IBM and Tencent Cloud Partner to Transform Industries with Cloud

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Acquisition or Partnership

IBM and Tencent Cloud announced plans to extend Tencent's public cloud platform to the enterprise. The two companies, under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, will build and market a new class of public cloud tailored for industries, powered by cloud migration and integration services and a range of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings -- from customer care and digital marketing to enterprise asset management. Tencent Cloud and IBM will jointly promote industry innovation and gain from one another's resources and global capacity to benefit enterprise customers.

Tencent is one of China's largest Internet service providers, with nearly 1 billion Chinese service users. Tencent Cloud and IBM identified small and medium hyper-growth enterprises in smarter healthcare and smarter cities as priority industries for their collaboration, and will together deliver the essential elements for businesses to get up and running on cloud, including:

  • Industry consulting, cloud migration, integration and technical support services.
  • Industry-specific and business process SaaS solutions, including enterprise marketing, customer relationship management, smart office automation and enterprise asset management.
  • Management and operation for public cloud and dedicated cloud from Tencent, as well as development and execution of cloud-based analytics.

 

This partnership builds on the complimentary expertise from each company to bring the scale and cost benefits of cloud to enterprises in China and other global markets, providing distinct value by tailoring cloud services to the particular needs of different industries.

Keywords: Enterprise Cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Enterprise Asset Management, ARC Advisory Group.

 

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