Hisense accelerates system implementation by 3-5 times
Replacing legacy systems to reduce costs, deliver visibility and growth
Hisense is a fast-growing business that operates in multimedia, home appliances, and intelligent IT systems that is transitioning into a broader high-tech operator. Hisense’s traditional IT configuration was bulky and slowed them down. And, they were incurring high IT costs, made worse by numerous maintenance and licensing issues. This contributed to a slower output delivery, low resource utilization and inefficient development.
“We needed to improve our visibility into several business-critical processes and applications, with the primary aims of improving business delivery, resource utilization, reducing hardware procurement costs, and speeding up development of business apps,” said Qu Dong, Minister of Hisense Infrastructure and Cloud Service Management Department.
Meets multiple criteria with a Red Hat OpenShift-based system
By using products such as Red Hat OpenShift, the Red Hat Application Services portfolio and Red Hat Consulting, Hisense has built a containers and Kubernetes-powered cloud platform that runs software components such as data ingestion and analytics tools, databases, and DevOps tools to speed up new service launches, support innovation, and enhance customer experience. A key objective here was to meet the requirements of business consultants, development, testing, operation and maintenance personnel, and managers to facilitate system construction, operation, maintenance, and visibility into key processes.
The container application platform that Hisense implemented is built on Red Hat OpenShift, which is based on open source Kubernetes as its core. During implementation, the project team was particularly impressed by the rapid innovation and high levels of iteration capability from the open source community. “With Red Hat products and services, we were able to build a Kubernetes-powered cloud platform that scales when we need it to. We can now accelerate the secure deployment and management of our industrial workloads to enhance overall business agility,” said Qu Dong.
Red Hat Consulting ensured that the project implementation followed the correct plan in terms of system architecture design, project implementation and launch process. It also helped solve implementation problems quickly, ensuring that the project met critical quality and timeframe requirements and launched successfully.
