/in-the-news.html News from zoho.com en-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.