/in-the-news.html News from zoho.com en-us http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/15/zoho-crm-gets-a-ui-makeover-adds-linkedin-integration/ "Web-based productivity suite Zoho is revamping its CRM offering today. Zoho CRM is one of the company’s most popular application with 25,000 customers. The most distinct differences between the new version and previous iteration is the UI. Zoho says that based on how customers were interacting with the app, workflow and screens were redesigned to streamline user interactions. " http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/12/the-remaking-of-zohocrm.php "Today Zoho announced a makeover for its venerable (my, how time flies) CRM SaaS service, including new features and a new UI. The company also stated that its software is used by 5.5 million users and has 25,000 CRM customers. The features are all available immediately and the existing pricing remains the same. " http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/zoho-upgrades-crm-touts-25000-customers/65407 "The Zoho CRM upgrade includes a new interface, third party integration and deal tracking. " http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/246305/zoho_guns_for_salesforcecom_with_major_upgrade_to_its_saas_crm_software.html "Zoho unveiled a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software on Thursday with new features including an overhauled user interface and an integration with LinkedIn. The new user interface is geared to improve productivity, Zoho's vice president of marketing, Rodrigo Vaca, wrote in a blog post Thursday. " http://www.talkincloud.com/zoho-comes-back-from-outage-with-major-update-to-zoho-crm/ "Zoho, the enterprise cloud productivity provider, had some downtime recently across its Zoho Mail, Books and Support SaaS products. But according to Zoho it's all fixed, and - guess what - Zoho CRM has received a major update, bringing a new UI, a new "Pulse" module, integration with both LinkedIn and Zoho Creator, and WebHook, designed to make it easier to integrate the solution with external services. " http://www.itwire.com/cloud-computing/51808-integration-boost-for-zoho-crm "Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures. Stephen WithersFriday, 16 December 2011 02:05 An update of Zoho CRM delivers a new user interface and improved integration capabilities. " http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/zoho-crm-updates-ui-introduces-linkedin-integration-013868.php "Zoho announced interface improvements, adding a handy new LinkedIn integration, a business card view for contacts and a reorganized Setup page to help its users stay connected.. Topic: Customer Experience " http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/12/15/zoho-crm-adds-linkedin-zoho-creator-integration.aspx "Zoho has released a new version of its constituent relationship management (CRM) software, which includes a redesigned user interface. According to the company, the goal of the redesign was to let end users spend more time doing their jobs, and less time using the CRM. " http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110515/COL0101/105150322/Google-wants-do-business "One of my favorite destinations for Web-based application comes from the Zoho Corp., which has more than 4 million users taking advantage of 20 different apps ranging from word processing to spreadsheets to project management and databases." http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2070818/zoho-adds-ipad-support-suite-upgrade "Online applications firm Zoho has announced several improvements to four of its core tools designed to help workers in smaller firms improve productivity." http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-13/internet/29413305_1_users-new-apps-google-apps-marketplace "Zoho has added five more applications to the Google Apps Marketplace which makes it the largest software provider on Google marketplace. The five new apps are: Zoho Creator, Zoho Discussions, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Reports and Zoho Wiki." http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/218394-4/microsoft_office_alternatives_productivity_software_showdown.html "Compared with Google Docs, Zoho's interface is a pleasure to behold. Instead of being rudimentary, the design is elegant and intuitive, and far more closely than Google Docs, it resembles what most of us are used to from desktop applications." http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207091/zoho_upgrades_creator_app_builder_tool.html "Creator, which lets users build simple, database-driven business applications without coding, is getting two new components: Reports and Scheduler." http://gigaom.com/collaboration/integrated-online-accounting-and-bookkeeping-with-zoho-books/ "Zoho Books is intended for businesspeople who may not have accounting backgrounds, but it includes the features we’ve come to expect from accounting software, including functions to manage customer, invoice, banking and expense data. " http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/zoho-launches-books-to-round-out-its-suite-targets-quickbooks/43705 "Zoho Books’ tabs are clear cut. The screens boil down to money in and out. There’s also a standard feature to share Zoho Books with an accountant. Zoho Books runs $24 a month with access for two users and $5 per user a month for additional folks. " http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/SMB-Partner/QuickBooks-Alternative-Offered-by-Zoho-686574/ "Looking for an alternative to Intuit’s Quick Books online? Online applications provider Zoho is releasing Zoho Books, online accounting software designed for small and medium-size businesses, complete with a full feature set such as invoicing software, expense tracking, bank and credit card transactions and more. " http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/19/zoho-debuts-online-accounting-and-invoicing-service-zoho-books/ "Zoho’s 26th productivity app, Zoho Books, is an online accounting software that gives business as snapshot of money flowing into and out of accounts. The software allows you to send invoices for payments, receive online payments, record bills and expenses, monitor bank and credit card transactions, deal in a variety of currencies, manage contacts, and share data. " http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/2010-was-the-year-of-integrati.php "The new application [Zoho Books] already integrates