Leading global technology company, Zoho Corporation has launched a new version of Zoho Analytics, its self-service BI and analytics platform.

Among more than 100 other enhancements, Zoho Analytics has developed new AI and ML capabilities, enabling diagnostic insights, predictive analysis, and automated report and dashboard generation.

Additional advancements to Zoho Analytics include a custom ML model-building studio, integration with Open AI, and third-party BI platform extensions. The new version has added power, intelligence, and flexibility to serve a broader range of businesses and users.

Zoho chief evangelist, Raju Vegesna said, “Zoho Analytics launched in 2009 as Zoho Reports, long before technology had caught up to Zoho’s vision for business intelligence. Since then, Zoho has made considerable investments around automation, no-code/low-code development, third-party integration, machine learning, and Zia, Zoho’s in-house AI engine.

“The latest version of Zoho Analytics is one of the first solutions from the company that takes advantage of every one of these decades-long investments. The result is a democratised platform that is powerful, intelligent, flexible, and simple to use.”

The latest version of Zoho Analytics has advanced across four key areas including Data Management, AI, Data Science & Machine Learning, and Extensibility.

Data Management Hub

Zoho Analytics has expanded its data management capabilities, ensuring more accurate and applicable decision-making and deeper insights to accelerate business success.

By adding Stream Analytics and 25 other new data connectors to its expansive 500+ connector portfolio, businesses can access a central repository of data pulled from a broad host of databases for more precise and efficient analysis.

Within Zoho Analytics, users can now create and manage complex ETL data pipelines, ensuring data is properly extracted, transformed, and deposited.  

Zoho Analytics’ new Unified Metrics Layer enables users to define, standardise, monitor, access control, and catalogue all business metrics in a single pane. The platform also extends to serve in a Headless BI mode, allowing data apps to consume the same metrics in real-time.

BI Infused with Generative AI

Zoho Analytics has introduced Generative AI capabilities across the BI platform to accelerate the adoption of insights for a broad spectrum of user personas.

Diagnostic Analysis via Zoho’s AI-powered, automated insights engine, Zia Insights, now provides diagnostic analytics contextually, bringing decision intelligence into the platform. Ask Zia, Zoho’s Natural Language Querying AI copilot, now understands Spanish and French, allowing users to trigger actions and build custom data models in three languages.

Zoho Analytics has added Auto Analysis, enabling AI-powered automated metrics, reports, and dashboard generation. Seamless Open AI integration, enabled by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), drives more relevant and accurate query responses.

Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Studio

Zoho Analytics now features the DSML Studio, allowing users to simply and quickly build custom machine learning models, which, for example, analyse or predict customer churn.

AutoML, a no-code assistant enables users to build custom ML models easily. With ‌feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and comprehensive model analysis, it enables users to ‌train, test, compare, deploy, and manage models.

Code Studio, the new integrated Python code environment allows users to create custom ML models, as well as import Python models or externally built libraries, which can be executed within the platform.

Platform Extensibility

Zoho Analytics is more deeply extensible, allowing businesses to sync and standardise data stored across multiple tools and platforms for comprehensive analysis and insights. Zoho Analytics is a composable platform on which any analytical solution can be built.

New BI fabric enables businesses to consolidate insights from multiple BI platforms, such as Power BI and Tableau, onto one, easily accessible and searchable analytics portal.

Within Zoho Analytics, users can trigger actionable workflows, including URL and Webhook actions. The platform integrates seamlessly with Zoho Flow, enabling 500+ app triggers. No-code data connector builder, allows users to create custom connectors to bring data from any custom application. Partners can also build data connectors that can be published and sold on Zoho Marketplace.