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Hillstone Networks (山石网科)

Application Refactoring · IT Operations Automation

Hillstone Networks needed to accelerate software delivery for its security product portfolio while protecting source code and keeping AI assistance inside enterprise governance boundaries. Traditional development workflows consumed too much time in code writing, review, documentation, and test preparation, while locally deployed tooling could not deliver the same breadth of AI support at a manageable cost.

90%+ of developers use Qoder CN daily
AI-generated code share reached 35%
code-completion acceptance reached 26%
full-process R&D efficiency is expected to improve 30%

Reported impact

Business outcome

Hillstone Networks moved from isolated developer experiments to a governed, organization-wide AI engineering workflow. More than 90% of its developers now use Qoder CN in daily work, code-completion acceptance reached 26%, AI-generated code reached 35% of output in supported workflows, and the company expects roughly 30% end-to-end R&D efficiency improvement while keeping training data from flowing back into uncontrolled systems.

  • Productivity Improvement
  • Risk Reduction
  • Speed to Market

Solution

Hillstone Networks introduced Alibaba Cloud Qoder CN Dedicated Edition as an enterprise AI coding layer for its R&D organization. The dedicated deployment gives developers a single assistant for code completion, code review, code optimization, unit-test generation, and API or design-document drafting without sending code assets back into uncontrolled public services. Qoder CN runs on Alibaba Cloud's large-model stack and, inside Hillstone's plugin environment, calls Qwen-2.5 and DeepSeek-R1 to support day-to-day engineering work. The team also connected office workflows to Bailian so meeting summaries, test-case writing, and internal documents could use the same governed model layer. The result is a secure, cloud-hosted AI software-factory pattern: the model layer remains centrally managed, usage is aligned with enterprise security requirements, and developers get AI assistance across coding, documentation, and testing instead of point tools.

Data flow

Developers invoke Qoder CN from their daily plugin environment, where project context is sent to Qwen-2.5 and DeepSeek-R1 through the dedicated enterprise deployment. Generated code suggestions, reviews, test cases, and documentation flow back into the IDE, while Bailian supports adjacent office workflows such as documents and meeting notes under the same controlled model-governance framework.

Solution architecture

4 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Qwen-2.5 Provides large-model reasoning for code completion and generation tasks inside the development workflow.
    • DeepSeek-R1 Augments the coding workflow with additional reasoning capacity for development assistance tasks.
  2. Serving
    • Qoder CN Dedicated Edition Acts as the governed enterprise coding assistant for completion, review, optimization, and test generation.
  3. Orchestration
    • Bailian Extends the same governed AI layer into document writing, test-case preparation, and meeting-note generation.

Architecture clues

  • A no-training-data-return commitment is treated as a core security control for enterprise code assets.
  • Bailian is connected alongside the coding assistant so documentation and testing workflows use the same governed model layer.
  • Model calls inside the plugin layer are routed to Qwen-2.5 and DeepSeek-R1 for different code-generation tasks.
  • The deployment uses a cloud-based dedicated architecture instead of a public shared coding assistant.

Evidence from the source

By connecting its office environment with Bailian, Hillstone also improved document writing, test-case preparation, and meeting-note generation, with full-process efficiency expected to rise 30%. (original: 同时办公环境还与阿里云百炼平台对接,在文档撰写、测试用例编写、会议纪要生成等各方面日常工作全面提效,全流程的效率改进预计实现研发效率提升 30%。)
Hillstone now has more than 90% of R&D staff using Qoder CN daily, with code-completion acceptance at 26% and AI-generated code share at 35%. (original: 山石网科当前已有超九成研发人员在日常开发环境中使用 Qoder CN... 代码补全的采纳率为 26%, AI 代码生成占比已经达到 35%。)
Qoder CN Dedicated Edition is based on Alibaba Cloud's self-developed large-model technology and offers intelligent code completion, code review, code optimization, and unit-test generation. (original: 阿里云 Qoder CN 专属版基于阿里云自研的大模型技术,具备强大的代码理解和生成能力,能够为开发者提供智能代码补全、代码评审、代码优化、单元测试生成等多项功能。)
The cloud private deployment fit enterprise code-security requirements and promised zero training-data return, solving Hillstone's concern about code assets leaving the company. (original: 依托云端私有化部署架构,该方案不仅完美契合企业级代码安全管理规范,更以“训练数据零回流”承诺构建起立体化数据护城河。)
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 95% confidence · 1 source

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How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    4 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence95%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability25/25
    12 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency10/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

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  1. Alibaba Cloud

    山石网科携手阿里云通义灵码,开启研发“AI 智造”新时代

    First-party
    https://www.aliyun.com/customer-stories/internet-and-info-tech-2025-hillstonenet
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    Vendor-published customer story
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    • Company size
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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Apr 25, 2025 · Alibaba Cloud · First-party
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