Analyst(s): Nick Patience
Publication Date: September 24, 2025
Zoho Corporation has partnered with Dell Technologies to leverage the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, powering proprietary large language models (LLMs) and agent-based AI tools across its 55+ business applications. The collaboration emphasizes secure, scalable AI innovation aligned with India’s data sovereignty rules, supporting Zoho’s 130 million global users.
What is Covered in this Article:
- Zoho’s partnership with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA to accelerate AI capabilities.
- Support for proprietary multimodal LLMs optimized for summarization, data extraction, and code generation.
- Expansion of Zoho’s Zia Agent Marketplace with 700+ business actions for enterprise integration.
- Use of Dell’s infrastructure to ensure compliance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection rules.
- Focus on delivering scalable, privacy-first AI while maintaining global reach.
The News: Zoho Corporation has teamed up with Dell Technologies to enhance its AI capabilities through the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The partnership supports Zoho’s multimodal LLMs and agent-based AI tools across more than 55 business applications, used by over 130 million people worldwide.
Using Dell PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform, Zoho gets on-premises infrastructure that speeds up AI model development while meeting India’s Digital Personal Data Protection requirements. The setup allows secure, scalable use of advanced AI models and expands Zoho’s agent-based tools through the Zia Agent Marketplace.
Zoho Dell NVIDIA AI Partnership Aims to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption
Analyst Take: Zoho’s work with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA is a significant step toward scaling enterprise AI while keeping compliance in focus. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA allows Zoho to speed up development, broaden agent-based AI adoption, and keep sensitive data under its control. This lays the groundwork for Zoho’s 55+ products to bring advanced AI to its global user base of 130 million.
Building Faster AI Development Cycles
With the Dell AI Factory and NVIDIA, Zoho uses PowerEdge servers equipped with accelerated computing hardware and AI software to enable quick testing and iteration. Its multimodal LLMs, offered in 1.3 billion, 2.6 billion, and 7 billion parameter sizes, are tuned for enterprise needs like summarization, data extraction, and code generation. By cutting down deployment timelines, Zoho moves from research to application more quickly. This setup helps deliver AI features faster across Zoho’s products, increasing practical value for customers. Together, Dell’s infrastructure and NVIDIA’s platform provide the speed and scale needed to match enterprise adoption of AI.
Expanding the Zia Agent Marketplace
Through this partnership, Zoho is extending its agent-based AI portfolio within the Zia Agent Marketplace. Customers can use ready-made AI agents or build their own, with access to over 700 business-specific actions covering sales, finance, HR, and collaboration. These agents are designed to work within existing workflows, making them easier to adopt in real operations. Enterprises can see tangible results from AI by embedding these tools directly into processes. The expansion of the Zia Agent Marketplace highlights Zoho’s role in providing workflow-integrated AI solutions.
Balancing Data Sovereignty and Global Reach
The collaboration also stresses privacy-focused infrastructure, aligned with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection laws. Using Dell’s high-performance, on-premises systems, Zoho ensures data stays compliant with local rules while supporting scalability for its global audience of 130 million across industries. This focus on compliance and reach strengthens confidence in Zoho’s AI services. It shows that AI can scale globally while respecting security and regulatory requirements.
Strengthening Enterprise AI with Dell-NVIDIA Support
Dell’s AI Factory brings together PowerEdge XE-Series servers, NVIDIA NeMo, and advanced networking to handle Zoho’s demanding AI workloads. Backed by Dell ProSupport for Infrastructure, this ensures reliable performance for Zoho’s multimodal LLMs and AI agents. These resources help Zoho simplify workflows, surface insights, and speed up business innovation. The result is context-aware, enterprise-ready AI, built to meet practical needs. The partnership reinforces Zoho’s AI foundation, preparing its tools to scale and adapt to future demand.
What to Watch:
- Adoption and integration of Zia Agent Marketplace by enterprise customers.
- Performance of Zoho’s multimodal LLMs across varying business use cases.
- Compliance with India’s evolving data protection and privacy regulations.
- Competitive responses from global SaaS vendors expanding into agentic AI.
- Scalability of Dell-NVIDIA infrastructure to support Zoho’s global growth.
Disclosure: Futurum is a research and advisory firm that engages or has engaged in research, analysis, and advisory services with many technology companies, including those mentioned in this article. The author does not hold any equity positions with any company mentioned in this article.
Analysis and opinions expressed herein are specific to the analyst individually and data and other information that might have been provided for validation, not those of Futurum as a whole.
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Author Information
Nick Patience is VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at The Futurum Group. Nick is a thought leader on AI development, deployment, and adoption - an area he has researched for 25 years. Before Futurum, Nick was a Managing Analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence, responsible for 451 Research’s coverage of Data, AI, Analytics, Information Security, and Risk. Nick became part of S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, a pioneering analyst firm that Nick co-founded in 1999. He is a sought-after speaker and advisor, known for his expertise in the drivers of AI adoption, industry use cases, and the infrastructure behind its development and deployment. Nick also spent three years as a product marketing lead at Recommind (now part of OpenText), a machine learning-driven eDiscovery software company. Nick is based in London.
