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by leros 881 days ago
I wouldn't use a Chinese SaaS simply out of fear that it might cause one my customers to not use my service. There are many Chinese things I would use but not SaaS software.
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How would your customers find out about this tho.
When a customer requests an audit of your supply chain as part of their due diligence. For legal reasons they might want to know who _you_ do business with, for example in case of international sanctions.
There are several different audits a company might need to do. Having a Chinese SaaS as a vendor would definitely prevent me from passing certain audits and doing business with certain customers. At minimum, it would be something I have to disclose and it would be a talking point, so better to just avoid it for simplicity.
If your company is subject to the GDPR, I think you have to list subprocessors and where they're located.

Also ping times will probably be an issue.