Zoho Introduces Advanced AI Capabilities to CX Platform via Zia
Zoho develops AI tools intended to support users effectively while keeping model complexity manageable to avoid additional costs for consumers.
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Zoho Corporation has introduced generative AI and work orchestration capabilities to its CX platform, all powered by Zia, Zoho’s in-house AI engine. These AI capabilities remove technological barriers to CRM adoption across groups of people working to serve the customer.
“Multiple people in an organisation need access to customer information, yet historically, CRMs have been relegated to only sales teams. As we democratise CRM with the launch of CRM for Everyone, we also need to build in capabilities that make it easy for anyone to build and extend CRM with simple prompts, without having to be an expert in the system,” said Mani Vembu, CEO, Zoho.
“This is where Zia’s advanced capabilities come in. Now, anyone can create capabilities, workflows, or reports in CRM with a simple prompt. They can also make their CRM look the way they want with Zia’s image to design capabilities.”
“A lot of enterprises look at their CX progress and wonder why they have trouble coordinating multiple processes across isolated departments,” said Keith Dawson, Director of Research, Customer Experience, ISG Software Research. “The promise of generative AI was that it would be able to prune away many of the old barriers to progress. Happily, AI capabilities like Zoho’s are delivering on that promise.”
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CRM For Everyone is generally available to global businesses. The platform enters the market having added deep Zia capabilities as well as two new features: Connected Records and Connected Workflows.
Deep Zia Capabilities:
- Report Creation with Ask Zia: Agentic capability wherein a user issues a prompt to create a report, which Zia builds on the user’s behalf. Zia creates the report according to that user’s permissions, and the user can visualise Zia’s build process in real time. The user can also interrupt Zia to make additional changes, then ask Zia to resume after the override.
- Custom Module Creation: A no-code experience to use plain language to customise the CRM implementation, such as creating modules, modifying field types, and customising permission configurations.
- Workflow Creation with Ask Zia: Utilise plain text prompts to create custom workflows. Zia, acting as an agent, performs tasks on the user’s behalf, such as creating requested workflows. Zia’s agentic capabilities make it easy for anyone to set up custom workflows using simple prompts.
- Image to Canvas: An image-to-design capability allowing users to bring an image to life by adding a visual design layer to the system of record, which is CRM.
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