Alibaba announced its SaaS platform in Alisoft.com last week with the aim to build it into a marketplace for Saas.
Alisoft is a new comer to China’s SaaS market in 2007, but it has been a key player in the market. According to a report by Analysys International, in 2007 Q3, the total number of enterprise clients of all SaaS service providers amounted to 2.67 million, and based on number of users, Alisoft has taken the 63.7% market share due to its aggressive free strategy to acquire users.
Now, Alisoft plans to take advantage of its broad user base to build a SaaS marketplace to serve its users. The Alisoft SaaS platform is an open platform for all kinds of ISVs to join, promote and sell services, and share revenue with Alisoft. Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle have been the partners of Alisoft.
It is another marketplace launched by Alibaba, after Taobao and Alimama, we haven’t know whether Alisoft will develop a unified user authorization system for SaaS system listed on the platform. Leveraging on accrued extensive business users of Alibaba and Taobao, and online payment system Alipay, Alisoft seems to be a good platform for SaaS promotion and sales. It might also accelerate the wide adoption of SaaS model among SMEs.
Monday, January 21, 2008
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