Article: Alibaba Group Takes Additional Steps to Help SMEs in China Turn to e-Commerce.

Group's Alisoft unit offers users free multi-year license for business management software

BEIJING, March 31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Alisoft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group, today announced that it will offer free Internet-based management software to all 42 million small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) in China as part of the Group's ongoing effort to make it easy for SMEs to do business using e-commerce.

The software, called "Shopkeeper(TM)", comprises an accounting and finance module in the initial edition to be launched today; an inventory management and a customer relations management module will both be available in May 2009. ...

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