DingTalk, a product by Alibaba, reaches 100 million users
On the 27th of December 2017 Alibaba’s DingTalk team collaboration software surpassed 100 million users. DingTalk CEO Wu Zhao said “We achieved the target of 100 million users in 1075 days. Special thanks to the DingTalk staff that worked tirelessly day and night to achieve this goal. During these 1075 days, we have been able to help 100 million users achieve simple, efficient, safe and a people-oriented way of working. There is still long way to go for DingTalk, we will continue to strive for results and aim to serve the 43 million small and medium enterprises in China”.
This is the first official publication of DingTalk users, earlier in the year DingTalk had announced it had became the largest number of enterprise users in the world.
On January 16, 2015, DingTalk’s first public version, version 1.0 formally launched. With the positive feedback from users, the number of Ding registered users increased exponentially. At the end of year one, the number of enterprises using the DingTalk platform totalled 1 million. DingTalk has continued to maintain an accelerated growth in enterprise users. By the end of 2016 DingTalk users exceeded 3 million with a total of 5 million at the end of September 2017. When DingTalk CEO Wu Zhao first met Google executives, one said “Google has several billion user products, what do you guys have?” While at the time Zhao could not respond, the billion-user mark is certainly possible in the future give the rate of DingTalk’s growth in such a short period.
DingTalk has gained success due to a number of key features:
- Communication
- File Store
- Staff attendance management
- Costs
- Security
Very few team collaborative software can provide such a comprehensive solution for SME businesses. This has resulted in an impressive adoption rate for DingTalk.
2018 will be a big year for DingTalk starting with CES, where the company will be part of the Alibaba delegation to present their products to visitors at CES. DingTalk will also focus on expanding their platform internationally to markets such as India and Malaysia, markets where Alibaba already have a good relationship and exposure.
DingTalk download link: https://www.dingtalk.com/en/download
