Zoho Creator 6: New Features for Solutions, Microservices & Deployment

Let's look at what the new version of Zoho  Creator brings in. Prior to the new version   of Zoho Creator, as mentioned earlier, we were  able to build applications on Zoho Creator.   But Zoho Creator, as a platform moving forward,  will focus on enabling processes or streamlining  

processes to produce solutions. So, to create a  solution, there are three different processes or   categories that we can look at. You’ll have to  develop the solution, and once the development   of the solution is done, you deploy the  solution. Once the deployment is done,  

you still want to manage the solutions effectively  as well.When it comes to the development part,   again, not just applications, we're going to  create different solutions, and with solutions,   we are also going to bring in microservices  as well. So, what we'll do is we'll look into  

each of these categories or each of these sections  and see what the new features are, along with the   old features, which enable all of these  to bring the entire platform together.   Here are the different tools and features  available on the new version of Creator,  

starting off with solutions. In solutions, we will  still be able to create applications as well.It's   still an application-creating platform. Apart  from applications, the application creator part   is powered by Zoho Creator, the current version  of Zoho Creator, and the business process creator  

as well. In Zoho Creator, we recently added  a big feature called Zoho Creator Blueprint.   So, The Zoho Creator Blueprint will power  the business process creator part of it.Apart   from apps and business processes, we'll look at  integrations now. So far, in the current version,  

anything related to integrations in Creator would  always tie back to an application, right? So,   you either push information from an application  or to an application. But in the new version,   in the new Creator platform, we have a separate  integration creator available. So, you will be  

able to create standalone integration flows as  well. And similarly, we have a BI and Analytics   creator as well. Apart from the default eight  types of reports that are currently available   within Zoho Creator, you also have an advanced BI  and Analytics tool which has been added. So, apart  

from creating analytics for your applications,  you can create advanced analytics for other data   sources as well. And we'll be looking in detail  into each of these options and what powers these   options further on in the presentation.Another  interesting feature that we're bringing in is  

a robotic process creator. We all know about  RPA. RPA is software or an application that can   be easily programmed to do basic and repetitive  tasks across applications. Using RPA, you can also   create and deploy bots, or software robots, which  will have the ability to launch and operate other  

software as well. We are bringing in a robotic  process creator into the Zoho Creator platform   as well, and the reason why it's highlighted is  it will be available in the early part of next   year. In the first part of next year, the robotic  process creator will be made available.Moving on  

to microservices from solutions. We all know  about connections and how they enable the   authentication process of integrations, making it  much easier. We've enhanced connections. There are   a lot more options available, and you have a more  organized way of managing connections. Similar to  

that, with data sources, we have the option of  adding or creating new data sources,and we've   added many new services into data services, apart  from the existing ones we already had. We've added   tons of new data source options as well.Coming  into AI models. So, we all know that in Zoho  

Creator, we have enabled Zia. So right from when  you're importing an application, where AI-powered   development can be made, even within the forms,  you have AI fields. One of the important AI fields   we had was the prediction field. AI models will  be powered by the prediction field. The prediction  

model will be taken and considered as AI models  here.Then we have serverless functions. The   functions that we are able to create, apart from  the Deluge functions, we have Java, Node.js, and   Python coming up. Those serverless functions will  be categorized separately and called serverless  

functions. Most of these options are currently  available on the current version of Creator,   but they also have enhanced options to execute  them and also to manage them. Apart from these,   we are also bringing in AR and VR options as well.  Augmented reality, which is based on real-world  

settings, has a few functionalities going over  that, and similar to that, we are also working   on a few VR, or virtual reality, features.  Similar to the robotic process creator, AR   and VR will also be available in the first early  part of next year. At the start of next year,  

they will be available with the robotic process  creator.That covers the development part, where   you have solutions in microservices and how to  deploy them. So, you create an application, and as   mentioned, we are introducing a proper application  development lifecycle management system. So,  

you have multiple environments that you can take  advantage of. A single application can have three   different environments, and you can have separate  user management, separate data management for all   of these environments, and have the production  live for your end users as well. That's a major  

