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Business intelligence and analytics

Business analytics empowers organizations to make smart decisions with data-driven insights. Organizations can now study years worth of data and consume the results to streamline their business operations, optimize overall performance, and also gain a competitive advantage. 

Analyzing data helps:
  1. Discover patterns
  2. Spot growth opportunities
  3. Find business trends
  4. Forecast future growth
  5. Predict bottlenecks in advance
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Analytics in Zoho Projects Plus is a self-service business intelligence platform and analytics software that offers breakthroughs in data management, empowering you to create dashboards and analyze data. It helps you import your existing data and create stunning data visualizations and discover hidden insights in minutes.
 
In ProjectsPlus, Analytics helps you track hybrid project reports, from Projects and Sprints at a single space. It helps analyze project data, spot trends early, and arrive at informed decisions.



Business Case 

Idea
A logistics firm runs its structured projects using Projects and agile projects using Sprints in Zoho Projects Plus. The cumulative project data from both these applications are evaluated using Analytics. Here’s a list of analysis they carried out with their project metrics:
  1. Discover peak season based on the volume of projects and expand workforce to meet the demand.
  2. Track recurring customers from the project’s task/work item details to pitch loyalty programme.
  3. Predict demand based on past project data and tap consumer market.
  4. Spot employees who are top performers and encourage them with incentives.
  5. Analyze delayed projects and find the pattern of delay.  
 
Here are some of the core features of Analytics:
 
Create your own reports and dashboards in over 25+ chart types along with pivot, summary and tabular views.
Share reports and dashboards with your colleagues.
Set up Alerts to get notifications on immediate changes in your key business metrics.
Schedule and email your reports whenever you want.
Export your reports as PDF, HTML, Excel, CSV, and image files.
Embed your reports on websites, webpages, blogs, etc.



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