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Time to get out of your Spreadsheet nightmare
Here are some points we think you should take into account. |
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| Software Cost |
- Per user license - $229.95
- IT maintenance cost for upgrades and security patches
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- Subscription starts at $5/user/month
- Create unlimited apps
- Un-subscribe anytime
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| Accessibility |
- Accessible only from your own machine
- Email the spreadsheet or put it in shared repositories for wider access. Duplication & synchronizing is always a problem
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- Available On-Demand
- Accessible from anywhere, anytime, all you need is just a browser with Internet connection
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| Data Integrity |
- Spreadsheet is designed to be a personal productivity tool. As long it is handled by a single person, things are fine
- Multiple users working on the same data, reports and analysis, results in conflicting modifications. Syncing becomes error-prone and very tedious. Also maintaining single version of data is a great challenge.
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Real-time data can be accessed by everyone all the time. No conflicting modifications, enforcing data integrity and consistency. |
| Data Security |
- Data security is just one level. You could password protect your spreadsheet.
- Spreadsheets are available your on local machines and prone for easy data loss/theft
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- Application access is protected with secure user name and password
- Application can be accessed only by the users with whom you have shared the application with
- Permissions can be controlled like read-only, read-write etc..
- Application is hosted in secure and redundant server grids
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| Publishing |
There are no direct publishing options, to host in your blog, web pages etc., |
- Embeddable forms/views in your blogs or web pages as widgets
- Embedded views are always live and up-to-date
- Always serves the same version of the data. Absolutely no duplications of any kind
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| Data Export |
Limited export formats |
You can export your data in the standard formats like - PDF, XLS, HTML, RSS, JSON. |
| Collaboration |
- Spreadsheets are built for one person
- Emailing a spreadsheet is the only way to collaborate
- Conflicting modifications are to be synced manually, which is error-prone and laborious. Maintaining single version of data is a great challenge, could become even an impossible task
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- Easy to share applications with others
- You could even share application to anyone ie., general public
- Ability to share application with fine-grained permissions like Read-only, Read-write and multiple levels of sharing like sharing the entire app -or- or just form/view
- Ability to revoke sharing permissions anytime
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Check out: Traditional app development v/s Zoho Creator » |
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