with Zoho's CRM and spreadsheet applications, and the company plans to offer more integrations in the future. Zoho Invoice users should be able migrate to Books seamlessly. " http://www.hindu.com/biz/2011/01/17/stories/2011011750031400.htm "Zoho Books is intended for businesspeople who may not have accounting backgrounds, but it includes the features we’ve come to expect from accounting software, including functions to manage customer, invoice, banking and expense data. " http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp "The Vembu brothers had little idea then, but in these moves lay the beginnings of ZOHO Corp, which today employs close to 1,300 people with offices in Chennai, US, Europe, Japan and China, and the main development centre in Chennai . " http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374832,00.asp "Zoho Invoice is well-designed and well-implemented, and it offers a lot for free (though only five invoices/estimates per month), along with four additional pricing levels that build on that version's features. " http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/2010-was-the-year-of-integrati.php "There's a tension in enterprise software between the suite/Swiss Army knife approach and the best-of-breed approach. " http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/zohos-students-can-teach-microsoft-a-lesson-or-two/articleshow/7068275.cms "In an industry scrambling to hire and retain restless engineers from top engineering and business schools, Zoho offers lessons to other entrepreneurs in terms of looking beyond traditional hiring, apart from demonstrating that India can produce software product for users across the globe. " http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213125/zoho_ties_quickbooks_telephony_to_its_crm.html "QuickBooks users will be able to sync customer and supplier information to Zoho CRM. Data from Zoho CRM, such as quotes and invoices, can be pushed to QuickBooks. The feature is compatible with on-premises QuickBooks Premier versions 2008 to 2010 as well as Simple Start 2008." http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213125/zoho_ties_quickbooks_telephony_to_its_crm.html "QuickBooks users will be able to sync customer and supplier information to Zoho CRM. Data from Zoho CRM, such as quotes and invoices, can be pushed to QuickBooks. The feature is compatible with on-premises QuickBooks Premier versions 2008 to 2010 as well as Simple Start 2008." http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Zoho-Docs/articleshow/6939140.cms "Zoho Writer can handle almost all document formats, including the new .docx MS Office 2007 filetype. The usual slates of word-processing tools are available in a familiar format." http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/09/30/saas-zoho-gets-contextual-with-gmail/ "Zoho likes to position itself as the enterprise-targeted SaaS competitor to Google Apps, but it still knows that if you can’t beat them, join them. That’s why Zoho takes their Google integration a step further with Gmail contextual gadgets." http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/zoho-the-startup-that-took-on-google-and-microsoft-0458/ "Zoho has expanded its integration with Google Apps by allowing CRM and other Zoho business tools to display data in Gmail messages." http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/zoho-the-startup-that-took-on-google-and-microsoft-0458/ "Vembu believes that the breadth and depth of Zoho's products is a key differentiator. Zoho offers a comprehensive suite of more than 20 web-based applications for businesses that range from word processing, spreadsheets and email to web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM) and databases. Nobody offers that wide a range of capabilities. Not Microsoft. Not Google." http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350437/Sridhar_Vembu "How does IT need to prepare for the cloud? We have built software that runs in people's data centers and built closed software. Now, we tend to break up software into little components because that scales better -- in our spreadsheet, our macro functionality is a distinct subsystem. It does nothing but process macros. That's very different from the way you conventionally build software." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/zoho-wiki-adds-enterprise-features.php "Zoho updated its Zoho Wiki to version 2.0 today, adding features such as granular access controls and the ability to create individual workspaces for different business units, departments, or teams. This represents a shift in Zoho's positioning of the product from a simple app to an enterprise-level platform for intranets, knowledge bases and collaboration." http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/06/17/zoho-adds-workspaces-access-controls-widgets-and-more-to-zoho-wiki/ "Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho has also added more in-depth access controls to wikis, which allows administrators to set permissions for Workspaces, multiple groups, individuals, domains, public, and for users within an organization. Admins can also assign separate permissions for edit, view, create and delete functions." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/zoho-adds-more-apps-to-the-google-apps-marketplace.php "Zoho Invoice and Zoho Creator Helpdesk joined Zoho CRM & Zoho Projects in the Google Apps Marketplace today. All the apps come in both free and paid varieties, and integrate Google Apps' users, contacts and other features into Zoho's offerings." http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/01/zoho-search/0 "Zoho Search improves on other business search tools in two ways, Vegesna said — it’s universal and it’s actionable. By universal, he means users just go to search.zoho.com, type their query into a Google-style search bar, and they can see the results from Zoho Mail, Docs, Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook, Contacts, Discussions, and Organization Contacts, with more apps promised to follow. That’s much easier than the more common experience with online business apps, where users have to search each application separately." