A couple of days ago SaaS vendor Zoho launched their latest product Zoho People, designed for small to medium sized organisations. The product has 5 modules up front:-
    Organization Module:
This module is used to define the structure of your orga…

Actually, you’ll find this article on Forbes.com from February 22nd; references Benioff wanting to purchase Zoho…..

http://www.forb..._0222mitra.html

For all you who are so quick to criticize Zoho, I would say just give them couple of years. Then you would see more mature products with off-line functionality and tighter integration, site redundancy, ‘asp model’ web hosting, will have 2+ million active users with a few beta corporate customers and hence a bigger revenue stream.

If facebook could be valued at 15 billion even though they don’t have a revenue stream of their own, i don’t think Zoho has anything to worry. Last, they are going to last for a while as they have a good business model. Their parent company may make 12 mil in profit, but they need less than 2 million to support all the 200 s/w programmers in India. So they are not going to run out of money anytime soon. If at all, may be they will run out of ideas.

A couple of developers could build the same application on the force.com platform within a weekend’s time.

Moreover, Zoho has only 15-20 apps, and Salesforce.com has more than 800 (a lot of them free).

At the cost of one app, essentially you can run almost all functions of your business on Salesforce.

Zoho, still has a long way to go before it comes anywhere close…

“Zoho’s apps are a joke. They have so many of them and they’re all of piss-poor quality. They should create one or two really good apps instead of making a ton of crap apps.”

How you seen their online presentation app? Crap.

Only reason these guys show-up on some of these sites is because they advise (or advertised in the past)

Zoho: Before it is too late, think of DaveS’s suggestion seriously…”create one or two really good apps”

I’m not sure why these guys haven’t been TechCrunched, I kinda hope for their sake they don’t though!

Let’s wait… n see

Cheers, Nag

I see a lot of Web-based apps, and Zoho is doing more stuff in this area than practically anybody else, big or small. But this is post not an endorsement of their products. It is not a product review. It is just reporting the latest news and adding a little analysis.

Anyone who wants to try out their products can do so for free and make up their own minds. If any of you do that, please share with the rest of us your thoughts.

We will remove the online demo for the time being. We will put it back up in a few days, where the customizations people do in a demo will die with that session, so other users won’t see it.

I have nothing to say to people who criticize name & logo, other than that we have quite a few paying enterprise customers (not only SMBs, large enterprises too) across Zoho services already, and they seem to be like the name & the logo.

Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects are two of our most popular offerings, and those are 100% business-directed.

Sridhar Vembu

all the best Zoho

ZoHo is laughing to the bamk right now. They have revenue of $40M with profits of $12M. They don’t need no stinking VC money. You silicon valley types think innovation can only happen in Valley. Not true.

@17 Zach, here is a link with more info. on ZOHO.
http://www.forb...m_0222mitra.htm

Sarcasm? Maybe not…

Cheers,
Aidan
http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

You guys should see the people in corporations who decide what software to use. They don’t play around – they are serious and they will bet on a company that is on the same wave – hence Salesforce’s success and Zoho’s grim future (as I see it).