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Zoho Creator

INFRA · APIS
Velocity2.5

Low-code application development platform for custom business apps.

HDS certification opens French healthcare to Zoho Creator's EU stack

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Current state
The only recent product-state signal for Zoho Creator is the HDS (Hébergeur de Données de Santé) certification announced May 22, running on Zoho-owned and -operated EU data centres. The rest of the visible feed is older marketing and analyst-relations content stretching back to 2019, making short-term release cadence hard to read from this surface alone.
Where it's heading
Zoho is leaning on its sovereign EU infrastructure as the competitive lever — owning and operating the data centres and stacking country-specific certifications that SaaS-only low-code competitors (Mendix, OutSystems, Microsoft Power Apps) cannot match cleanly. Outside this compliance push, the changelog provides almost no signal: an AI-plus-low-code marketing post from March 2025 is the most recent item besides the cert.
Prediction
Expect more jurisdiction-specific compliance certifications on the same EU-self-hosted stack — additional healthcare or public-sector attestations are the obvious next steps. The lack of release cadence visible in this feed suggests Creator's product news lives in a different channel; what surfaces here is likely to keep being market-access milestones rather than feature shipments.

Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Zoho Creator is now HDS certified

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    Zoho Creator earned HDS certification, the French regulatory gate for hosting personal health data, on Zoho-owned EU data centres. It does not change the product's feature surface, but it does change the addressable market — Creator can now legally serve French healthcare workloads.

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  2. 1y ago

    Say hello to the smartest, fastest development team: AI, low-code, and you

    A March 2025 marketing post on AI as a collaborator inside low-code development. Editorial content rather than a product release — included here because it is the only item between the HDS cert and 2022.

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  3. 4y ago

    Zoho Creator's global Roadshow 2022

    Event recap from the 2022 global roadshow. Years out of date and not a release.

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  4. 5y ago

    Zoho Positioned as Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, 2020

    Analyst-relations post from 2020 about being named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. Useful as background on positioning; not current state.

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  5. 6y ago

    10 things to look out for when choosing the right education management software

    SEO-oriented blog post from 2020 on choosing education management software. Not a product release.

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  6. 6y ago

    Google AppMaker is closing its doors. Welcome to Zoho Creator.

    Marketing post from 2020 capturing Google App Maker's shutdown and pitching Creator as the migration target. Stale, not part of current trajectory.

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