addition that we've done for the existing app  creator version of Zoho Creator.Apart from that,   the mobile deployment and the portal deployment,  we have organized, maintained, and categorized   so that it's easier for you to access these  options. And similarly, coming into management,  

we have enhanced the user management part. Again  introduction of these new solutions and services,   we want to make sure that developers are  given enough options to manage them. So,   you have an enhanced user management system, where  the information about your organization can be  

maintained separately in a category. Then, there's  like many new features added into governance,   including AD Directory sync. These are added  under governance.Then you have tools available   for operations. There are a few new additions  from the app creator part as well, which  

we'll be covering in the later part, along with  monitoring. Account-level management and billing   management that we want to do, we'll be doing it  under monitoring. Starting off with solutions.   So, solutions, as we know, as we spoke about, we  have apps, Apps Creator, BI and analytics, Flow,  

Business Process, and Robotic Process Creator as  well. The application creator—this is a service   that we are all aware of and well-used to. This  is nothing but our Zoho Creator version itself,   the current version of Zoho Creator. So, that  is the service which is going to enable the  

application delivery, the application development  part. With the application development part,   as mentioned earlier, it will also power  the business process creator with the   Blueprint feature that we got. Apart  from that, for the BI and Analytics,  

Creator already has eight different types of  reports. But if you want to create advanced   analytics and BI inside the Zoho ecosystem, we  have a very advanced analytics tool available.   We've taken advantage of that and brought in  Zoho Analytics into this unified platform.  

The options available within Zoho Analytics will  be made available here, and you can configure   advanced analytics for your applications or other  data sources as well. Similar to analytics, when   we talk about integrations, apart from the custom  integrations that are available at the app level,  

we’re also looking at standalone integration flows  that you want to create. That's when we converge   into a solutions unified platform. For that,  in the Zoho ecosystem, we have a very powerful   integration flow creation tool called Zoho Flow.  So, we’re bringing in Zoho Flow as well into the  

Creator system. The Creator system moving forward  will have enhanced features of Zoho Creator,   the current version of Zoho Creator, and will  also include Zoho Analytics features and it'll   also include Zoho Flow features as well. We'll be  looking at each of them in detail to understand  

how they are maintained within the application.  So, let's start off with the servers that we   are well aware of—Zoho Creator. Zoho Creator will  power the app creator part. And all the features   that you have currently for building Forms,  Reports, Pages, Functions and Blueprint. All  

of them are included in the new version as well.  Apart from that, we made a major enhancement to   the application development process, which  was mentioned earlier—the ADLM process,   the Application Development Life Cycle Management.  We have three different environments available  

that can be enabled for all the applications  or any application that you choose. You can   also give separate user access to these  environments. So, a developer can log   into the development environment, do all the  development, and once they're happy with it,  

they can move it over to the testers. The testers  will log into the stage environment, add data,   execute workflows, and ensure everything’s working  fine. Once they're happy with it, they move it   to the production environment, which will be  the live application used by the end users.  

So, without further ado, we’ll transition  from the PPT and move right into the product,   where we’ll pick up the rest of the  features directly from the cloud. So,   how do we go to the new version of the Creator?  We still have the same URL: creator.zoho.com.  

We have a new loading animation—a nice animation  that's been added—and once you log in, you land   into the admin dashboard of the new version  of Zoho Creator, the Creator 6 version. The   Creator 6 version is more organized based on the  different solutions and options included in this  

version. We’ll be looking at them, and as you  can see to the left, we’ve also categorized them   according to the processes, so its easier for  you to navigate. Under "Develop," you can see   Solutions and Microservices; under "Deploy,"  you can see Environments, Mobile, and Portal;  

and under "Manage," you have Users, Organization,  Governance, Operations, and Billing. We’ll have a   brief introduction about each of these sections  and the options available in each of these   sections as well. Let's start off with Solutions.  On the Solutions screen, straight away, you can  

