Few days ago I tried first time India based Zoho and truly I was surprised! The service portfolio is amazing. Usability is simple and when exporting presentation to PowerPoint format, everything worked very well. This is how they describe what they are all about:
Zoho is a suite of online applications (services) that you sign up for and access from our Website. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. Our vision is to provide our customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere (breadth); and for those applications to have enough features (depth) to make your user experience worthwhile.
Zoho is a division of AdventNet Inc led by Mr. Sridhar Vembu. According to recent article in The Economist he is confident that “In the world of corporate IT, the low-cost revolution is very much unfinished business.” And he is right.
Now the latest rumors tell that General Electric is planning to adopt some of the Zoho’s services to its employees’ desktops worldwide. If the rumors are true, about Zoho can add 400,000 individual users to its customer list. That would be something, wouldn’t it?
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seanatbox // September 29, 2008 at 7:45 pm |
This is Sean over at Box.net. As a reminder, Zoho’s added the ability to edit PowerPoint files and use .docx files within Zoho. This ties in especially well with Box.net’s service, where users can store Office-suite files, as well as many others, and view and edit them in a rich, easy way with services like Zoho.
kor3n // October 31, 2008 at 11:00 am |
Looks like they are attracting more players:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_toolbar_tools/3776913.htm
jaakkoh // October 31, 2008 at 11:56 am |
@Eero:
Very interesting. As jotted to my del.icio.us notes (www.delicious.com/jaakkoh/zoho) I, too, think there’s a lot of opportunity in this field and am looking forward to the future of Zoho and other similar services. Bye bye, MS Office…
@kor3n:
Thanks for the tip! I’ve watched Zoho for a while and liked it a lot in many ways. But because of my preference for even better functionalities (ThinkFree) and/or better integration to services I use most (Google Docs) I hadn’t really used Zoho much earlier.
Looking forward to giving Zoho a new try.