On December 3, 2024, the 2024 Global Digital Economy Conference Cloud·AI·Computing International Cooperation Forum, hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and the China Communications Standards Association, was successfully held in Beijing.The conference brought together numerous industry experts under the theme of "Intelligent Cloud, Computing the Blueprint," and deeply explored the process of intelligent transformation in software engineering amidst the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence.
The conference announced the winners of the 3rd 2024 "Software Intelligence and Efficiency Leader" Excellent Case Awards, where the Yuexiu Group Agile DevOps Service Project stood out among many excellent entries. Yuexiu Group, in collaboration with Canway BlueWhale jointly built an Agile DevOps system serving the entire group and received authoritative industry recognition for its innovation and excellent implementation.Previously, the project also won the 3rd "Dingxin Cup" Digital Transformation Application Case Award.
To date, the "Software Intelligence and Efficiency Leader" Excellent Case Selection event organized by CAICT has been successfully held for three sessions. This selection gathers excellent industry practices, significantly promoting the exchange of advanced internal experience, driving the promotion of excellent software intelligence and efficiency practices, and playing an important role in the healthy development of the industry ecosystem.
With the deep integration of cloud computing and AI technology, especially the rapid development of large language models, the software R&D domain is undergoing unprecedented change, and enterprise digital transformation has entered the "fast-track acceleration phase".
Strengthening R&D management capabilities, enhancing software R&D efficiency, continuously empowering the business, and building a robust architecture for future AI applications to lay the foundation for intelligent development are key focus areas for many enterprises.
Yuexiu Group:
Yuexiu Group was established in Hong Kong in 1985 and is one of the largest state-owned enterprises in Guangzhou by asset size. The group focuses on four major sectors—Finance, Real Estate, Transportation Infrastructure, and Food—creating a "4+X" modern industrial system spanning primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. It is a "Double-Hundred Enterprise" under the State Council's state-owned enterprise reform plan. It owns 6 listed platforms, including Yuexiu Capital, Yuexiu Property, Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure, Yuexiu REIT, Yuexiu Services, and Huaxia Yuexiu Highway REIT. In 2024, it ranked 208th in the "China Top 500 Enterprises" and 11th in the "China Top 100 Multinational Companies". In 2023, the group's total assets exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching RMB 1,068.1 billion, with operating revenue of RMB 131.4 billion and total profit of RMB 14.7 billion.
01. Steady Progress in Transformation and Upgrade: Building Momentum for High-Quality Development
In 2023, facing a complex and severe external environment, Yuexiu Group adhered to managing operations, stabilizing performance, adjusting structure, enhancing capabilities, promoting reform, and controlling risks. It achieved operating revenue of RMB 131.4 billion, a 17% year-on-year increase, and total assets exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching RMB 1,068.1 billion, an 11% year-on-year increase, solidifying the momentum for sustainable development.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," Yuexiu Group's operating performance has maintained a momentum of steady progress and quality improvement. Currently, its businesses, including finance, real estate, and food, face significant changes in market conditions. The group is committed to discovering new advantages and drivers by integrating new industry development directions and trends, stimulating the three main drivers of reform, openness, and innovation. It is walking the path of transformation with the resolve and resilience of a long-term player, adhering to the strategy of "Leading the Way and Setting an Example," persisting in digital transformation, and promoting comprehensive high-quality development across its businesses.
02. Building the Group's Digital Foundation: Full-Domain Linkage Across Diverse Businesses
The Yuexiu Group Agile DevOps Platform is a critical component of the Group's digital foundation. This one-stop development management platform has been successfully rolled out on a large scale across the Group's core business sectors. It has also been piloted in diverse business segments, including real estate, finance, transportation, and food, providing strong support for the Group's digital empowerment. This platform effectively improves operational efficiency and product quality, enables intelligent system access, enhances operational effectiveness through data governance and process refinement, drives production innovation through technological innovation, and provides ample momentum for the Group's organizational digital transformation and its businesses' entry into the intelligent track.