see that it’s not just applications anymore—you  can see Applications, Flow, and Analytics that you   can see. We've given you the option to filter  them as well. If you just want to see all the   applications you’ve developed, go for that, or  if you want to see just the analytics part and  

also if you want to see the integration part.  We’ll get started with creating a solution, and   we’ll see the different types of solutions that  can be created, and also the enhanced features   added into the application development part as  well. So clicking on “Create a new solution,”  

it gives you three different options: Create an  Application, BI and Analytics, or Integration.   Let’s start with Applications. Once we click  on Application, even if the UI is refreshed,   we are used to these options. You have “Create  from scratch,” “Create from gallery,” or you  

can choose one of the pre-made applications that  we have from the gallery. Then, you have “Import   file” with the AI-powered import options that  are available and create an application as well.   Let's go ahead and create an application from  scratch. Apart from the application name, just  

below the application name, there’s a new option  available now where you can enable environments.   Right when you’re creating an application,  you can enable these environments,   and the application you create will be  available in all three environments so  

that you can take advantage of it, publish it,  have testing done and be taken care of here.   Now, let’s start off by creating a  new app. I'll name it “Partner Event”   and enable the environments.  

Cut it there and create the application. Once  we click on “Create an Application,” we land   on a screen we’re very familiar with: the “Create  New Form” or the entire edit mode of Creator. You   create a new form, workflows, settings—all those  options are available there. So, we’ll go ahead  

and create a new form. I’ll just make use of one  of our form templates. We'll select “Registration”   and probably just add a user registration part  here. Like any template, you have a form creator,   a report created, and a couple of workflows  added to support the chosen template. You can add  

workflows, and all the options available in the  current version, including the latest Blueprint,   are available in the new version of Creator as  well. Apart from that, in this session, we’ll   look at the new options and enhancements. Straight  away, if you look at the top right corner, you can  

see that it doesn’t say “Access” anymore—it says  “Access Development Live” As mentioned earlier,   we have three different live modes available:  Development live, Stage live, and Production live.   Let's start off with the Application  Development live, once you log in,  

you have the form and reports that we’ve created.  And also you can take note of the top left corner,   where it highlights that this particular  live mode is in the Development environment.   As you know, the developer builds an application,  tests it out, accesses it live, adds data,  

executes workflows, and everything’s working  fine. But there's another process that the   developers usually do. Because the applications  they develop are for multiple users, not just a   single user. Developers typically create multiple  permission sets. But as a developer, you had to  

create demo accounts, add the demo account into  the the application, assign permission sets, move   to that particular demo account, and test how the  particular application looks for that particular   user. We’ve tried to make sure that those options  are made much more easier for all the developers.  

Let's go back and see those options. We’ll  move back to Environments, and as you can see,   we have the Partner Event Registration available,  showing that we’ve made some changes because we   added a form and a report. The options available  in Environments are categorized into Development,  

Stage, and Production. Currently, we just  have a development environment. Looking at it,   there’s an “Edit” mode that takes us back to the  edit mode of development, then you have “Access,”   which takes us to the live mode of development,  and now a new option called “Settings.” This is  

the development environment settings and not  the application settings. Clicking on this   brings us to a new screen with one of the most  useful features for developers has been added:   Demo Users. You can add a demo user—you have  five demo users available—so you can just  

choose a demo user, and all the permission sets  created for the application will be available.   I’ll choose “Read Permission,”  choose a role, and click on “Add.”   Now, when we go back to the application  itself, I’ll just refresh it once. 

When we go to the live mode, this is the  developer login. I've logged in as a super admin,   but let's say I want to see how it would  look for another user with read permissions.   Right, so I go here to the top right. We've  added a new section here which says "View As."  

