Zoho - Office 2.0

Nikhil Rastogi, Dec 09, 2007 1137 hrs IST

Is this the future of Office?

EXPERT REVIEW

Today we'll be looking into the uber-online office suite, Zoho.

What would the office of the future be like? Perhaps something that can assist you to do your work where ever it may be? Now with Internet access everywhere, the conventional meaning of work by sitting only at office (or in one place) is changing. This major shift in lifestyle is helpfully being facilitated by a fresh approach in tools that enable one to get their job done anywhere.

Meet Zoho -- The Office 2.0... or perhaps a cliched, but appropriate denotation -- "The Office of tomorrow, today".

Zoho, a play on words SOHO (Small Office Home Office) is an initiative of AdventNet, who are majorly into enterprise IT, networking and telecom customers; Zoho is one of them.

Zoho Writer is part of a bigger schema of things; it comes under the Zoho Virtual Office banner which includes Zoho Sheet and Zoho Show. Zoho also offers other Web-based productivity tools such as Zoho Planner -- an online organizer with to-do lists, reminders and notes, Zoho Notebook-online note taker, Zoho Wiki, Zoho Chat, Zoho Mail, Zoho CRM, Zoho Creator -- for developing business and personal Web apps, etc.

Phew! That's a lot of apps under one banner!

We've spoken much about advantages and disadvantages of online office applications in detail previously, so do have a look at that. We would've loved to review Live-documents -- funded by Sabeer Bhatia (one of the founders of Hotmail) -- which is a direct Office 2007 look-a-like but unfortunately is in private beta as of now. But we'll definitely nail it next time whenever we procure an invite. If any of you have one, do drop in a mail.

USER COMMENTS

good

by rana, Delhi, on Dec 15, 2007 02:27 PM, Report abuse Reply

Thanks for the nice review on Zoho, Nikhil! Believe you read about the launch of Zoho Show. I would like you to give an early invite. Do mail me if you are interested.

by Aravind, Chennai, on Dec 13, 2007 06:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

Nikhil, Would be glad to arrange a demo/trial account of our tech preview for you - drop me a line and I will have it set up for you. Cheers, Sumanth For the Live Documents team

by Sumanth, Bangalore, on Dec 11, 2007 07:18 PM, Report abuse Reply

One can use the invite yourself button on Live documents so no need to wait for an invite.

by v_2krdee, Mumbai, on Dec 10, 2007 03:06 PM, Report abuse Reply

Link to get an invitation for Live Documents http://live.instacoll.com/instasecure/showRegistrationPage.do

by v_2krdee, Mumbai, on Dec 10, 2007 03:08 PM, Report abuse

any free download is there to check

by prem, BANGALORE, on Dec 10, 2007 01:08 PM, Report abuse Reply