Zia for Emails — Overview and Key Capabilities

Zia for Emails — Overview and Key Capabilities

Most business communication and transactions happen over emails, be it with customers, prospects, partners or vendors. Besides being an essential mode for communication, emails are an official repository for important information details on meeting schedules, business agendas, addresses, invoices, social handles, etc. are available on emails and sales representatives may spend quite a lot of time in entering such details manually into the CRM database.

In Zoho CRM, Zia can help them capture important information such as customer's personal information or details of a meeting right from the emails. Furthermore, without even having to read the entire conversation, one can know the intent of the email, as in, a request, a query, or complaint as suggested by Zia.

Data Enrichment from email signatures

In professional emails, signatures are considered as one's corporate identity as they contain information about the sender. It carries details about their role in the company, their social handle, and contact details. People even use email signatures to create brand recognition, drive traffic to their website, or promote different events.

When such valuable information is available in signatures, why not let Zia help you capture the details in your CRM account. Zia's Data enrichment from email, facilitates data population for leads, contacts, and accounts from the email signatures. Details like email address, website, contact number, company name, social handles, designation, company location, and address mentioned in the email signature can be captured into CRM record. It will help reduce the time and effort that is needed to update a record manually and additionally ensure the accuracy of the data.

In CRM we have identified some fields that are commonly used such as fax, designation, phone number, last name, email etc. and termed them as "enrichment fields". But, as there may be a possibility of referring these fields with different names in the CRM account, to avoid confusion or incorrect data entry we let you map these enriched fields with the right CRM field.
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This feature is available only in the Leads, Contacts or Accounts modules. Only the users who have permission to access these modules can use the feature.
To enrich data from email signatures
  1. Select a record from Leads, Contacts or Accounts module.
  2. Open an email from the record's related list.
  3. Click Enrich Data.
    If there is no new information you will receive a notification from Zia stating the same.

  4. In the Data Enrichment by Zia page, click Configure field mapping.

  5. In the Enrichment Settings page, under Zoho CRM fields tab choose the fields from the drop-down list.

  6. Click Save.
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  1. If you have already installed the "Data Enrichment" plugin in your CRM account, few global or company based information will be auto-populated from the internet. If required, you can overwrite those fields with the information retrieved from the email signature. You can instruct CRM to do so by selecting the checkbox of the respective fields under the Update tab.

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  1. You can use both the plugin and the email signature to enrich your CRM data. The former can enrich any global information on the record from the internet, while the latter can enrich personal information of a record.

Summarize emails

Businesses rely on emails for their daily correspondence with their customers and internal stakeholders. But going through each email in the thread to understand or perhaps remember the context and respond accordingly, amidst a busy schedule, is a chore by itself. That is why Zia is equipped to summarize emails.
Zia can summarize every email in the record—individual emails and email threads. It will give you a summary of your email as a gist, so that you can read through and understand the severity of the email and prioritize your response without having to read all the conversations.
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  1. Summaries are accessible from the email related list's list view.
  2. From a thread, you can summarize the last email and the entire thread for context.
  3. As summaries, Zia brings up the crux of the email(s). It cannot create nor can it manipulate the emotions or tonality of the message.
  4. Using the thumbs up/ thumbs down feedback strip, you can submit your feedback about a summary's accuracy.

Activity extraction from email

Emails often hold a lot more information than just a response or business conversation. Organizations can send invitations for webinars or send meeting links, share agendas or venue details, schedule calls or managers may assign tasks to their team members over emails. These information can be captured as activities in CRM for record keeping and proper follow-up. But adding these details manually can be time-consuming and may also introduce inadvertent errors while manually copying details from the emails. Zia's activity extraction from emails can help you to capture meetings, tasks, and calls automatically from an email. 

Zia can identify and pinpoint activities mentioned in emails and suggest the agent to add the activity to CRM from the email. They can edit the suggestion and enter more details or save the activity as it is. Zia's suggestions can be seen in the emails present in the related list of a record as well as in the SalesSignal.

