Neither Google nor Zoho are alarmed by Microsofts Office 365 launch, which sheds the Business Productivity Online Suite name for a more comprehensive cloud computing package. –
Google greeted Microsofts Oct. 19 launch of Office 365 with silence declining
to discuss what is essentially Microsofts latest in a line of repackaging and
repositioning its collaboration software for the cloud.
Launched to limited beta and slated for a 2011 release, Office 365 doesnt include …
Autism experiences led the wives of NetSuite and Zoho CEOs to create MedicalMine and its ChARM cloud application, which helps parents manage the condition. A version for physicians is also in the works. – Zoho and
NetSuite have joined to form MedicalMine, a company focused on helping caregivers tend
to children with autism and other chronic diseases.
While the joint venture between the two companies is bringing them into the
health care IT field, its also a personal situation for the leaders of
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While Microsoft and Google continue to gouge each other, startups such as Zoho sneak in to lure small and midsize businesses to their low-priced cloud computing apps. The startup harbors no illusions about its inferior market position to the Microsoft Office and Google Apps giants. Zoho sees the market evolving to componentization, with office apps becoming components within other apps. This threatens the $19 billion Office cash cow as Microsoft Office 2010 enters the market. – <p>With all of the
smack-talking and chest-bumping (http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_vs_microsoft/google_ratchets_up_the_rhetoric_as_it_steels_for_microsoft_office_2010.html) going on between Google’s enterprise team and
Microsoft’s Office group, it’s easy to forget about other cloud co…
MindTouch Nov. 19 joined Google, Zoho, Microsoft and a raft of others in SAAS with MindTouch Cloud, embracing the Internet as a way to deliver collaboration applications. MindTouch Cloud lets non-technical sales representatives or business managers pull business data from CRM and ERP applications, such as Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, and Oracle, and weave them into documents in team workspaces. MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson said his company is targeting Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform and Google Apps, which offer classic document and spreadsheet applications without blending in the business data.
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MindTouch Nov. 19 joined Google, Zoho, Microsoft and a
raft of others in the cloud, embracing the Internet as a way to deliver
collaboration applications.
However, the new MindTouch Cloud is a different animal than its rivals for a couple reasons.
First, its software is open source…
Zoho Oct. 19 let Zoho users sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account information and upload files from Google Docs to Zoho Projects and sync Projects meetings with Google Calendar. Users will also be able to embed info from Projects directly inside Gmail, iGoogle and the Google Sites wiki application. This is the latest bridge Zoho has built between its applications and Google Apps as the companies target the traditional on-premises collaboration software market, which includes Microsoft and IBM.
– Zoho Oct. 19 continued its integration with Google Apps, allowing Zoho users to sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account and sync content between the companies’ programs.
Zoho Projects is the cloud computing software maker’s project management and collaboration applica…
Zoho Discussions is an online community application that lets users create forums in which colleagues and customers can bandy about ideas and nourish them with conversation threads in the cloud. Zoho Discussions is rich in much of the functionality found in Zoho’s messaging and collaboration apps. Zoho Discussions builds on idea management platforms from Salesforce.com, Spigit and Brightidea.
– Zoho’s first new application of 2009 is Zoho Discussions,
a software-as-a-service online community application that lets users create
forums for colleagues and customers in which to bandy about ideas and nourish
them with conversation threads.
With Zoho Discussions, businesses can create interna…
Microsoft recently provided a limited-access technical preview of its Office Web Apps suite. eWEEK Labs’ tests so far show that the Office Web Apps suite, while studded with its fair share of tech preview warts, signals that Microsoft’s counterattack on the online office encroachment of Google, Zoho and others is off to a solid start.
– When Microsoft offered the public a first look at next year’s Office 2010
upgrade, one of the suite’s most compelling new features Web-based versions of
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote wasn’t yet available for testing.
Microsoft recently pulled back the curtain on its Office Web Apps in the
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Yahoo has new look, feel and user experience. Programmers basically turned the left-hand rail into an RSS feed of many of Web users’ favorite Web services and destinations, such as Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and MySpace. And whats more is that there are no installations or application searching required. Microsoft is planning to release Windows 7 to developers on Aug. 6th. They will also be offering a family pack version of Windows 7, Home Premium which will allow installation on up to 3 PCs. Apple is all over recent headlines. Apple is reporting quarterly profits and revenue exceeding Wall Street analyst predictions, however Apple is coming clean with reports that they have not been able to meet the demand of the iPhone 3GS. For BlackBerry-toting Apple users, a BlackBerry Desktop for Mac Software will be available this September. Anyone interested in being alerted to the softwares availability can head to blackberry.com and register to be updated. On July 21st, Zoho integrated its Zoho Mail application and Zoho CRM business application in an effort to improve productivity for users of the SAAS provider’s collaboration and enterprise applications. Security researchers have their eyes on the electric grid at the upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. In separate talks, researchers will highlight some of the threats and concerns facing plans to deploy smart grid technology.
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Zoho married its Zoho Mail application and Zoho CRM business application, an effort to improve messaging and collaboration for users of the SAAS (software as a service) provider’s collaboration and enterprise applications. This integration, is aimed squarely at the Google-Salesforce.com integration of the same nature, making the cloud computing rivalry more interesting.
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Zoho July 21 integrated its Zoho Mail application and
Zoho CRM business application, an effort to improve productivity for users of
the SAAS (software as a service) provider’s collaboration and enterprise
applications.
The move takes aim at Google and Salesforce.com, which sport
a…
Microsoft Office, Zoho, OpenOffice and Google Docs are all claiming to be the new future of office productivity. Here’s
what they really need to be future-proof.
– 1. Permanence. This may sound strange, but the ability to read documents 20 years in the future should be a requirement. I recently went to England where at a museum my ancient-languages-enabled son was able to decipher the words from the oldest fragment (125 A.D.) of the New Testament. I’m not su…
A subset of Office 2010, Office Web includes SAAS versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Microsoft is offering Office Web in a hosted version, or as a self-hosted delivery option, with an aim to distinguish itself from cloud computing providers such as Google and Zoho. These vendors host their customers’ application data on their own servers. How will Google and Zoho respond to the challenge?
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Microsoft July 13 charged across the battle line Google,
Zoho and other Web-based collaboration software makers drew with Office Web
applications, browser-based versions of the company’s word processing, presentation,
spreadsheet and note-taking applications.
The Office Web suite i…