Clicking on that would give you a dropdown of  all the demo users you added, along with their   permission sets. So, this particular demo user  has read permissions with the CEO profile.   Just click on that, and it automatically changes  the live screen to accommodate that particular  

demo user. For the read permissions,  currently, we haven't added any records,   so nothing is showing up. To the left, you  can see the form access is removed as well,   because with read access, you won't have form  access. That's a major feature we've added for  

the developers to take advantage of tools,  swap between user accounts and test them   accordingly. And the other unique part about  this particular demo user is that, we'll get   into that. Before that what we will do, let's  say the development is done, we swap demo users,  

we saw everything, everything's working fine.  So we'll go ahead and publish the application.   So, in the environment section, to the top right,  you'll have "Publish." Publish it to stage;   all the applications with changes will be  listed. You select the application that you want,  

and then it'll list out all the changes that  you've made. You can double-click on each of them   to see the actual changes, the actual scripting  behind it, and you can choose components as well.   For the demo, we'll choose all the components,  click on "Proceed," and, once we click on  

"Proceed," it'll ask us for version information.  This is, again, very useful when you have multiple   versions being pushed through the live version.  So you can keep track of what the changes are, and   you can also categorize them by giving appropriate  titles and descriptions as well. Let's say this  

is a new partner event stage, and a new form is  added. Based on the amount of changes they made   and how you categorize it, you can say if it's  a major change or a minor change. Major change   would increment the version number by one; minor  change would increment the version number by 0.1.  

So I'll say it's a major change, the first version  of the app, and we publish. The publish would be   initiated, and, as you can see, the publish  is in progress. We've just added a couple of   components here, so it shouldn't take a long time.  Perfect, the stage environment is created, and,  

when we click on the environment options now, you  can also access the stage environment's options,   very similar to development. You have a  separate environment available for stage,   the live environment. So you go into the live  mode, and, at the left top, if we can see,  

it's highlighted as "Stage." Another unique thing  that you can see is, to the top right, you still   have the option of adding or viewing as another  user. The reason is, we still have given you   separate options for the stage environment as  well. Right? So, you can go into environments,  

stage, and you have separate settings options  available. So, you can add demo users here   specifically as well. So I can add another couple  of users if there are different permission sets.   Add them, give it to your testers, let  them add the data, execute workflows,  

and see everything's working fine. So that's demo  users; we've seen demo users in the live mode and   how it actually changes the view of it. Apart from  demo users, the other options available in the   environment settings would be available both for  development and Stage as well. The second option  

is notifications, and this is something that  a lot of developers would appreciate as well.   Anytime you configure an email notification or an  email workflow, we had to send the email to the   specified email address, right? And usually, when  we're doing it for a customer, we have to replace  

the places where we had email configuration done  to send the email to the appropriate people.   Moving forward, we're making sure developers  have enough options. So, you can either disable   the emails, send it to the login user, the  developer, or the tester who's logging in. Or,  

if you have a common email testing account, you  can send it to that, or whatever email that you've   specified in the application or the workflow; you  can continue sending it to that as well. Similar   to email notifications, both the SMS and push  notification configurations are also available.  

Apart from the demo users' notifications,  we also have AI model options. This, again,   as we mentioned earlier, is the prediction model  that we have currently using the Zia features,   the Zia fields, and AI fields. If you configure  an AI model and want a separate model training  

done for each of these environments, you  can go ahead and configure them as well.   Perfect, so, let's say we're done  with the development; we've tested it,   all looks good. The last step would be just to  push it to the production environment. We'll  

choose the version that we want. If you have  multiple versions, it would be listed here;   we just have one, so we choose that, and  we push it to the production environment.   Right? Another key option that's been added here  is that you'll be asked if you want to publish  

it immediately or publish it later. If you have a  live version that users are currently using, you   want to publish it at a later stage when they're  offline, when they're not using the application.   Because when you're publishing it, the application  will be set to maintenance mode and will not be  

accessible at all till the publishing process  is done. So, it'll lock the application. You   can schedule it accordingly, publish now, publish  later, and also have notification emails sent to   any user, admin, super admin, and all of that. So,  we'll publish the app, go back to environments,  

and the publishing process begins. Version one is  in queue, and it should be published in a matter   of a few seconds. We just have a few components  here, so that's why the process is even more   faster. When you actually do it for a full-scale  application, it might vary based on the number of  

