure, the governance structure does not only meet the temporary needs of business, but a cycle of normal business development.
Indeed, “enterprise architecture” is not a new vocabulary, “Fortune” 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies Duyikaishi Ying Yong enterprise architecture, in the United States, the European Union and other developed countries and regions, Zaoyi for enterprise architecture in place a number Fagui . If the U.S. bill would force the United States ClingerCohen federal agencies must use the formal enterprise architecture. Engaged in two of the domestic fusion research experts, State Informatization Advisory Committee, executive vice president of Internet Society of China, Gao Xinmin, said: “To build a successful business Jia Gou, O.K. methodology Zhi Chi, and Yi Tao scientific master Kuangjia yes very important. “said Gao Xinmin,” Enterprise architecture will help enterprises to centrally manage and reduce the internal loss, can greatly improve the consistency of the whole enterprise. “
At this level, the Geely brand culture and the Volvo brand culture is a far cry indeed, a long-term production of 100 thousand yuan the following models of domestic private enterprises, one with the Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi par of international high-end car brand, marriage, the two brands will face cultural ideas between the conflict and blend! In the face of these conflicts, and only build the right corporate structure to achieve a real blend of Dell Inspiron 8600 Battery.
In fact, the Geely for the acquisition of enterprise architecture, already have some ideas: Design Geely and Volvo brands operate independently; commitment to Volvo headquarters in Sweden and R & D remains unchanged, the factory is not redundancy; and to develop Volvo a new recovery plan, will have new products every year in Sweden factory assembly line and a large increase of Chinese elements, including a special design models for the Chinese market.
These enterprises have the primary level, a number of “enterprise architecture” flavor, but a deeper level, enterprise architecture in the enterprise’s core values embodied in: supporting business innovation; to enhance business efficiency; reduce costs and control risk. She Tunxiang auspicious not only for for the whole of China business, enterprise architecture building more universal. According to market consulting and advisory firm IDC, March 18, 2010 in Beijing issued a “framework for future business – 2010 Enterprise Architecture survey of Chinese managers” in the show, the Chinese large enterprises have started over Qicheng build enterprise architecture, while others 10% of companies are planning to build!
Survey results also show that, TOGAF is the highest recognition and acceptance of the Enterprise Architecture Framework, TOGAF architecture is the absolute recognition of domestic enterprises. More than half of the companies have about TOGAF framework approach, and 37.5% of the enterprises in the construction business framework, will select the TOGAF framework.
Enterprise architecture as the ultimate value of Chinese enterprises is extremely agree “to create Boundaryless Information Flow,” the future vision of a secure, reliable and timely to achieve global interoperability within and outside the enterprise information integration and effective access, and ultimately enterprise business process management integration. Enterprises that the value of information flow without boundaries mainly to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, prevent risks, to support business innovation. To this end, companies are gradually increasing in strategic decision support, risk management, collaborative manufacturing number of factories, industrial chain collaboration, benchmarking and other fields of information management construction efforts, and introduce Yun computing, 3G support, enterprise dynamic modeling Chuangxin technical means to gradually build Boundaryless Information Flow vision of corporate strategy.
Ever since the Internet, network security is a subject IBM ThinkPad R50 battery out of date, any business, any unit as long as the computer network has been on the must have network security problems. With the development of information technology, domestic private car companies to network security requirements will be more and more, how to prevent host invasion? How to prevent theft of trade secrets? How to prevent instability in the network run? Is in rapid development of Geely Holding Group also has this confusion and trouble.
Two solutions
Geely present information network technology is increasingly popular and widespread, application level is deepening gradually to large-scale applications, extend business-critical systems. Core products are CAD, CAPP, PDM, ERP, CRM and OA. Information technology as an integral part of Geely Holding Group, has been leading the company’s full attention and concern.
Research Institute of the network into currently Geely, Ningbo, Bridge, pride, sales company of five local area network. Relatively independent of each local area network, each local area network exports are deployed NetScreen-50 firewall, IPSec VPN for LAN interconnection via between. To protect its information systems against viruses and malicious threats to respond the first time, Geely Holding Group, involving almost all want a more reliable platform, more comprehensive enterprise security solutions. To address their network security problems, the center in late 2005 using the two Symantec solutions: Symantec SCS 3.0 and Symantec SNS 7160, Geely Holding Group to build a comprehensive, automatic active type safety protection system, all the servers and clients to achieve a comprehensive security management. Geely Holding Group makes a wide, complex network environment, integrating their security defense system.
Symantec Client Security for blended threats, spyware, unauthorized network access and other attacks to provide comprehensive, proactive protection to make sure the client system security.? Symantec Network Security 7160 provides multiple ways to achieve effective management of safety, the use of its Hungejiance architecture Chaming malicious activities, real-time identification of network intrusion, and quickly respond to common attacks and abnormal behavior, the system or before damages to information security warning. These two solutions are deployed in the network, different levels of Geely Automobile, Geely Automobile to protect the entire information network security.
Security management even more than technology
Both security solution than separate products, they are based on the actual needs of Geely Holding Group, a comprehensive security solution. Geely Holding Group has now successfully deployed these security systems, data and network no longer subject to the growing number of malicious threats. Superior performance of the software products need strong management, is the so-called “third technology, seven management.” Symantec products for the collection of all events, logs, according to the administrator to analyze the development of strategies to help users understand their overall security situation. This management products can help enterprises truly proactive security management. If you can it combines Symantec SCS and SNS products will greatly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of network security.
In addition, Symantec also raised the security management professional advice. The most important thing is to develop corporate computer users specification. In IBM ThinkPad T60 battery, administrators can also use a variety of security tools, the timely distribution of all kinds of security information to the user, so as to alert users to the various terminals to take timely protective measures. In the establishment of a more complete, integrated network security system since, face the future with the increasing data and complex network security threats, Geely Holding Group confident: “Our network has been Symantec Protection up, so we can be more focused way to deal with day to day core business. “
