India, Sept. 23 -- Zoho today hosted a special event at its headquarters in Chennai wherein it announced the launch of Zia Chat, which is an AI-powered conversational interface that is designed to let users access information and perform tasks across business applications from a single interface. In addition to this, the company also announced its entry into the vertical SaaS market, with seven industry-focused offerings spanning sectors including retail, automotive, BFSI, healthcare, education, real estate and restaurants. Here are the details.

As mentioned before, Zoho launched its AI-based interface called Zia Chat today. This AI interface is designed to address what co-founder and chief scientist Sridhar Vembu describes as an "interf...