Juha Lassila discusses challenges with using services across the Great Firewall of China and needing a cross-continent CRM. He tests Baihui CRM, hosted in China, and finds it works well with easy setup and fast speeds, even for users on both sides of the firewall. Chinese cloud services can be as good as those in other countries. Baihui CRM is recommended for SMBs needing a cross-border CRM, and China should be considered as a location for hosting services due to its large market and operating margins of companies like Tencent.

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Meanwhile, behind the
Great Firewall
of China

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Juha Lassila says that
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 Great Firewall is not nice
 I needed a cross-continent CRM
 Some more stuff

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Photo: http://on.wsj.com/dFSI6p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project

4. Gallery of services in English
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Thomas Crampton:
http://bit.ly/h0n8B1

5. Gallery of services in English
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Thomas Crampton:
http://bit.ly/h0n8B1

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Juha Lassila says that
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 Great Firewall is not nice
 I needed a cross-continent CRM
 Some more stuff

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 Service may get blocked.
 Service may become way too slow
 GFW, VPN, bandwidth
General requirements:
• CRM
• users in both sides of GFW
• English, please
Infra:
• Which side? Both sides?
UI? speed? GFW? VPN?

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And the winner is:
 Baihui CRM = Zoho CRM hosted in China
 No issues whatsoever
• setup = easy, config = easy, speed = OK
• English UI 99,99%

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Conclusions
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Conclusion 1:
 Baihui CRM is OK for a SMB that needs a cross-continent CRM.
Conclusion 2:
 Chinese Cloud services are as good as services hosted in FI/EU/US/...
• ... milloin ne jyrää meitin? Tencent 0,5B USD operating margin.
Therefore,
 Ever thought about China as domicile for your service?
 The service must be new, better, .... (no wet dreams, please).
 You should know that there is a fast-track.to China
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Juha Lassila says that
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 Great Firewall is not nice
 I needed a cross-continent CRM
 Some more stuff

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http://www.scio.gov.cn/zxbd/wz/201006/t667385.htm
Government whitepaper about Internet

12. More info / Clouds in China
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More info / Clouds in China
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http://www.slideshare.net/GeeksOnaPlane/china-internet-metrics-chinanetcloud
steve.mushero (a) chinanetcloud.com
List of cloud service providers (will be provided later if more info from Steve/Ben)
• Alibaba?
• Baidu?
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