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/zoho-adds-search-for.php "The search service makes Zoho one of the few services that can offer a search that spans multiple applications. For instance, Google offers search for individual applications but not across the entirety of its services. " http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/zoho-introduces-actionable-search-businesses-729 "Actionable Search isn't just about having a unified search engine; Zoho also is aiming to make search results pertinent and contextual. For example, if your search results include an email, Actionable Search will give you the presence information of the person who sent the email. If the results include a document, they will also include the presence information of the original author, the timestamp of the last time the document was modified, and with whom the document is being shared. " http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33550 "Zoho has been an interesting company to me for sometime. The company’s office productivity products are solid—arguably better than Google Apps—and Zoho is an enterprise player with CRM apps and other software that would appeal to small and mid-sized businesses." http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2010/04/zoho-inside-the-wal-mart-of-sm.html "Walk into your local Wal-Mart and look around. If your family needs food, you can get it from Wal-Mart. If your car needs parts, you can get them from Wal-Mart. If you're in need of medical services, you can get it. If you need clothes, you can get it. Need a new patio?" http://www.crn.com/software/223800117/ "After a down-and-dirty look at the Zoho suite, it's clear that it's much more robust than Google Apps, much more obtainable for small or new businesses than many Microsoft applications and it does keep improving. We're not thrilled with every cloud offering we see, but Zoho gets it and its product is built to fit any number of potential solutions. It's a viable business-ready offering." http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/02/23/zoho-facebook-connect/ "Zoho, a company offering an array of more than 20 web-based office applications covering everything from email to documents to sales to invoices, just announced that it’s supporting Facebook Connect. That means users can sign into Zoho with their Facebook login, and tie their Facebook accounts to their accounts on Zoho." http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/zoho-adds-a-social-layer-to-productivity-suite-with-facebook-connect/ "Last year, we wrote that Zoho has continued to implement an intelligent strategy to launch new products and add-ons to its existing offerings, partly to keep users from flocking to Google Apps and Microsoft’s Web-based version of Microsoft 2010. It looks like Zoho is continuing this strategy in 2010." http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/zoho-launches-new-version-of-invoicing-application "2008, productivity suite empire Zoho launched a simple invoicing tool, unsurprisingly called Zoho Invoice. Today, the startup is releasing a new version of its Invoice, dubbed Invoice 2.0, that has a fresh user interface and provides a more open application." http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=8335 "Last month Zoho announced the production release of Zoho Reports, its online reporting and business intelligence (BI) application. Zoho Reports is a cloud offering providing users with a basic yet functional set of BI reporting capabilities that allows them to upload data and build reports, and collaborate and share them online. This announcement marks a small step in the development of BI reporting in the cloud, but represents a larger step in Zoho's battle with titans Google and Microsoft to achieve dominance in the online office application space." http://www.cio.com/article/514673/Kiss_Microsoft_Office_Goodbye_Three_Alternatives_to_Office_2010 "The third alternative, Zoho, like the much better known Google Docs, runs on the Internet. I've picked Zoho over Google because it does much more, is amazingly light on its feet and the competition will make everyone try harder. However, moving your routine Office chores to the cloud, as people call Web-based computing these days, is a pretty big leap." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/zoho-reports-steps-out-of-beta-with-pricing-model-and-new-features/ "Zoho Reports can upload data from a variety of sources including Excel and HTML files. And Zoho Reports works with hosted and behind-the-firewall business applications and databases from Oracle, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access databases. Users can interact with Reports via a drag and drop interface, with the application featuring in-depth collaborative tools that let users develop reports together and share reports with each other. Zoho also promises security of all reports." http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/02/zoho-apps-now-able-to-suck-files-straight-from-your-google-docs/ "You can now side-load files into Zoho straight from your Google Docs storage. Composing an email in Zoho but need a file from your Google stash? No problem. Once you've granted access, Zoho can pluck anything from Docs without breaking a sweat." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/02/web-based-productivity-suite-zoho-launches-full-integration-with-google-docs/ "Google Docs users can now attach files from Google Docs to Zoho’s CRM within Leads, Accounts, and Cases of Zoho CRM. When users try to attach a document from Google Docs, they will be prompted to authenticate using Google credentials. Google Docs will be listed within Zoho once users sign-in." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/12/zoho.php "Zoho is now offering full integration with Google Apps, allowing users to seamlessly access Google Docs from within the Zoho environment. Zoho already provides integration with Google Apps via sign in. But this is the first time full access to Google Web Apps is available through Zoho applications. It's another move by Zoho to compete with the giants of the business through integrations that allow for interplay across multiple platforms." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/23/web-based-productivity-suite-zoho-launches-human-resources-application-zoho-recruit "A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management recruitment." