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title: Features
description: "There is an array of product features that will be an asset to the health of your organisation: - **User-friendly views**: Quality Clouds facilitates the end user experience through contextual engagement and step-by-step guidance. - **Multiple instances comparison**: A single display view…"
url: "https://community-staging.qualityclouds.com/qcdocs/qc/what-is-quality-clouds/features/"
updated: "2025-03-21"
category: What Is Quality Clouds?
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# Features

There is an array of product features that will be an asset to the health of your organisation:

- **User-friendly views**: Quality Clouds facilitates the end user experience through contextual engagement and step-by-step guidance.
- **Multiple instances comparison**: A single display view with more than 1 instance to correlate.
- **Technical debt**: KPI providing an estimate in hours of the development (cost) effort needed to solve the issues/violations detected in the platform. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/kpis-and-basic-terms/technical-debt/)for more information.
- **Quality of Cloud indicator**: Health indicator evaluated from the number of issues, severity of those issues, technical debt and overall quality of the cloud. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/kpis-and-basic-terms/quality-of-cloud-indicator/)for more information.
- **Export to Excel/PDF**: Results of your issues can be exported into common formats PDF or CSV files.
- **History of scans**: Traceability of scans and modifications over time.
- **Self-service**:Scans can be scheduled or executed on demand.
- **API (access data & trigger scans)**: Export issues and data to your own repositories or connect to JIRA or other systems. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/technical-functionalities/api/)for more information.
- **Best practices**: Recommended professional procedures that are prescribed to resolve the issue(s). This can be for Javascript, Apex rules etc. 
- **Bespoke rulesets**: Ability to define your own ruleset to align your SaaS platform development to your own coding standards.
- **Severity issues**: This verifies the portion of your critical data that is at a significant risk. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/kpis-and-basic-terms/issue-and-issue-severity/)for more information.
- **Write-off issues**: Ability to accept issues and hide them in the views. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/kpis-and-basic-terms/writing-issues-off/)for more information.
- **Line of error in code**: The number of lines of code analysed where best practices have not been followed.
- **Code creation and code change analysis**: The quality is analysed in the following way:
  - Grade of adherence to best practices defined by the main SaaS provider at the time of new functionality implementation or when modifying functionality defined by the main platform
  - Grade of adherence to the best practices defined by the industry standards for the programming languages used in the platform (i.e. JavaScript, C# and Apex)
- **Out-of-the-box changes**: Capability to understand the technical debt that is added into the platform by not following standard rules and best practices.
- **GDPR & data privacy issues**: Personal Identifiable Information subject to the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU. Click [here ](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/qc/data-privacy-and-gdpr/data-privacy-and-gdpr/)for more information.
- **Merging instances:** When you're merging instances, Quality Clouds makes the process smoother and helps you visualize what's in each instance.