Alibaba Launched Software Division, Alisoft
The Shanghai Daily just ran a story entitled, “Alibaba expands into software“. From the article, Alibaba has set up another subsidiary named Alisoft that managed the software businesses for Alibaba. It is not the first time Alibaba has venture into software industry, prior to this, Alibaba has launched CRM (Customer Relationship Management) System version 1.2 in November this year. The establishment of Alisoft thus would help Alibaba further consolidated the software businesses under the umbrella of it.
On the Alisoft Web page, one can observe the listed 4 steps of doing e-commerce in Alibaba, i.e. explore the business opportunity positively, establish the business connection effectively, tracking the business flow, and evaluate the performance of an organization scientifically (in Mandarin, I translated into English here). At the bottom of the page, one can download the software tool developed by Alibaba, i.e. AliTalk by clicking the blue button.
Alibaba is set to be China’s answer to eBay, and it seems that Alibaba is on the way building it right now.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:10 am
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