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/11/zoho-makes-another-move-to-be-the-it-of-the-small-business-market.php "Zoho is making another move to serve as the IT department for the small business market. Its latest offering is a service for staffing agencies and human resources to automate the process for hiring people." http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141173/Free_Web_apps_to_help_organize_your_holidays "I'm putting it all in a Zoho Creator database, the same app we use here at Computerworld for our database of product reviews. I could keep it all in an online spreadsheet, but the database offers additional flexibility for searching, sorting and filtering by multiple criteria." http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62058170,00.htm "Singapore-based Digital Scanning told ZDNet Asia in an interview, the company discontinued its Salesforce.com CRM deployment because of the cost of user licenses and training time required." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/web-based-productivity-suite-zoho-launches-forum-tool-zoho-discussions/ "I had the opportunity to test out Zoho Discussions and it’s both remarkably easy for anyone to set up and filled with useful features. With the new product you can create a platform for discussion forums, similar to Google Groups. The differentiating factor is that your forums can be customized and branded to adopt the look and feel of your site. Zoho even lets you pick out a domain name that coincides with your site. Plus, Zoho Discussions can be integrated with many of Zoho’s other productivity applications." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Zoho-Creates-Zoho-Discussions-App-for-Community-Brainstorming-295706/ "Businesses using Zoho Discussions can provision who gets to access which discussion forums and with what permissions. Businesses can also brand forums as they choose, adding their logo and other details to identify their company." http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090911_644394.htm "Because many new computer users in India lack familiarity with Microsoft's Office and other desktop software, they're generally more open to the idea of cloud computing, says Zoho Chief Executive Sridhar Vembu. "There's a whole set of new companies that have no apprehensions" about Web-based software, Vembu says. "We are now starting to see this as a major market opportunity." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/08/zoho-partners-with-vmware.php "Zoho is best recognized for its software as service offerings, a suite of 19 applications ranging from a Google Docs competitor to a low-cost CRM. But for some time now the company has allowed larger enterprises to purchase appliances that replicate Zoho's own datacenter, but keep the data behind the firewall and allow for better integration with other enterprise applications." http://technologizer.com/2009/08/27/zoho-integrates-with-google-apps-via-unified-sign-in "The most interesting company in Web-based office suites isn’t Google. It won’t be Microsoft, even after the Web-based version of Office shows up next year. It’s the much smaller company Zoho." http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10003159/zoho-thinks-small-is-beautiful "Zoho is like the sea creature that survives by taking tiny nibbles from unsuspecting, larger rivals. Not that it wants to kill those rivals – in fact, it needs an ecosystem in which to thrive." http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/zoho-thriving-amid-the-giants "[Zoho] has 19 online productivity and collaboration applications, including customer relationship management, project management and invoicing. So it only competes head-to-head against Google with five offerings." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/08/why-zoho-wants-you-to-sign-in.php "It seems that the road map for Zoho lies in having a broad spectrum of business applications available on the Web. Though some of its products may compete with those of Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, its nearly comprehensive take on software as a service is paying off." http://lifehacker.com/5344186/zoho-notebook-gets-search-moving-and-export "Not one to stop tweaking and improving, Zoho's integrated notebook tool recently added universal search, HTML import and export, and tools to move your notes around between notebooks and pages." http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=55413 "Zoho has made significant enhancements to its Zoho CRM product. Zoho CRM now integrates with email -- and not just Zoho Mail. Users can choose which account to integrate with the CRM application and thenceforth, will see an "email" tab present in the CRM system." http://blogs.computerworld.com/zoho_bests_google_in_mobile_app_suite "Google wants to own the future of mobile software, including office suite software, but Zoho launched a new capability to run its very solid, browser-based mobile apps on all major platforms, not just iPhone and Windows Mobile." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/28/zoho-now-fully-integrated-with-mobile-devices/ "Zoho, the creators of a web-based software suite made up of document, project and invoicing management tools, has launched the availability of its comprehensive webtop productivity products on mobile devices." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05digi.html "Zoho Writer is running close enough to Word to imagine that it and other online word processors will be able to do most everything that Word can do, and more." http://lifehacker.com/5214698/zoho-gadgets-put-your-web-work-nearly-anywhere "Online office suite Zoho one-ups its Google counterpart by offering a half-dozen quick-access gadgets for its Docs, Mail, Calendar, and other webapps, embeddable in Gmail, Facebook, iGoogle start pages, and nearly anywhere." http://www.cio.com/article/489663/Zoho_Apps_Can_Now_Be_Embedded_As_Gadgets "Zoho, which offers SaaS (software-as-a-service) communication and collaboration applications for individuals and organizations, now lets users integrate Zoho data via gadgets in Facebook, Gmail and any site that is compatible with the OpenSocial APIs." http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/zoho-chat-20/ "Zoho Chat 2.0 brings support for Yahoo!, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber-based IM networks, but it’s just one in the long list of improvements in the new version. Other important features include integration accross the entire Zoho office suite, which means you can chat from any Zoho app, comprehensive chat history, sending files directly through chat, calendar integration, which lets you add events from the chat, as well as embedding the chat box in your website or