"It is all about innovation, " said Raju Vegesna with Zoho, a California-based company offering online productivity tools.
Zoho has become so comprehensive that you could probably run your entire business using their suite of tools!
Or we manage our projects with applications like BaseCamp and Zoho.
Zoho is not as customizable as some of the other applications discussed above.
At Zoho, we have millions of users that depend on our cloud services.
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And Zoho is already pushing into more sophisticated applications, offering customer-management and project-planning software alongside basics such as word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
Offerings from start-ups such as AdventNet's Zoho and ThinkFree Online go further than Google does in offering a rich array of free, Web-based business applications.
Today, the world of online office applications has been ruled mostly by Google Apps with some credible offerings from smaller companies like Zoho and OpenOffice.
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Other cloud software providers, like Zoho and SalesForce, said that while they welcomed Microsoft's move into the space, they do not consider it a major threat to business.
Zoho has won many awards in the industry and has a full set of features to make sure nothing falls through the cracks and no one looks like a dope.
Then you seamlessly send out an email campaign to your past customers, which you filtered by analyzing them with the Zoho CRM, finding who were your best customers over the last year.
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Additionally, cloud alternatives like Zoho, Google Docs, LotusLive Symphony and Acrobat.com are challenging the very notion of requiring desktop-based software to be productive in creating text, spreadsheet and presentation documents.
But for many small companies, like the little mini-cab service we (used to) use in northwest London you could subscribe to an inexpensive, cloud based CRM like Zoho, Nimble, Highrise or Insightly.
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Ten fastest growing CRM vendors as measured in revenue Annual Growth Rate (AGR) in 2012 include Zoho (81.2%), Hybris (78.6%), Teradata (70.4%), Bazaarvoice (56.2%), Marketo (54.3%), Kana (44.2%), Demandware (43.9%), IBM (39.4%), Technology One (37.1%) and Neolane (36%).
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