Teams-like application boasts 500 million users, but Microsoft has more active users
Alibaba Cloud has decided to make its DingTalk collaborative workplace platform more attractive to enterprise customers, in China and beyond. DingTalk combines messaging, conferencing, task management and integrates with online personal productivity suites. Livestreamed video and real time translation are also features. In form, function and intention – providing a single app for most collaboration needs – DingTalk is not vastly different to Microsoft Teams. The app is already popular among Chinese SMEs, who can use it at no cost. Now Alibaba plans to court third-party developers to make the app extensible, and has added three upgraded and paid versions of software for enterprise users. The company also said it will „foster relationships with hardware manufacturers.“ „Digitalization should not be exclusive to a few; It should be accessible to all people, all organizations and enterprises“” said DingTalk president Ye Jun in a canned statement.
