Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, offers the most powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology available. Alibaba Cloud, the leading cloud provider in China, provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to help power and grow your business. Combining Esri's excellence in GIS with Alibaba's market leadership in IaaS allows customers to experience cost-effective elastic computing and automatic scaling to meet all demands, in their public and private clouds. Our users have achieved amazing results & solve real problems every day - enabled by both our organizations' engineering interoperable & compatible technology. We’re committed to working together to build the next wave of GIS innovation in the Cloud. So far, Esri’s and Alibaba Clouds partnership has proven fruitful. Together, Esri and Alibaba Cloud built a “One-Stop” Shared Geographic Information Library for the Ningxia Bureau of Land and Resources to employ a geographic information platform for government and civilian use.

In the past two years, Esri has seen a rapid increase of organizations migrating their GIS investment to Alibaba Cloud's elastic compute, storage, database, and networking services. Esri China has already supported over 20 successful deployments of Esri technology in Alibaba Cloud, including the Land and Resources Bureau in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With support from Esri, this high-profile customer has built their foundational geographic data platform using ArcGIS Enterprise in Elastic Compute instances, which is now used by all functions and levels of the regional government. Alibaba Cloud already provides robust and licensed images of the popular operating systems which are run in Elastic Compute instances. Several of their available operating systems (including Windows Server 2016 and RedHat Enterprise Linux) are tested, certified and supported by Esri, allowing organizations to deploy ArcGIS Enterprise technology immediately.

Esri and Alibaba Cloud agree that building a relationship and technical interoperability is essential for us to support our customers and solve real problems every day.