Dingding has a new action.
On January 14, DingTalk 2021 co-growth and create the future conference was held in the cloud. Dingding officially released version 6.0 and announced a new evolutionary direction. Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said at the press conference: "DingTalk's goal is to become China's best enterprise collaborative office and application development platform, making it easier for small innovations in all business links and making progress happen."
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DingTalk wants to become China's best enterprise collaborative office and application development platform
DingTalk announced at the press conference that currently, the number of DingTalk users has exceeded 400 million, and the number of organizations including enterprises and schools has exceeded 17 million. Judging from the data released by Dingding, it is undoubtedly the largest enterprise collaborative office platform in China.
As the largest enterprise collaborative office platform in China, DingTalk is proud. But Dingding is obviously not satisfied with Da, his goal is to be the largest and best enterprise collaborative office platform and application development platform in China.
In order to achieve the goal of "becoming China's best enterprise collaborative office and application development platform", Dingding 6.0 has been upgraded in many aspects. Specifically, DingTalk 6.0 has 3 important changes
1. The role workbench is launched for personnel, finance, IT, sales and managers. And open 1300+ development interfaces (API), covering modules such as personnel, customer service, groups, and enterprise application connectors;
2. Advocate "thing-centric" coordination. By integrating the DingTalk collaborative office suite, a new collaborative office suite is launched, allowing users to break organizational boundaries and communicate smoothly in cross-enterprise cooperation, industrial collaboration, and consumer service scenarios.
3. For users who do not know how to program, a variety of low-code development tools such as Yidah are opened, so that users who do not understand the code can quickly develop new applications;
Among the three important changes of Dingding 6.0, the first and second changes are to further improve the efficiency of enterprise collaboration. Taking the role workbench as an example, it centralizes and presents key information in functional roles such as finance, sales, personnel, and IT, which can reduce the time to switch and query data in different applications. In addition, the administrator can independently add exclusive applications such as the management cockpit, financial statements, and sales reports to the workbench according to their functional requirements to create their own super workbench. The opening of DingTalk group chat, intelligent personnel, customer management and other basic capability interfaces allows individuals and enterprises to directly obtain DingTalk and Alibaba Cloud’s standardized technical capabilities in video conferencing, workflow, and forms, and develop and improve corporate efficiency. "Nail application" to enhance corporate efficiency.
Dingding 6.0 provides low-code tools for users who do not know how to program. This is the most noteworthy change in this version update. Zhang Jianfeng said: "Low-code development will define a new generation of development methods, allowing companies to take the initiative in digital transformation. Today we have the opportunity to reshape the entire software landscape in China, and take the lead in realizing a new software ecosystem and Development model."
The introduction of low-code tools may trigger a new IT revolution.
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Low code is an extension and deepening of Alibaba Cloud's integrated strategy
What is low code? Low code is a popular software development concept in the past two years. He refers to a development platform that can quickly generate applications without coding (0 code or no code) or with a small amount of code. Its power is that it allows end users to develop their own applications using easy-to-understand visualization tools instead of the traditional way of writing code. It has the characteristics of fast start-up, fast development, fast operation, and fast operation and maintenance. DingTalk low-code development means that users of DingTalk can use low-code development tools such as Yijia, Tritium Cloud, and Jiandao Cloud to quickly build business applications.
Xi Ge believes that low code is an extension and deepening of Aliyun's integrated strategy.
In June 2020, Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, announced for the first time the three major strategic directions for Alibaba Cloud's future development. The first is to "make a deep foundation", extending the definition of hardware from the Feitian Cloud operating system. The second is to "make a thick middle office" and deeply integrate new operating systems such as DingTalk with Alibaba Cloud to achieve "cloud and nail integration". The third is to "strengthen the ecosystem": build a prosperous application service ecosystem based on the cloud and new operating systems.
Among the three major directions of Alibaba Cloud’s future development, "Cloud and nail integration" is the top priority of Alibaba Cloud’s three future developments. It connects to Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure and undertakes various applications from industry customers. Alibaba Cloud focuses on A new operating system for the new digital age.
