Zoho Raises Bar for Online Presentations
Elegant UI, New Features Highlight Ajax-Powered Zoho Show 2.0
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Zoho is raising the bar for online presentation software with today’s release of Zoho Show 2.0. Built with Ajax, Zoho Show 2.0 presents Zoho customers with an elegant, completely revamped user interface that simplifies access to an expanded array of features. For a video of Zoho Show 2.0, please visit http://www.viddler.com/raju/videos/17/.
Presenting Zoho Show 2.0
With Zoho Show 2.0, Zoho has both visually and functionally refined its online presentation application.
Vegesna continued, “Zoho Show 2.0 showcases the power of Ajax to create a rich, online UI and feature set. Actually, the technology exceeds the client requirements for office productivity applications today.”
Zoho Show 2.0 gains an elegant, three-pane user interface that provides clear, convenient access to a host of new features, including:
- Themes support: Users can choose from over 50 default themes. Eventually, users will be able to create their own themes and contribute it to the library.
- Shapes and symbols support: Hundreds of shapes and symbols are available for flowcharts, etc.
- Extensive editing support: Users can rotate and flip images and select from multiple text, images, and bullet types.
- Clip art support: Graphics categories include Animals, Transport, Business, Science and Technology, etc.
- Zoho Meeting and Zoho Chat integration: Zoho Meeting lets users share their desktops with audiences viewing their presentations. Zoho Chat lets users chat online with their audiences while doing presentations.
- Improved importing: The import quality for presentations (ppt, pps, odp, sxi) has been greatly improved.
Going forward, Zoho will add support for transitions as well as for audio and video content.
Feedback on Zoho Show 2.0
Thanks to its rich UI and feature set, Zoho Show 2.0 is enjoying positive response from the Zoho community.
Zoho Show 2.0 Unveiled - Compares Well to Powerpoint, One-Ups Google
"...Overall, Zoho Show 2.0 is slick and compares well with Powerpoint; and has added collaboration features. Plus, not for the first time, it's one-upped Google - whose online presentations software is basic by comparison. ...Zoho is arguably the most complete and full-featured Web Office suite on the market." Richard MacManus, Read/WriteWeb
Who Needs Powerpoint? Create Your Presentations Online with Zoho Show 2.0
"...While all of Zoho’s many office tools are quite slick compared to competitors - Google’s slideshow offering looks woefully inadequate next to Zoho - Show 2.0 raises the bar even for other Zoho apps. ...Zoho Show 2.0 is a very mature app and can likely replace Powerpoint for all but the most demanding users." Scott Gilbertson, Wired
Zoho Tackles Powerpoint With Zoho Show
"The folks at Zoho just don't seem to get tired: they announce new features, products and services for their online office suite on an almost weekly basis. ...the new Zoho Show works great and blows Google Presentation's socks off: it has got more features and options and a much slicker look." Stan Schroeder, Mashable
Zoho Show 2.0, Cleaner Look, New Features
"...The team has shown a strong commitment to steadily improving their products, making them a compelling alternative to the incumbent, Google." Nick Gonzalez, TechCrunch
Zoho refreshes its Show online presentation tool
“With Show 2.0 Zoho is working to stay ahead of Google. So far so good.” Larry Dignan, ZDNet
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“We completely rebuilt Zoho Show to achieve two distinct goals,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “First, we want to take full advantage of being online. Second, we want to reach feature parity with offline, desktop presentation applications.”
Making its popular online database available to people who work online while on the go, Zoho today announced the availability of Zoho Creator Mobile. Now, users can access their private and shared applications created in Zoho Creator from their mobile phones and devices.
“Mobile devices are constant personal companions, far more ubiquitous than laptops with WiFi or cellular network connections,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “A lot of applications benefit tremendously from this kind of mobile access, so we’ve made it possible for our customers to view and enter data into their applications right from their mobile.”
From a mobile device, Zoho Creator Mobile can be accessed at http://creator.zoho.com/mobile or http://creator.zoho.com/m. Users who visit http://creator.zoho.com from a mobile device will also be directed to the Zoho Creator Mobile page.
Zoho Creator Mobile supports mobile devices with Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, and other WAP browsers. The Zoho Creator Mobile interface has also been optimized for the iPhone.
Kudos for Zoho Creator Mobile
With over 500,000 customers using over 60,000 applications created in Zoho Creator, the introduction of Zoho Creator Mobile is earning rave reviews.
“This is great stuff guys. I have just created a form and it worked like a charm. I am sitting in a cab and have just checked it out. Well done.”
Erich Hugo, business innovation manager, Nokia
Zoho releases Zoho Creator Mobile
“I think the release of the mobile version is a big step ahead not only needed in today's market but also a very valuable addition to the current software pool. Don't forget that this is what the Web is all about: application and data access, everywhere, from anywhere, from any device imaginable. Disclaimer: I like Zoho. A lot!”
S.M. Schrama; web 2.0 weblog
Zoho Creator Now Mobile, Beating Google to the Punch Again
“Zoho has been pretty good and quick to extend the majority of its suite’s solutions for mobile access, and now Creator isn’t the one that’s left behind. ...Zoho has generally been able to beat Google to the punch...”
Kristen Nicole; Mashable
Zoho getting real smart with portable computing…
“To really get traction for SaaS delivered office productivity, there can be no barriers to what people can do with them. Google apps is very much second best as a word and spreadsheet tool to MS office - Zoho ups the ante by creating more functionality across more application areas than Google.”
Ben Kepes; diversity.net.nz
For a promotional video of Zoho Creator Mobile, please visit http://youtube.com/watch?v=m9uZ9SkKhJw.
For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com. To get breaking Zoho news, please visit and subscribe to the RSS feed at http://blogs.zoho.com/.
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