In addition to Taobao and Tmall, what other powerful products does Alibaba have?

As a member of Alibaba Group, I feel it is necessary to answer this question.

Everyone is familiar with Taobao and Tmall, and platforms such as Alipay, Cainiao, Hema, Fliggy, and DingTalk have gradually become our new way of life: we will use Taobao to shop, use Alipay to pay, and use Fliggy made a travel plan and used Cainiao's logistics services...

At the recently held 2019 Alibaba Cloud Summit in Beijing, Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said: "Alibaba now has 60 to 70 business operations On the public cloud. "Cloud computing is becoming as important as "water, electricity and gas".

1. What is cloud computing?

First of all, let’s briefly introduce what cloud computing is.

First of all, cloud computing pays according to usage;

Secondly, it can provide resources including network, server, storage, application software, services, etc., users can When using it, you only need to spend a little time and energy to easily obtain these resources anytime and anywhere;

You also understand that resources are tap water, and Alibaba Cloud is a "tap water factory." When you want water, you don't need to open a water plant yourself. Instead, you just turn on the faucet and pay the water plant according to your consumption.

After understanding cloud computing, let’s talk about Alibaba Cloud.

2. Alibaba Cloud has done three things in the past ten years

Also at the Beijing Summit, Zhang Jianfeng summarized Alibaba Cloud’s ten years in this way: It has done three things.

1. Created China’s cloud era

Before Alibaba, no company viewed the cloud as the future of business and technology. Now, 84% of Chinese companies are willing to go to the cloud.

2. Developed China's cloud operating system and AI system

Since its establishment in 2009, Alibaba Cloud has adhered to the path of independent research and development, developed the Feitian operating system, and broke through international technology. Blockades and monopolies.

Feitian Operating System also won the Science and Technology Progress Special Award from the Institute of Electronics in 2017. This is also the first special award in the 15 years since the award was established.

City Brain, an intelligent AI system developed based on Feitian System, has achieved very good results in Hangzhou, helping to further improve urban management and spreading from Hangzhou to more cities.

3. Cloud benefits millions of customers in all walks of life

Through cloud computing, all walks of life have gained new impetus for their own development from the development of the cloud. Now on Alibaba Cloud, more than 1 million customers are using cloud computing to innovate.

3. The relationship between cloud computing and our lives

The most intuitive example of the relationship between cloud computing and our lives is Tmall Double 11.

During Double 11 in 2018, the newly called elastic computing capacity on Alibaba Cloud exceeded 10 million cores, equivalent to 10 large data centers, setting a new record for "pulse computing";

Alibaba Cloud’s self-developed Shenlong elastic bare metal server solves the performance bottleneck under high peak traffic. The real-time computing Blink processing peak reaches 1.718 billion items per second, which is equivalent to the data volume of 1.2 million Xinhua dictionaries;

Yundun provides tens of millions of risk identification services to cloud customers, and integrates DDoS high-defense Technology is exported to the world to ensure global business. Based on these technical bases, the entire system can cope with traffic peaks more calmly.

Cloud computing is silently supporting everyone’s smooth shopping experience on Double 11.

4. Alibaba Cloud will start again in ten years

Alibaba Cloud Intelligence President Zhang Jianfeng said at the 2019 Alibaba Cloud Summit Beijing that Alibaba Cloud will ride on the "cloud and data technology blessed by Damo Academy" "Intelligent cloud, best practice cloud, integrated cloud" this four-stage rocket will set off again in ten years and accelerate comprehensively from the technology, product, business and ecological levels!

The fully upgraded "Alibaba Cloud" will have the following four advantages:

1. A cloud blessed by Dharma Academy

Dharma Academy has already installed it on the machine Core technologies have been built in areas such as learning, next-generation human-computer interaction, visual computing, chip technology, and quantum computing. Now, the capabilities of Damo Academy will be fully integrated with Yun, and it will definitely be a fusion of one plus one, which is greater than two.

2. Data Intelligence Cloud

In the future, the cloudization of IT infrastructure, the Internetization of core technologies, and the digitization and intelligence of applications are an inevitable trend. Alibaba Cloud will provide multiple paths and tools for migrating to the cloud to help enterprises migrate to the cloud without any changes.