blog." http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/internet/soa/Zoho-Writer-2-0/0,139023437,339295796,00.htm "The key enhancement in Zoho Writer 2.0 is the MenuTab design, which streamlines the toolbar with tabbed menus that organise commands in context-based groups. The key here is the ability to use the tabs as menus: you can access these commands either by clicking the tab, which brings up the appropriate button set on your toolbar (much like Microsoft Office 2007's ribbon) or by clicking the little arrow to the right of the tab title, which opens a drop-down menu without changing the toolbar beneath." http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/03/30/zoho-crm/ "Customer relationship management (CRM) solutions vary, but for the most part they help businesses manage sales leads, accounts, campaigns, forecasts and activities. Most CRM packages tend to be too heavyweight for the sole proprietor, however. They cost a bundle and contain features that most web workers don’t need. Zoho has a relatively simple CRM solution that’s free for up to three users." http://www.cio.com/article/488115/Why_Zoho_Has_a_Manic_Strategy_for_Selling_Software_ "Business is really picking up," Vegesna told CIO at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco. "This downturn might actually help the low-cost technology providers like us." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/best_littleco_of_2008.php "We felt that Web Office vendor Zoho best represented the 'LittleCo' ethos this year, due to its David vs Goliath effort in competing head on with products from several very large companies: Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Salesforce.com's core CRM platform." http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=893 "While Google occasionally adds new features to its online productivity applications and Microsoft is rumored to be preparing an online version of Microsoft Office that it can release as soon as its market share comes under serious fire from online competitors, Zoho has quietly been building an impressive fleet of Web-based productivity and business applications that are far more numerous and sophisticated than what Google offers and truly take advantage of the Web rather than just bringing offline apps into the browser. Especially for small businesses, Zoho is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office, and it not only saves money but also provides productivity benefits with online collaboration." http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/zoho_creator_in.html "I think it's interesting for a couple reasons. First, Zoho Creator is a drag and drop system that doesn't require programming skills. So this could be an easy way for non-programmers to take advantage of Google App Engine." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Zoho-Creator-Apps-Will-Now-Float-on-Googles-App-Engine-Cloud/ "Zoho enables applications created in its Zoho Creator online database tool to run on Google's App Engine, the latest application development collaboration between two SAAS players looking to bolster the cloud computing ecosystem." http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/zoho_uses_sql_t.html "[Zoho] CloudSQL clearly demonstrates that cloud applications can be accessed using familiar software tools, which promises to address one of the key issues facing cloud computing: integrating cloud apps from a variety of vendors with traditional software from a variety of vendors. If developers can use existing tools like SQL to get at their data, integration could become much easier." http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=316 "Zoho just can’t stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own." http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/12/02/zoho-cloudsql-architecture/ "[Zoho CloudSQL] is another step in Zoho’s steady march toward increased data portability. Except now they’re opening everyone’s walled gardens–their blog post states, “[CloudSQL] allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application…” With this SQL pipeline, a company can seamlessly connect legacy systems and cloud-based systems." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_international_products_2008.php "Zoho is an Indian startup that offers a number of office tools, project management software and CRM solutions. It has made serious advances with its office productivity suite during 2008, reaching a milestone of 1 million users in August this year." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Forresters-Advice-to-CFOs-Embrace-Cloud-Computing-to-Cut-Costs/ "Forrester Research advises CFOs to take a close look at cloud computing for messaging and collaboration and enterprise applications. The payoffs could be noticeable during the current economic downturn. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, IBM and a number of smaller players are ready to take your money for SAAS solutions." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1855616,00.html "I typed this story in Zoho Writer, even though I had never even tried it until this week. So far, so good..." http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/zoho-mail-goes-offline-with-gears.html We have so much respect for the Zoho team here at Google. They produce great software, and they do it regularly! Their latest accomplishment has been getting their email product, Zoho Mail, working offline. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_mail_gets_offline_support.php Innovative Web Office startup Zoho has beaten Google to the punch again, announcing offline support for the newly public Zoho Mail tonight. http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=590 Zoho already has over a million users in total of its portfolio of on-demand applications, and cross-adoption as users add extra applications has helped the CRM product scale up to 100,000 users so far. http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=274 Awesome is not a word I use often but when I saw Zoho Marketplace, the sound of my jaw hitting the desk was audible in the next street. What better way to get its collection of services working as the hub for other services that might build from Zoho products? http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/30/zoho-creator-3-0-and-marketplace-launched When it comes to the online office app market, Zoho absolutely kills the competition in terms of its offerings. To me, the product that most outshines the competition is Zoho Creator. I love the forms in Google Docs, but Zoho Creator is far more robust. