NetEase enters the enterprise application market with Youdao Cloud Collaboration

On November 4, domestic Internet giant NetEase officially released a multi-platform enterprise collaborative office application - Youdao Cloud Collaboration . This marks NetEase's official entry into the enterprise application market in the mobile Internet era.

Nowadays, the demand for new-era enterprise-level applications from domestic small and medium-sized enterprises and teams is growing explosively, but the development of the enterprise-level application market is far from meeting market demand. From this perspective, the launch of Youdao Cloud Collaboration is just in time.

Zhou Feng, senior vice president of NetEase and CEO of NetEase Youdao, expressed his optimistic expectations for the product. He said that traditional enterprise-level applications cannot achieve ideal market results in China, mainly because of their high costs and traditional product design, which cannot meet the "simple, mobile, and low-threshold" enterprise needs in the mobile Internet era. Youdao Cloud Collaboration is positioned to create a new enterprise-level application in the mobile Internet era. Its target users are small and medium-sized enterprises and small teams in large enterprises. Based on the three major product concepts of "focusing on core needs, mobile first, and paying attention to the experience of front-line employees", it focuses on team data management, attaches importance to instant messaging functions, and supports multi-platform interaction.

It is understood that Youdao Cloud Collaboration has been launched on all platforms, covering multiple terminals and platforms including PC, MAC, Web, iPhone, and Android. Users can experience it through the latest version of Youdao Cloud Notes. This enterprise-level "light" application product in the mobile Internet era consists of two main functions: team data management and team instant messaging. Team data management is compatible with major mainstream document formats. Users can easily upload, download, search, collaboratively edit, manage collaborative tables, and manage versions of team data through cloud collaboration. Instant messaging allows users to communicate with teams through different terminals, edit and discuss team data. Both functions are organized and implemented through the concept of "group".

Since the internal beta test began in June this year, Youdao Cloud Collaboration has been very popular. According to Jiang Weihang, NetEase's technical director and head of Youdao Cloud Notes, within 24 hours of the internal beta test invitation being launched, the number of applicants reached 14,577. During the internal beta test phase, Youdao Cloud Collaboration selected the first batch of trial teams. Among the 17,000 groups established by users, the number of daily active groups reached 4,800. Jiang Weihang said that the "simple, professional, and dynamic" characteristics of Youdao Cloud Collaboration can unleash the creativity of the team from the bottom up. He revealed that NetEase will also launch an enhanced version of Youdao Cloud Collaboration for larger companies with greater needs.

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From a strategic perspective, Youdao Cloud Collaboration is as important as NetEase Mail and Youdao Cloud Notes. Together, they will form NetEase's product matrix in the field of enterprise-level applications. In the future, it will become an essential application for collaborative office work for small and medium-sized enterprises and teams.

——Ding Lei, Founder and CEO of NetEase

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Our product philosophy can be summarized in three points: focus on core needs, mobile first, and pay attention to the experience of front-line employees.

——Zhou Feng, Senior Vice President of NetEase and CEO of NetEase Youdao

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We believe that through simple, professional and dynamic cloud collaboration, we can unleash the creativity of teams from the bottom up.

—— Jiang Weihang, Technical Director of NetEase and Head of Youdao Cloud Notes