Zoho's latest Analytics release makes the semantic and ontology layers native

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Zoho's latest analytics release restructures the product around four pillars – trusted data and business context, agentic analytics and actions, intelligence everywhere, and governed AI – with native semantic and ontology layers between the data warehouse and the agents or users querying it as the architectural change carrying it. Tony Thomas, CEO of Zoho USA, positions the platform as "the intelligence layer for businesses", a trusted substrate that both AI agents and human users read from.

A quote from Zoho's press release:

Unlike competitors, the semantic and ontology layers are native to Zoho Analytics, and arrive in the box, not requiring a separate data platform or cloud data warehouse.

Sailas Sundaram, Head of Product Management at Zoho Analytics, briefed analysts before the embargo lifted. He highlighted that Zoho Analytics is now a single platform for data preparation, context, analytics and actions. Another important element is that it's composable – any...

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