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/30/zoho-launches-its-application-marketplace Zoho continues to carve a niche for itself among the giants in the software-as-a-service market. The three-year old online application suite, which started off as a basic online version of Word, has grown to 1.2 million registered users and 500,000 unique monthly logins. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10233 When it comes to the online office app market, Zoho absolutely kills the competition in terms of its offerings. To me, the product that most outshines the competition is Zoho Creator. I love the forms in Google Docs, but Zoho Creator is far more robust. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26782011/ Listen to Zoho company “evangelist” Raju Vegesna, and you start to understand the dynamic. The company, which started three years ago, recently announced it has 1 million users. He estimates 30 percent of them are students. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_the_little_engine_that_could.php We all love the David and Goliath story. What about David vs two Goliaths? That is the improbable story of Zoho, the Web Office startup competing head on with both Microsoft and Google. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/09/web_20_zoho_gea.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL The other year, when I first looked at Zoho, they were (to me) an upstart curiosity. Now they're a force to be taken seriously in the online apps space, thanks to leveraging open source in their work -- even while they face possible competition from, you guessed it, open source. http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm SRIDHAR VEMBU is a dangerous man. If he succeeds, a lot of people will lose a lot of money: software developers, consultants, shareholders and others. The chief executive of AdventNet does not have fraud in mind. Instead, he wants to remove what he calls the “value-pad” from corporate IT in general and business software in particular: all those millions of dollars he thinks are wasted on inefficient production structures, marketing and, not least, proprietary standards. “In the world of corporate IT”, he says, “the low-cost revolution is very much unfinished business.” http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/150330/let_zoho_send_the_bill.html Zoho Invoice is highly flexible--so much so that you could spend 20 to 30 minutes or so to choose the options that suit your business. I particularly liked the selection of estimate and invoice templates designed for selling services or products, or to collect fixed price amounts, which are generally used for recurring bills. http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/04/zoho-docs-ties-documents-together Zoho continues to roll out its ever growing lineup of inexpensive (indeed, mostly free) online office software. Today’s addition is Zoho Docs, an application that allows you to access the text documents, spreadsheets and presentations created in Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show, respectively, through a single application. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/21/zoho-brings-it-all-together-with-zoho-share/ Zoho is pulling together its three main Webtop productivity products (Zoho Write, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show) into a central destination: Zoho Share. Just as Microsoft bundles its corresponding desktop products into its Office suite, bundling makes sense on the Web as well. http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley It’s not often I get excited by adoption numbers but the fact Zoho has passed the million user landmark represents an outstanding achievement and a cause for celebration. http://www.cio.com/article/440014/Understanding_Zoho_the_Quiet_Company_Taking_on_Google_and_Microsoft Zoho, a software company started in 2005, has built applications that compete with Google and even Microsoft. The vendor believes it can stay in the game by having a quick development cycle that adds new features to their products faster than the big guys. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do Zoho Sheet clearly has the best feature set -- at least for the moment -- and its integration of chat and publish functions shows why Web-based applications will be so important. ..... Zoho Show's wide variety of templates and clip art makes it the most useful of the three apps, and its integration with Zoho Meeting gives you a new presentation tool you haven't had before. http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp Could Zoho be the primary personal productivity software for an enterprise? Possibly. If the organization we're talking about is a smallish, widely distributed group that needs to share information and collaborate, but doesn't want the expense of central collaboration services servers, then Zoho is perfect. It is good enough for many companies and can't be beat on its implementation of SaaS (software as a service) principles for the SMB market. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148455/zoho_gets_big_partner_win_for_its_saas_business_apps.html CZoho, maker of an online suite of collaborative and business productivity applications, has landed a six-month pilot partnership with Swisscom to deliver its products to the telecom's 300,000 business customers. .... Swisscom said in a statement that it chose Zoho because it provides a wide range of applications and has a solid engineering team.The Swisscom partnership follows Zoho's recent announcement that it had landed a distribution deal with the large Chinese online distributor Baihui http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800181 Zoho, which offers an online office productivity suite, said people with a Zoho account that uses a Google or Yahoo e-mail address would automatically be logged in to Zoho when they connect to the portal. People who don't associate their Google or Yahoo e-mail with their Zoho account can go to the site's services section and make the association. http://www.appscout.com/2008/05/zoho_lets_users_login_with_goo.php Online office suite Zoho rolled out yet more functionality this morning, allowing users to login using existing Google and Yahoo! accounts. Zoho cites a recent Lifehacker poll with pushing it toward introducing these new features. The poll, simply titled "Google Apps or Zoho Suite?", found the majority of participants (42.5 percent) voting "Google, because I'm lazy and already had a Google account." Second place, at 21.2 percent was "Zoho, because I tried both and it's better." http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/zoho-update.html One of the main complaints leveled at web-based alternatives to Microsoft Office is that they generally lack some of the more powerful features found in Office. While online office apps have the general use cases covered, they often lack the specialized tools. But Zoho is quickly changing that. The company recently announced an overhaul to Zoho Sheets with support for power user features like pivot tables and Visual Basic Scripting. