Zoho aspires to deliver the operating system for businesses with the goal of driving customers’ margins by unifying business operations on one single technology platform. The most important part for delivering this vision is Zoho One.
Zoho One is Zoho’s premier bundle of business applications. Currently, Zoho One consists of around 55 applications that support sales, marketing, email and collaboration, helpdesk and customer support, finance, HR, analytics, and business processes. Of these, customers use on average 22.
Zoho One can be licensed as an all-in-one platform but also be part of a journey that starts at first licensing one application, then more and then moving to Zoho One directly or via licensing one of the other suites (such as CRM+, Projects+, Finance+, or Workplace, and others).
The most used applications in Zoho One are CRM, Analytics, Books, Meeting, and Workdrive.
At the time of writing this, Zoho One has around 75,000 customers, which makes it Zoho’s most popular product. The largest customer has around 32,000 employees. Customers are distributed worldwide in more than 160 countries, with the highest numbers in the United States and the European Union.
Organizations that have implemented Zoho One are from a variety of industries, although the top five industries are the high tech, professional services, Real Estate and Construction, Retail, and Banking/Financial Services/Insurance industries.
On November 18, 2025, Zoho announced many enhancements to the suite. The enhancements are focusing around three key areas:
· Experience
· Integrations
· Intelligence
The biggest enhancement in the experience category is that Zoho essentially removes the boundaries between the 55 apps that are part of the suite with a concept that the company calls “spaces”. The objective of spaces is to unify parts of the overall user experience and thereby increase user productivity. A space groups a number of apps that are relevant for one or more purposes via a horizontal toolbar. It provides users with apps that are necessary to achieve business objectives in one single place. Spaces can be personal, e.g. for increasing one’s individual productivity, organizational, or departmental. Zoho delivers a number of customizable spaces. Customers can create their own spaces to better serve their needs and processes.
Similar to this, boards remove analytical boundaries between the apps. A board is essentially a dashboard that can work across data from different applications. A good example for this are tasks, that can live in different applications and that can be brought into one single UI that allows contextual filtering via a board.
Similar to the boards, and to further facilitate the navigation and use across Zoho One, Zoho implemented an action panel and a quick navigation option, with the action panel aggregating action items across apps and the quick navigation speeding up navigation across applications.
Last, but not least, Zoho added Vani to Zoho One. Vani is a visual team space that enables teams to collaborate on documents and tasks.
On the integration side, Zoho now offers a view into all Zoho-to-Zoho integrations in one spot and offers to unify application-specific portals into one single portal that offers a central workplace across them. This portal covers Zoho applications, external applications, and custom-built applications. In addition, Zoho offers what the company calls pragmatic integrations. Pragmatic integrations allow to centrally configure integrations across Zoho One to external services, with domain verification being the first example. Last, but not least, Zoho introduces “outcome-based” integrations, which are basically cross-application workflows. With outcome-based integrations, customers can create cross-application workflows via a Zoho-provided wizard. This wizard takes care of the backend integrations while customers can concentrate on achieving the outcomes they want to see. This gets supported by an MCP server that exposes around 200 Zoho and third party apps ready to act as agents and MCP clients.
In addition, Zoho unifies intelligence across Zoho One. AI capabilities across the apps are now available via Zoho One. Zia Hubs got enhanced to get its own space in Zoho One and supplementary workflows that make company data utilized. Zoho’s Ask Zia will soon be available in the bottom toolbar, allowing prompt-based searches across apps and providing contextual intelligence to guide decision making.
Last, but not least, Zoho added a number of more technical enhancements, ranging from enabling customer-defined encryption, directory stores, cloud LDAP, cloud RADIUS and more.
Analysis
Zoho positions Zoho One as the operating system for businesses. While this is a bold statement, it was already largely true before this release. Still, since 2023, Zoho One has evolved a lot in terms of breadth and depth of its functional coverage without Zoho making much fanfare about it. The increasing number of customers (75,000, up from around 40,000 in 2023) and the fact that customers on average use 22 of its applications now are testament to the suite’s success. Zoho One certainly hits a sweet spot, also with its attractive pricing.
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