{"id":9978,"date":"2019-09-12T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:33:32","slug":"zohos-office-suite-gets-smarter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/zohos-office-suite-gets-smarter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohos office suite gets smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">As far as big tech companies go, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/index1.html\">Zoho<\/a> is a bit different. Not only has it never taken any venture funding, it also offers more than 40 products that range from its online office suite to CRM and HR tools, email, workflow automation services, video conferencing, a bug tracker and everything in-between. You don\u2019t often hear about it, but the company has more than 45 million users worldwide and offices in the U.S., Netherlands, Singapore, Dubai, Yokohama and Beijing \u2014 and it owns its data centers, too.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/zoho\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"zoho\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoho <\/a> is launching a major update to its core office suite products: Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show and Notebooks. These tools are getting an infusion of AI \u2014 under Zoho\u2019s \u201cZia\u201d brand \u2014 as well as new AppleTV and Android integrations and more. All of the tools are getting some kind of AI-based feature or another, but they are also getting support for Zia Voice, Zoho\u2019s conversational AI assistant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vertical\" alignright=\"\" size-full=\"\" wp-image-1783352\"=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zia-Zoho-Sheet-Mobile-Voice-Query.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"708\"><\/p>\n<p>With this, you can now ask questions about data in your spreadsheets, for example, and Zia will create charts and even pivot tables for you. Similarly, Zoho is using Zia in its document editor and presentation tools to provide better grammar and spellchecking tools (and it\u2019ll now offer a readability score and tips for improving your text). In Zoho Notebook, the note-taking application that is also the company\u2019s newest app, Zia can help users create different formats for their note cards based on the content (text, photo, audio, checklist, sketch, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make AI helpful in a very contextual manner for a specific application,\u201d Raju Vegesna, Zoho\u2019s chief evangelist, told me. \u201cBecause we do AI across the board, we learned a lot and were are able to apply learnings on one technology and one piece of context and apply that to another.\u201d Zoho first brought Zia to its business intelligence app, for example, and now it\u2019s essentially bringing the same capabilities to its spreadsheet app, too.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Google and Microsoft are doing similar things with their productivity apps, too, of course. Zoho, however, argues that it offers a far wider range of applications \u2014 and its stated mission is that you should be able to run your entire business on its platform. And the plan is to bring some form of AI to all of them. \u201cFast-forward a few months and [our AI grammar and spellchecker] is applied to the business application context \u2014 maybe a support agent responding to a customer ticket can use this technology to make sure there are no typos in those responses,\u201d Vegesna said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"breakout\" aligncenter=\"\" size-full=\"\" wp-image-1783353\"=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zoho-Writer-Offline.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zoho-Writer-Offline.png\" 3854w,=\"\" https:=\"\" techcrunch.com=\"\" wp-content=\"\" uploads=\"\" 2019=\"\" 02=\"\" zoho-writer-offline.png?resize=\"150,87\" 150w,=\"\" 300w,=\"\" 768w,=\"\" 680w,=\"\" 50w\"=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width:\" 1024px)=\"\" 100vw,=\"\" 1024px\"=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other updates in this release, too. Zoho Show now works with AppleTV-enabled devices for example, and Android users can now use their phones as a smart remote for Show. Zoho Sheet now lets you build custom functions and scripts and Zoho Writer\u2019s web, mobile and iPad versions can now work completely offline.<\/p>\n<p>The broader context here, though, is that Zoho, with its ridiculously broad product portfolio, is playing a long game. The company has no interest in going public. But it also knows that it\u2019s going up against companies like Google and Microsoft. \u201cVertical integration is not something that you see in our industry,\u201d said Vegesna. \u201cCompanies are in that quick mode of getting traction, sell or go public. We are looking at it in the 10 to 20-year time frame. To really win that game, you need to make these serious investments in the market. The improvements you are seeing here are at the surface level. But we don\u2019t see ourselves as a software company. We see ourselves as a technology company.\u201d And to build up these capabilities, Vegesna said, Zoho has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into its own data centers in the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/general\/blog\/zoho-data-centers-in-europe.html\">Europe<\/a> and Asia, for example.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as big tech companies go, Zoho is a bit different. Not only has it never taken any venture funding, it also offers more than 40 products that range from its online office suite to CRM and HR tools, email, workflow automation services, video conferencing, a bug tracker and everything in-between. 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