Zoho Unveils Projects Plus to Elevate Project Management in MENA

Zoho Corp. has introduced Projects Plus, a collaborative project management platform designed to enhance efficiency for mid-sized and large businesses across the MENA region. With seamless integration of Zoho Projects, WorkDrive, Analytics, and Sprints, Projects Plus simplifies workflows, improves file management, enables real-time business intelligence, and supports both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.

Building on the success of Zoho Projects, which experienced 55% of new users migrating from Microsoft Project and JIRA in 2024, Projects Plus is designed to tackle operational complexities faced by businesses in the MENA region. Zoho Projects remains one of the company’s best-selling products in the UAE, achieving 33% annual revenue growth since 2023, with the Middle East and Africa (MEA) emerging as its fastest-growing market globally. The new Projects Plus platform expands Zoho’s capabilities in data-driven decision-making, AI-powered automation, hybrid project management, and enhanced collaboration, enabling businesses to optimize performance and achieve better outcomes.

Zoho Projects Plus integrates advanced AI and predictive analytics, helping businesses transition from intuition-based decision-making to data-driven project management. By leveraging insights from time tracking, budgeting, task completion, and team performance, the platform provides real-time risk assessment, timeline forecasting, and resource planning to enhance efficiency and minimize project delays. The AI-powered Zia assistant automates data analysis, identifies bottlenecks, improves resource allocation, and optimizes key project management functions, allowing enterprises to streamline operations and maximize productivity.

“Like many of our enterprise solutions, Zoho Projects Plus was developed to deliver supreme value and meet the needs our customers had been demonstrating within our software suite, particularly between Zoho Projects and Zoho Analytics,” says Hyther Nizam, President Middle East and Africa (MEA), Zoho. “Projects Plus synthesises the latest AI-driven tools, data-first analytics, and privacy-focused protections into software that anticipates the evolving needs of international Enterprise organisations, expanding Zoho’s global reach.”

With real-time progress tracking, dynamic dashboards, and quality control analytics, Projects Plus replaces outdated project management tools with a comprehensive, AI-driven solution that ensures precision, scalability, and efficiency. The platform seamlessly integrates with Zoho’s extensive software suite, as well as third-party tools like Microsoft Office 365, Google Workspace, and other popular collaboration and analytics applications, offering flexibility for businesses looking to enhance project management.

Zoho Projects supports Arabic Right-to-Left (RTL) and a full Arabic user interface, making it an ideal solution for industries such as retail, e-commerce, construction, manufacturing, and automotive in the MENA region. By leveraging AI, automation, and data-first analytics, Zoho’s Projects Plus is set to revolutionize project management, empowering businesses with smarter decision-making, enhanced collaboration, and optimized efficiency.