3. A cloud with its own best business practices

In the next one to two years, Alibaba 100’s system will be completely based on the public cloud and become a cloud-based system. of Alibaba. Moreover, Alibaba itself has best practices such as Juhuasuan, DingTalk, and Hema. The digital capabilities gained in this process will provide various industries with the core business capabilities required in the digital era.

4. Integrated Cloud

Alibaba Cloud will not make SaaS by itself in the future, but will continue to improve its internal capabilities and be integrated so that everyone can make better SaaS. At the 2019 Alibaba Cloud Beijing Summit, Alibaba Cloud released the SaaS accelerator for this purpose.

You may still have some cognitive biases about Alibaba. You may even think that Alibaba only has Taobao and Tmall! Of course, some people will think that Alipay also belongs to Alibaba. How to say? Recently, Alibaba took back 30% of the shares of Ant Financial, the major owner of Alipay. Indeed, although Alipay is not an Alibaba product, it is also a major shareholder of Ant Financial. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that Alipay is Alibaba!

But besides these, is there nothing left? Of course, today we will talk about Alibaba products that you may or may not know:

First look at this picture. What do you notice that you are familiar with, but it is the first time you know it is Alibaba? What about the product?

Let’s look at another picture:

In fact, this picture basically shows some of Alibaba’s APPs. Although they are not Alibaba, and all APPs may be rare, they also indirectly illustrate Alibaba’s powerful products and the ecology of its APPs.

The content covered ranges from finance to social networking, from social networking to shopping, from shopping to browsers, from browsers to media, from media to food and travel, almost including our food, clothing, housing and transportation. . In fact, including Sina Weibo, which we are familiar with, Meituan Waimai actually has the shadow of Alibaba.

I will share this as an e-commerce online store owner.

Alibaba has launched Tmall and Taobao, and has some powerful products, which are ready. Some you don’t expect.

One, Alimama

Two, 1688

Three, Alibaba International Trading Market

Four, Juhuasuan

Five, AliExpress

Six, Fliggy

Seven, Alibaba Cloud Computing

Eight, AliOS

Nine , Alibaba Communications

Ten, Yitao

Eleven, Wanwang

Twelve, Gaode

Thirteen, UC

Fourteen, Friendship League

Fifteen, Xiami

Sixteen, Damai.com

Seventeen, Dingding

Eighteen, Alipay

Nineteen, Youku

Twenty, Tudou

Twenty-one, Alibaba Health

Two Twelve, Alibaba Pictures

Twenty-three, Ali Sports

Twenty-four, Online Banking

Twenty-five, Koubei.com

Twenty-six, rookie

All of the above can be confirmed by official inquiries, so Alibaba affects all aspects of our lives, and there will be more in the future. Let’s look forward to it together!

Alibaba has many products, you can take a look at the picture below. In our mobile APP, Alibaba has many influential products.

In addition to general products, Alibaba also has the following:

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud ranks third in the world (after Amazon and Microsoft). No. 1 in China, it is considered a world-class cloud computing provider. The current strong growth is the mainstay for Alibaba to continue to maintain its business advantage in the future. Cloud infrastructure, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things should be said to be one of the companies with the strongest cloud service-related technologies in China.

Artificial Intelligence Chip

I participated in the 2019 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference a few days ago, and Alibaba released the Hanguang 800 chip. In the industry standard ResNet-50 test, the inference performance of Hanguang 800 reached 78563 IPS, which is 4 times higher than the performance of the best AI chip in the industry; the energy efficiency ratio is 500 IPS/W, 3.3 times that of the second place, CTO of Alibaba Group Zhang Jianfeng said: "Hanguang 800 is the first step in Alibaba's long march in the chip field."

Quantum Computing

Alibaba Damo Academy has a laboratory specializing in quantum computing , the first in the world to successfully simulate 81 qubits and 40 layers of Google's random quantum circuit as a benchmark. Previously, simulators with the same number of layers could only handle 49 qubits.