components that you have. For this particular  application, the live mode has been created,   so we can go and access the live mode. In the user  live mode, you would see there's no highlight of   anything. That would mean it is the actual  live mode or the production environment of  

the application, so you do not have the option  of swapping to demo users. That's a given there.   So, that's environments. And another  feature that we can look at is the "Logs",   the application logs for the executions that  happen. You have separate logs available for  

the environments. So, most of the approach moving  forward, we've taken it from the application level   to environment and application as well. You can  filter out and see all the logs that you want.   Similarly, you have a centralized place  for looking at all the versions that  

you've built on this particular  platform. I had a couple of   default applications installed, then created an  application right now, so that shows up as well.   The changes we've done, and clicking on that will  get us back to this version screen where you can  

look at the actual version, the actual changes  you've made. So, that's version history, demo   users, and the different environments available in  the application creation process. As you can see,   the application creation has been streamlined a  lot more. We've made it very easy for your team  

to collaborate and build the applications  and deliver them to the clients as well.   So, let's go back to the solution, so we've  covered the application creator part. Apart from   application creation, as we mentioned earlier,  we have other solution creation options as well.  

The second option that we have is BI and  Analytics. BI and Analytics, as we told earlier,   we have Zoho Analytics powering it. Clicking  on it will give you two options right now.   One, we can import it from an application. So, if  we create an application on the Creator platform  

and want to generate analytics, you choose  "Import from Application." By clicking on it,   it will list out the applications that you have.  You configure it, the setup process will go on.   Once the setup is done, you configure it, choose  the forms and fields that you want, and tables  

would be created accordingly. Apart from creating  analytics for the applications you develop,   all the options that were available on the current  Zoho Analytics site are also available. You can   import it from sources. So, as you can see,  this is a more unified platform for bringing in  

all these solutions together. You have all the  options, starting from importing from a file,   different cloud services, cloud  databases, local databases—tons   of options that Analytics provides. Those are  added here as well, so you have a centralized  

platform to be able to configure all of  these. For example, we'll just look at   an Analytics or Bi that we've already created.  And so, if we are doing it from an application,  all the forms would be added as different tables.  

And we have existing flows that you can add  from CRM, Books, and other services as well   that you can take advantage of. Going into that,  it will give you all the options available on the   current Zoho Analytics. You can create reports,  dashboards, and take advantage of AI options in  

Zia, configuring everything that's available  right now. This is a major addition when you   are creating a complete solution or going into  the BI and Analytics part. Creating insightful   reports and dashboards is key, as well.  To enhance the existing ones that we have,  

we've brought in Zoho Analytics so that  developers can take advantage of that.   So, that's BI and analytics. We've done a few  sessions around the integration options available   with Zoho Analytics, and Creator. Without  wasting time, we'll just share a few links to  

our previous sessions. All of those options are  available in this new version of Zoho Creator.   Similarly, the third type of solution we  are looking at is integration flow, this,   as we told earlier, is none other than Zoho Flow  itself. You can either create a flow from scratch  

or import from the gallery. Tons of flows  already built by our product team are available,   so you can pick one of those as well. When you  pick a flow, the usual process that we do in   Zoho Flow applies—you authenticate it, create  connections, authorize it, and use it for the  

integration flows that you want. In addition  to that, existing Creator flows that you have   are also available. So, even for applications  that you want to develop, if you want to create   integration flows, you still have many options  to do so within the integration flow creator.  

