Alibaba Cloud establishes Philippines Ecosystem Alliance
ALIBABA Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced the formation of the Alibaba Cloud Philippines Ecosystem Alliance with the vision to speed up the digital transformation of businesses in the country.
Spearheaded by Alibaba Cloud, the alliance is a joint initiative with local ecosystem partners to promote cloud adoption and the use of analytics intelligence among businesses of all types and sizes. It aims to become the country’s leading cloud ecosystem bringing together thousands of Alibaba Cloud’s partners and customers who have benefited from the company’s digitalization expertise, including supporting digital transformation in the different industry verticals, wide range of academic research, technology innovation and marketplace enhancement solutions.
“Philippines is a booming market with a big group of young and digital savvy population. There is strong demand on digital transformation in accordance with local government’s ‘cloud-first’ initiative. We have established local team and business coverage in the Philippines and will continue to invest in the country,” said
Leo Liu, general manager of Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and Philippines, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud currently has over 20 local partners from various industries such as retail, fintech, media, information communications technology (ICT), business process outsourcing (BPO), healthcare and education. The global trusted cloud leader plans to help 5,000 businesses in the Philippines on their digital migration by end-2023.
In line with its efforts to actively prepare young, tech-savvy Filipinos for the impending shift to digital, Alibaba Cloud has also launched a series of training programs dedicated to providing the necessary training in IT. These include the Alibaba Academy Program, the Alibaba Cloud Partner Program and the Alibaba Certificate Program. Alibaba Cloud aims to train 50,000 and certify at least 10,000 IT professionals within the next three years.
“Digitalization will be the global economic bedrock in the post-COVID era. This is why we are determined to enhance our efforts in supporting businesses here in their digital transformation journeys. Through offering our technology know-how and experience in digitalization, Alibaba Cloud is ready to help local businesses accelerate their growth with the support of our partners,” said Allen Guo, Alibaba Cloud’s head for Philippines.
To assist enterprises and SMEs in the Philippines to grow and succeed in a digital society, Alibaba Cloud offers comprehensive localized cloud solutions and products in the Philippines, including leading products in computing, storage, data base, cloud network, cloud security, analytics and artificial intelligence fields, as well as solutions on New Retail, fintech and digital media.