ET Brain

ET Brain is a super intelligence developed by Alibaba Cloud. It uses breakthrough technology to solve thorny problems in society and business. As the world's first artificial intelligence with a brain-like architecture, ET Brain breaks through a single point and makes global intelligence a reality. A larger pattern has since been opened up, with multi-dimensional perception of the world, global insight into problems, and optimal customized decision-making.

Based on ET Brain, Alibaba has launched heavyweight product lines for various industries, including ET City Brain, ET Industrial Brain, ET Medical Brain, ET Environmental Brain, ET Aviation Brain, ET Financial Brain, etc. wait.

Alibaba Commercial Operating System

From a commercial perspective, Alibaba wants to be a "commercial operating system (infrastructure in the digital economy era)": cloud intelligent data technology, financial services, logistics amp; Supply chain management, digital marketing, sales and distribution, brand building, user operations, intelligent manufacturing, etc., promote digital intelligence-driven business and digital intelligence-driven social welfare services, and provide oil and engines in the digital economy era: Big data & computing power. Alibaba’s starting point is business, and its goal is to provide business infrastructure and empower thousands of industries.

At the 2019 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Zhang Jianfeng also said that Alibaba will become a company integrating software and hardware, that is, an out-and-out technology company.

With Alibaba’s layout and efforts in the field of science and technology, I believe that Alibaba’s technological content will become higher and higher in the future.

The Alibaba product that everyone is most familiar with is probably Taobao Tmall, as the poster mentioned, but in addition to this product, Alibaba actually has many other powerful products.

1. Alipay

Alipay should be a product that everyone uses more in life than Taobao. It is also one of Ali's key products, although Alipay has now separated from Ali. , established Ant Financial separately, but the birthplace of Alipay should still be Alibaba. Alipay is a landmark product for mobile payment. After all, before the emergence of Alipay, mobile payment was still very difficult. At that time, it was almost impossible to travel around the world with a mobile phone without cash. In addition to mobile payment, Alipay has also developed face payment. In the future, you may not need to carry a mobile phone and you can directly pay with your face. I believe this era will come soon. Due to the large number of users and popularity of Alipay, the market value of Ant Financial has also continued to soar. It is likely to be listed in the market in recent years, which shows the power of Alipay as a product.

2. Alibaba Cloud

The Alibaba Cloud platform is led by Dr. Wang Jian. It is also a cross-generation product for data storage and processing, and its influence is no less than Alipay. When Alibaba Cloud was founded, almost everyone was not optimistic about it, including industry leaders such as Lei Jun and Ma Huateng. They all felt that it was too early to build a cloud at that time and that it was impossible to build a cloud based on the technology at that time. , this is just a "gimmick" of Ali. At that time, even other departments within Alibaba were not optimistic about the development of Alibaba Cloud. Many people complained about Wang Jian behind his back, so Wang Jian couldn't help crying at an annual meeting. But there was only one man who always supported Wang Jian. It was "Jack Ma". At that time, Jack Ma supported Wang Jian against all opinions. Speaking of which, I have to admire Jack Ma's long-term vision.

3. DingTalk

The third Alibaba product to mention is “DingTalk”. Anyone who has worked there should have used DingTalk. Well, now DingTalk has almost become a standard feature for enterprises. DingTalk has all the functions required for office work such as clocking in, sending payslips, booking conference rooms, etc. In fact, there is a story behind DingTalk. In fact, DingTalk was not favored by Alibaba internally at that time, but a P9 Alibaba employee and Jack Ma issued a military order that DingTalk must be successful, otherwise they will pack up and leave, and then lead The team secretly lived in the "Lakeside Garden" where Ali originated. After 8 months, DingTalk was born and became very popular in the market. Everyone involved in the development of DingTalk was promoted by 1-2 levels.