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Will-Macros-Support-Help-Zoho-Draw-Closer-to-Microsoft/ Zoho April 28 added support for Microsoft's Visual Basic Macros and Pivot Tables in Zoho Sheet, two of the 17 or so new features for its spreadsheet application. ... This means Sheet will let users import their existing speadsheets with Excel macros or create new ones, thanks to a new VBA Editor feature in Sheet. http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2008/04/zoho_becomes_a.html Zoho doesn't get the amount of press that Google gets, but the Zoho suite of applications is quite good, and could easily be the only set of apps you need if (1) your requirements fall into those of the majority of business users and (2) you're pretty much always on line. ... http://zoho.com/yankee-group-business-collaboration-tournament.pdf "... but in the end, Zoho's Head Coach pushes it into the Elite Eight in a decisive victory over Google" http://www.crm-daily.com/story.xhtml?story_id=101005ZKP3A7 Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition is designed to make it easier for medium to large organizations to implement Zoho CRM. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=371 Zoho's strategy is fundamentally different to Salesforce.com. It has a 'we build it all' mentailty rather than the platform thinking that Salesforce. com espouses. http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9920138-80.html Zoho has built an impressive set of cloud-based applications at a rapid pace. Following the enhancements to Zoho CRM, Zoho Sheet is slated to gain support for macros and pivot tables. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040200113.html Zoho's brand-new Invoice service tries to solve some of that pain with an online system for creating, sending and tracking invoices. http://business.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml Zoho's invoicing app joins more than a dozen other Zoho productivity and business tools that are available for free or for low rates. Zoho's strategy seems to be to build critical mass early on, which is reminiscent of Google. And with its large set of online productivity tools, Zoho is also competing with Microsoft's set of collaborative tools. http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/sbp As Google and Microsoft make lots of noise about online productivity software with Google Apps and Office Live, respectively, Zoho has quietly wowed legions of fans with its online word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Zoho-Launches-HR-Freeware-for-SMBs/story.xhtml Zoho People, a freeware Web-based human-resources management tool, joins other free and fee-based offerings from Zoho, which compete with big-name applications such as Google Apps. http://www.midmarket.eweek.com/c/a/News/Zoho-Guns-for-Salesforce-Customers Zoho, the software-as-a-service productivity and collaboration alternative to Google Apps, has fashioned a human resource management application for SMBs that want to run their businesses online. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3729211 You may have heard of, but probably don't use, an online suite of office and productivity applications called Zoho. I know, I know – another Web 2.0 wonder application. ... Zoho is packed with so much innovation and surprising coolness, that I'm certain you'll find a better way to do at least some small thing you're already doing. http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/13/the-rev2-cabinet-zoho Zoho’s key demographic is small and medium businesses. The focus on this group is so great that Raju claims that Zoho’s ultimate goal is to "be the IT department for small and medium business." http://blogs.computerworld.com/zoho_vs_google It's a brave company that tries to go head-to-head with Google, the Internet's most formidable presence. But that's where Zoho finds itself, as it battles for mind and market share for its online suite of office applications. http://www.theappgap.com/zoho-a-suite-of-many-online-apps-for-small-to-midsize-business.html Zoho aims to provide the complete suite of online office and productivity applications for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). These apps are all designed to take advantage of the web with good collaborative features. http://www.gottabemobile.com/Zoho+Day+2+Notebook+Is+A+Total+Wow.aspx One of the most impressive tools I have used on Zoho is the Notebook. It totally knocks Google Notebook on its butt. Zoho Notebook is the closest I've seen a web app replicate OneNote. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/02/catching_up_wit.html Zoho's been gussied up since I last looked at it for my InformationWeek article where Barbara Krasnoff and I compared and contrasted it with Google Docs. http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2008/january/187642.html WSaaS alternatives to major applications, like Google Docs and Spreadsheets and Zoho, can squeeze into the browser on many mobile phones and small laptops. http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Zoho_Office_20/551-85080-609.html What would the office of the future be like? Perhaps something that can assist you to do your work where ever it may be? Now with Internet access everywhere, the conventional meaning of work by sitting only at office (or in one place) is changing. This major shift in lifestyle is helpfully being facilitated by a fresh approach in tools that enable one to get their job done anywhere. http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071101-01.html Zoho DB uses a spreadsheet-like interface for simple data manipulation and navigation, and allows drag-and-drop analysis and reporting, with SQL querying of a variety of database management systems. http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp Technology news has been abuzz lately with news of Web office applications launching from Google (www.google.com), Adobe (www.adobe.com), ThinkFree (www.thinkfree.com), and Zoho (www.zoho.com). Today’s Web office applications range from the lightweight Google Apps Professional Edition to fully featured Web office suites such as ThinkFree Premium and Zoho Business. