Tag Archives: Zoho

07/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Now that’s a nice shaped curve

By Ben Kepes

Raju from Zoho flicked me an email which was embargoed until right now (assuming I’ve got my time zones right – otherwise this is either a scoop or old news ) to tell me that they’ve just gone over the one million user number. That’s a million users in less

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20/07/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

Swisscom rolling out Zoho apps

By Ben Kepes

I got a heads up from Zoli that Zoho business is now live. This comes on the back of the announcement by Zoho that Swisscom, Switzerland’s second largest telco, is using Zoho for it business applications requirements. Zoho has created a customised version of their applications and this has been

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18/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Office productivity apps analysis

By Ben Kepes

Raju posted about an InfoWorld analysis of alternatives to MS office. What makes the analysis interesting is that for the first time (that I’ve seen) cloud based and Open Source products have been evaluated side by side. As is often the case with these sorts of analyses, it’s what is

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06/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

It’s about aggregation…

By Ben Kepes

ACCMan bought to my attention to the fact that FreeAgentCentral, the UK based SaaS accounting solution, is including tax tips into its corporate blog. As he points out this fulfills many uses; Users get free information which they’d otherwise have to search for (read time and effort saving)  The third

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05/07/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Monetisation for on-demand office productivity suites

By Ben Kepes

Rod posted about the economics of software companies. The basis of his post was some information out of Microsoft that told of the 180 person Mac business unit that generates $350mill per annum. Rod pointed out that this is a significant return by anyone’s standards but that the 2-3 year

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24/05/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, New business, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Online apps are different

By Ben Kepes

At the CeBIT show, Zoho gave a presentation detailing just why online applications are different. At the same time Desire2Learn made a great video showing how easy, and useful, online notebook products can be. Both of these videos reminded me of a discussion I had with an installed applications vendor

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15/05/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

It’s about collaboration, not service transition

By Ben Kepes

I posted last night about Zoho allowing logins with Yahoo and Google user details. This morning my feedreader has been inundated with posts about this very topic. Most see the wood for the trees and identify this as a major step for collaboration. On a post over on Zdnet however

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14/05/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, SaaS 5 Comments

Zoho turns up the heat…

By Ben Kepes

News today that Zoho is now allowing logins using either a Google or a Yahoo account login. The login utilises Goggle/Yahoo’s authentication API. This seemingly small change is pretty massive in that it allows a whole new level of cross application sharing and collaboration. Apart from logging into Zoho with

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29/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS 1 Comment

The scales have tipped to Zoho….

By Ben Kepes

Zoho announced this morning that it is the first on-demand application to support VB macros and pivot tables. While I, like Zoli, use about 5% of the functionality that MS excel offers, it’s obvious that this development means more than what it appears. AccountingMan Dennis Howlett said that; Zoho could

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23/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Microsoft gets a trifecta!

By Ben Kepes

I’d avoided posting about Microsoft’s latest offering, Albany, because there is really not much anyone in the SaaS world can find to say about it…. I can’t resist however so here goes. Basically it seems that Albany is a way to derive some revenue out of existing products that aren’t

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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