ONLYOFFICE announces new partner program to expand online presence in the Chinese market

ONLYOFFICE announces new partner program to expand online presence in the Chinese market

RIGA, LATVIA - Media OutReach - December 10, 2021 - With a broad and growing network of resellers and integrators, ONLYOFFICE is now available in more than 20 languages ​​and has gained the trust of more than 7 million users in 170 countries. Now ONLYOFFICE is determined to expand in the Asia-Pacific market and has established a business in China, using the hosting service of Alibaba Cloud, currently the number one cloud service provider in China.

Alibaba Cloud offers a range of cloud-based technologies and professional services, local expertise, access to the extensive Alibaba ecosystem, and unparalleled speed to market.

ONLYOFFICE is expanding its presence in the Chinese market to meet the growing global awareness and adoption of its collaborative office suite. As part of this push, the company announced a new partner program with Chinese online hosting service Alibaba Cloud.

Collaborating with the ecosystem to improve productivity

ONLYOFFICE's partner program is a good opportunity to introduce ONLYOFFICE as part of a software-based ecosystem, providing business collaboration and productivity on-demand solutions supported by ONLYOFFICE Docs and ONLYOFFICE Workspace, to the Chinese end-user market.

Customers in the Chinese IT market who integrate ONLYOFFICE into their business portfolio will benefit from a number of advantages, including data security and compliance with all cloud laws and advanced security measures covering dedicated network installations, as well as open source code that guarantees compliance with data protection regulations, including demanding niche markets such as government, research and finance.

In addition, the intelligent service architecture used by ONLYOFFICE is able to scale and adapt the collaboration tool to large joint working environments with thousands of users.

ONLYOFFICE Professional Services, Q&A, and Product Development teams provide flexible technical support and assistance, ensuring seamless integration of ONLYOFFICE products into customers’ service packages during all phases of deployment and implementation.

ONLYOFFICE wins Gold Award

Our achievements have been recognized by the industry. In autumn 2021, ONLYOFFICE won the Gold Award in the File Sharing and Collaboration category of the prestigious Cloud Computing Insider Awards.

The Insider IT-Awards is an annual survey of readers' choices organized by Vogel IT-Medien, one of the most renowned publishers and event organizers in the German information technology sector.

Readers of Insider's media portals (BigData-Insider, CloudComputing-Insider, DataCenter-Insider, Dev-Insider, IP-Insider, Security-Insider and Storage-Insider) voted for their favorite services and solutions in various categories, and in 2021 their votes overwhelmingly went to ONLYOFFICE!

ONLYOFFICE is now available on WeChat

Determined to grow with the Chinese online ecosystem, of which social media is a very important and vibrant part, ONLYOFFICE announced the launch of WeChat, a very popular multi-functional messaging service that has quickly surpassed other "microblogging" messaging services in China and is also popular among many users outside of China.

ONLYOFFICE for Android users in China

ONLYOFFICE is now available on WeChat, with a fully localized version in Chinese. Prior to this, ONLYOFFICE apps for Android users were already available on Huawei AppGallery and Xiaomi GetApps, two Chinese software distribution platforms.

Trademark registration

China's trademark system is first-come-first-served, and international trademarks are not recognized if they do not have formal status in the mainland. Therefore, ONLYOFFICE decided to register its trademark in China. This move will allow us to conduct business in China and establish partnerships with Chinese software dealers and distributors.

Galina Goduhina, Head of Sales at ONLYOFFICE, commented: "It is often believed that Western businesses face obstacles when operating in China, for a variety of reasons, including obviously language and cultural differences. However, ONLYOFFICE sees this huge market as a great opportunity. Communication and collaboration don’t just happen, so cross-border businesses seek to use the best tools available on the market to compete and collaborate online, and ONLYOFFICE is confident that it can provide these best tools. We see great prospects in serving and working with Chinese customers."