After the original Dongfang Software Company was split into Dongfang System Software Company and Dongfang Application Software, the division of labor became clearer. The core of the development of Dongfang System Software is operating system software, including the East-DOS operating system in the field of personal computers and the East-Unix operating system in the field of enterprise servers.

In addition to the operating system, Orient System Software recently released an East-C software, which is a programming software based on the C language. The future development direction of Dongfang System Software Company is system software and software development tools.

The development direction of Dongfang Application Software Company is naturally application software, but the scope of application software is still too large, and a program running on a computer can be called application software.

Previously, the core product of Dongfang Application Software Company was the office business office software composed of the troika of text software East-Word, form software East-Table, and data library software East-dbase. In another time and space, in addition to Windows, Microsoft's most well-known products are the Office series, including the most commonly used word, excel, PPT, etc.

In fact, in addition to business office software, there is another type of software that has a very important status - enterprise management software. Half of the world's top 10 independent software vendors provide system software solutions for enterprises.

The software sold by Wang Jialian's CA company is also management software for large enterprise customers. In another time and space, Wang Jialian once brought the CA company to the throne of the world's second largest software company after Microsoft's big devil. His ability can be seen from this, and it is precisely because of this that Li Xuan has the heart to dig him into the Oriental Application Software Company.

The current CA company. and the famous Oracle Corporation (Oracle), which developed and sold software for the small and medium-sized computer market. and IBM eating leftover cold rice in the mainframe market.

For example, Oracle's Oracle software and Dongfang Application Software's East-dbase software, although they are both digital library software. But the target customers are very different. Oracle software is primarily based on DEC's PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers, while East-DBASE is primarily used for ABC series PCs.

As a result, Oriental AppSoftware's main customers are individual consumers, as well as small business customers who cannot afford a minicomputer. The main customer base of companies like CA and Oracle is large and medium-sized enterprises.

However, with the rapid improvement of microcomputer performance, the information processing capacity of servers has begun to approach or even surpass that of minicomputers, and more and more enterprises have begun to purchase servers and personal computers to replace expensive minicomputers and sky-high mainframe systems.

This is undoubtedly a great opportunity for Oriental application software companies based on the personal computer field. As a result, Oriental Application Software Company began to no longer be satisfied with the previous office series, and was ready to enter the enterprise management software market with the same broad market.

There is a wide range of business management software. Including ERP software (resource management), CRM software (customer relationship management), HR software (human resource management), OA software (office automation management), financial management software, contract management software and so on. In the future, large software companies will provide personalized overall solutions according to the actual situation of specific enterprises.

At the beginning of the eighties, it was just the initial embryonic state of enterprise management software, and all companies were still in the exploration stage. For example, the concept of ERP (Resource Management Plan) was not proposed by Gartner Group in the United States until 1990, and it is still in the more primitive MRP (Material Requirements Plan) concept stage.

The so-called MRP refers to the management of product composition through the enterprise information management system. With the computing power of the computer and the system's ability to manage customer orders, materials in stock, and product composition, inventory can be reduced as much as possible. Optimize inventory management goals.

In contrast, the meaning of customer relationship management software and human resource management software is much easier to understand. The two are specialized software to help enterprises manage external customer information and internal personnel information.

In the mainframe era, the mode of information processing was "host system + service terminal", and only in the host system built with a mainframe or minicomputer, the number of data could be processed. The rest of the service terminals only have simple functions such as browsing, input and output. This is in practical use. The number of jù is very inconvenient.

The Oriental Application Software Company is implementing a new information processing structure, that is, the network model of "server + client". Through the internal network, every computer can log in through the background. Visit the wèn server to process and update the data.

Back in 1980, when the ABC-1 computer was first introduced. The concept of campus networking has been used to seize the school computer teaching computer market. Since then, Aikang has been continuously researching network solutions. Under the guidance of Li Xuan's golden finger. The first commercial router in this era naturally has nothing to do with Cisco.

Aikang's main products are ABC series electric personal brains based on ERM architecture, followed by servers and workstation computers based on MIPS architecture, and network equipment such as network cards, switches, and routers.

Now that the Internet era has not really arrived, the sales of network equipment are very limited, but there will be a small number of applications in the internal networking solutions provided by Aikang for enterprises. With the improvement of enterprise electronic office procedures, the demand for networking is increasing, and the application of network equipment will become more and more extensive.

The Oriental Application Software Company is preparing to launch a series of enterprise management software, which will further enhance the advantages of electronic network office in management efficiency. Li Gang rushed back to Hong Kong from Silicon Valley this time, in addition to personally reporting to Li Xuan the results of his interview with Wang Jialian, another job was to lead a team to test the effect of the newly developed MRP software (material plan management), CRM software (customer relationship management) and HR software (human resource management) developed by the application software company in the actual application of the enterprise.

MRP software is used in a number of electronics factories responsible for OEM computers and game consoles, while HR software is directly used within Oriental Group.

The Oriental Group has now developed into an ultra-complex enterprise with a complex system of holding companies, subsidiaries, grandchildren, joint ventures, etc., with branches and offices in dozens of countries on five continents, and a total of tens of thousands of employees. If Oriental Applications' HR software can clarify such a complex internal personnel relationship, I believe it will be very easy to deal with the human resources problems of most companies in the world.

According to the original plan, these enterprise management software will also be put on the shelves as soon as ABC-5 is launched, which will become the soft power guarantee of Aikang to promote its own computers and servers to enterprise customers, especially medium-sized enterprises that are not short of money.

After all, a VAX minicomputer costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it takes at least a million dollars to build an enterprise's information management system. In contrast, if the minicomputer system is replaced by Aikang's personal computers and servers, it can save a lot of money in terms of hardware costs.

Of course, the premise is that Aikang's computer can play no less than the ability of the vax minicomputer system, and this qiē needs to rely on the software to speak! (To be continued......