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp Zoho Viewer lets users do three things: 1) view documents, 2) share document as URLs, and 3) embed documents. Users simply upload a Microsoft Office, PDF, or other document type to Zoho Viewer, which provides a link to that document. The link can then be shared with other users, who can view the document from their browsers when they click on the link. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_33/b4046403.htm So you've spent a couple grand on a laptop. The next purchase you'll probably consider is the student version of Microsoft Office, at about $150. But if you have a fast Internet connection—and most colleges do—new Web-based Office-like suites let you do everything from your browser, usually free of charge. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article2004622.ece Cloud computing is a new buzz word in the tech world. In essence it defines a type of software that exists on the web, instead of on your hard drive. This means that you can access your files wherever you are, so long as you have a web connection. http://lifehacker.com/software/web-as-desktop/zoho-creator-is-like-microsoft-access-online-269235.php Forget learning Microsoft Access and Visual Basic: the newly-revamped Zoho Creator is an easy-to-use online database creation tool. Set up your database’s fields (like for an address book: Name, Address, City, State) and then build drag and drop custom entry forms with different input types like radio buttons, check boxes and dropdowns. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070307-zoho-facebook.html Facebook users will have access to Zoho’s word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications – Writer, Sheet and Show – from within the Facebook interface. http://wireless.sys-con.com/read/397880.htm Zoho went live with iZoho, which provides iPhone-optimized access to Zoho’s online office applications. iPhone users who visit www.izoho.com can view Zoho Writer documents, Zoho Sheet spreadsheets, and Zoho Show presentations – and edit Zoho Writer documents – from the Safari browser. http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/02/stories/2007070255331600.htm Zoho meeting, an online service meant for sharing your desktop/conducting meetings online, is the latest collaboration tool tested by this author. After initiating an on-line conference via Zoho from your browser, you can invite others to join. http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2007/06/enterprise_20_z.php I had a chance for a one-on-one chat and demo with Raju Vegesna, Zoho's evangelist, while at Enterprise 2.0 this week. http://www.techreview.com/Biztech/18816/ When Web surfers take notes, they really like to "take" them--an image from one site, a video clip from another, an entry from Wikipedia, and perhaps even a song or two. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070521005851&newsLang=en Zoho Office Suite was honored by PC World with a 100 Best Products of 2007 Award. The article is available now on PCWorld.com, and will also be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2007/05/07/stories/2007050700050400.htm It's the classic David versus Goliath battle being played out in the 21st century. And it's no surprise that this battle is being fought on the Web. http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/03/30/71334 Even more exciting than Google's new offering is another online program called Zoho. Unlike Google Apps, Zoho has its own version of PowerPoint and can produce charts from spreadsheets; as of now. http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,130045/printable.html# What makes Zoho the winner is that it doesn't merely try to copy Microsoft Office functionality. It's Web-based, so you can collaborate with others on your documents, for example. http://www.slate.com/id/2161519/ Zoho is, like Google Apps, a Web-based productivity suite. The biggest difference between them will be obvious the first time you visit the Zoho home page. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/013007-demo-zoho-notebooks.html Zoho Notebook is an "online spiral notebook," letting users create pages that could include any sort of digital content, from text, audio, video or images. http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2007/01/29/2287866.htm Zoho, which sells Web applications, and Omnidrive, a Web storage platform vendor, have announced a technology partnership that provides users of the Omnidrive platform the ability to view, edit, share and publish office and other types of documents from directly within Omnidrive using Zoho products. http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128248/printable.html Zoho Writer features a hideable list of documents divided into sections for private, shared, and public documents, plus templates. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061204.gtingramtwooh04/BNStory/Technology/home Zoho … has been making some advances in one of the most crucial areas for Web-based software, and that is the ability to synchronize online documents and offline documents. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36112 Zoho, one of a crop of companies making web-based productivity apps, has just released a plug-in for Office 2000, 2003 and 2007 that webilises Word and Excel, letting users save files to their Zoho accounts so they can still work on the web when away from their PCs. http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/07/web-based-resources-cx_bn_0907smallbizresource_print.html The Best Web-Based Computer Applications For Small Business, Winner - Zoho Writer in Word Processors category Zoho Writer is in some ways superior to Microsoft Word.... http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2006/0918web1.html Zoho has released a whole range of services and one in particular has really impressed me: Zoho Creator a weblication that creates weblications.