When they held ZohoDay in February, Zoho had briefed me in detail on their BI roadmap. I had given them some feedback. So did several other analysts during the day. They took that input and managed to work through the chaos of the recent COVID surge in India and launched their expanded BI platform this week.
Zoho Analytics is already used by more than 50,000 organizations. Interestingly, Zoho says 60% of existing users have chosen it as their BI tool even when running on non-Zoho applications and data sources.
I have excerpted below 3 new components demoed by Chandrashekar LSP, the Chief Evangelist for that product area. There is a definite emphasis on self-service.
It starts off with DataPrep, an AI-driven data preparation tool. Next at 4.35, he walks through Data Stories. It includes a portal builder (Zoho Sites) and presentation software (Zoho Show). Finally at 8.37, he presents on the augmented analytics layer which leverages Ask Zia, Zoho's conversational interface.
The recent enhancements make it even more intuitive to end users and should make it even compelling for use either with Zoho data (especially if an enterprise is using many of nearly 50 integrated Zoho One apps) or from other sources.
