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Zoho’s Dual Focus: Serving Small Business and Enterprise Through Product-Led Growth and AI Innovations
Zoho’s #SMZ25 conference in San Antonio in September 2025 served as a platform for deep dives into the company’s core strategy, offering insights beyond product launches. My discussion with Raju Vegesna, the company’s chief evangelist, revealed a long-term, deliberate approach to business software. The conversation touched upon Zoho’s product-led growth, its distinctive dual focus on small business and enterprise, and its competitive stance against much larger players.
Zoho's Strategic Play: Targeting Solopreneurs With a New Suite of Solutions
Zoho Corporation, known for its self-funded and expansive business software suite, used its small business event #SMZ25 in San Antonio on September 3, 2025, as a platform to outline a new direction aimed at sole proprietors. The centerpiece of the announcements was Zoho Solo, a single application pitched as a low-cost, all-in-one entry point into the larger Zoho ecosystem. The company presented Solo as a way for micro-businesses to get started quickly while remaining on a path to scale into the broader Zoho offering.
Zoho Joins Major AI Players by Launching Zia LLM, Providing a Competitive Advantage to Zoho Customers
Zoho introduced multiple advancements in artificial intelligence. The prime announcement is the launch of Zia LLM, which includes three proprietary large language models. In keeping with the core principle that Zoho follows, which is to own its code and infrastructure, Zia LLM models are homegrown using the NVIDIA AI Accelerated computing platform. Zoho now joins a select group of global companies that have truly proprietary, foundational LLMs developed from the ground up.
Boomi – Orchestrate the Agentic Future, But Don’t Forget the Plumbing
Boomi is positioning itself as a leader in AI-driven automation by emphasizing its unified platform that integrates integration, API management, data management, and AI agent governance.
Amplitude's Vision for 2025: Building a Self-Improving, Unified Digital Analytics Platform
Amplitude is expanding its offering from a product-focused analytics tool to a broader platform designed to serve both product and marketing teams. The company outlined a roadmap that includes improved analytics, experimentation, and engagement features integrated into a unified interface
Simplifying Data Governance With AI: Key Insights From Dr. Imad Syed at Info-Tech LIVE
In an Info-Tech LIVE conference session titled “AI Lens – Human to Machine Interface” Dr. Imad Syed from PiLog shared how AI-powered, lean data governance can revolutionize your business. Simplify, adapt, and thrive!
Zoho Analytics – Version 6 Release
Zoho (www.zoho.com), a multinational software and web-based business tool provider, has announced the new release of their analytics platform.
Boomi Introduces Ambitious Roadmap to Revolutionize Integration and Automation
Boomi’s vision for using AI is to help its customers unlock the power of their data. Boomi believes that AI can add analytical, predictive, and generative benefits to data-driven decisions, but only if the data is connected, available, and correct. Boomi’s strategy is to use AI to connect the dots so even nontechnical users can access the data and make dynamic dashboards without many analysts or process steps.
Revolutionizing Data-Driven Decisions: The Cisco-Splunk Acquisition and Its Impact on CIOs and CTOs
Cisco consolidated its position as one of the largest software companies globally by completing the acquisition of Splunk.
Tips and Tricks to Setting Up and Configuring Your Kubernetes Cluster to Orchestrate Containers
This note outlines some tips and tricks that you should be aware of when embarking on the installation and configuration of a Kubernetes cluster. Such an endeavor should only be attempted if the need for an enterprise-grade container orchestration solution is required.
Informatica World 2022 Highlights
On May 24-25, Informatica held its annual conference in Las Vegas – the first time “in-person” since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enterprise Architecture Trends 2021
These are the trends we predict will be most important is it relates to Enterprise Architecture in 2021.
IBM Raises Price on Software Support; Shoves Customers Toward the Cloud
IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
HelpSystems Brings Top-Tier Data Classification Vendors to Its Product Mix
IT software company HelpSystems has acquired leading data classification software vendors Titus and Boldon James to enhance data security capabilities within its current suite of IT systems.
Alation Launches Active Data Governance
Data intelligence software vendor Alation has made the move to emphasize data governance amongst its solution offerings to make the data catalog a dynamic platform for “a broad range of data intelligence solutions.”
Lean IX and Apptio Partner to Provide the Holistic Perspective on Your Applications
Lean IX and Apptio have partnered to produce an integrated solution that better informs the strategic decision-making process with improved visibility into an application’s total cost of ownership and alignment to business capabilities.
Enterprise Architecture and Agile
From the business architecture perspective, agility is the ability to quickly change structurally and operationally to react to external changes or to create new business value. Enterprise architecture comprises business and service/application architecture – therefore, it needs to provide an environment for harmonized agility at each level.
Egnyte Protect Platform Provides Unique and Effective Cloud-Based Approach to Data Classification and Security
Egynte, a player in the cloud enterprise content management space since 2007, has recently emerged as a multi-faceted Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, now providing data classification and security options for businesses looking to identify, classify, and protect sensitive data.
Spirion Supports Shift to Remote Work with Data Security Offering
A leader in the data security and privacy industry, Spirion presents its swift response to the changing landscape of COVID-19 through a no-cost offering of data security tools.
PHEMI: A Data Privacy Tool for Healthcare Providers
PHEMI is a data privacy solution focused on keeping data-processing activities secure by redacting information based on the role of the accessor. Thus, allowing such data to be used for multiple use cases without compromising privacy.
Prove the Value of Enterprise Architecture With SMART KPIs
This note outlines some of the fundamental KPIs that you should measure to show the success of the enterprise architecture team. It also discusses how you measure them and visualize the result.