These are the new solutions or options available  under "Solutions." You have the Apps and Business   Process Creator under an enhanced Zoho Creator  version, BI and Analytics with Zoho Analytics   options, and the Integration Flow Creator with  Zoho Flow options. Moving on from Solutions,  

let's look at "Microservices". Microservices has  most of the options that we are already aware of.   It's just that how we have organized them and  configured them that its more streamlined and   easier to access. Apart from that, we've added  many new services into Connections and Data  

Sources. A connection is used to authorize the  integration process. When you click on Connection,   it will ask which service you want; there are  many services available, so you can choose   one. You also have Zoho OAuth available for oauth  integration options that are available within the  

Zoho Suite and other Zoho products which can be  directly used as well.The processes are similar to   the current process choose one, authenticate it,  and go forward. The additional options we added in   Connections are how we manage these connections.  You can authorize, reauthorize, test connections,  

and you can make sure these connections that  you create are used by certain applications.   You can enable and disable certain connections  for different applications that you develop.  Similar to Connections, we have Data Sources,  which are like a two-way integration between  

the Creator application and another service  that you generate. Again for the initiation   of the Data Source would be a connection. You  create a connection and then you create a data   source. You again authenticate what application  takes access or what applications have access  

to these data sources. And the fields that  are available, you can view those fields.   So it's more a proper organized place where  you can look at the different connections,   different data sources that you've had you  have added in your account and also manage  

them accordingly to the different  applications that you want to use.  Right. And the third one, uh, with microservices  currently added, is the custom AI model, right?   Again, we've added a sample prediction field  here. So this is a place where you can come,  

understand the prediction model, or the  prediction training that's been happening.   So the base field, the department field,  the criteria in case we've added anything,   accuracy, trained data count—everything can be  listed here. Everything will be listed here,  

and you can, uh, come here, look at how  the AI model training has been going   on—so a more organized place. The microservices:  to summarize, it's a place to create connections,   manage connections, authorize, reauthorize,  and allow permissions as well to certain  

applications. Similar to that, you have a  place to create and manage data sources,   and also a place to manage your custom AI models  that you're creating for your applications.   So, we've developed solutions or microservices,  we've taken advantage of environments when  

creating apps, and from there, after creating the  application, as you know, the Creator application   or any application you create on Creator will  have a default mobile application available.   We have default applications—the Zoho Creator  application—available on both iOS and Android.  

You just log in, download the application,  and login, and you'll have access to all   the applications that you've created under  your account. The mobile option we see here   is when you want to create a custom, rebranded  application or if you want to download  

the SDK so you can customize the UI and UX  of your mobile applications. Under "Deploy,"   you go to "Mobile," click on "Create a new mobile  application," and you can choose your application.   Then, you’ll get options to generate the  mobile applications you want. As you know,  

we have two different types of applications:  one for internal use and one for portal users.   You can choose accordingly and have the IPA,  APK files downloaded, or the SDK generated   so you can go ahead and customize it.  So, we click on SDK—it takes us here,  

and in SDK, we have a code framework and UI  code framework. All these options would be   available. The PLS files and the properties file  would be available here; you can download them.   Notifications can be enabled; all of these can  be done here. Coming to the mobile section here,  

you will get access, or you will be able to see,  all the custom applications that you've developed.   It's like a one-stop place where you see all the  mobile applications, custom application setup,   developed. In case you want to generate files,  you can do everything right from here. It's not  

required anymore to go into each and every  individual application and generate these   or manage these. You have the mobile section  available under "Deploy" to do all of that.   Similar to that, inside a Creator application,  you have the option of creating customer portals.  

Again, these were available within an application.  In case you wanted to create or manage a portal,   you had to log into that particular application to  do so. But with the new version, we have a portal   section available. So, coming into the portal  section, you'll have a list of all the portals  

that are created on this particular account.  Right, so I've created one for ID asset tracker,   Vehicle Management, and we also have the  option of creating new portal systems.   Right, so clicking on "New Portal," it'll ask you  which application you want to create it for. I'll  

say "Partner Event"; it'll ask me the domain,  the URL, what type of portal I want to create,   notifications, the default permission set that I  want to enable, changing email addresses, and the   favicon option as well. So, all of these can be  directly configured from the portal option. Again,  

emphasizing that you need to go into each  and every application to manage and maintain   your portals, you have a centralized location  available under "Deploy," which is the portal   section. You just log into the portal section, and  you have access to all of these. Right, so you've  

