Zoho recently announced updates to Zoho Workplace, a
software platform that brings together collaboration, productivity and
communications tools and integrates them into other business processes.
Created around a business mail and
cloud office suite, Zoho Workplace comprises nine integrated applications,
built on a common data model and unified through search and AI across a single
dashboard, allowing customers to solve business problems quickly and
collaboratively.
The updates to Workplace include:
Mail (Business Mail) – Users can now make audio or video calls within the app, edit document attachments in Zoho Writer, meet online with contacts and access all email accounts from Zoho Mail.
Cliq (Messaging) – Users can check in or check out and set custom statuses, collaborate with external stakeholders, connect with teams via group audio or video calls and view message-read statuses.
Meeting (Conferencing) – Users can schedule recurring or one-off meetings and set multiple email reminders from web and mobile devices. Now supporting 16 languages, Meeting is integrated with Zoho Projects, Bookings, CRM, and others.
Connect (Social Intranet) – Connect integrates with human resource information systems, including Zoho People.
Writer (Word Processing) – Users can convert documents to fillable forms, restrict comment visibility, gather document engagement insights, and enable an AI-based writing assistant.
Show (Collaborative Presenting) – Show is integrated with Atlassian, Unsplash, and Humaans, and features an organisation-wide slide library and data linking, allowing users to connect live data to slides.
Sheet (Spreadsheet) – Users have access to the latest functions for lookup and match and can view historic data with race charts, create drop-downs with predefined values and link cell ranges.
WorkDrive (Cloud Document Management) – WorkDrive now features unified search and TrueSync, which allows users to access files without worrying about hard drive space.
ShowTime (Online Training) – ShowTime supports branding and white-labelling. Users can set roles and privileges for their training team and gather training insights.
Platform: Most computers and mobile
devices with up-to-date Internet browsers.
Expect to pay: Pricing starts at
R45 per user per month for the standard version and R90 per user per month for
the professional version.