My last answer talked about my views on Alibaba and Tencent. When talking about Alibaba, I mentioned Jack Ma. Although Alibaba does not understand technology, I really admire his vision, such as the creation of Alipay (now Ant Financial), and later Alibaba Cloud, including current offline retail such as Hema Xiansheng. It is obvious that Jack Ma is planning to develop Alibaba in an all-round way, but it turns out that many of Jack Ma's ideas are very correct. For example, Ant Financial, now valued at US$150 billion, has become one of the best financial unicorns in the world. The same is true for Alibaba Cloud. The creation of Alibaba Cloud provides technical support for Taobao, Tmall and many other Alibaba businesses. To give a very simple example, everyone knows about Double Eleven. With the amount of concurrency, traffic, and massive data that day, without Alibaba Cloud’s technical support, it’s hard to imagine whether Double Eleven could have been successfully carried out. Alibaba Cloud and Ant Financial provide services to both individuals and enterprises, both tob and toc. Alibaba Cloud's market share has always been No. 1 in China and very high globally. So in general, Alibaba still has many powerful products

1. Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba’s cloud computing technology developed relatively early and is currently the top cloud vendor in China. A large number of enterprises and individuals use Alibaba's cloud computing services.

2. Alibaba’s open source middleware

Alibaba has accumulated rich experience and technology in high concurrency, distribution, database, service governance and other aspects. Alibaba chose to make these completed products open source. These open source products have become the technology of choice for many companies. For example, early database middleware mycat, service management dubbo, database connection pool druid, json parsing fastjson, distributed scheduling tb schedule, as well as early technologies such as tfs and lvs. After these technologies are open sourced, they have been widely used in the industry.

Ali’s most powerful product is Ali’s public relations. Ali invests and controls 24 media companies, and Ali’s navy is invincible and invincible in the world! ! !

Strictly speaking, Taobao and Tmall are e-commerce platforms, not a product. Previously, BAT had a saying: Tencent’s products, Baidu’s technology, and Alibaba’s operations. Alibaba was indeed initially strong in operational capabilities and did not have outstanding products. However, Alibaba is now a technology-driven technology giant! There are also many outstanding products: Alibaba Cloud, Alipay, DingTalk, and Platform Brother’s Hanguang AI chip, etc.!

Alibaba Cloud, the heavyweight business product that carries Alibaba’s future development

There is no doubt that Alibaba Cloud has achieved great success in the past 10 years! Ranking first in the domestic market with a share of 43%! It ranks among the top three in the global market, following AWS and Microsoft. Alibaba Cloud's success is due to Alibaba's success in "de-IOE" and Alibaba's self-developed Feitian system! Ultimately, Alibaba’s e-commerce empire was established.

Alipay, Alibaba’s earliest and most successful product

Alipay was born from guaranteed payments during e-commerce transactions. It was later extended to become a mobile payment tool, and now it even accommodates users. All aspects of life: transportation, medical care, travel, convenience, financial services, etc. Currently, the number of users worldwide has exceeded 1 billion! It is a very successful product!

DingTalk, Alibaba’s social dream, the nirvana and rebirth of communication

Alibaba has always had a social dream, just like Tencent has always had an e-commerce dream. Alibaba initially made a social product "Laiwang" to compete with Tencent's WeChat, but it ultimately failed. However, in 2014, the original team started a new business on the social track, providing a social tool for corporate communication and collaboration: DingTalk. Currently, DingTalk has 200 million users, serves 10 million companies, and has achieved initial success! However, by the way, DingTalk is popular with the boss, but employees are generally disgusted~

Alibaba’s first AI chip, the Hanguang 800 chip, was launched

Alibaba established the Damo Academy in 2017 , it is to explore and research in the field of basic science, and incubate Pingtouge Semiconductor Company, and released the first AI chip Hanguang 800 this year! In the industry standard ResNet-50 test, the inference performance of Hanguang 800 reached 78563 IPS, which is 4 times higher than the performance of the best AI chip in the industry. The energy efficiency ratio is 500 IPS/W, which is 3.3 times higher than the second place. This is very groundbreaking!

Summary

There is no doubt that Alibaba is a very great company! Jack Ma's mission of "making it easy to do business in the world" has been realized. More importantly, it has gradually transformed from a trading platform that is good at marketing to a technology-driven and product-driven company. After going through the process of "de-IOE", self-developed Feitian system, establishing a middle platform, and setting up DAMO Academy to enter into basic field research, Alibaba has accumulated very deep internal strength on the road of technology. We look forward to more excellent products from Alibaba in the future. !

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