Zoho is arguably the ONLY global product to come out of India from ANY company, and its a sweet product. It gives mighty Google Apps a run for their money; and Zoho’s Creator is a path breaking innovative product.
So why is VentureWoods not talking more about Zoho? Is it because of lack of awareness of Zoho? Or is it because of lack of glamor due to being non VC funded?
Questions:
1. Have you used Zoho?
2. Will you consider using any of their products for daily work? Why? Why Not?
3. Do you think Zoho can take on Google Apps or is the Google brand too big and Google quality too good?
4. What is the marketing advise you would give Zoho to gain a fair share of the applications space?
Note: I have nothing to do with Zoho, don’t know anyone there, but do use their products and I think they are brilliant.
21 August: Techcrunch reports Zoho making their services available offline; and check out what poster no. 8 in that thread has to say: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/zoho-goes-offline-in-a-good-way/
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I think probably the only weakness in Zoho’s strategy appears to be that they don’t have a mass adoption product like Gmail, which both build brand and carries Google apps on its back.
The first line of this post leads to a question, “How many truly Made In India Software/IT Products have made it global”. How many and out of how many?
Zoho is a killer company with a great set of products. I saw them at Web 2.0 Expo this year and they are a humble group of people that spend time on innovation and nothing less.
That being said – Zoho will wow everybody when they get acquired by a company that wants to fight Google Apps. Our startup uses Google Apps simply for the sake of accountability and reliability that comes with using “Google”. We also use it because it wasn’t my call to make. I’m SURE that when Zoho does get acquired, the world will think differently of their offerings.
I reviewed the Zoho Office suite in detail on my blog recently. It is fairly detailed, and a good (imho, obviously 🙂 ) read.
http://karma-lly.blogspot.com/2007/08/deep-dive-zoho-office-suite.html
Shashank : Thanks for spreading the word on Zoho!