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Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, today announced numerous enhancements to Zoho One, its all-in-one business software platform, featuring an evolution in the user experience that facilitates easy and secure collaboration. The new Zoho One offers a seamless experience across its 50 applications, putting the user and context at the core.

Originally launched in 2017 as a first-of-its-kind suite allowing businesses to run every aspect of their organization, today, Zoho One includes over 50 applications and serves over 75,000 customers worldwide, with an average of more than 22 apps used per customer. The software platform stands out for its privacy, security, and trust, underpinned by Zoho’s ownership of the entire technology stack. End-to-end control, coupled with deep integrations, ensures consistent reliability and compliance, equipping organizations with a competitive edge through seamless, intelligent operations.

Zoho One’s new features offer unification across three domains: Experience, Integrations, and Intelligence.

Experience – removing boundaries between apps

Zoho One’s new UX offers a connected, context-aware user experience:

• Spaces bring easier access to your everyday apps. Apps within Zoho One are grouped into Spaces across the top toolbar, and each serves a distinct purpose. Personal includes apps unique to the individual, including personal productivity software. Organization includes tools for company-wide communication (Forums, Town Hall, Ideas, and more). There are also function-specific spaces grouped by Department (HR, Marketing, Finance, and more). All of these spaces can be customized to better serve employees’ needs. The Spaces toolbar also includes a centralized search bar from which users can quickly search across the entire Zoho One ecosystem as well as automate actions within task-based workflows, without having to switch apps.
• Action Panel and Quick Navigation keep employees informed and on task. The highly customizable Action Panel provides the user access to their full day with one click, no matter which Zoho app they’re in. Add from a variety of app sources to build a panel that easily shows upcoming meetings, uncompleted tasks, scheduled Cliq messages or emails, and more.
• Dashboard and Boards remove boundaries between apps. Zoho One’s expanded dashboard consolidates data from all connected apps, even third party, into a single location that can be personalized using pre-existing or custom widgets. Users can exercise control over the entire software suite from this centralized hub, including support for additional dashboards from specific apps.
• A new approach to workplace collaboration. Today’s announcement includes the addition of Vani to Zoho One, offering an all-in-one, visual-first intelligent virtual space. With Vani, Zoho One users can brainstorm, plan, and innovate together – across things like flowcharts, whiteboards, diagrams, mind mapping, and video calling.

Integrations – delivered natively

When anchored by Zoho One, a company’s tech stack benefits from the software’s security features like smart offboarding, easy management of employee devices, and support for encryption keys. Furthering security is Zoho’s native integration, reducing entry points for potential breaches and streamlining anomaly detection, and Zoho Directory, providing admins a secure platform for workforce identity and access management, included as part of Zoho One.

Zoho One offers native integration with Zoho apps and third-party software. Various types of integrations are supported:

• Unified integrations. Zoho One delivers native integration between other Zoho solutions and third-party software. These can be monitored and configured from an integrations panel within Zoho One. Users can also create integration flows and monitor their usage.
• Foundational integrations. Zoho One offers a Unified Portal, a customizable space where users can consolidate all of their application-specific portals, allowing for control over multiple apps from a single screen. The Unified Portal support all third-party software portals, even those from custom apps.
• Pragmatic integrations. Important support tasks, such as domain verification, can be configured with their corresponding integrations, ensuring the proper authentications take place.
• Outcome-based integrations. Workflows that extend across many steps often require multiple apps, and Zoho One allows for the proper integrations along the way. One example is Zoho One’s new Smart Offboarding tool: From within a single workflow, employees can easily transfer department ownership to a new department head, manage employee device data from a single menu, and decide what happens to a user’s application data to ensure no loss of access.

Intelligence – unified and contextual

Zoho’s AI assistant, Zia, is now prominently featured across all of Zoho One.

• Intelligence aggregated. Zia can aggregate and contextualize data from multiple platforms—such as Google Workspace or third-party apps—into a single, actionable answer. This federated intelligence enables organizations to make faster, more informed decisions, eliminating data silos and enhancing productivity.
• Hub for intelligence. Zoho’s intelligent content management system, Zia Hubs, has its own dedicated space within Zoho One alongside pre-created, dedicated workflows that automatically bring more utility to company data. Now, executed contracts from Zoho Sign and recorded Zoho Meetings conversations both automatically go into Zia Hubs folders, allowing contract details and relevant conversational details to be surfaced in a Zia Search.
• Integrated and Contextual intelligence. Ask Zia is easily accessible within the bottom toolbar, allowing fast, prompt-based searches, pulling relevant data across multiple Zoho apps to provide a full picture of a user’s schedule, unfinished tasks, or the latest action items from a meeting. Given the broad set of apps that are deeply integrated into Zoho One, Ask Zia can also deliver highly contextual intelligence to guide decision-making.

More Functionality, More Apps, The Same Price

Despite the addition of these new features and Vani, Zoho’s visual collaboration platform, pricing for Zoho One remains at $37 per month per user. Zoho One is immediately available globally.

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