Recently, Futong Dongfang and Alibaba Cloud reached a cooperation intention regarding the enterprise-level cloud service market. The intention indicates that as a new senior partner in Alibaba Cloud's ecosystem (http://partner.aliyun.com/detail/beijingfutong.html?spm=5176.200012.1997890777.10.Qz6qym), Futong Dongfang will leverage its years of experience in serving enterprise-level users, together with three other manufacturers, Yunluo Technology, Boyan Technology, and Zhuyun, to help enterprise users with the "cloud adoption" services for traditional enterprise IT informatization. This collaboration aims to achieve the integration of traditional IT infrastructure with cloud services, assisting enterprise users in smoothly and steadily advancing towards the cloud.

Currently, with the development of big data and internet technology, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry has become a global theme of industrial resurgence. "Made in China 2025," which corresponds to Germany's "Industry 4.0," was approved by Premier Li Keqiang on May 8, 2015, and issued by the State Council, which will greatly promote the development of China's manufacturing industry. As the integration of informatization and industrialization policies gradually deepens, a new round of full industry chain transformation is triggered, centered on the digitalization, networking, and intelligentization of manufacturing, based on the Internet of Things, and superimposed with breakthroughs in new energy, new materials, and other areas. This will have a profound impact on numerous enterprise users in the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

At the same time, after more than a decade of development, cloud computing technology is continuously improving in marketization, and cloud services are also developing towards segmented fields. The level of informatization in China varies across different industries, and there are different demands for cloud services among various regions, industries, and enterprises. The flattened thinking and solutions of the internet cannot meet the needs of all users. The enterprise-level cloud service market requires comprehensive solutions that are closer to user needs (i.e., service models), rather than a single cloud host or other single types of services. Therefore, the key is to combine the business application needs of enterprise users to provide underlying architectures suitable for different industry and enterprise dimensions. The benefits of cloud computing for enterprise informatization are not just cost reduction, but rather architectures that are integrable, scalable, and highly stable. CTO of Futong Dongfang, Jin Wei, through visits to enterprise users in different industries, has learned that there is still some room for the enterprise market and cloud computing to connect. On one hand, there is the current situation where the current architecture cannot meet the needs brought about by the upgrade and expansion of enterprise business. On the other hand, there is a continuous exploration of solutions to meet the business needs of different users under the same architecture. Whether it is traditional IT manufacturers or internet companies, they all need to deeply understand the IT application needs of enterprise users. Only by doing so can they better connect the underlying platform services and help users achieve "cloud adoption" services.

The collaboration between Futong Dongfang and Alibaba Cloud can perfectly create a situation of complementary advantages and a strong alliance, jointly promoting the in-depth development of the enterprise-level cloud service market.