Devott Perspective: The Observation from “Jinlin Fengyun List” - JF, a Platform Provides a Better Life for Practitioners in IT Service Industry
Source: Chnsourcing.com.cn View: 256 Date: 2015-07-27

As indicated by Kevin Kelly, the godfather of Silicon Valley spirit and the prophet in science & technology commerce, we are at a shared world in that to get and use something is more important than to own it. Uber shares a car, Ximalay shares a piece of audio, Alibaba shares a piece of goods, Airbnb shares a room…sharing has become an important source of innovation and entrepreneurship; therefore many people may consider what they can share? What is my price in the process of sharing? Sharing machine tool can bring crowd-sourcing manufacturing, sharing money can bring crowd-funding…everything can be shared. Sharing creates more prices. The first enterprises entered into “Jinlin Fengyun List” is a shared platform that is internet cloud crowd-sourcing platform - JointForce (simply referred to “JF”/releasing platform/”Jiefu” platform). Chinasoft International has used two years in researching and building it, and awarded the annual award of “Best Innovation Practices of Scientific and Technological Service Outsourcing Industry in China 2014”. 

Repeated use of software reduces cost

JF platform beginning from crowd-sourcing model gathers resources of micro & small enterprises and engineers, increases reuse rate of software and system, directly reduces project costs via the secondary development. In a word, each software development project can be divided into “N” sections; among them one section must be developed. The aim of JF platform is to lock these sections from huge amount of enterprises and engineers those shall be combined and reused or developed again, which greatly reduces development cost of total project and time.

Fragmental time & additional revenue

The other concept of JF platform is to let participators in IT service industry live better. The word of “Manong” makes difficult image of participators in IT service industry to deepen into people’s heart. When busy, they shall be always working overtime and modifying code for innumerable times…..innumerable participators in IT service industry everyday are overdrawing their bodies and families to earn slender income. Meanwhile, the common thing of resource misdistribution in industry also leads part of IT participators have nothing to do all the time. Mr.Yuhong Chen, CEO & president of the board of Chinasoft International indicates that “Although the use rate of employees in Chinasoft International is 90%, there are still more than 2500 people having nothing to do or resting.” Therefore, JF platform with increasing resources efficiency as aim, provides different undertaking ways for individual, team and company; also promotes client terminal of smart phone to improve immediate communication function; provides timely communication, interaction, trade process with mark and law-efficiency between outsourcers and undertakers. The platform also allows and encourages individual engineers and teams to undertake project in fragmental time to increase income and improve their lives.

Local IT service system for community

In development and operation processing, JF platform deepens the research of current situation and specialties of IT service industry in China based on widely absorbing and continuing resources integration models in similar platforms from domestic and aboard; accomplishes multi-innovation from many dimensions of service, resources sharing and etc and tries to construct an IT service community ecosystem rooted in China. For example, for crowd-sourcing current situation of IT projects in China, JF platform also allows pre-outsource under consensus from negotiation between bilateral sides then to solve a series of problems such as development time, project payment.

Concept outputting & professional management

Compared with Vikecn and other crowd-outsourcing platform in China, JF platform focuses on IT service area, emphasizes management concept & experiences & processing & security system & brand outputting in project process, and builds competitive advantages via professional services. As leading IT service enterprise in China, Chinasoft International has devoted itself to provide “end-to-end” software and information service since set up in 2000, including consultant, solution, outsourcing service and IT talent training from multi-industry of government, manufacturing flow, financial bank, insurance & security, mobile application, telecommunication, hi-tech, public affairs, and energy.

JF platform also shows its good faith in function design and operation management. For example, to strictly examine & verify and certificate entering enterprises and projects; to ensure project source, credit and realness of entering enterprises; to provide functions of project management, team management, social crowd-sourcing, mission management, shared communication, address list; to join with many human resources management application such as dynamic resume, talent command, social work.

JF platform gather innovations in many areas such as model innovation, technology innovation and product innovation; efficiently integrates many elements of ITS project management, human resources cost management, crowd-sourcing, social activity together via internet; and forms vertical internet service platform in IT service industry. Since inter measurement in May of 2014, Chinasoft International has put solution business departments, employees and projects on platform; gathered 7000 users currently via some functions of “Weirenwu”, “Jiejianli”, “Working relationship”, “crowd-sourcing and flexible organization” and “Jiexin”. The total number of projects is 880; use rate from part-time workers is 70 person-times.

Currently, Chinasoft International puts strong hope on JF platform and hopes it can lead business mode of Chinasoft International to totally transform in the 3.0 outsourcing era. However, how to reasonably divide platform businesses and traditional outsourcing businesses in Chinasoft Internation and to solve problem of profit splitting; how to set up and ensure credit and security system in operation process of platform; how to gather and organize resources in platform in scale; how to continually keep good project sources. All of them still are hidden risks for JF platform to continually develop. From current information disclosed, we don’t find any efficient solution or planning from Chinasoft International, which may become “inexorable doom” faced by JF platform in future.

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