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The CRM Zen Show Episode 178 – Year in Review & The Second Annual Zenmys

Zoho News

Here is a quick summary of Zoho’s 2021: 

And as crazy as 2021 was,  Zoho still managed to push out 9 new products and 1 new bundle.
Company growth has continued, with approximately 2000 new employees and over 60 million users.
So here is a month-by-month review of the major stories that we discussed on the CRM Zen Show in 2021. 

January

February

  • Zoho Social adds YouTube, Content Library, and UTM parameters
  • Zoho CRM allows the removal of system-defined fields
  • Motivator becomes part of Zoho CRM
  • Zoho Books adds SurePayroll integration allowing businesses to have a payroll option finally
  • Zoho Analytics rolls out revamped manage users interface and CRM subforms sync
  • Zoho PageSense introduces pop-ups & banners

March

  • Zoho Launches New ApplicationZoho Voice
  • Zoho Launches New BundleZoho Marketing Plus
  • Zoho Desk adds skill-based ticket assignment “Round Robin”
  • Zoho Vault revamps Chrome & Firefox extensions improving the UI and overall functionality of Vault
  • Zoho launches its 25 years of Zoho campaign, sharing the journey that has been Zoho thus far
  •  Zoho announces new prices for all applications and bundles

 April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

2021 Wish List Scorecard

  • 4.25 Wishes Granted
  • 3 Wishes Getting Closer
  • 8 Wishes Denied
  • (Red=NO, Green = Almost, Blue = Yes)
  • Applications – Because we can’t recommend these to clients until they are fixed, please focus on Fixing the Following Applications
    • MarketingHub
    • Bookings
    • Meetings (Waiting Room,  Recording Engine, Better Calendering)
    • Showtime (Deprecated Applicaiton)
  • Other things we’d really like to see happen in 2021:
    • All the things we asked for in 2020:
      • Integrated Tasking Engine.
      • Full Launch of CRM Canvas View for Records
      • Launch LMS Platform
      • CRM Subforms 
        • Syncing into Analytics
        • Mail merge into CRM email templates
        • Workflow trigger on new subform line
      • Filtered lookup fields in the CRM
      • Unified time tracking across all applications
      • Books-Inventory – enable edits to inventory tracking settings after transactions recorded for the item
    • And a few new things:
      • Standardized Interface in Zoho One for ALL applications
        • Settings
        • App Launchers
        • Anything that can be standardized, should be.
      • Unified Zoho One Dashboard

2022 Wishlist

  • Applications – Because we can’t recommend these to clients until they are fixed, please focus on Fixing the Following Applications
    • Bookings – Fix Calendar Sync (Real Time), and Invite issues.
    • Meetings (Recording Engine, Better Calendering)
    • Zoho Payroll – Please just acquire a real payroll company
  • Other things we’d really like to see happen in 2021:
    • All the things we asked for in 2021:
      • Integrated Tasking Engine.
      • CRM Subforms 
        • Workflow trigger on new subform line
      • Filtered lookup fields in the CRM
      • Unified time tracking across all applications
      • Books-Inventory – enable edits to inventory tracking settings after transactions recorded for the item
    • And a few new things:
      • Zoho Voice
        • Lower Zoho Voice Pricing
        • Zoho Voice Power Dialer
      • Increase API per minute limits in Core Apps, and daily limits in Finance Suite.
      • Release a polished version of Marketing Automation and combine Campains and Marketing Automation into a single product.
      • Increase file size limits in Deluge. (5mb is not nearly enough)
      • Increase row limit runtime max in Deluge.
      • Add a SELF SERVICE buy it now for APIs
      • Build more datacenters
      • Please Integrate Zoho Notebook with Zoho CRM

2021 Zenmy Winners

  • Favorite New application 
    • Zoho Learn
  • Favorite Telephony Solution
    • RingCentral
  • Favorite Marketplace Application
    • Smooth Messenger
  • Top 6 Viewer Choice Zoho Applications for 2021
    • CRM
    • Creator
    • Cliq
    • Analytics
    • WorkDrive
    • Books

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