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# Product Features

> YiDA is an enterprise-grade application building platform powered by Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk, offering low-barrier, high-efficiency digital business solutions. Its core strengths include easy connectivity, powerful data capabilities, strong extensibility, and enhanced security, supporting a wide range of application scenarios and business models.

In today's information-driven era, the flexibility and adaptability of applications are critical for organizations. Choosing a platform that supports diverse application scenarios and business models is therefore essential. YiDA is an application building platform designed to meet these enterprise needs. This article introduces the basic features of YiDA.

## **Core Strengths**

YiDA's core strength lies in its foundation on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure and the DingTalk enterprise digital operating system. It enables every organization to easily adopt a new, low-barrier, high-efficiency model for building digital business applications. Every app built on YiDA is inherently interconnected, data-driven, and secure.

| **Core strength**              | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Easy connectivity**          | Over 200 high-frequency connectors bridge offline and online systems, deeply integrating Alibaba Cloud with DingTalk to eliminate data silos and modernize legacy software.                  |
| **Powerful data capabilities** | Support for billion-record data volumes lowers the barrier to business intelligence, unifies enterprise business data end-to-end, and delivers digital dashboards with a single click.       |
| **Strong extensibility**       | Open components, services, page customization, and open APIs provide enhanced extensibility that simplifies application building.                                                            |
| **Enhanced security**          | Backed by Alibaba Cloud's security foundation and hybrid cloud storage architecture, YiDA delivers comprehensive protection across storage security, business security, and data governance. |

## **Core Capabilities**

YiDA's core capabilities span four areas: basic capabilities, system capabilities, open connectivity, and high extensibility. See the sections below for details.

### **Basic Capabilities**

YiDA's basic capabilities offer flexible form-building features, digital approval processes for enterprises, and rich data processing and chart capabilities. Use these capabilities to quickly build personalized apps.

* Form capabilities provide a wide range of field types. Through data linkage, associated forms, and formula operations, YiDA enables flexible low-code visual design and page building. Two form types are available: regular form and workflow form.

* The approval process offers rich workflow design capabilities, including adding, deleting, and editing steps, and configuring step approvers, approval rules, conditions, and step actions.

* YiDA reports provide a wide range of data charts and data processing capabilities, with efficient visualization solutions that deliver data analysis and insights to customers.

### **System Capabilities**

Apps built with YiDA integrate with the DingTalk Organization Structure, allowing you to configure flexible and efficient permission control systems. They also support sending DingTalk message notifications.

* Manage permissions offers custom permissions configurations to meet flexible and efficient requirements. A layered, hierarchical permissions system ensures aligned responsibilities and unified control over data security.
* By integrating with the DingTalk Organization Structure and associated organizations, YiDA enables interoperability of roles, workflows, data, and messages across DingTalk organizations and supports cross-organization business collaboration.
* Through deep integration with DingTalk's messaging capabilities, apps support flexible notification methods, including Work Notifications, To-Do items, quick card messages, and email, to meet a wide range of business scenarios.

### **Open Connectivity**

YiDA unlocks the underlying capabilities and technologies of Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk, connecting existing enterprise systems with DingTalk to lower the barrier to enterprise digitalization.

Powerful connector capabilities:

* Connect to native DingTalk capabilities such as Work Notifications, To-Do, and attendance. YiDA also supports custom connectors, enabling resource and data integration between DingTalk YiDA and ecosystem or third-party applications.

* The YiDA platform exposes open APIs to users and ecosystem partners, allowing them to operate on YiDA data and flexibly build apps.

### **More Extensibility**

YiDA offers outstanding extensibility and maintainability. It integrates seamlessly with other Alibaba Cloud products to enable data sharing and collaborative work. YiDA also supports custom business workflows and data fields, providing more flexible business process management and optimization solutions.