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The soda office with more visits than WPS
When it comes to domestic office software, many people's first reaction is WPS, but not long ago, in March, the authoritative AI product evaluation platform AIwatch.ai released the high-profile "Global AI Product Growth Dark Horse List", showing that the number of visits to 360 soda office in March has surpassed that of the old office software WPS, marking that this office product integrating AI technology has won wide recognition and use in the market.
Although the access data has achieved the transcendence of WPS, many people are still unfamiliar with the name of Soda Office, it is actually a simple and efficient office platform launched by 360, integrating PDF reading, splitting, and image recognition text, picture to PDF and other functions at the same time, it also provides multi-person real-time editing function, supporting team members to edit and comment on the same document at the same time, and the same function as Kingsoft WPS, Tencent Docs and other office software are similar, but more emphasis on platform attributes, for domestic office users who have long complained about the complex membership system of WPS, the current popular soda office does make many people have the idea of trying.
It is worth mentioning that the Soda Office client has been renamed many times, from the original "Soda Office" to "360 Office Assistant" to the latest "360AI Office" all point to the same software, while the online platform has always been "Soda Office".
On the other hand, 360 also embeds the "360AI office" interface with the "online PDF toolset", which obviously overlaps with the functions of the web version of the "soda office", and what is more interesting is that "360AI office · The "PDF Toolset" also provides a separate PC for users to download, so many branch software, so that 360 can maximize the coverage of the office market demand, but also make users feel complicated when choosing.
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interface, emphasizing one-stop office
Whether it is the PC software called "360AI Office" or the online version called "Soda Office", the UI interface design of the two has strong platform elements. With the web version of the "Soda Office" power, in addition to the traditional division of recommendations, topics and rankings in the toolbar on the left, it has also added "AI pictures", "AI videos", "AI writing" and "AI design" four AI application categories, and the right side is the content interface, in addition to putting the main and popular tools at the top, you can also see PDF conversion, AI cutout and retouching, hot topics and other categories in the scrolling progress bar, and the bottom will display the applications of each category in the form of a leaderboard.
PC's "360AI office" is basically the same as the overall structure of "soda office" in terms of interface design, but there are certain differences in classification, "360AI office" toolbar classification is finer, and AI class is only "AI PPT" for the time being, but there is obviously a "AI intelligent PDF" item in the content interface on the right side, in terms of classification method alone, the author is more inclined to "soda office" classification design, in addition to the clearer classification organization, the number of applications feels much richer.
In fact, after experiencing it for a period of time, it was found that although the UI interface of both is biased towards the platform style, the specific positioning is obviously different, "Soda Office" has a wealth of third-party tools and software, with obvious ecological open attributes, and "360AI office" is more inclined to the integration of 360 internal ecological applications, on which AI PPT, AI intelligent PDF and PDF to Office and other functions require users to pay to open 360AI office members to use.
Compared with the two, for light office users who want to try the experience, the online version of "Soda Office" can obviously better meet the needs of consumers, while heavy office or 360 senior users can choose the "360AI Office" on the PC side.
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Search to unlock the key to platforming
Large and full of "soda office" features, in the face of dazzling office applications, novices often have a feeling of not knowing where to start, here I want to remind everyone that the search bar of the user's first interface, and then efficiently find the tool they want. If we enter "PDF splitting", it will automatically pop up the "Tool Recommendation" window, displaying various PDF splitting tools, and will give multiple parameters such as "whether it is free", "rating", "number of viewers", etc., users can choose the tool to use according to their own needs.
At a time when a large number of office software have begun to charge for members, "Soda Office", which integrates a large number of free office applications, can easily become a "treasure box" for light office users. All kinds of applications on the "Soda Office" platform also exist in the form of web versions, and users can directly perform various operations in the PC browser after clicking on it, which has strong convenience of use.
Applications such as PDF watermark removal, image to vector image, cutout to background, etc., can be directly searched through the search box to find related tools, and in the four AI categories of AI pictures, AI videos, AI writing, and AI design, they are somewhat similar to the current AI app store, which integrates AI application tools, and to a certain extent, its target is Wenxin Yiyan's "One Word Hundred Treasure Chest".
At the same time, Soda Office has powerful collaboration features. It supports real-time editing by multiple people, allowing team members to edit and comment on the same document at the same time, greatly improving the efficiency of teamwork. In addition, Soda Office provides file sharing and version control features that make it easy for users to communicate with others and manage documents.
Compared with traditional office applications, a large part of the AI tools integrated by Soda Office are "partially free", which means that these tool platforms require users to log in to use, and some functions are in the category of paid use.
From the perspective of the software platform, "Soda Office" has carried out traffic drainage for third-party tool software, and the third-party tool software provides some basic functions for "Soda Office" users, and also uses core functions to realize traffic monetization, and users can quickly find the tools they want with the help of the "Soda Office" platform, thus opening a win-win situation for the three parties.
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It's not just WPS that's benchmarked
Whether it is an office attribute or an application platform, "360AI office" is easy to think of WPS's "app store", but as an office platform under 360, the online version of "Soda Office" is obviously more popular with public users with a large number of free third-party application tools, especially the out-of-the-box design of the PC browser, which is very in line with the needs of light office users for lightweight software.
Among the many online light office software, QQ's "Help" + "Tencent Docs" combination can compete with "Soda Office" in terms of application functions. Also has the browser of the Internet entrance,QQ browser and 360 browser itself can open up the user account,Whether it is the promotion of online office software or user login,It has good convenience,But unfortunately"Tencent Docs" is not currently integrated with"Help a small favor",Therefore, it is slightly weaker in terms of platformization than "Soda Office"。
From this point of view, the "Soda Office", which took the lead in integrating its own tools and third-party resources, is indeed ahead of online office software, and at the same time, the integration and display of various AI applications have also allowed it to have the function of AI app store to a certain extent, which may become the direction of the development of online office software in the future.
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Editor's comment: The whole family bucket of the AI circle
Since ChatGPT set off the AI craze, Zhou Hongyi has frequently appeared in various forums and interviews, sparing no effort to emphasize that large models will become a new engine to drive productivity reform, and output many forward-looking views.
In less than 3 months, 360 Intelligent Brain has iterated the large model from 1.0 to 4.0. From March 29, 2023, when AI landed in 360 search, to June 13, 2023, when 360 Intelligent Brain was connected to full-end applications, it took only 76 days for 360 to establish a "large and complete" AI ecosystem, which includes a variety of applications, benchmarking NewBing's 360 search, Wenshengtu large model "360 Hongtu", 360 digital human, picture community "LORA360", etc., but such a huge ecology has failed to make much splash in the market.
For 360, the lack of phenomenal applications has caused it to have no right to speak in the entire AI field, and this time360AI search and soda office are popular, which may allow 360 to see the breakthrough direction of AI, at that time, coupled with the new "360 browser" combined with AI technology, "360 search", ToB instant messaging APP "push", etc., the whole family bucket of the AI circle may surface.