developed solutions, you've deployed them—be it  web versions, mobile, or portals, everything is   done. Now, the main part, the key part, would be  to manage these. As mentioned earlier, there are   a couple of new services added into the Creator  platform, that is also tricky, and we want to make  

sure that developers are given enough options so  they can configure and maintain them accordingly.   So, going into the user section, right, once  you go into the user section, all the users   would be listed here. And when you try to add  a new user—again, this we are not doing from  

an application level; you can do it from a  centralized level, from the account level. So,   you come here, you add the user. A very  nice feature that's available right now   is that you can add the user to access multiple  applications, and set the role and permissions  

they need. Everything can be configured right from  here. Similarly, if you're adding a developer,   in development, we have a couple of different  environments available, so we've made it more   granular here. You can choose the application  you want and also give them either access to  

the development environment, which would be  the live mode of the development environment,   or editing the development environment and then  publishing it. So, you can give this to your   senior developers. If you're collaborating within  a team, multiple people work on it, but the final  

decision of publishing to the stage environment  can be taken by the senior developer or senior   manager. Whoever is there in top, they'll be able  to make those changes. So, the publish option for   users is a very key feature we've added as well. Similarly to that, we've added separate options  

for the stage environment, so you can enable  access and publish options separately for   the applications and environments that you  develop. And similarly, you have the option   of adding a user to multiple applications and  multiple environments, so it's a streamlined  

and granular way to maintain user management  for application development processes.  Apart from application development, as we  know, we've also added BI and Analytics. You   can specify which workspace this user has access  to, and what type of access the user will have.  

Similar to Bi and Analytics, you also have  integration flows, you can either enable   integration flows access of these integration  flows that you create or disable the integration   flows. A clean proper way of maintaining  the entire user management for the entire  

platform can be done right from the user section. And similarly, apart from the super admin, if you   want to add admins, you can add administrators  as well. Right, so you just add an admin,   and they would have similar options available as a  super admin. So, from the user section, we move on  

to the organization. Organization is where you  maintain your organization's information—right   from your logo to favicon, the org name, email  address, portal name (the workspace name in   the URL), and then the phone number, address,  and everything else under organization info. 

Moving on to Governance. So, governance again is  a major addition that we've done to the governance   of our users, the account, and everything. So, as  you know, we have a directory service in the Zoho   Suite called Zoho Directory. In the governance  section, we will be using Zoho Directory to enable  

all these options. So, using Zoho Directory,  again, we've done an extensive session on   how Zoho Directory can be used with Creator  applications. We’ll share that link in the chat,   so all those options that we have seen prior,  and we will be seeing in the future as well,  

with Zoho Directory will be made available  here. So, right from configuring security   policies, like password policies, MFAs can be  configured. Similarly, custom authentication,   if you have your own IDPs, you want to configure  SSO with SAML, you can configure it here, or if  

you want to do an Active Directory integration,  you can do it right from here as well. So,   anything that you want to configure, you click on  it, and it'll automatically take you to the Zoho   Directory screen, where all the configurations  and settings that you need can be configured. So,  

this is, again, another major addition,  looking at the enterprise environment that we   will be focusing on. This would come very, very  helpful in many of the user management systems,   or bringing in the solutions that you create  into an existing environment in an enterprise  

as well. So, that’s governance, which is powered  by our Zoho Directory tool. Apart from governance,   operations. So, operations—we've categorized  them based on the different solutions that   are available. Application operations are the  different management tools, or the operation  

tools that we had within Zoho Creator. We’ve done  few announcements about that, which we’ll get to   in a minute. Then you have BI and analytics,  with the different management tools that are   available. Similarly, we have different sets  of tools available for integration flows as  

well. The analytics and integration flows are  very similar to what are available under Zoho   Analytics and Zoho Flow right now. So, let’s  look at Zoho Creator, the application part,   and what are the new options we’ve added. Going  into backup, the most frequently requested one  

is the application backup part. Now, you’ll have  a frequency option which could be daily, so you   can go ahead and back up your applications on a  daily, weekly, and on a monthly basis as well.   That’s a new addition that we’ve added.  Apart from that, the audit trail is, again,  

