Today, Alibaba's software, software company, Ali officially released its first product, for millions of businesses, "Ali Software - Trade Edition" will provide a model based on SAAS (software as a service) on the business management and marketing platform to enhance China's market function within the management software, and integrated into the e-commerce marketing ideas Alibaba years in one, providing SMEs with "making money" tool. After three years of preparation, has invested 300 million yuan in the establishment of the Software Research Institute, set up after the software company, this carefully crafted product different from traditional software: its most prominent features is based solely on a reliable network security, hosting user data , if not on a company computer, company personnel through the network of normal business, reducing as the virus destroyed, cross-regional, high cost of software investment in the business harm to the enterprise.
Ma dream of entering the software industry for five years. "Helped SMEs to improve the management and operation capacity to expand the business scope of SME e-commerce to become the main way to improve profitability, Ali plays an enterprise management software and management tools provided between the service provider's role to make money." Alibaba Group Senior Vice Wang Tao, president and general manager Ali software such interpretation.
On the one hand information technology needs facing the expansion of SMEs, according to ministry statistics, the rate of information for SMEs is less than 10%, with huge market potential. Also, according to the analysis of CMP consultation, the end of 2006, the number of SMEs in China, more than 29.5 million, accounting for 99.5% of the number of Chinese enterprises over. GDP created by small and medium enterprises also accounted for more than 58%. Wang Tao that, although the software market is booming, but the value of software services still have not been fully released, and SAAS (software as a service) to small and medium enterprises can quickly build management, marketing, service platform for SMEs to provide a new concept of information technology software services.
Survey shows that China now has 20 million enterprise e-commerce, enterprise management software used only a 20%. Operation is relatively complex, the cost is still high, is hampered in the small and medium traditional software application to further popularize the key. Therefore, applications for SMEs to break the threshold of obstruction, to promote the entry-level software applications, will become the software industry in China can make breakthroughs in the key. "Ali and management software will integrate e-commerce, open up the bottleneck restricting the development of SMEs, in order to bring considerable cost value for the enterprise."
Alibaba Group's senior vice president and general manager Ali software, said Wang Tao, in 2007, Ali, the software will accelerate the market's reaction speed, network operations with Alibaba and technical support for a strong and full of local operating experience, give full play to advantages, further integration of Taobao , Alipay, Alibaba and other e-commerce resources, not only to use the software to play three years will result in Ali's best software companies, and will become China's software industry a cornerstone of the international development.
It is reported that, "Ali Software - Trade Edition" provides 99.99% reliable interchange of high-grade telecommunications network services, user accounts can login at any time to achieve regional mobile office. The software also has eight feature highlights: an integration of the global corporate credit rating of Coface query system to provide credit rating check, credit rating up, business credit reporting services for domestic enterprises to help analyze customer credibility. Second, Translating one-click functions, to help our customers to break the language barrier, to grasp more business opportunities. Third, integrated logistics system to provide customers one-stop cargo services. 4, a powerful document management module automatically generated to help customers from the cumbersome document production and management freed. 5, mail distribution and query permission set automatically to help entrepreneurs understand the business work allocation and progress. 6, U disk key provided to ensure system security. 7, a powerful call center service system, providing customers with fortune online, software, consulting, online video instruction and other services. 8, intelligent e-mail marketing system to help customers to send product information to the needs of the buyers are purchasing.