Alibaba Cloud unveils pandemic-easing ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has launched a new digital ecosystem strategy in the Philippines during the Apsara Conference 2020.
The strategy is expected to help Filipino businesses adapt and assimilate into the post-COVID-19, cloud-native era.
It translates to what Alibaba described as a “hyper-localized grassroots approach” in supporting small and medium enterprises through partners like Kaisa, Crayon and Microgenesis.
By working with global partners such as Temenos and Vertica, Alibaba Cloud can better help Filipino businesses of all sizes — from blue-chip companies to SME — to go digital.
“Businesses now see digitalization as 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, Alibaba Cloud intelligence.
“A successful adoption of 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,” he added.
Temenos Transact, a next-generation core banking product, is now certified on Alibaba Cloud to run mission-critical applications for scalability, cost and operational efficiencies.
Vertica’s Analytics Platform, on the other hand, is a fast and massively scalable analytics and machine learning tapping the largest data volumes for insights.
“We’re experiencing increasing demand from customers around the globe to adopt Vertica for their most demanding analytical workloads, particularly in Asia,” said Colin Mahony, Vertica SVP and general manager.
For his part, Philip Barnett, director for strategic growth of Temenos, said: “We are delighted to extend our leadership in the cloud and be the first to certify with Alibaba Cloud, a tech giant and a source of innovation widely recognized for its leadership in e-commerce and mobile payments.”
“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,” said Allen Guo, General Manager for the Philippines, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. of