Zoho Suite, a web-based software suite comprised of document, project and invoicing management tools, has launched an add-on that allows Zoho Office to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint.
Zoho users can now create new documents and save them to SharePoint in MS Office formats, view existing documents within SharePoint using Zoho apps, and edit existing documents with Zoho Apps and save them back to SharePoint. The new add-on also provides collaborative editing functionality in Zoho with the integration with SharePoint. Zoho says the add-on costs $2/user/month on an yearly subscription or $3/user/month for monthly subscription.
Zoho says that the seamless integration between Zoho and SharePoint will help businesses who want the best of both worlds: the ability to collaborate on documents on the web while still keeping data behind the firewall. If you have SharePoint installed in your intranet behind your corporate firewall, your documents in Zoho are saved back to your SharePoint server behind your corporate firewall leaving no data on Zoho Servers.
As we’ve written in the past, Zoho is an innovative document management tool, and includes easy access thanks to support for mobile, Google and Yahoo IDs and group sharing across different app features. Zoho knows that it is going to have to fight an uphill battle to keep users from flocking to the web-based applications offered by companies with a vast reach (Google, Adobe, etc.) which is why these sort of integrations are helpful to the software’s success as an application suite.
I have always been a fan of Zoho. Another important feature by them
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wow, this is a great step towards SaaS for enterprise solutions. there is a huge potential for on demand applications in consolidated companies.
Zoho is becoming quite powerful!
Zoho is a big company that people tend to overlook but their services are great. This is just another step at making them stronger.
Got hooked to zoho since my first login.
One of the best online suite that i have come across both for free and paid subscribers.
Hmm, looks like I’m missing something that is very important here.. checking the site now. Thanks!
You are write this post before Zoho write about this integration on Zoho Blogs. Where you find this information? Before owners :).
MS should buy them
Nice going Zoho!
Look out this company is for real !
I liked it in the beginning. But now i moved to Google Docs. Zoho is slow. Did any one tried to launch their Version history? It never comes back.
Yahoo should buy it as it’s open source based. M$ buys only if it’s aspx or silverlight.
I think M$ already should have a online suite like zoho/ google docs. But they are not releasing it as it will kill thier own M$ office.
It will be like shooting on their foot.
Sorry, but this just seems like marketing spin. Note this line from their blog:
“When you open the document, a copy is transferred temporarily to Zoho servers securely. When the document is closed, it is permanently deleted from our servers immediately leaving no data on our side. ”
That’s hardly keeping your data behind the corporate firewall and I doubt any IT group this concerned about security is going to allow it.
WOW….while Zoho CEO is always providing strange punches to Microsoft and Google, he sure means business.
Sharepoint integration is without a doubt the biggest enterprise/business friendly feature they could roll out. Sharepoint is now everywhere and it’s growing at a very fast pace.
In my opinion Zoho is the only complete and truly functional Online Office Suite right now that should be considered as a complement to Microsoft Office. Google Docs is quite behind when it comes to functionality and programs in the suite. Adobe is the other competitor that will surely raise hell to Google Docs and Zoho as they have come up with powerful rooster of services and they are ramping them up fast.