IQVIA™ announced the first life sciences industry collaboration with Alibaba Cloud in China. IQVIA and Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, will be providing solutions hosted in Mainland China leveraging Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud. This will enable customers with a path to begin using or extending their investments on the best-in-class platform for engaging with their customers.

IQVIA will leverage its deep experience in developing life science technologies to provide customers with rich clinical to commercial products locally hosted on Alibaba's industry leading public cloud in China. This includes IQVIA's industry leading Orchestrated Customer Engagement suite of products for commercial customer engagement, designed to be compliant with Chinese data residency regulations. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ combines industry-leading data, advanced analytics, innovative technologies, and domain expertise, enabling clients to uncover fresh insights and achieve transformative change to succeed in rapidly evolving global markets.

The partnership with Alibaba Cloud will enable IQVIA to accelerate and expand the development of solutions tailored to China's localized needs and delivered via the Alibaba Cloud.