IBM and Tencent Cloud today signed a business cooperation memorandum to collaborate on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions for industries.
Both parties agreed to focus on emerging small and medium enterprises in the smarter cities and smarter healthcare industries as well as other fields. This will enable these industries to utilize mobile, cloud computing and big data tools to transform internal processes and operations, thus achieving cloud transformation in the era of mobility.
As part of this milestone collaboration, Tencent Cloud and IBM will jointly promote industry innovation and gain from each company’s resources and global capacity to benefit enterprise customers.
Tencent Holdings Limited is a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services in China. Tencent Cloud is a strategic platform of Tencent with profound acumen in cloud computing based on its powerful infrastructure as well as many years’ experience in the massive Internet services business. Tencent cloud provides enterprises and developers access to a complete cloud solution with cloud service, cloud data and cloud operations.
Cloud is at the core of many industry transformations, with value migrating from broad cloud-based applications to industry-specific solutions. IDC predicts a tenfold increase in the number of cloud apps over the next four years. Two-thirds of these new apps will have an industry-specific or role-specific focus — with the majority of the growth driven by developers in cloud application ecosystems.
Tencent Cloud and IBM identified the priority industries of small and medium hyper-growth enterprises in smarter healthcare and smarter cities 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 solutions for customer care, digital marketing, enterprise asset management and smart office automation.
- Management and operation for public cloud and dedicated cloud from Tencent.
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