My journey to Yonyou

As a release coach I get the question often how I ended up as the official business partner of Yonyou, a Chinese enterprise software company? I know Chinese enterprise software sounds strange for IT decision makers outside of Asia, but are Chinese software applications really that rare?

If you look at your phone from China with TikTok on it in your Volvo (Geely) with its state of the art infotainment system, or your solar panel inverter, and AC and smart TV connected to your router then it is easy to see that after many Chinese software applications Chinese enterprise software is the obvious next wave of our new reality in corporate IT. But for a release coach there is one more reason for focusing on Chinese enterprise applications.
That reason hides in the answer to a simple question:

What is release management?

Release management is risk management. Managing the risk of IT changes and Business Continuity. The biggest enemy of release managment is a high risk release, a release with weak resiliency.

What is a Chinese enterprise software program?

For me, as a release coach, a Chinese enterprise application, like Yonyou, is a strong mitigation of certain risks of IT changes. An obvious response to certain IT resiliency challenges of corporations.

Having to read many BCP documents I can confirm that the best companies in the world manage IT resiliency strategies that include software vendor resiliency. But that vendor resiliency is often biassed. Diversified between software vendors from the same region of the world. (like a multi-cloud strategy using computing services from more than one provider—such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—to achieve high flexibility and avoid vendor lock-in). Nice. But is it real diversification in unexpected disruptive (BCP) situations?

Isn't it similar to an equity portfolio that believes to be diversified when holding Amazon, Microsoft and Google shares...?

Can you really regard an IT resiliency high when its software vendor resiliency relies on software vendors from the same power centers of the world?

Can you afford owning a company with less resiliency (in IT) than diversification in your private equity portfolio?

If you are the board member of an international company then you easily understand that in certain parts of the world software vendor resiliency is part of everyday life, it is part of being a prudent company.

Does your company operate in one of those parts of the world where software vendor resiliency could become crucial in an unexpected, disruptive (BCP) situation?

According to the best BCP protocols to keep your IT resiliency high your board needs to demand diversification between software vendors. For me, as a release coach, Yonyou, from China, is an opportunity for proper software vendor resiliency.

If you are willing to learn more about your software vendor resiliency options with a Chinese enterprise software find your Yonyou project here!

…YonAI with millenia of intelligence…