InCountry for China

Multinational companies have achieved China data compliance for several years with InCountry’s fully sovereign solution operated by Alibaba Cloud. InCountry’s deep residency features extend global Salesforce orgs, ServiceNow, and other global apps into China for Chinese users and customers.

Achieve global reporting and analytics with real-time, anonymized syncing to a global Salesforce org and business intelligence infrastructure.

“International software products have always had a broad customer base in China and they are important for Alibaba Cloud’s product technology ecosystem. With customers’ increasing compliance requirements, we are hosting and operating InCountry’s technology to help accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises.”

Zhao Lin

Director of Alibaba Cloud Product Ecosystem Development

Full compliance with Chinese data
regulations

Important and core data collected in China must be treated in a very specific manner and is very cumbersome to export from China. Alibaba Cloud and InCountry’s customers are supported by full data flows and regulated field recommendations and have successfully passed MLPS, CAC, and other regulatory regimens.

Comprehensive services to extend a global application into China
with full data isolation

Migrate to Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud and maintain global reporting with realtime, anonymized cross-border

InCountry for Salesforce Cross-Border is hosted, managed, and available directly from Alibaba Cloud to ease migrations to Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud. Smoothly migrate your Chinese data into your new org and maintain global reporting with real-time, anonymized syncing.

Alibaba Cloud and InCountry’s comprehensive compliance regimen has enabled customers to acquire regulatory approval from the Cyberspace Administration of China to export anonymized and masked data to global Salesforce orgs.

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China data compliance with Alibaba Cloud InCountry Service

Features

Compliant with ISO industry standards, PCI DSS and other global industry standards
Meets local requirements for data storage in China
No changes on end-users browsers
Seamless integration with global SaaS applications

Benefits

Expand easily into the Chinese market
Enhanced value from your SaaS and internal apps
Reduce local compliance risk
Eliminate manual infrastructure and hardware maintenance

Alibaba Cloud InCountry Service with Hyperforce: org-to-org real-time synchronization with data masking

In China, InCountry’s managed package is sold, hosted, and supported by Alibaba Cloud as the Alibaba Cloud InCountry Service. Alibaba Cloud is the provider of Salesforce Hyperforce in China.

Dedicated single tenants in partnership with Digital China

In partnership with Digital China, InCountry offers dedicated single tenants that can run across two redundant Alibaba Cloud data centers, in the China cloud of your choice, or on-premises. Single tenants provide pre-allocated database capacity and fully isolated data.

How it Works

Data is synchronized across two Alibaba Cloud facilities in China

Identify fields to store in China and anonymization techniques for export.

InCountry manages data communication between application clients in China and foreign back-end apps.

Regulated data is isolated on Alibaba Cloud in China.

Regulated data is delivered directly application clients in China.

Deep services manage regulated data in China for reporting, email, files, and more.

Frequently asked questions

How does InCountry for China offering works?

InCountry’s platform becomes an integration bridge between customer’s Alibaba Cloud domain and the SaaS’s data center out of China, enabling customers to use their global apps in China compliant with data localization requirements.

What types of deployment models does InCountry support?

Based on the customer needs, InCountry supports multiple models ranging from only storing a copy of data in China to fully processing and storing the data locally.

Do we need to have an ICP license for using InCountry?

Yes, an ICP license or a permissible filling is required to use InCountry in China.

Does all relationships goes via InCountry or we need to have separate contracting with Alibaba Cloud?

The customer will need to source the Alibaba Cloud environment the InCountry platform will run on directly from Alibaba Cloud.

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