As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series.
Zoho launched today a new version of Zoho Analytics—Zoho's self-service BI and analytics platform. https://www.zoho.com/analytics/ It packages over 100 enhancements including new AI and ML capabilities, enabling diagnostic insights, predictive analysis, and automated report and dashboard generation.
Zoho Analytics, first launched as Zoho Reports in 2009, has quietly become a major player in the crowded Business Intelligence market. It is the second most used application in the Zoho One suite (which I have written about often over the last few years). That’s particularly impressive when you consider the suite has over 50 applications.
In addition to 17,000 direct customers of the analytics capabilities, several ISV and SI partners have adapted the analytics engine for their platforms and as a result Zoho can claim 70,000 analytics customers. Importantly, that also translates to a wide breadth and depth of data which Zoho’s over 500 connectors have access to. That range also positions it well for the growing Generative AI market, especially as customers look for cross-functional and vertical use cases.
As part of the launch, I had a chance to record Sailas Sundaram, Senior Product Manager of the Zoho BI Platform, as he summarizes some of the new capabilities. He does so crisply across these 4 categories.
He goes through a long list of features across the 4 areas including the pipeline builder which enables data engineers to orchestrate and monitor the data flow from source to destination. He discusses integration with OpenAI, MS Teams and Slack and adding support for more regional languages to Ask Zia, their natural language assistant.
He covers DSML Studio with AutoML, a no-code assistant, to easily build custom ML models. He explains the BI fabric which allows for combing insights from multiple BI platforms, such as Power BI and Tableau, onto one, easily accessible analytics portal.
Lots more in the rapid fire 20 minute video. Very nicely done.
