Zoho News & Articles

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.

 Assuming Microsoft accepts it has no tablet presence and won't for some time, then it needs to get Office to as many tablet users as possible to keep one toe in a booming market. So, why not bring a new Office to the iPad?

As presentations move from the desktop and office whiteboard to the online space, Zoho is ready to challenge PowerPoint, SlideRocket and others with its new, redesigned, view-anywhere Zoho Show.

Recently, Alan Weintraub of Forrester Research published a paper in which he posed an interesting question: Can Google solve your ECM needs? Let's have a look.

Portability is often an important aspect of running an application on the web. This means that the best apps are those that can run on different platforms without the need for extra add-ons or plugins. Zoho Meeting (news, site) has recently improved its web interface by implementing a new HTML viewer for online meetings.

Skype and Facebook owned the headlines this week with their integration news. Meanwhile, yet another of Zoho's apps went mobile and we took a look at how to manage the malware that comes through social networks. 

Zoho (news, site) continues its expansion into the mobile office arena with a dedicated iPhone app.

Zoho's (news, site) range of cloud business apps continues to knit itself tighter together and offer more to its growing army of users.

In the world of office productivity suites, where content and collaboration professionals aim to make users as efficient as possible, Microsoft Office is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to deployment. But there are many alternatives on the market now, which, according to new research by Forrester, are being tried out by companies, if not fully deployed -- not yet, that is.

There were a number of good things released recently in the SMB space including news from Zoho that it has made its Meetings tool Mac-friendly, while WorkSimple has released a free version of its social goals management app. Blue Tie through Breeze Social helps SMBs start effective social marketing campaigns, while HP offers enterprise print management to SMBs. Research also shows that SMBs are turning their back on the desktop.

One of the big stories this year in the document and document management software space is going to be office suites in the cloud. This week alone there have been at least three developments in this area, from Microsoft, IBM and Google. In the document collaboration space, Workshare document comparison software now integrates with Open Text’s eDocs.

This week Zoho and Sage launch new online packages for the SMB market, Microsoft’s online CRM release is priced to suit SMBs, while US SMB’s are not backing up their data. In other new, tablet sales -- particularly iPad -- are booming.

Winding down the year, this week we have predictions for 2011 from the SMB Group that prominently feature mobile and social computing, Zoho upgrades its CRM is offering again, MS’s Small Business Server goes to RTM and AVG shows companies how to protect themselves.

Google (news, site) adds another big name in SAP to its catalogue with the addition of a stream-powered collaboration tool.

Zoho's (news, site) latest launch brings support and help desk to the masses, even if it's already a pretty competitive market.