DoNews January 14 (Cheng Mengling) On January 14, AsiaInfo Announced the acquisition of iResearch Market Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "iResearch" and "iResearch"). After the completion of this transaction, AsiaInfo Technology will hold 94.23% of the shares of iResearch Consulting and become the controlling shareholder of iResearch Consulting.

Through this acquisition, It will greatly enhance AsiaInfo's DSaaS digital operation and digital intelligence transformation business capabilities, and extend AsiaInfo's business capabilities from product development, solutions, system integration, delivery implementation, and digital intelligence operations to industry research, user research, data insights, strategy and digital consulting planning, forming a closed loop for customer service, significantly enhancing industry influence, and becoming a full-stack capability provider and leading enterprise in the digital intelligence industry.

As a leading provider of software products, solutions and services in China, AsiaInfo actively embraces advanced technical means such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, AI, and the Internet of Things, and actively promotes the digital and intelligent transformation of communications, energy, finance, government affairs, postal services, transportation, radio and television and other industries. In recent years, the DSaaS digital operation business led by AsiaInfo Technology has launched a series of products including Zhixiang, Zhilian, Zhiying, Zhixin, etc., using the operation mode of "solution + scenario-based SaaS application + operation platform + expert service" to dig deep into multi-dimensional data resources, help ecological partners conduct data analysis, and provide SaaS-based industry solutions to help improve customer perception, customer experience improvement, intelligent operation, value enhancement in many key industries. The market is growing, and the revenue of the DSaaS business has been doubling year by year.

iResearch is a leading brand in the field of insight research and consulting in China's new economy and industrial digitalization. iResearch is deeply involved in business decision-making service scenarios, driven by technology and data, providing customers with professional services such as industry research, user research, data insights, strategy and digital consulting and planning, helping customers improve their cognitive level, profitability and comprehensive competitiveness.

iResearch has many years of product accumulation and service experience in scenarios such as user network behavior insights and advertiser marketing decisions, and iResearch's data insight capabilities are combined with AsiaInfo's advantages in artificial intelligence and big data platforms, as well as the service scenarios of DSaaS business in data insight, intelligent operation, quality improvement and efficiency improvement, the two sides can form a high degree of complementarity between data products, data application capabilities and industry sectors, and continuously strengthen data service capabilities for different industries, boosting the sustained and high-speed growth of digital operation business.

AsiaInfo's industry-leading IT products, systems and implementation capabilities, coupled with iResearch's awareness of various industries and strategic and digital consulting services capabilities, can form a good business commitment and provide customers with complete solutions. At the same time, the combination of big data services and research consulting services can better meet the diversified needs of customers in business decisions and improve customer satisfaction. iResearch has built an excellent professional team of more than 200 people for industry research, user research, strategic consulting and digital consulting for a long time, which can further enhance The service capabilities of AsiaInfo to customers.

Through long-term, high-quality industry report release and professional service accumulation, iResearch has a strong brand influence in the fields of Internet, consumption, advertising, finance, high-tech and other fields, and has a wide range of customer base links and service capabilities, accumulatively serving more than 2,000 customers. AsiaInfo technology has a deep customer base in communication operators and multiple vertical industries. The synergy between the two sides will bring a large number of business opportunities and business transformation opportunities, and will reach hundreds of industries with digital and intelligent services.

Gao Nianshu, Executive Director and CEO of AsiaInfo Technology, said that AsiaInfo Technology and iResearch will give full play to their brand advantages and industry influence, fully combine their superior business resources, business capabilities and business teams, continue to create more competitive data operation products, comprehensively launch integrated solutions for industrial digital and intelligent transformation, and create an industry leader in excellent data-driven business insights, intelligent decision-making and digital operations.

It is reported that after the completion of the acquisition transaction, iResearch Will continue to maintain independent operations, and AsiaInfo Technology will continue to provide iResearch with support in products, technologies, operations and other aspects to help iResearch provide better services to customers in various industries.