By Modupe Gbadeyanka
One of the products of Zoho Corporation, Zoho One, witnessed a 115.2 per cent growth in Nigeria from 2020 to 2021, data from the leading global technology company has shown.
Over the past two years alone, the platform has grown 150 per cent, with 37.5 per cent of new Zoho One customers coming from mid-market and enterprise businesses.
In addition, the application now supports about 50,000 organisations across more than 160 countries, with license upgrades by customers increasing by 92 per cent.
These figures spotlight the market’s move away from static legacy applications and toward end-to-end solutions that empower organisations to be agile, scale, and adapt to changes in their industries.
According to the President of Zoho Corporation in the MEA region, Mr Hyther Nizam, “Nearly half of Zoho One customers use 20 or more apps across functions, integrating their organisation and reporting higher returns.”
“SMEs and startups especially benefit from an all-in-one solution that allows them to scale without data silos, integration hassles or multi-vendor contracts and also bring down the total cost of ownership,” he added.
Launched in 2017 as a first-of-its-kind suite with 35 integrated applications, Zoho One now offers a comprehensive, scalable platform comprising 45 unified applications with end-to-end services, including AI, business intelligence, contextual communication, and unified search, allowing businesses to run every aspect of their organisation from sales and marketing to finance, HR, and analytics.
“Siloed systems cause business silos,” Mr Nizam stated, adding that, “An integrated organisation, therefore, is typically a reflection of integrated systems underneath. This is what we see with our own customers.
Expansion and unification
Over the last five years, Zoho One has added 10 new apps and countless services in dialogue with businesses to meet their evolving needs while acutely reducing customers’ total cost of ownership in adopting and maintaining the platform. It has the scope and power to run any business out of the box while carrying the tools necessary for organisations to customise the solution to fit their requirements.
Zoho One is built entirely in-house on a single technology stack, resulting in a truly unified, end-to-end platform with hundreds of integration points across its applications. Consistent, ground-up unification provides businesses with a deeper connection between sales, marketing, customer support, accounting, human resources, and other functions. Its upmarket growth is made possible by the platform’s capacity to integrate tightly with third-party solutions without causing data and operational silos or impacting the efficiency of a business’s existing system.
Pricing and Availability
Zoho One is available immediately with a flexible user price of N19,500/month or an employee pricing of N7,800/month.
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