1) The "Four Vertical and Four Horizontal" System: Holistic Planning and Phased Implementation
Steady progress is a core philosophy for Yuexiu Group. The agile project was forward-looking from the start, taking a holistic view and adopting a top-down approach.By introducing the industry-leading BlueKing PaaS Platform Architecture and partnering with Canway BlueKing, a strong vendor with years of experience in R&D and operations integration, the Group jointly built the Yuexiu Group DevOps Development Management Platform.This platform serves as the core, enabling system interconnection, building an agile system covering the entire R&D process, and supporting the dual agile transformation of the Group's business and organization.
The DevOps Development Management Platform centers on the "Four Vertical and Four Horizontal" concepts. Horizontally, it achieves end-to-end tool integration, information asset flow and sharing, process integration into the engineering platform, efficiency display, and lean improvement.Vertically, it provides platform support and rule setting for the practices across Requirements, Development, Testing, and Operations, as well as the construction of complex topology relationships between resources.
2) BlueKing Empowerment: Creating a One-Stop R&D Management Platform
Based on the support and self-growth capabilities of the BlueKing PaaS Platform, the team built core functions for R&D organizations, including Demand Management, Deployment Management, Artifact Management, and Test Management, and established an R&D process value measurement system.R&D personnel can also independently build customized processes based on the BlueKing platform's atomic capabilities, completing the closed-loop management from requirements, development, testing, and deployment to the management cockpit. By integrating with third-party management systems, the platform achieved "de-siloing" and created a unified one-stop R&D management platform.
3) Sustainable Development: Achieving a Triune R&D Vision
Yuexiu Group fully considered sustainability during construction, closely aligning with the Group's current status and accounting for various situations during the transformation process. The team integrated multiple existing systems, established the "Development Management Standard Implementation Guide," and standardized processes and specifications. This achieved the integrated linkage of data, tools, and processes, maximizing the utilization of existing assets, avoiding redundant construction, and saving significant costs.
The system covers all phases of the R&D lifecycle: Project Initiation, Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Production, and Operations. Asset data across all stages is bound and standardized, and the full toolchain is connected to fully integrate productivity, achieving "Engineering-Process Integration". This builds the Business Flow, Data Flow, and Value Flow, laying a solid foundation for the future Triune vision.
03. Six-Dimensional Value with Significant Results: Empowering Group Digital Transformation
The first phase of the Yuexiu Group Agile DevOps project achieved the goals of "Platform Setup, Process Establishment, and Standardization". The platform integrated with over 80 systems, hosted approximately 200 million lines of source code, and executed nearly 36,000 automated deployments. Each deployment saved an average of 12 minutes, resulting in an efficiency increase of 10 times compared to manual processes, effectively saving labor costs.
The project delivered value across six major dimensions: Financial Return, User Experience, Technology Support, Organizational Talent, Innovative Application, and Sustainability. It helped Yuexiu Group achieve one-stop development management, empowered business by enhancing development efficiency, and accelerated the Group's digital transformation.
① Building a Unified Development Platform for Yuexiu Group: By establishing one set of development system, the platform manages the entire development process from requirements, development, and testing to deployment, serving multiple systems and assisting the Group's digital transformation.
② Establishing the Yuexiu Group Development Process and Standard System: Building Yuexiu-specific development standards, establishing comprehensive development processes and standardized operating procedures, and achieving closed-loop management for business requirement submission, user acceptance testing (UAT), and release.
③ Cultivating a Development Management Team: During project implementation, the team established separate groups, provided individual and centralized training for each system, and cultivated a talent pool capable of development management.
④ Enhancing Development Efficiency: Empowering business systems by following the overall plan and implementing in batches and phases to improve development efficiency.
04. Innovation Continues: Technology Empowerment for a Shared Intelligent Future
In the future, Yuexiu Group will gradually promote Agile concepts across the entire Group, achieving simultaneous upgrade of the Agile system and organizational transformation. At the same time, it will actively embrace emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence to significantly boost productivity, establish a solid foundation for the Group's business diversification, and move toward an intelligent future.
As a leading vendor in the R&D and Operations domain, Canway BlueWhaleconsistently pioneers innovation, continuously launching smarter and more efficient products and providing high-quality services. In Yuexiu Group's digital transformation journey, Canway BlueWhalefully leveraged its strengths to provide strong technical support and professional services, jointly driving the enterprise toward high-quality development and an intelligent future in the digital era.
