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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Zoho Connect: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect.md",
  "title": "Zoho Connect: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Zoho Connect is on the AI internal communications software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated August 2026.",
  "period": "May 2026 to August 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/",
    "summary": "Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: \"Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.\" Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Intranets and employee experience platforms"
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: \"Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.\" Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/"
    },
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      "title": "The AI internal communications software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-zoho-connect",
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      "name": "Zoho Connect",
      "site": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/",
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      "what": "Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: \"Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.\" Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants.",
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      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Zoho says more than 6,000 organizations and more than 1 million users use Zoho Connect.)",
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        },
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          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html"
        },
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-08-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Admins choose the AI provider behind Zia Writing Assistance",
      "summary": "Zoho Connect now lets administrators choose their preferred AI provider for Zia Writing Assistance. Users then get grammar correction, rephrasing, tone adjustment, title generation and content refinement from the service their organization selected.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI internal communications software map",
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        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html"
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    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-05-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Zoho Connect adds a Model Context Protocol integration for AI assistants",
      "summary": "Zoho Connect added an integration with the Model Context Protocol. Supported AI assistants can connect to a Connect network, get information, manage content and automate everyday workflows in natural language, within the permissions granted to them.",
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