German software giant SAP teams up with AliCloud to drive enterprise cloud services in China
Companies betting big on increased adoption of technology by small and medium-sized enterprises
SAP, the world’s largest supplier of business management software, and Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), a subsidiary of e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group, plan to soon launch a new range of online solutions designed to ramp up cloud computing adoption by enterprises across mainland China.
“We see our key to success in China is increasing penetration of our cloud solutions into small and medium-sized enterprises,” Edward Chen, the chief business officer at SAP Greater China, said on Tuesday.
The launch this year follows SAP and AliCloud’s strategic partnership, which was announced at an event in Shenzhen in April.
Cloud computing enables companies to buy, sell, lease or distribute online a range of software and other digital resources as an on-demand service, just like electricity from a power grid. These resources are managed inside data centres. “Cloud” refers to the internet as depicted in computer network diagrams.
Simon Hu Xiaoming, the president of AliCloud, said in April the strategic alliance with SAP
aims to help Chinese companies accelerate their “digital transformation”.
German software giant SAP has about 11,000 corporate customers, many of them large enterprises, across the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A growing number of those clients are cloud users, it said.