Zoho in ‘End-2007′ and ‘Begin-2008′ Lists ArvindJanuary 2, 2008 11: 28 am We blogged about Zoho being part of PC World’s “Most Innovative Products of 2007” and Lifehacker’s “Top 10 New & Improved Apps of 2007” lists recently. Here’s more appreciation for Zoho from bloggers & analysts. TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington puts Zoho in his “2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without” list. Zoho, particularly the spreadsheet application, has become an important productivity tool for us here at Tec... lire la suite
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Explaining the D-Tools Zoho CRM System - Creating Custom List Views Introduction here. As I have stated at least twice now we have a LOT of leads in our system and we needed a solid process to manage all of these leads. In the previous post on Sales Roles I explained how each person on the D-Tools sales team has a specific role and and how we use our Zoho CRM system to manage the job function for each specific role. One of the things that Zoho CRM does really well is the creation and management of custom lists for each entity in the system. An entity in Zoho is a list of related information like leads, or cases, or accounts and so on. Actually calling a Zoho entity a list is somewhat of an oversimplification but I digress. Zoho CRM comes with a number of editable, predefined views that can change depending on the Zoho login and role of the login. For example one of the predefined views is ” My Leads”. Zoho assumes that “my” refers to the person logged in and will show a list of “their” leads. This works great but where Zoho CRM really shines is in the ease of which any user can create their own custom view of the entity without any programming or advanced knowledge of the system. For example, say I am a salesperson we just got back from a trade show. I could easily create a custom list that had all of “my” leads from that show with just the company name, email, phone number and Pre-Qual score. This is how it is done: Easy to create and manage entity views are a critical part of any CRM system and Zoho CRM does it better than any other system I have ever come across. The only issue I have found is that there is no way to create a list that queries more than a single entity. This makes it impossible to send mass emails to contacts of a specific account type. Also these is no ability to “clone” a custom list. This would come in handy when the SAM is creating custom lists for number of people where the only change is the owner of the record. For the most part you can clone just about anything in Zoho but not these custom lists. Both issues seem like oversights to me. I have let the Zoho CRM technical team know about these issues and I am confident that they will be updated in a future release. Adam Stone is a Zoho CRM customer and CEO/Founder of D-Tools Software.
Google Docs is good, but another online office suite has been rolling out upgrade afterupgrade this year, slowly, steadily, and consistently trouncing GDocs in the features department. Zoho Suite makes collaborating and editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations (and way more) better and easier straight from your browser. Most of you said you hadn’t tried Zoho because you already had a Google Account, but if collaborating and editing office documents from your browser is in your future in ‘08, bite the bullet for a Zoho account and you won’t be sorry. Here’s more on how Zoho stacks up against Google Docs. Thanks to Gina & team for making Zoho part of their top list of web applications!
Zoho in ‘End-2007′ and ‘Begin-2008′ Lists We blogged about Zoho being part of PC World’s “Most Innovative Products of 2007” and Lifehacker’s “Top 10 New & Improved Apps of 2007” lists recently. Here’s more appreciation for Zoho from bloggers & analysts. TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington puts Zoho in his “2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without” list. Zoho, particularly the spreadsheet application, has become an important productivity tool for us here at TechCrunch. We used it extensively to organize and discuss the hundreds of startups that applied to launch at TechCrunch40 last Fall. Whenever I open Office on my desktop to edit a spreadsheet, I feel the lack of collaborative features keenly. Frankly, Google Docs is just as useful, although Zoho was quicker to launch offline functionality, which gave them the edge on my list. Either product suite is a huge improvement on basic desktop office software. It is nice to recall that last year we were on his ‘right on the edge‘ list and have moved up this year Barry Dahl chose Zoho Notebook as Number 3 in his Top Web Tools of 2007. Barry also has included Zoho to his ‘Hall of Fame’ list. Rick Broida at BNET picked Zoho Writer as one of the Top Web Services of 2007. Zoho Writer Sure, Google Docs gets all the glory, but if you want the Web's most robust browser-based word processor, look to Zoho Writer. This year brought a wealth of new features, including a Word plug-in for easily importing and exporting Zoho Writer documents. Ryan and Ashley Wagner at CyberNetNews have chosen Zoho Show among their ‘Most Powerful Websites‘ of 2007. Zoho has developed an incredible suite of online office applications. In all they offer 18 different products and services, many of which are completely free for users. You can write documents, manage spreadsheets, create presentations, organize notes, and more with a single login. Personally I do enjoy Google Docs because the interface is a little nicer, but when it comes to sheer power Zoho wins hands down. It's the most complete online office suite available. TIME’s featured Zoho as one of the ‘50 Best Websites 2007‘. We are at Number 22 (thanks to our users for voting!) and joined by sites like Netvibes, StumbleUpon, Twitter etc. Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb lists Zoho as one of his favorites of ‘07 as well. Marc Perton makes Zoho a part of his Best of ‘07 list. Zoho Writer Google Docs may get all the glory, but Zoho feels a lot more like a real word processor, and includes such niceties as a tabbed interface, ad-free interface and, most impressive of all, a seamless offline mode—powered by Google Gears, which has yet to make an appearance in its parent's online editor. Craig Owens says, he “will definitely be using Zoho in 2008” I recently started playing with Zoho Suite and I'm convinced that it is head and shoulders above Google Docs in terms of features and usability. Zoho (still all web based and free) has the spreadsheet, document and presentation tools, but further includes a whole bunch of other stuff. Thanks to all our users and admirers for making Zoho a part of your life! Wishing You All A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year!! Popularity: 10% [?] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zoho in 'End-2007' and 'Begin-2008' Lists", url: "http://blogs.zoho.com/general/zoho-in-end-2007-and-begin-2008-lists/" });
Enhanced plug-in, Skins Support, