Salesforce partners with Alibaba to expand its footprint in Asia

By Laura Mullan
Salesforce is branching further into the Asia market by partnering with one of the country's largest technology firms, Alibaba Group. Alibaba will be t...

Salesforce is branching further into the Asia market by partnering with one of the country's largest technology firms, Alibaba Group.

Alibaba will be the exclusive provider of Salesforce in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. 

In return, Salesforce will become the exclusive enterprise CRM software suite sold by Alibaba. 

SEE ALSO:

The US firm plans to sell various products in China including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud and Salesforce Platform. 

Earlier this week, Alibaba announced that it would open its e-commerce platform to US sellers for the first time.

“More and more of our multinational customers are asking us to support them wherever they do business around the world,” Salesforce said in a statement. 

“That’s why today Salesforce announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba, an innovation leader that helps its customers transform the way they market, sell, and operate through businesses like Alibaba Cloud and Tmall.”

Share

Featured Articles

Oxbotica and Google Cloud to accelerate autonomous solutions

Google Cloud will allow Oxbotica to bring its vision for autonomous driving to life, by helping it deploy and scale its operating system in the cloud

AI welcome but human-centered IT support key to productivity

A global survey reveals 74% think inefficient IT support affected morale and hinders productivity, while 87% welcome adopting of AI in resolving IT issues

Machine Customers one of the biggest growth opportunities

From CIOs to legal officers, executives across organisations must be prepared to seize the growth opportunities machine customers will offer

Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft

Enterprise IT

Major League Baseball and Zoom announce new partnership

Digital Transformation

Palo Alto Networks announces AI-powered SASE solution

Cloud & Cybersecurity