Ding Talk: Chat app owned by Alibaba Group enters in India to improve corporate messaging

NEW DELHI:Mobile office is the way to go and jumping on the bandwagon is DingTalk, a collaboration and messaging app for small- to medium-sized businesses from Alibaba Group.
Launched in 2015, DingTalk is currently used in over five million organisations in China and was only available in Mandarin until now.

“Malaysia is the first market to get DingTalk in English. Our focus is very much on building the necessary support foundation for enterprises who aim to step-change their business communications,” said DingTalk chief technology officer Hugo Zhu in a statement. “It is a platform that combines all workplace tools in one place, allowing collaborations and tracking on both the employer and employee’s level.”

DingTalk aims to ramp up its user count in India and Malaysia by the end of the fiscal year ending in March.

"Our endeavour is to empower SMEs so they can scale and become part of the global marketplace. With DingTalk, we will enable organisations to seamlessly communicate and collaborate across locations, thereby increasing productivity," Chris Wang, Head of Global Business Development for DingTalk, said in a statement.

The company is also considering to launch the app in other South-East Asian countries and a Japanese-language version is currently in development as well.
Currently available on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows operating systems, DingTalk offers organisational-centric functions and features aimed at improving business-to-business communication and collaboration.

It supports audio, video and/or conference calls for up to 3,000 parties in a single call and integrated emails, chats and message reminder features.

Voice and video services are currently only available via VoIP  for users outside of China.
The app allows businesses to manage attendance, make approvals, maintain business reports and send files of up to 700MB in size.

Businesses can book and host meetings, manage CRM information, create tasks and service tickets and set up private chats.

For more information visit www.dingtalk.com/en.


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