not application-specific. You come here, it’s  account-specific, and all the applications you’ve   done can be managed through the audit trail here.  Similarly, email management, domain restrictions.   Another option that we’ve added is API management.  As you know, with Creator, we have open REST APIs  

available, so you can configure APIs anytime for  your applications. But in case you want to enable   or disable the API options, you can come here  and grant access to APIs or deny access as well.   Apart from that, you have logs, the publish  option—making a public form or report or  

any content that you create in an application  publicly available. You publish it, email data,   and we’ve also brought in the marketplace  as well. This is Zoho's marketplace where   we get to see custom application, extensions,  everything listed out here. So, as partners and  

developers, we can also create solutions and  extensions and post them in the marketplace,   and those would be listed under the  operations frame, under Marketplace. And,   in case we have any issues, the support access can  be enabled right here when contacting support. The  

last section that we have under manage is billing.  Billing is more of a unified dashboard that we’ve   created with the usage information and the  plan information as well. So, right from the   number of users, applications, analytics, and  integration flows that we’ve created, all will  

be available under the current plan details.  We're going a little more in-depth into the   application usage part, so you get the number  of apps, records, storage, the cloud functions,   authentications, emails, and API calls that  we've done. Everything should be available here.  

So that’s the Billing section. We've covered and  given you a brief introduction of all the features   that are available within the newer version  and how the newer version will be useful for   developers and partners moving forward. And in  that case, for any user who’s trying to create a  

solution on Creator—that's Zoho Creator 6, the new  version of Zoho Creator. Just an introduction or a   demo of all the features that are available. So,  with that, what we'll do is quickly run through   the slides just to summarize all the features  that you’ve got. This is the environment cycle,  

the environment page, the different environments  that are available: Development, Staging,   and Production for applications. You have a  space where we maintain different environments;   you can publish from one environment to  another, making it little moe easier for  

different sets of users to collaborate for the  application development process and also look   at the different versions that you’ve created for  each of these applications. Another addition that   we’ve added is the demo users part. You can have  separate permission sets for separate demo users  

for separate environments as well. From there,  we spoke about a business process created again;   this is Zoho Creator’s blueprint feature. We’ve  just touched base on that, but we’ve not gone   in depth. There are a few sessions available,  and we will publish those sessions as well.  

You create business processes visually.  Then we come into integration Creator,   the Zoho Flow options that are available. You  come in, create your own custom integration flow,   either based on the application you build  or as an independent solution as well.  

Then comes analytics. Again, we have our options  to create BI and analytics for the applications   that you developed on the platform, or  it can be from other sources as well. You   can create beautiful dashboards, reports,  everything made available on the platform.  

From there, we saw microservices, connections,  and data sources, and how we are managing them.   The new services we’ve added, how developers  can take advantage of them, and how all of   these come into the deployment part—The  solutions part—under microservices,  

similar to the data sources part as well. From  there, we looked at the different environments   available for mobile, the application development  process, and then we looked at mobile application,   how we're maintaining mobile application,  organizing the mobile application part,  

generating mobile, rebranded mobile  applications. Then comes portal management,   again a centralized portal management screen, a  centralized portal management segment available   where you can manage all the portals that you’ve  developed or created for your applications.From  

there, we jumped into management with users,  organization, governance, and operations.   In users, we have enhanced options for  enabling certain permission sets for the   users. They can be application users,  analytics users, or integration users.  

Inside the application user, you have options to  enable certain permission set for a user, specific   environments, test, and publish it-all of these  options are available for the users. Then you   have organization, for managing information about  your org, logos, all those can be added here. Then  

the governance part, touching base on the Zoho  Directory options that are available. Very key   features that we've added for user management and  account governance. Then operations, the different   options for applications, BI and analytics, flows,  backup, new API options, and Marketplace.The  

last part we saw was billing, a  dashboard of the usage across services,   and application usage in more granular detail.  With that, we come to the end of today’s demo.