How HaiTong Securities Earned Dual ITU DevOps Certification and Raised Operations Standards

On May 29, 2024, China’s Central Cyberspace Administration, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Information Standard Construction Action Plan (2024‑2027)" to promote the internationalization of information standards, encouraging deep participation in ISO, IEC, ITU and other bodies.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) launched a synchronized assessment based on ITU DevOps international standards and domestic DevOps standards, enabling mutual recognition of international and domestic standards. This assessment aligns with the Action Plan and meets current enterprise needs.

On October 18, 2024, at the 24th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai, CAICT announced the dual‑certificate results for ITU DevOps and domestic DevOps standards.

HaiTong Securities participated with its IT Operations Management Platform (eHaiZhiWei) and Software Continuous Delivery System, passing the ITU DevOps international assessment and achieving Level 2 in the domestic Technical Operations Standard, as well as an Excellent rating for the System and Tool Standard modules, demonstrating leading domestic capabilities.

Q: Please introduce your company and the project you evaluated.

A (Luo Qiucheng): HaiTong Securities is a leading integrated securities firm in China, offering a full‑range of financial services. The eHaiZhiWei project is an integrated IT operations platform that provides centralized monitoring, automated tasks, IT service workflows, and resource management to ensure stable, efficient system operation.

Q: How did you decide to undergo the Technical Operations assessment?

A: With strong support from CAICT, we adopted DevOps principles and pursued the assessment to standardize and streamline our operations, improving efficiency, quality, and business support.

Q: What improvements resulted from the assessment?

A: We enhanced capacity and cost management through process optimization and platform capabilities, and continuously refined the seven technical‑operation domains.

Q: What are the key features of the eHaiZhiWei system?

A: The system offers unified management, a micro‑service architecture for scalability and high availability, and automation with RPA and AIOps to reduce manual errors and boost efficiency.

Q: How does the Software Continuous Delivery System support your development lifecycle?

A (Zhang Jiong): It provides an end‑to‑end automated delivery platform covering pipeline, artifact management, deployment, branch strategy, and configuration changes, improving development and production efficiency.

Q: What benefits have you observed from adopting DevOps standards?

A: DevOps fosters close collaboration between development, testing, and operations, enhancing technical‑operation capability, market competitiveness, and delivering tangible business value.

Q: What are your future DevOps plans?

A: We will address identified gaps, strengthen weak domains, and expand the continuous delivery system across the enterprise to support diverse technology stacks.

DevOps construction benefits:

1. Economic benefits – automation and tool integration increase development and production change efficiency, reducing time and cost.

2. Management benefits – improved governance and visibility of processes.