Zoho updates its collaboration tools to help with asynchronous work

Zoho’s dynamic note-taking app, Zoho Notebook, is also benefitting from Zia’s capabilities, adding smart summarization, task management, automatic tagging of topics, data analysis from notes, visual chart creation from notes, and calendar creation for next steps. Notebook is closely integrated with Zoho Projects and WorkDrive, enabling users to contextually take notes, share, and collaborate with colleagues.

Workflow automation

Zoho Projects, WorkDrive, and Sign now can access Blueprint, Zoho’s visual workflow automation technology, enabling users to create scalable, repeatable project workflows. In WorkDrive, this new automation enables functions such as legal policy or contract review and approval, streamlining data collection for seamless onboarding, consistent HR operations, and more transparent task management.

Zoho Sign, the company’s digital signature and ID verification application, now offers the ability to create reusable templates, sales orders, HR documents, legal documents, and more, which can be automatically routed to appropriate team members. It also now offers knowledge-based authentication for financial technology companies, and controls for US FDA 21 CFR Part 11 to support the healthcare and life science industries. Zoho said this lets businesses average 80% faster document turnaround compared to requesting physical signatures.