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Points to consider
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  1. In case multiple meetings are mentioned in the email, then the most distinct one will be captured by Zia. For example, if the email states a call at 9:00 am and a task at 4:00 pm, Zia will pick the 9:00 am call because its the first occurrence. 
  2. The activities will be automatically tuned to the organization's business hour. For example, if the time and date mentioned by the customer in the email is 10:00 am PST, then the time will be converted to the organization's timezone. 
  3. If a business hour or shift hour is not configured in an account, then the default time, that is, 9:00 am will be taken into account for all the activities.   
  4. In cases where the time or date are mentioned in ranges like 3:00 to 3:30 pm or 20th to 22nd March, Zia will pick the first instance that is, 3:00 pm and 20th March. To ensure accuracy we recommend you to check the populated time and date before saving and edit it if needed.  
  5. Zia will capture meetings/tasks/calls that are scheduled for future dates only. For example, if a meeting is scheduled for the same day then Zia will not pick the activity. 
To capture activities from an email
  1. Go to the Leads/Contacts/Deals or equivalent custom module and select a record.
  2. In the email related list, open an email and click Capture Meeting/Schedule Call/Schedule Task.

  3.  In the Activity Information popup, view the populated details of the meeting/task/call.
    If needed, edit the details.
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What to expect in near future
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We are constantly working to maximize Zia's capability to deliver the highest possible benefit to our customers. Here are a few things on our road map:
  1. Capturing multiple activities from the email and marking them inside the body of the email. 
  2. Activities extracted from emails will be suggested in a common place outside of emails, so that even if you miss the email you will not miss the activity.
  3. Create a feedback loop based on edits made by the user on the suggestions and parse the model for increase accuracy. 
  4. Train Zia with more industry specific keywords and improve its accuracy. 

Translate emails

Businesses that are spanned across geographies have customers and partners conversing in multiple languages in emails. Their local language becomes their official language, in which case, an agent from the hub would not be able to understand the customer needs and risk losing them because of the language. To avoid this, Zia gives you a built-in ability to translate emails on display. 

With this, you can translate the subject, the compose screen, and the reading pane into a desired language without having to import a translate file or using an AI-key.
For incoming emails in a different language, when you click on translate, Zia automatically translates to the default language that you have set. If you'd like to change that preference, you can do so from the language box that is displayed after this native translation.
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  1. Translate option is available for all users in the email window.
  2. This is a text-only translate facility. You cannot translate text from images.
  3. Zia can translate up to 74 languages. 

Intent of an email

Zia will monitor the email conversations and highlight the intent of the received emails. She will understand the email content and capture the following intents: request, query, complaint, and others.



Help Zia with Feedback

Zia monitors email conversations actively, offering insights into sentiment, intent, emotions, enriching data, and extracting activities from the email content. While Zia aims for accuracy, occasional errors may arise. To improve precision, the "Help Zia" option empowers users to offer feedback or guide Zia for continuous improvement.

To provide feedback to Zia
  1. Go to the Contacts module and open Emails in the Related List.


  2. Open the email for which you would like to give your feedback.
  3. Click Help Zia.

    The Help us make Zia better pop-up appears.
  4. As per your requirement, you can decide to retain or change the expected value for every sentiment, intent, and emotion extracted by Zia from the email received. You can do this by choosing from the options listed in the drop-down lists.


  5. You can also give your feedback as text content in the Feedback if any section.
  6. By clicking the user consent checkbox, you agree not to disclose any personal information to be read by Zia.


  7. If you wish to know how Zia will view your personal information, then click the email without my personal info text in the consent content.
    The How Zia sees you mail pop-up appears.
  8. You can view the details of the email in the pop-up that appears and then decide on how you want Zia to read your information. That is, you can retain the information as hidden content or replace the hidden content with the actual information.

  9. Click Update.
  10. Click Submit in the Help us make Zia better pop-up.
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Points to remember
  1. All feedback provided by users will undergo manual verification and be used to train the Zia algorithm.
  2. Checking the user consent checkbox is mandatory to enable the Submit button.

  3. The 'Help Zia' option will be available only when the email intelligence feature is enabled.

  4. Users can expect delays with changes after providing feedback as Zia requires a certain quantity of data to be trained and updated.


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