Zhang Jianfeng said, "Cloud and nail integration" is like a combination of PC and Windows in the information age. Enterprises need not only a new computing architecture such as cloud, but also a new operating system such as Dingding, which is a main body. This operating system makes it more convenient for enterprises to develop their own applications for big data, intelligence, IOT, and mobility. Alibaba Cloud's new operating system "Cloud and Nail One" is a productivity tool in the digital age created by Alibaba for the digital upgrade of the industry.
Since Alibaba Cloud launched the "cloud and nail integration" strategy, Alibaba has vigorously promoted the integration of the "cloud and nail integration".
It is a very good direction to build "Cloud and Nail Integration" as a new operating system, but how to enable users who use the "Cloud and Nail Integration" system to further improve their digital capabilities and achieve a productivity jump is more important after the integration of "Cloud and Nail Integration". work. Because it determines the fundamental value of the new operating system "Cloud Nail One".
We know that in the information age, PC+Windows provides a platform for us to enter the digital world, but what really changes the digital world is the various tools that people develop on PC+Windows and rely on the various application ecosystems they create. Such as e-commerce, games, social software, programming software, editing tools, etc.
Seeing this, we should understand why Alibaba Cloud launched low-code tools after the "cloud and nail integration", because it is to achieve a jump in user productivity, reduce enterprise application development costs, meet the personalized needs of enterprises, and enrich the "cloud nail integration" A powerful tool for application ecology.
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DingTalk will lead the enterprise service market into the low-code era
Xi Ge said in "2021, the Enterprise Service Market Enters a "Differentiation" Period" last week, in 2020, the "blowout" of enterprise demand will promote the development of enterprise-level services while also accelerating the transformation of the enterprise-level market.
In 2020, corporate services under the epidemic will no longer be limited to internal employee management and communication in the past. DingTalk and corporate WeChat are increasingly used for communication between companies and the outside world (customers, etc.). In the education sector, teachers, schools, and education bureaus have become accustomed to using corporate WeChat to communicate with parents and solve daily teaching problems. In the field of government affairs, it has long been the norm for office staff to handle various services for mobile users at any time through DingTalk and corporate WeChat platforms; in the corporate market, employees responsible for sales and after-sales service use DingTalk and corporate WeChat to contact customers anytime and anywhere , Handling after-sales and facilitating new transactions has become part of the company’s daily business...
In addition to corporate WeChat and DingTalk, Huawei, Baidu, and ByteDance have also begun to enter the enterprise market. It’s just that compared to corporate WeChat and DingTalk, Huawei, Baidu, etc. have different perspectives when entering the corporate service market. For example, Huawei Welink emphasizes full-scene security and collaborative office, Baidu Ruliu emphasizes AI capabilities and knowledge management, and Feishu emphasizes information flow. Efficiency improvement.
The enterprise-level market under the epidemic has begun to welcome more big players into the market and begin to show diversified service models.
Xi Ge believes that the enterprise-level market in 2021 will be further "differentiated", the division of players will be refined, and platform service functions will be more diversified. Similarly, the enterprise-level service market competition in 2021 will be more specific.
In this process, an enterprise-level platform that can better meet the individual needs of enterprises and provide better services will develop significantly and gain more advantages in future competition.
Returning to the low-code tool launched by DingTalk, it is essentially a service capability provided by DingTalk.
As mentioned above, low code can help users achieve productivity jumps, reduce enterprise application development costs, and meet enterprise individual needs. Obviously, with DingTalk's efforts in low-code areas, he will be able to better meet the individual needs of enterprises. Naturally, low code will also become an important part of enterprise-level market competition.
According to the data announced by Dingding, Dingding currently has 400 million+ users and more than 17 million companies, schools and other organizations. They are both users, resources and opportunities. Once low-code can meet the individual needs of this huge user and organization, and truly let them see the industrial value and efficiency of "low-code", they will definitely exert tremendous energy. They will also become an important force in promoting low-code reform and popularization.
No wonder some people say that DingTalk is carrying out a "low-code" revolution.