Zoho updates its collaboration tools to help with asynchronous work

Zoho is updating its extensive range of collaboration products with new AI, workflow automation, and industry-specific functionality to, it said, “promote unified project management and support productive asynchronous collaboration for global businesses whose employees, customers, and partners operate on different timetables.”

Four core collaboration tools — Zoho Projects, Zoho Notebook, Zoho WorkDrive, and Zoho Sign — are receiving new features, some of which are industry-specific.

Zoho Projects, the company’s project management platform, receives natural language processing powered by the company’s AI engine, Zia, to enable users to easily search across Zoho’s apps. Then, within Projects, Zia Insights is able to create custom charts and analytics dashboards to generate task recommendations.