Getting Started With Zoho People Advanced Analytics

There is no denying the absolute fact that data plays a crucial role in understanding employee behavior, optimizing HR operations, and making strategic decisions.

Zoho People Advanced Analytics is a powerful yet easy-to-use tool that allows HR teams, business leaders, and analysts to derive insights with real-time data from the Zoho People account. 

Powered by Zoho Analytics, this integration brings all possible benefits of using HR data utilizing interactive dashboards, customized reports, and deep visualizations.

This blog will take you through everything you need to know to get started in 2025 with Zoho People Advanced Analytics, from understanding key benefits to setting up your analytics workspace.

Table of Contents

• What is Zoho Analytics
• Understanding Zoho People Advanced Analytics
• Advantages of Zoho People Advanced Analytics
• How To Set Up Zoho People Advanced Analytics
• How To Access Advanced Analytics from Zoho People
• Tips for Maximizing Zoho People Advanced Analytics

What is Zoho Analytics?

Zoho Analytics is a self-service BI and data-analysis platform whose primary purpose is to ensure that users can convert meaningless data into worthwhile insight.

This tool lets you create impressive interactive dashboards, reports, and other kinds of visualization based on different data sources, such as Zoho People. 

Its drag-and-drop interface, advanced data modeling tools, AI-powered insights, and broad integration capabilities make Zoho Analytics a perfect choice for workforce analytics in 2025.

With Zoho Analytics, you can:

• Create interactive dashboards using a drag-and-drop interface
• Schedule data sync
• Use AI assistants to get automated insights
• Securely share and collaborate on reports

Understanding Zoho People Advanced Analytics

Zoho People Advanced Analytics is a standalone module in Zoho Analytics that derives complete insights into your HR data. Advanced Analytics goes way beyond the basic reports of Zoho People by enabling you to create custom dashboards with cross-functionality and consolidated data from multiple modules.

A few key HR metrics you can analyze are:

• Hiring and attrition trends of employees
• Time tracking and productivity analysis
• Demographic workforce data
• Patterns of leave
• Department-wise performance

Unlike basic charts or tables, Advanced Analytics for Zoho People gives you the power to create custom dashboards, predictive models, and advanced analytical reports across different HR functions.

Advantages of Zoho People Advanced Analytics

Using Zoho People Advanced Analytics in 2025 offers multiple advantages for HR departments and business leaders:

1. Pre-built HR Dashboards and Reports

Direct access to system-generated reports that include:

• Employee Hiring vs Attrition Report
• Employee Growth Rate Dashboard
• Estimated vs. Logged Hours Report

These dashboards are useful in identifying HR trends, predicting changes in workforce, and evaluating team productivity.

2. 25+ Chart Types and Flexible Report Views

Choose from various chart types, including bar, pie chart, funnel, geos, and pivot tables. Also, based on the analyzed data, you may toggle between summary, tabular, or matrix views.

3. Cross-Departmental Data Integration

Combine HR data from Zoho People, Excel files, cloud apps, and databases into a single workspace. Such a setup allows cross-working analyses with functionalities from finance, operations, and HR departments.

4. Custom Calculations and KPIs

Use formula engines and calculated fields to generate custom HR metrics such as average onboarding time, absenteeism rate, and project-wise productivity.

5. Scheduled Data Syncing

This is automated data synchronization for adjustable intervals-daily, hourly, or real-time updates, depending on the Zoho Analytics subscription plan.

How To Set Up Zoho People Advanced Analytics

Login to Zoho Analytics: Login to Zoho Analytics by signing in or signing up using a new username and password.

Navigate to the Analytics Homepage: On the homepage of analytics , click on the Import Your Data button.

Select Zoho People: After selecting “Import your data,” navigate to the human resources section and locate the Zoho People option to proceed.

After Clicking on Zoho People, you will have a dialog box as Zoho People advanced analytics setup; click on the Next button to proceed.

Import from Zoho People: After clicking the “Next” button, you’ll encounter a section dedicated to importing Zoho People data and configuring a workspace for analysis and reporting.

1. Enter a workspace name that fits your requirements.
2. Choose the organization you wish to import from the “Select Zoho People organization dropdown menu.”
3. Pick the modules and fields you want to import.
4. Utilize the “How often” dropdown to establish a scheduled interval for data import.
5. Press “Create” to continue.

Important point for schedule sync:For users on the Basic plan, data synchronization is limited to once per day.Standard plan users and above have the flexibility to sync data at various intervals:Daily: Every day, with options for hourly updates.Hourly: Sync intervals of 3, 6, and 12 hours.Not scheduled: Data sync occurs solely at the time of import.

Important point for schedule sync:For users on the Basic plan, data synchronization is limited to once per day.Standard plan users and above have the flexibility to sync data at various intervals:Daily: Every day, with options for hourly updates.Hourly: Sync intervals of 3, 6, and 12 hours.Not scheduled: Data sync occurs solely at the time of import.

Upon clicking “Create,” the import process from Zoho People will commence, and you’ll receive a dialog box confirming the completion of setup: “Import from Zoho People: Setup Completed.”

Login back into the Zoho people accounts: Navigate to the reports section and click on “advanced analytics.”

How To Access Advanced Analytics from Zoho People

After setting up the connection, follow these steps to access advanced reports:

Log in to Zoho People >> Navigate to the Reports section>> Click on Advanced Analytics.

You will now have different dashboard types, such as:

1. Employee Dashboard: Overall statistics on employee status, such as headcount, gender ratio, location spread, and department distribution.

2. Hiring vs. Attrition Dashboard: Evaluates the hiring trends versus exits, aiding the HR team in workforce planning and retention strategy.

3. Time Tracking Dashboard: Estimate vs. actual hours worked, billable hours, productivity metrics.

4. Tasks Dashboard: Evaluate task assignments, completions, delays, and team bottlenecks

5. Overview Dashboard: All important module HR metrics are consolidated into one view. 

Tips for Maximizing Zoho People Advanced Analytics

• Use AI-driven insights (Zia) to solicit queries in natural language.
• Create custom KPIs to measure engagement scores or time-to-hire metrics.
• Set up automated reports for emailing to stakeholders.
• Share dashboards securely with permission controls for collaboration.

Final Wrap

Zoho People Advanced Analytics is a game-changer for businesses looking to get the most out of HR data in the best ways possible. In 2025, mastering HR analytics is a must to catch up with organizations steadily adopting hybrid workplaces and data-driven decision-making.

From tracking attrition trends to better time management and workforce planning, Zoho People + Zoho Analytics gives you everything you need in one powerful integration.

Start your journey toward smarter HR with Zoho People Advanced Analytics today—because better data leads to better people’s decisions. Ready to unlock smarter workforce insights with Zoho People Advanced Analytics? Hire Cloud Analogy, your trusted Zoho Consulting Partner. From CRM customization to seamless integrations, we deliver tailored Zoho consulting services that drive growth and productivity. 

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