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Modern sales teams rely heavily on accurate and timely data.
However, many still depend on fragmented spreadsheets or third-party tools that often contain outdated contact details or incomplete company insights.
In fact, sales representatives spend up to 40% of their time searching for prospect information, rather than engaging in genuine sales conversations.
That inefficiency translates directly into lost opportunities.
Alibaba Cloud provides a secure and high-performance environment to store, process, and analyze massive datasets.
Instead of relying on external lead databases, organizations can now build their own internal, AI-assisted lead intelligence systems tailored to their unique business logic and privacy standards.
Here’s how you can architect such a system using Alibaba Cloud’s ecosystem.
Alibaba Cloud DataWorks and Object Storage Service (OSS) allow teams to collect and manage raw data from multiple sources—CRM exports, marketing forms, web analytics, and public company directories.
With Data Integration nodes in DataWorks, you can schedule daily imports, clean duplicates, and standardize contact fields such as company name, domain, and job title. OSS then acts as your central, scalable data lake.
To improve accuracy, use AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL to cross-check contact data with external APIs or internal records.
Modern sales teams often struggle to find verified contact information quickly enough to act on it.
That’s where Supersearch comes in. It instantly figures out what most sales teams actually want: to find someone's email address and start a conversation without switching between five different tools.
With Supersearch, a 450+ million contact database built right into the platform, you can literally go from “I need to reach CTOs at fintech startups” to sending your first email in under three minutes.
By integrating Supersearch with Alibaba Cloud’s lead intelligence architecture, organizations can instantly enrich, validate, and operationalize prospect data—all while keeping it stored securely within their cloud environment.
For enrichment, Alibaba Cloud’s AI Workspace or PAI (Platform for AI) can train models that infer missing details—such as company size or industry—based on existing data patterns.
Using Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI), you can build a lead scoring model that ranks prospects based on engagement, intent signals, or firmographic data.
By combining historical deal data from your CRM with behavioral metrics from website analytics (stored in MaxCompute), the model can predict which leads are most likely to convert.
With Quick BI, you can visualize and monitor real-time lead performance:
These dashboards help sales managers allocate effort where it matters most—without manually analyzing thousands of records.
Sales automation becomes seamless when you connect your system to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute or Serverless Workflow.
For instance, when a new verified lead enters your database, a serverless function can automatically trigger a CRM update or notify the sales team through a connected application.
This low-code automation approach eliminates repetitive manual steps and speeds up lead follow-up times.
Sales teams can further accelerate conversions by integrating Salesforce CTI Integration to instantly engage enriched leads with streamlined calling workflows.
Unlike public third-party lead databases, a self-managed system on Alibaba Cloud ensures data compliance and privacy protection.
All services adhere to GDPR, CCPA, and ISO/IEC 27001 standards, and you retain full control of how your data is processed, accessed, and stored.
Using Resource Access Management (RAM), you can define precise access permissions, ensuring that only authorized users can query sensitive customer data.
Building your own lead database and intelligence system may take more initial setup time than subscribing to external tools—but the payoff is long-term scalability, full data ownership, and complete compliance.
With Alibaba Cloud’s integrated ecosystem, sales and marketing teams can create a secure, automated pipeline that keeps their lead data clean, current, and action-ready—all while maintaining full control over their data environment.
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