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Digital Transformation for a Smarter Nation

Learn how Alibaba Cloud empowers private and government organizations to embrace digital transformation for a smarter nation through cloud computing.

In today's technology-driven market, digital transformation is the only means for organizations to stay ahead of the competition, including both private organizations and government enterprises. Many organizations struggle to keep up with the increasing demands of consumers' needs, while many state governments are unable to meet public demands concerning safety, healthcare, and education. Digital transformation through cloud computing is the solution for this agile environment, providing enterprises with flexible, on-demand access to the resources to develop various digital offerings.

Some nations have started investing heavily in advanced technologies for digital transformation. But digital transformation projects aren't cheap, especially for smaller private organizations. By 2021, spending is predicted to surpass $2.1 trillion. Despite such hefty investment, 70% of digital transformation projects fail, mostly due to the challenges in managing the complexities of such large-scale and impactful projects.

The Importance of Cloud Technology

The challenges faced by organizations undergoing digital transformation are diverse and complex. You need to constantly develop new business models to address a multitude of digital transformation challenges. Cloud computing allows you to do all these with ease. It allows you to modernize IT infrastructure, create comprehensive online security, enable cross-departmental collaboration, and focus on meeting the needs of your customers in the digital world now, and into the future.

Alibaba Cloud helps you embrace digital transformation through its Five Pillars of Digital Transformation, which provide the following benefits to your business:

  1. Scalability and Speed: Alibaba Cloud provides the required infrastructure, platforms and expertise to help your business stay responsive and adapt to the changing digital landscape. If you suddenly need more computing power, for example, you can scale quickly and easily without the hassle or expenditure of provisioning new hardware.
  2. Rapid Prototyping: For digital transformation to work, you need to continuously innovate, test, implement and repeat. Using the Alibaba Cloud platform, you can easily build, test and deploy applications without the need to setup complex infrastructures. Hence, throughout your transformation, your organization can experiment with multiple applications on different platforms.
  3. Labor and Cost Effectiveness: Cloud computing is a cost effective solution for storing large amounts of data on the Internet. Your business can scale up and down, only paying for the resources you use. You don't have to install or maintain any physical infrastructure, allowing your staff to focus on your core business.
  4. Security and Redundancy: Alibaba Cloud provides compliance and protection from a vast range of online threats, including data breaches and DDoS attacks. You can create multiple backups. There is also a reduced risk of system failure compared to traditional architectures. What's more, with your data stored in the cloud, you can store data across multiple regions for redundancy and reliability. Data recovery support is also available almost in real time to ensure high availability of your data.
  5. Improved Collaboration: Digital transformation requires your organization to adapt to an ethos of creativity and innovation. Such cultural change can be difficult to manage. The Alibaba Cloud platform lets you assign the appropriate access rights to your content and services, helping to create an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork in your organization.
  6. Global Opportunities: Alibaba Cloud allows you to deploy your online services in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. With more than 1,500 nodes around the world, 19 data center regions and 55 availability zones, your customers receive a better user experience with lower latency. What's more, as the leading public cloud vendor in China, we can provide the expertise your organization needs to realize the benefits of launching in this region.

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Building a Smarter Nation through Digitalization

The benefits of digital transformation are not limited to private organization. Digital technologies also connect government, economy, and society to enable a Smart Nation strategy. Smart Nations leverage advanced digital technologies to intelligently interconnect physical infrastructure, public services, industry verticals, and other relevant data sources to resolve various urban challenges. A Smart Nation strategy addresses five main areas to improve citizen's quality of life.

  • Infrastructure
  • Healthcare
  • Security
  • Utilities
  • Economic Welfare

Alibaba Cloud empowers government, enterprises, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to solve urban challenges and facilitates the development of sustainable Smart Nations. Citizen well-being is at the core of a Smart Nation's technology-enabled ecosystem. Smart Nations create a sustainable, digital economy that provides growth opportunities for all, including the government, public and private enterprises, and SMBs.

Alibaba Cloud's City Brain intelligent solution is built with Big Data analytics capabilities to process and analyze comprehensive data streams aggregated from several sensors across a city. Smart Nations can leverage Alibaba Cloud's hyperconnected and intelligent infrastructure solutions to optimize urban operations, reduce city congestion, and enhance public welfare and safety.

Alibaba Cloud Enables a Sustainable and Resilient Smart Nation

While other digital transformative technologies can bring benefits to your business, it all starts with the cloud. It is the foundation on which the world's digital transformation projects build success and rise above the competition. About three-quarters of CFOs believe cloud computing will have the greatest impact on their business going forward, and 83% of workloads are forecasted to be hosted on the cloud by 2020.

We recommend businesses that are eager to try our extensive suite of products and services sign up for the Alibaba Cloud Smart Nation Support Program. In this program, you can receive up to $5000 USD worth in Alibaba Cloud credits to grow your business on our platform.

If you would like to learn more about how you can use Alibaba Cloud to drive digital transformation for your business, download our Digital Transformation Whitepaper. Or if you want to learn more about Alibaba Cloud's Smart Nation initiative, download the Smart Nations Whitepaper.

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