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Ma Jin, General Manager of Product
and Solution Management Department,
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said, “We
had officially announced it first for the
Chinese market. Now we are bringing it
for the first time outside China for our
international partners and application
developers. With our SaaS Accelerator,
it takes less than five days to develop
an app. We have also developed
mini-programs to connect with the
local partners.”
India - a key cloud market
Alibaba Cloud has been the most
active business in the India market,
with growth in terms of investments
and talent, and had aggressively
backed Indian startups including
Paytm, Zomato, BigBasket, DLF
Shopping Malls, Snapdeal, etc. In 2018,
Alibaba Cloud launched two
availability zones in India with product
offerings such as elastic computing,
storage, database, network, application
services, and big data analytics to cater
to the requirements of local
governments and enterprises.
Speaking about the Indian market
Yuan mentioned, “India is an important
market and we have a dedicated local
team and customers like Paytm and
other local customers are using Alibaba
Cloud. The company is looking to
work with startups and enhancing
products and services localisation
capabilities.”
Henry Zhang, Chief Product Officer,
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
International stated, “We have a
dedicated localisation team, which
delivers localised messaging and
enhances the end-user experience.
Localisation testing, language, and
communication interface have been the
core focus for the Indian market. Indian
customers are very much on the cutting
edge side. Some of the fastest growing
startups can be next-gen enterprises,
with Paytm and BigBasket leading the
charge. We have learned a lot by
working with these fast pace Indian
customers. We will continue to work
with some of these startups and on the
continuum, we will ensure that we
build products and features that will
benefit Indian customers.”
Alibaba - WeWork partnership
Under the China Gateway Program,
Alibaba Cloud made its strategic
partnership with workplace platform
major, WeWork. Christian Lee, Vice
Chairman, WeWork Asia said, “When
we began our journey here in China
back in 2016. We had to adopt a very
localised approach to navigate in this
very unique business environment, and
we are grateful that we have developed
a successful strategy and build the
largest workplace platform in China.WeWork plays a critical role in the
China Gateway Program as WeWork’s
workspace is standardised and
localised at the same time - there is no
learning curve nor preparation in using
the space, just the same as bringing
their laptops to WeWork spaces in other
parts of the world. This is especially
important for the program participants
because they can focus their attention
on growing their businesses rather
than worrying about real estate and the
upfront office setting costs.”Alibaba Group VP Lancelot Guo (left) with WeWork Asia Vice Chairman Christian LeeExecutives from Alibaba, Paytm, MNC Group and Tokopedia speaking at a session during
Alibaba’s summit held in Singapore