<p><strong>Ping An Cloud Included in The Forrester Wave TM: Full-Stack Public Cloud Development Platforms In China</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Forrester Research, a well-known research and advisory firm in the world, recently published The Forrester Wave TM: Full-Stack Public Cloud Development Platforms In China, Q3 2018, with Ping An Cloud of Ping An Technology included for the first time. The report selected 12 cloud service providers that matter most in China based on feedback in customer interviews and 33criteria, which were grouped into three buckets: current offering, strategy, and market presence. Since the approval in 2013, Ping An Cloud has transformed from a platform providing services to the group to a platform empowering other companies, and its rapid development has drawn much attention. Being listed in the report marks that Ping An Cloud has become a mature and reliable cloud service provider, with its products and services widely recognized in the industry.</p> <p><img src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20181109145812-1796b18c972d.png" /></p> <p>Forrester defines Ping An Cloud as &ldquo;<strong>a new disruptor with great potential</strong>&rdquo; who has become a leader in the financial technology industry and leverages the ecosystems of finance, healthcare, and smart cities built by Ping An Group to provide comprehensive solutions for insurance, banking, internet finance, and healthcare on its platform. As a new cloud service provider rapidly growing in recent years, Ping An Cloud shows that the financial group is able to implement the technology transformation.</p> <p><strong>According to the report, </strong><strong>Ping An Cloud gets the highest scores in terms of security and compliance certifications, support services, local availability, pricing strategy, revenue growth.</strong></p> <p>Security and compliance commitment: As a subsidiary of Ping An Group which is a comprehensive financial group, Ping An Cloud gains a deep understanding of security and compliance, with its national A-level computer rooms and data centers of Tier3+ standards meeting the highest requirements for financial security. It has passed 9 domestic and foreign authoritative certifications, including classified protection of information security-Class 3 and 4, ISO27018, and trustworthy cloud certification. In addition, it has recently become one of the four cloud service providers that have passed the CSA CS-CMMI 5 and the first cloud service platform in the financial industry that has passed the certification.</p> <p>Strong technical support and service system: The report notes that Ping An Cloud &ldquo;<strong>is one of the few firms in our evaluation that received positive feedback in all three customer interviews</strong>&rdquo;. Ping An Cloud provides not only cloud products, but also quality services. The end-to-end service system covering services from pre-sales consultation to after-sales services enables Ping An Cloud to provide timely support for customers. The one-stop portal allows online self-service trial, purchase and use of more than 70 cloud products through one account.</p> <p>Rapid growth: In connection to Ping An Technology&rsquo;s world leading products such as AI and big data, Ping An Cloud has created more intelligent cloud products and services, and expanded from the financial field to the broader healthcare and smart city fields, to provide well-developed and customized solutions for all industries and ensure the application of technologies in industries. Its revenue has doubled for two consecutive years, which shows the market recognition received by Ping An Cloud and a brighter prospect of its future development.</p> <p>Over the past five years, Ping An Cloud has transformed from a platform providing technical support for the group into a mature cloud service platform. With the unique advantages in products, strategies and markets, Ping An Cloud will grow faster and become more promising in the next five years.</p>