21Vianet Signed With Microsoft and Tencent

Vianet Group, Inc. is partnering with Microsoft Corp. and Tencent, Inc. to enhance Tencent Weiyun by leveraging Office Online operated by 21Vianet.

The partnership will enable users of Tencent’s cloud storage service, Weiyun, to view and to collaboratively edit Office documents online. The service will increase the efficiency with which users can collaborate via the cloud and access Office documents via multiple devices.

Tencent Weiyun is the first cloud storage in China, as well as one of the world’s first, to feature an association with Office in 2016. In 2017, 21Vianet, Microsoft and Tencent are deepening their cooperation into PC-based services such as document management as well as real-time synchronization, editing, sharing and collaborating.

Office Online, which is operated by 21Vianet in China, enables Tencent Weiyun users to view, edit and share Office documents through a web browser. It features a simple cloud-based document process and no installation is required, further increasing usage scenarios of individual cloud storage.

21Vianet’s services, including operational and maintenance solutions enabling cross-platform technical support, streamline the use of Office Online for Tencent Weiyun users by eliminating technical difficulties such as account sharing, authentication and storage barriers. Millions of Tencent Weiyun users can simultaneously connect to, share and edit documents via multi-device access.

21Vianet’s partnership with Tencent and Microsoft offers Tencent Cloud users enhanced convenience of a mobile office anytime, anywhere as well as office collaboration among multiple enterprise users, thus enhancing working efficiency. Clients can directly edit Word Online, Excel Online and PowerPoint Online documents via Tencent Weiyun. All changes are automatically saved onto the cloud storage platform. It also simplifies cloud-based document processing procedures from cumbersome steps like downloading, saving and uploading.