Bengaluru:
Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Chinese e-commerce giant
Alibaba Group, on Tuesday said it would invest $283 million during this fiscal
year to empower global partners and accelerate joint innovations in the post
pandemic era. The investment aims to bring its partners up to speed with
digitalisation capabilities and create joint products and solutions to benefit
even more customers across all sectors. "As Alibaba Cloud continues to expand
our product and services offerings, we want to bring even more opportunities to
our partners so that we can collaboratively innovate to bring the most
up-to-date services to our customers, and generate business success for them,"
Lancelot Guo, VP of Alibaba Group, and GM of Ecosystem and Sales Operations,
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said in a statement. "The investment shows our
commitment to help partners integrate their businesses with Alibaba Cloud, and
together we will create more value for the global cloud industry." Alibaba
Cloud is working with close to 10,000 global partners serving more than 350,000
business customers worldwide, the company said. In support of the
"to-be-integrated" initiative, to date, together with partners such as MongoDB,
Intel, VMware, Salesforce, SAP, Red Hat and Fortinet, Alibaba Cloud has created
more than 500 joint solutions catering to industries such as new retail,
fintech, manufacturing, media and entertainment. (IANS)
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