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AI-driven project management with Zoho Projects Plus

Zoho Projects Plus’s hybrid project management platform employs artificial intelligence to help organizations make informed decisions using AI-powered insights, enhance global search with AI-based, unified search, and fine-tune creative content in projects with generative AI.
 
We use Zia, Zoho’s AI-powered assistant that caters to different businesses to generate personalized suggestions, derive customized insights, and enhance overall efficiency. Zia can derive simple insights from complex data, helping teams with contextual and relevant information to maximize productivity.
 

Search using Zia in Zoho Projects Plus 

Searching information using conversational language is more convenient than typing in specific keywords or phrases. Additionally, when more than one application is involved, searching required data in each application is time-consuming.
 
Understanding this challenge, Zia search in Zoho Projects Plus offers a unified search across all applications—Projects, WorkDrive, and Analytics. You can expect Sprints very soon.
 
It provides quick access to information and lands you on exact results. Zia employs NLP (Natural Language Processing), allowing users to search with conversational language instead of complex syntax or keywords.
 
 
Using Zia search, you can:
  1. Search Across applications:
  2. Searching for ‘tasks assigned to me’ in the All Apps section provides details on your tasks in Projects and also showcases task reports from Analytics.

  3. Search In one specific application:
  4. You can search for specific documents from your document repository by navigating to the WorkDrive section in the left panel or using #WorkDrive followed by the document name as the search term.

  5. Search Using a user’s contact:
  6. To view the activities performed by a specific user you can use ‘@‘ followed by the user’s email address. To filter the results further, you can also type a search term next to the email address.

  7. Search With fine-grained filters:
  8. The filter option at the top-right corner allows you to set filters to narrow down the exact information you are looking for.

 

AI in Projects 

Projects, our comprehensive project management platform, uses Zia to leverage productivity and enhance content in your projects.
 
 
Here’s a list of features supported by Zia in Projects:
 
Generative AI 

Zia, powered by ChatGPT, enables your team members to create new content or fine-tune existing content based on keywords. Users can select an entire block of text or a portion of the text from the description or comment and ask Zia for suggestions. Be it creating project scopes or redefining existing descriptions, generative AI does it all with ease.
 
 
 
NLP Search 

Zia Search eliminates the need for complex syntax, employing NLP to find the right data using natural language. Once it is enabled, users can ask questions in conversational language with different project information and get desired results.
 
 
 
Zia Insights 

As projects span months to years, deriving insights from all the project data is hectic and time-consuming.To overcome this, Zia Insights in Projects reads through your project information, analyzes existing reports, and generates valuable insights with comprehensive details, accessible from individual and global projects.
 
 
 
Zia Translate  

With transnational teams serving a global audience, language is never a barrier while managing your teams with Projects. Zia Translate can seamlessly translate user input into over 70 languages to help users stay in context. It helps improve accessibility, understanding, and promotes inclusivity within the organization.
 
 
 

AI in Sprints 

Sprints, our Agile project management platform, supports Zia and integration with external AI tools to improve the content and code. 

Generative AI tools


Zoho Sprints leverages generative AI with Zoho’s own Zia AI and external tools like OpenAI, Google AI studio, Anthropic, and Cohere. You can generate, translate, rephrase, summarize, analyze sentiment, and explain or generate code. 



Zia Insights

Sprints is AI-ready when it comes to analyzing your organization’s users. We can process the user data available in Zoho Sprints workspace and provide you with real-time insights, helping you understand user contribution, efficiency, and other insights from custom fields.
 
Zia is readily available in the Sheet View of Workspace Users in Zoho Sprints to provide Zia Insights. You can select a specific column in the sheet and derive insights on it using Zia.
 
 
 

AI in Analytics 

Analytics is augmented with AI capabilities through Zia, our AI-powered data analytical assistant. It supports AI-powered advanced analytics features to ease report preparation and decision making.
 
Ask Zia 

Ask Zia is a conversational AI assistant within Zoho Analytics that helps you go from raw data to actionable insights in seconds. You can converse with Zia using natural language to get meaningful insights as KPIs and powerful visualizations, that helps you quickly arrive at critical business decisions.
 
 
Predictive Analytics 

Predictive analysis uses powerful forecasting algorithms that analyze your past data deeply and thoroughly to come up with the best forecast for your future projects. You can use this model to understand how various factors influence data trends and plan your upcoming tasks with it.
 
 
 
What-if Analysis 

What-if analysis allows you to study potential outcomes when one or more variables change in your project. It helps with a powerful scenario analysis on your data, visualizing business outcomes and empowering decision making.


 
Auto Analysis 

Auto Analysis helps you process large amounts of raw and unprocessed data into valuable insights and identify trends. Analytics uses generative AI, machine learning, and natural language processing techniques to understand the meta information and schema of the data and generate reports and dashboards using it.


 
Anomaly Detection 

Anomaly, or outlier detection, is the process of identifying events or data points that exhibit a significant deviation from the standard or expected pattern. Zoho Analytics deploys robust machine learning algorithms like RPCA (Robust Principal Component Analysis) and various statistical models to detect the outliers. Identifying the outliers help pre-detect bottlenecks and arrive at alternate strategies for a streamlined project performance.


 

AI in WorkDrive 

WorkDrive, our content collaboration platform, uses Zia to create uniquely tailored content, remove ambiguity, and deliver specific context to your content almost instantly. Here’s a list of features supported by Zia in WorkDrive.
 
Generate content and images 

Zia AI helps you generate content and images instantly within the WorkDrive platform. Whether you're working on a blog post, article, worksheet, or presentation, Zia can assist you with content and image generation and enhance the quality of your content easily.
 
 
 
Comment suggestions 
 
Comments help team members collaborate on their documents, sheets, and presentations. Zia AI’s real-time commenting suggestions help users write relevant comments with proper grammar and stay in context. Zia AI can help rephrase, shorten, and punctuate your comments, ensuring clarity in your messages.
 
 
 
Generate cover images for media files 

Zia utilizes DALL-E, an AI system that generates images and art based on user descriptions. You can generate visually appealing cover images for your audio and video files based on your needs within the WorkDrive platform.
 
 
 

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