Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has announced strategic partnerships with Accenture and SAP.
Alibaba has entered into a collaboration agreement with Accenture to offer “as-a-Service” technology and business solutions to clients in China and in ASEAN markets. On the other hand, the partnership with SAP will initially focus on integrating the resources of Alibaba Cloud and SAP on the Alibaba Cloud platform.
Accenture agreement
Alibaba Cloud will combine its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions with Accenture’s industry and technology consulting capabilities to help enterprise clients simplify their efforts to run digital businesses. Through this collaboration, Alibaba Cloud and Accenture will also work together to jointly bring cloud-based third-party solutions onboard the Alibaba Cloud platform.
“Alibaba Cloud provides the marketplace with highly disruptive, scalable and cost-effective cloud offerings. We are glad to work with Accenture to strengthen the offerings of reliable cloud-based, analytics-driven enterprise solutions in China as well as in ASEAN markets,” said YU Sicheng, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud. “This is a strong and solid step in our ongoing commitment to building an ecosystem that could leverage our cloud computing expertise to efficiently and securely serve the needs of our clients.”
“Our collaboration with Alibaba Cloud will help improve the way companies can transition to become truly digital businesses,” said YU Yi, Managing Director and Lead of Accenture Digital in Greater China. “Applying our broad industry expertise, analytics capabilities and technology integration services along with the IaaS functions of Alibaba Cloud will enable clients to accelerate their adoption of ‘as-a-Service’ strategies that prevail in today’s digital economy.”
SAP partnership
Alibaba Cloud has entered into a strategic partnership with SAP China to jointly deliver enterprise-class cloud computing services to companies in China. The alliance aims to accelerate the introduction and adoption of enterprise-class cloud computing across multiple industries to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation.
The partnership initially plans to focus on integrating the resources of Alibaba Cloud and SAP on the Alibaba Cloud platform.
Businesses are expected to benefit from a versatile, one-stop-shop cloud computing environment that is enabled by Alibaba Cloud’s high-reliability and high-performance cloud infrastructure, SAP’s world-leading enterprise-class database and business application solutions and SAP’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings -- all interoperating seamlessly.
Alibaba Cloud intends to collaborate with SAP to jointly market and deploy SAP HANA One and SAP’s SaaS solutions, enabling businesses to reap the benefits of SAP applications and Alibaba Cloud’s powerful cloud computing resources more conveniently.