We were pleased to run into my favorite Web 2.0 app representatives in the hall at CES, Zoho!
Zoho offers a complete online office experience for no cost. Zoho applications can be accessed any time, any where with any computer and a web browser. How can they offer such a great product for no cost? I asked them that very question and the answer is their parent company, AdventNet, supports the project. Sridhar told me that AdventNet has been extremely profitable and they wanted to introduce web productivity applications for everyone’s use in 2004.
Currently, Zoho supports over 600,000 users of which 1/2 million of them joined in 2007! Zoho continues to add great web applications to their online offering including new versions of their presentation manager and their most recent addition; Database & Reports. Understandably, the most popular application is the word processor.
Sridhar and Raju demonstrated some of the power of Zoho with their integrated desktop that pulls together the Zoho Calendar, email, any Zoho document or web application and much more. The short visit we had with these visionaries was extremely informative and motivating. There really is no reason to invest in expensive desktop software with great online applications like Zoho available to us all via our web browsers.
This picture below is of Zoho’s CEO & Chief Evangelist Sridhar Vembu and Raju Vegesna
