EMAS Superapp Overview
A superapp provides a set of fixed core features and access to a range of independently developed miniapps to cater to different customer requirements. Alibaba Cloud leverages Enterprise Mobile Application Studio (EMAS) to help you build your superapp with platform capabilities (and based on which) for your partners to develop miniapps for your ecosystem.
EMAS is derived from the best practices of Taobao and Tmall, providing an all-in-one application platform with comprehensive product and solution portfolios. EMAS is the leading provider of application platforms in China with the largest market scale. It has served over 330,000 users globally, with 100 billion APIs called per day and more than 820 million active devices each day. You can get a superapp up and running with the end-to-end modern app components of EMAS.
Superapp Benefits
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Improvement for User Growth
Increase user activity and improve customer loyalty for you and your partners with easy access to a comprehensive range of services on a unified platform and an engaging experience on a streamlined customer journey
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Mutual-Development Partnership
Enrich the business ecosystem and scale up the user base with partners by supporting easy and low-cost miniapp development in your superapp, which enhances partner miniapps with platform capabilities and more market opportunities
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Unified Technical Specification
Simplify and accelerate DevOps of superapps and miniapps with unified technical specifications (such as the same login process, security and privacy regulations, and quality assurance measures)
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Centralized App Management
Provide enriched and consistent services to your customers with one superapp by integrating and managing your miniapps on the superapp platform at minimal costs
How to Transform Your App into A Superapp
This solution provides various capabilities to help you build a superapp with a rich ecosystem, including components for app infrastructure and business features, containers for running miniapps, and services for DevOps and operations.
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EMAS Suite
An all-in-one components kit providing miniapp containers that support easy development of multi-channel miniapps with near-native experience in web app development languages and a component-based framework to simplify and speed up superapp development
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Application Open Platform
A portal that provides developers with capabilities required for full-lifecycle application development (such as user registration, application registration, application approval, and application release)
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Application Development Platform EMAS
A full-stack platform that provides application development services, including development tools, DevOps for mobile apps, application middleware, and operation tools
This solution provides frameworks and platforms that support the development, testing, DevOps, maintenance, and various operations for superapps and miniapps across the entire application lifecycle.
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Superapps
You can develop superapps for businesses or customers, with miniapps from you and your partners in the superapp ecosystem to provide comprehensive services in various industry sectors.
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Superapp Frameworks
The miniapp containers (such as Uni-app and WindVane) help launch and manage minapps on one or more platforms. Basic components provide fundamental features for all apps on your superapp platform with a unified user experience in your superapp ecosystem.
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Superapp Platforms
The Application Open Platform and Native App DevOps Platform provide comprehensive services for you to build your superapps and miniapps or transform your apps into them, with unified testing, onboarding, monitoring, and optimization measures.
Join the Superapp Ecosystem by Transforming Your Apps into Miniapps
Customer Success Stories
XiamenAir
XiamenAir leverages EMAS to build a mobile mid-end, which helps add new functions and adjust the application architectures in real-time and significantly improves the iterative development efficiency of a series of enterprise-level applications (such as the membership service application). It is expected that the R&D efficiency of the mobile apps will be improved by at least 50%.
Haidilao
The Haidilao app was delivered with high quality under a very tight schedule based on Alibaba Cloud EMAS Superapp. The app utilizes Alibaba Cloud's Three Mid-Ends architecture to grasp users’ needs more accurately and improve the consumer experience.
Bank of Hangzhou
Bank of Hangzhou leverages Alibaba Cloud EMAS Superapp to replicate Alibaba Cloud's mobile app development management system with one click, unifying the technical specifications of the system, improving the development efficiency and user experience of the app, and winning positive feedback from internal and external customers.
China Southern Power Grid
Based on Alibaba Cloud EMAS Superapp, China Southern Power Grid built an end-to-end full-link app to integrate tens (or hundreds) of modules for different business sectors with unified development specifications, improving development efficiency and enhancing user experience.
Voice of Partners
Apply to Become a Superapp Partner of Alibaba Cloud
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Documentation
Learn more about EMAS Superapp and the miniapp development frameworks supported
Learn More >>Develop Uni-App Miniapps
Learn about a uni-app miniapp and how to develop, debug, and publish a uni-app miniapp
Learn More >>Develop WindVane Miniapps
Learn about a WindVane miniapp and how to develop, debug, and publish a WindVane miniapp
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