At Zoho Analytics, we are committed to helping you go from data to insights to action in minutes. Q3 2025 marked a major milestone for us, with the introduction of Agentic AI - Ask Zia. And that’s not all, this quarter brought significant improvements across data visualization, AutoML, security and other core areas.
Here’s a quick roundup of the latest features and enhancements to help you make the most of your analytics. Explore all the new features!
Introducing Agentic AI - Ask Zia
Ask Zia has evolved into an Agentic AI analytical assistant that’s with you at every step of your BI journey, from preparing data to uncovering insights. With a human-in-the-loop approach, it ensures that you’re in command of the decisions, while AI handles the complexity.
Ask Zia now leverages Zoho LLM and OpenAI, two powerful Large Language Models that enhance accuracy, adaptability, and the overall conversational experience.
- Ask Zia for Data Engineers: Build, execute, and automate data pipelines without any coding. With Ask Zia, you can prepare, clean, and transform data using simple natural language, streamlining the entire ETL process with ease.Transform by Example further simplifies data prep, just provide sample outputs, and Ask Zia automatically learns and applies the right transformations to your data.
- Ask Zia for Data Analysts and Business Users: Powered by LLMs, Ask Zia now better understands your queries and recommends the most relevant visualizations. It offers diagnostic insights to uncover the why behind every trend and prescriptive insights to guide what to do next. Build fully functional dashboards using simple natural language prompts, and perform essential actions like sharing reports, scheduling email deliveries, and exporting dashboards—all within the Ask Zia interface, without switching tabs.
- Embed Ask Zia Anywhere: Ask questions, explore data, detect patterns or anomalies, and identify the key factors driving the metrics without switching platforms. Ask Zia is context aware, and insights are provided based on the user's role, data context, and access permissions.
- Build Custom Agents with MCP Server: Zoho Analytics MCP Server implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI models to seamlessly interact with Zoho Analytics and leverage its data analysis capabilities to build custom agentic solutions.
What-if Analysis in AutoML
With what-if analysis in AutoML, simulate different scenarios by adjusting key input features and understand how outcomes shift. Identify influential drivers that have the most impact on your target metric. This feature lets you interactively modify feature values and instantly view the resulting prediction impact without retraining the model.
New Viz Type - Gantt Chart
One of the most requested visualization types by you Zoho Analytics users, the Gantt Chart helps you visualize project timelines, track task progress, and manage dependencies effortlessly. You can now plan, monitor, and analyze projects more effectively. It also offers extensive customization options, including multiple chart styles, color schemes based on task status, and more.
Customize Image Background in Dashboard
Customize background images in your dashboards with new adjustment controls for brightness, contrast, transparency, and flip orientation. These options help you balance visual impact and readability, allowing you to create dashboards that look more cohesive and professional.
Enhanced User Management with Invitation-based Access
User management now follows an invitation-based model for adding members to your organization. Invited users will receive an email and must accept the invitation to join, ensuring better control, security, and visibility over user access.
You can invite users directly from Organization Settings, Workspace Settings, while sharing reports or dashboards, or by adding them to groups.
Expanded Databases Connectivity
Handle larger file uploads effortlessly with Zoho Databridge, now supporting all file types such as Excel, HTML, JSON, and statistical files. This enhancement ensures reliable data transfer, even for high-volume datasets, helping you bring your data into the workspace without interruptions.
Import Parquet and Avro file formats data into Zoho Analytics.
Import data from Cassandra, a distributed NoSQL database widely used for handling high-volume, high-velocity data. Zoho Analytics automatically normalizes the collections into parent-child table structures, making it easy to analyze your data once imported.
Zoho Analytics Mobile App - Access Log
Track and monitor user activity from the Zoho Analytics Mobile BI app through Access Logs. This enhancement provides better visibility into how users interact with reports and dashboards on mobile, helping you ensure data security, compliance, and usage transparency across your organization.
That wraps up our Q3 2025 updates! We’re excited about the road ahead as we continue to make analytics smarter, faster, and more intuitive for everyone.
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