Zoho Suite, a web-based software suite comprised of document, project and invoicing management tools, has rolled out another plug-in that allows integration with a Microsoft product. A few weeks ago Zoho launched an add-on that allows Zoho Office to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. Today, Zoho will now provide access to Microsoft Access, a database management system for the desktop.
Zoho Creator is web-based cloud computing platform that lets you build and run applications online. With the new plugin, Zoho will allow users to easily migrate data from Microsoft Access to Zoho Creator and Zoho Reports. Zoho says that when you migrate entire databases from Microsoft Access to Zoho creator, you are able to retain your database structure and data while being able to still create a collaborative database app in Zoho. Once imported into Zoho Creator, the entire application or parts of it can be shared with several users.
Zoho continues to add innovations to its document management suite and includes easy access thanks to support for mobile, Google and Yahoo IDs and group sharing across different app features. Last week, Zoho’s project management application, Zoho Projects 2.0, added the capability to import existing projects from MS Project, Microsoft’s project management desktop software. Zoho faces stiff competition from web-based applications offered by companies with a vast reach (Google, Adobe, etc.) which is why integrations with a big player like Microsoft are integral to the software’s success as an application suite.
Wasn’t Zoho a program for creating flash animations?
For web/desktop integration we use Mechanize and iMacros Scripting with Python. This combo works with any website.
Hey thats a good move by Zoho integrating Zoho Office with Microsoft SharePoint has to be a good thing.
Zoho seriously must win the award for the most horrendous logo.
This is a very smart move by Zoho. If you haven’t ever checked out the Zoho Creator “application for building web applications” I encourage you to do so. The biggest limiting factor in the past was the limited relational abilities of their built in data store. If I’m reading it correctly, this feature will open up Creator to have much more meaningful applications.
If you aren’t familiar w/ Zoho Creator, it is an easy app for building input forms for data and reporting the data back out. It has options to output in multiple formats including JSON which means you can create some pretty cool JavaScript or Flash applications powered by Zoho.
If it’s anything like Zoho’s Excel plug-in, it’s a piece of crap. When you upload an Excel file it arbitrarily strips unsupported functions, without telling you what it is deleting. I would not get to excited till you test what it arbitrarily deletes from your Access file and doesn’t inform you what it is deleting. I was never able to use Zoho because it was never stable and lost data.
So far I had no success in importing my access apps. Maybe it’s good for plain databases, no queries, forms and other good stuff. If that’s the case I can’t see why bother, at least not until it grows up.
Have tried it on standard database… and failed!
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Do these guys alway test it only on one database? And that’s it?