As the saying goes, "It takes a strong blacksmith to forge good iron"!
If we liken an enterprise's response to digital transformation to "forging iron", then its "IT system" is the very backbone of the enterprise. Only by building a robust system can it better meet the transformation challenges. At China Mobile Tianjin, a substantive "digital transformation" initiative has been quietly underway...
Recently, the "Zhongqing Baseline" new-generation business support system, jointly built by China Mobile Tianjin and AsiaInfo Technologies, has been officially launched and is under steady running, providing stable and efficient communication services for over 10 million users. This signifies that China Mobile Tianjin has become the first provincial-level branch within the China Mobile Communications Corporation to successfully implement the "Zhongqing Baseline" new-generation business support system, which integrates the "Five Centers" (Charging and Billing Center, Product and Commodity Center, Customer Center, Order Center, and Account Management Center).
01 Replacing the engine on a moving race car! Business support system fully reconstructed via "five core initiatives"
This project represents a key step for China Mobile Tianjin in advancing hardware & software localization and achieving autonomous controllability. Facing issues such as an aging system architecture, poor cross-system collaboration, and difficulty in reusing high-quality capabilities, China Mobile Tianjin has partnered with AsiaInfo Technologies to leverage digital intelligent transformation as an opportunity and vigorously advance the reconstruction of its business support system.
This battle is truly challenging to the extreme — it is not an ordinary system update, but must be carried out under the premise of maintaining all business operations without interruption and ensuring no loss of massive data. It is equivalent to replacing the engine of a race car at full speed, which is undoubtedly immense pressure! Ultimately, both parties have adopted five core initiatives to ensure the successful implementation of the "Zhongqing Baseline" business support system at China Mobile Tianjin:
Unified Technical Foundation: Seamlessly integrate three major frameworks (SPRING, Wade and AppFrame) and fully connect them with China Mobile Communications Corporation's "Panzhou", "Panji" and "Panwei" technical foundations. Additionally, have decoupling and microservice transformation on 15 subsystems, establishing a stable and open digital intelligence groundwork for system upgrades.
Unified Data Model: Achieve deep integration of multiple heterogeneous business models, ensuring consistent business logic. Through the reset of hundreds of forms, assets replacement and service deployments, it has consolidated over 1,500 reusable baseline capabilities, enabling the implementation of baseline business models.
Unified Deployment and Migration: Successfully complete the production environment deployment of the Charging and Billing Center, and achieve the cross-province, dual-center deployment for the Product and Commodity Center, Customer Center, Order Center, and Account Management Center, ensuring intensive management and high availability of the resources.
In-Depth System Governance: Through massive dirty data cleansing, menu offline governance and service standardization, the business support system has achieved "streamlining and optimization," significantly enhancing operational efficiency and maintainability.
Agile Project Management: Utilizing the agile development model, efficiently complete 5 rounds of performance tests, 2 rounds of joint debugging tests, 7 rounds of regression tests, 5 rounds of simulated cutovers, and 50 thematic training sessions in a short term. Additionally, conduct 100 rounds of user reviews and resolve over 1,000 historical issues... Ensuring the project's high-quality delivery through exceptionally high collaborative efficiency.
02 "Standardized architecture + intelligent tools + cloud deployment": Set an example in enterprise IT system upgrade and iteration
During the implementation of the "Zhongqing Baseline" new-generation business support system, AsiaInfo Technologies has summarized and solidified an IT system upgrade and iteration characterized by "standardized architecture + intelligent tools + cloud deployment." This not only breaks through the efficiency bottlenecks of traditional system iteration operations but also establishes a standard, clear and replicable transformational paradigm.
Under the national strategy of vigorously promoting hardware & software localization, and under China Mobile Communications Corporation's firm commitment to intensive and intelligent transformation, the IT system upgrade and reconstruction practices carried out by China Mobile Tianjin and AsiaInfo Technologies have set an example for the communication industry and various other sectors in advancing digital intelligence transformation!
