近日，全球最具影响力的研究和咨询公司之一——Forrester 发布《Case Studies: Manufacturers In China Accelerate Value Delivery With Low Code》报告，即中国制造业厂商使用低代码加快价值传递的案例研究。Forrester选择并重点研究了四个案例来显示中国制造业厂商如何利用低代码平台开拓新的业务以及探索新的商业模式，并对低代码平台的使用价值逐步上涨的趋势做出了分析。
得帆标杆客户「江淮汽车」的低代码故事被收录在此报告中。制造业一直以来都是得帆的战略行业，目前得帆服务超过500+大型客户，其中80%聚焦于制造业，在中国制造业500强中更是合作了141家，稳居行业领军地位。
得帆各行各业部分典型客户
中国的制造业面临着严峻的挑战
在本次报告中，Forrester认为中国制造业厂商正面临以下严峻挑战：
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因COVID-19引起的对人员自由活动的限制和物流的中断，加剧了劳动力的短缺； -
原材料价格的波动和严重的芯片短缺使供应链管理更加复杂。
在这种情况下，制造业厂商必须更具灵活应变能力和弹性，以便在这种高度不确定的商业环境中生存，而数字技术在这里发挥了关键作用，换句话说，低代码平台的价值正在逐步扩大。
根据Forrester公司2022年的调查数据显示，在中国拥有2500名或以上员工的制造业企业中，38%的业务和技术专家表示他们将在未来12个月内实施或扩大采用低代码和无代码平台的范围。而最近的发展趋势表明，制造业厂商的需求并不仅仅是用低代码和无代码平台来提高开发效率。
制造业厂商采用低代码技术满足更多需求
通过对低代码厂商所提供的案例进行分析与研究，Forrester认为中国的制造业厂商正在采用低代码开发平台以满足以下需求：
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提高工作流程的效率和效益，满足降本增效的数字需求。
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让IT运营更加灵活，IT技术团队可以使用低代码平台来支持企业的数字化转型计划。
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加强业务人员和IT技术人员之间的合作。
用典型案例来说明以上内容，即江淮汽车使用得帆的低代码技术+数据中台产品，消除了数据孤岛、改善了数据管理方式、提升了交付效率、用低代码搭建的应用程序加速故障排除并预防了潜在的数据风险。
“得帆与江淮汽车的低代码故事”报告原文
JAC Motors Enhanced Its Data Middle Office Strategy
Over the past 20 years, JAC Motors has built more than 100 systems to support its operations. But theresulting data silos now prevent it from delivering applications quickly, hindering the company’s growth. JAC Motors planned a “data middle office” strategy to improve data management and make application delivery more efficient and effective. The company adopted a low-code development platform together with integration and data management platforms from Definesys to design a unified data system and tech architecture. With these platforms, JAC Motors:
•Accelerated delivery by breaking down silos. The firm broke down data silos by connecting heterogeneous systems like ERP, product lifecycle management, and dealer management systems. It built more than 100 APIs on the Definesys DeFusion integration platform, making data more accessible to both citizen and professional developers. Combined with the Definesys DeCod low-code development platform, the new solution accelerates application delivery and reduces development costs. JAC Motors delivered a project previously expected to require 1,000 person-days within 200 person-days.
•Accelerated troubleshooting with insights. As part of the data middle office strategy, JAC Motors needed to build an enterprise data foundation that keeps data in sync with analytics and enable insights. The firm built low-code applications to capture and ingest data from experts. Feeding this data to its business intelligence platform gave JAC Motors a 360-degree view of order-to-delivery processes in its global business.The firm also built a web app to display the collected raw data;this enabled traceability, which improved troubleshooting efficiency.
•Enabled citizen developers and improved collaboration. More than 20 business users at JAC Motors can now deliver custom software for simple, routine workflow processes or formbased apps. For more complex projects, the low-code platform facilitates collaboration between business experts and developers, who can use a WYSIWYG development environment to discuss and confirm requirements based on visual prototypes. The low-code development platform gave JAC Motors’ business users a modern, effective way to collaborate.
