How China Life (Overseas) Reached Advanced DevOps Maturity and Boosted Digital Transformation
China Life (Overseas) passed the CAICT DevOps continuous delivery Level 2 assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices and a one‑stop insurance marketing platform dramatically improved development efficiency, quality, and market competitiveness while highlighting challenges, outcomes, and future plans.
DevOps Assessment Overview
Large enterprises worldwide have proven that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The CAICT DevOps standards and a standards‑based continuous delivery pipeline can significantly improve quality, efficiency, safety, and agility, enhancing market competitiveness.
On June 29, 2023, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest batch of DevOps standard assessment results. China Life Insurance (Overseas) Co., Ltd. participated with its OnePartner project and successfully passed the CAICT "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" Continuous Delivery Level 2 assessment, indicating that its DevOps capabilities are at an advanced domestic level.
OnePartner Project Background
OnePartner is a self‑developed, multi‑channel insurance marketing service platform that integrates open‑source technologies. Launched in 2019, it has evolved through multiple iterations to provide end‑to‑end channel management, automated commission assessment, electronic underwriting, and online marketing, greatly improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
Benefits of Passing the DevOps Assessment
At the company level, the assessment raised overall R&D capabilities, reduced redundant labor, and improved development efficiency and quality. Specific gains include:
Standardized processes and more efficient collaboration.
Unified code and artifact management with automated security scanning.
Unified value‑stream visualization of project progress.
End‑to‑end platform integration driving digital R&D.
At the team level, DevOps capabilities across all domains advanced, fostering strong teamwork and cross‑functional cooperation.
Key Improvement Metrics
Implementation of the DevOps platform and related organizational improvements significantly boosted development efficiency. Detailed results are illustrated in the following images:
Implementation Challenges and Solutions
The assessment process was challenging but ultimately successful. The team identified maturity gaps across 49 capability items and improved them within a few months. Major challenges included:
Understanding the purpose of improvements beyond passing the rating.
Coordinating across development, testing, tooling, and operations.
Revamping the R&D efficiency platform.
Establishing a comprehensive measurement system with strong leadership support.
Future Plans
China Life (Overseas) plans to codify DevOps engineering requirements into organizational rules, refine the R&D management system, and leverage the CAICT DevOps standards to extend OnePartner’s best practices to other projects, further elevating the company’s overall engineering capability.
Outlook for DevOps
The company believes that standardized DevOps implementation will become a necessary trend for future IT practice, helping enterprises improve efficiency, quality, and innovation speed to adapt to market changes.
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