Zoho Analytics has had a more than a decade old journey. Launched as a pioneering, cloud-only BI service in 2009 as Zoho Reports, we had Zoho Analytics 4.0 in November 2018. Since then, we have been continuously working on bringing in new functionalities to the product that help you unlock insights from continuously growing data. The culmination of which is today’s announcement, Zoho Analytics 5.0.

Studies indicate 80% of the time is spent on cleaning and preparing the data before analysing it. That’s where a service like Zoho DataPrep comes in. Zoho DataPrep allows you to connect, prepare, cleanse, transform, model, and catalog your data. While Zoho DataPrep is available as a standalone product, it is joined at the hip with Zoho Analytics. Zoho Analytics users can use Zoho DataPrep from within Zoho Analytics seamlessly. This integration vastly improves the ETL (extract-transform-load) capabilities of Zoho Analytics, as you can connect, clean, transform and enrich data from inside Zoho Analytics itself.

Zia also assists you by providing inferences for any report or dashboard. With Zia Insights, you get instant insights through smart narratives, with the click of a button.

More augmented capabilities including what-if analysis, cognitive analytics and new forecasting models are rolling into Zoho Analytics 5.0.

What’s more, thanks to our easy website builder Zoho Sites, you can create purpose-built analytics specific portals, to share insights within your institution.

Zoho Analytics provides easy connectors with 50+ popular business apps, that come with pre-built reports and dashboards. You can jumpstart your analytics instead of starting to build your reports from scratch. In 5.0, we are introducing 7 new connectors for Bigin, Zoho Sprints, Exact Online, Jira, LinkedIn Pages, ServiceNow, and WooCommerce.

Other than the above, Zoho Analytics 5.0 comes packed with 60+ features. Like client portal, tabbed dashboards, import templates, windowing and granularity functions, viewer mode, word cloud chart, custom image background charts, KPI dial widgets, night mode and more.

Want to find out more about the 5.0 release? Head to our What’s New page, or register for our live webinar.

In 2017, most students (34.5% or 63 928 of the total enrolment) were enrolled on programmes offered at the Bachelor’s degree level, followed closely by enrolments on programmes on the Diploma-360 credits level (29.5% or 54 568). The enrolment in the Higher Certificate levels was 27 249 or 14.7% of the total enrolment whilst enrolment for the Master’s degree was 7 411 or 4.0% of the total enrolment. Only 0.2% or 328 of the total enrolment were enrolled for the Doctoral degree. Table 4.6 further stipulate that 93.1% or 172 368 students enrolled for programmes lower than Honours degree, which is 9 out of every 10 students in PHEIs in 2017. There were no enrolments for programmes on the Master’s degree (Professional) and Doctoral degree (Professional).

Source: Annual report submitted by PHEIs to DHET for the 2017 year of reporting.

Note: The figures provided in the above table were audited.

Note: The qualification types are on NQF level 5 - 10

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The data below shows that the total number of students enrolled in PHEIs in 2017 was 185 046, which was an increase of 10.5% compared to the total student enrolment in 2016 (167 408). Over the period under review there has been an increase of 82 010 or 79.6% in student enrolments within the PHEIs sector. The female enrolment in PHEIs was consistently higher than that of males over the period 2011 to 2017. The number of students who did not report on gender decreased by 38.1% or 805 in 2017 (1 309) as compared to 2016 (2 114).

Source: Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa, 2016. Annual report submitted by PHEIs to DHET for the 2017 year of reporting. Note: Only 2016 and 207 figures are audited.