What's New Monthly Digest: September and October 2017

New Connectors Released  

We have extended the Advanced Analytics connectors for the following popular business applications.

Zoho Creator  Deeper Analytics for your Creator apps	Microsoft Dynamics  Sales Analytics to empower your sales execution	Zoho Campaigns  Analyze your email marketing campaigns with ease
Teamwork Projects Execute projects backed with analytical visibility & insights	Stripe Subscriptions  Track and visualize key subscription metrics to grow your business

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September

Support for Importing OData feeds 

Zoho Reports extends support to import data from OData feeds. Users can import their data into Zoho Reports by providing the URL of their OData feed.

Click to learn more.

Shortened Embed/Permalink URL 

The Embed/Permalink URL generated for reports and dashboards using the  Publishing option has been shortened such that you can easily share them across channels.

Please do note that the previously generated URL's will continue to work without any glitches. 

Analytics on the Go: Introducing New Mobile Apps for iPhone and Android phones

Zoho Reports Mobile Apps for are now available for both iPhone and Android phones, in addition to the existing apps for iPad and  Android tablets.

With the Zoho Reports Mobile BI app, you can access the reports and dashboards that you create in Zoho Reports service, on the go.

The Zoho Reports Mobile BI application provides you with the following capabilities:

Interactive Analytics: Interact and explore reports through an immersive touch experience through actions like drill down, user filters, view underlying data and much more. 

Analytics on the go: Analyze the reports and dashboards, keep track of key metrics anytime anywhere from your mobile application.

Easy Access: Easily access and traverse across your reports through visual previews, powerful search and a variety of view categorization options. 

Collaborative Analytics: Collaborate with your colleagues by sharing reports and dashboards with fine-grained access control.

You can download the app for free from the Google Play store and the  App Store.

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October

New Dynamic Threshold feature for Charts

Dynamic Threshold functionality in Zoho Reports allows users to apply dynamic functions (value) such as Sum, Avg, Minimum, Maximum over a column in the reference axis or a different column. 

Until now, users could only set a static (constant) value as the threshold. Now they can set the Scope of the threshold to the entire chart or set the threshold value for each data point.

Click to learn more.

Setting Grid Themes at Database Level 

Recently, we released the Grid themes feature for Pivot, Summary and Tabular views.  Now you can apply these attractive themes at the database level. Themes that are set here will be applied to all grid-based views in your database.

Changes in the User Filters interface

We have completely changed the User Interface of the User Filters dialog to enhance the experience. The New UI will allow you to quickly apply the necessary customizations.

New Modules support for QuickBooks Online

Now we have extended support for the following modules in QuickBooks Online advanced analytics connector:

• Tax (Tax Code, Tax Agency, Tax Rate)
• Budgets
• Time Activity

Click to view the complete list of supported modules.

Also to note is, Zoho Reports now supports data import from QuickBooks Online US, UK, IN, CA and AU editions.

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