Alibaba Cloud launches new digital ecosystem strategy
THE digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud launches a new digital ecosystem strategy in the Philippines after its establishment of the Philippines Ecosystem Alliance two months ago. The strategy is aimed at empowering local partners with worldclass technology and innovation from Alibaba Cloud’s global partners. This is expected to help Filipino businesses adapt and assimilate into the post-covid-19, cloud-native era. The strategy was announced at the Apsara Conference 2020.
For the Philippines, this new strategy translates to a hyper-localized “grassroots” approach to better support small and medium enterprises (SMES) through working with partners such as Kaisa, Crayon and Microgenesis. By working with global partners, such as Temenos and Vertica to innovate best-in-class solutions, and pass on the learning experiences with local partners, Alibaba Cloud can better help Filipino businesses of all sizes from blue chip companies to SMES to go digital.
“Businesses now see digitalization an essential need rather than a plus point, and they want to transform as quickly as they can after the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Lancelot Guo, president of Ecosystem and Sales Operations for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
“A successful adoption of the cloud is only possible when the ecosystem is brought together to support customers’ needs. Therefore, we want to work with world-class partners such as Temenos and Vertica in the transformation process, leveraging their expertise to help our customers grow.”
Temenos, the banking software company, has announced that Temenos Transact, its next generation core banking product, is now certified on Alibaba Cloud. Meanwhile, Vertica also announced the Vertica Analytics Platform on the Alibaba Cloud Platform. Intelligence-driven organizations can now run Vertica’s fast and massively scalable analytics and machine learning against the largest data volumes for insights. Philippine enterprises can enjoy the offerings from both companies on Alibaba Cloud.
“Philippine customers will benefit more from small and medium partners who have a better affinity and intuition of what they need, especially post the pandemic where digitalization needs to take place rapidly. We are not only working with these partners but also empowering them with our know-how drawn from our global experience,” said Allen Guo, general manager for the Philippines, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud currently has local partners from various industries such as retail, fintech, media, information communications technology, business-process outsourcing, healthcare and education. It has announced support to 5,000 businesses in the Philippines on their digital migration by end-2023. Alibaba Cloud also hopes to train 50,000 and certify at least 10,000 IT professionals within the next three years.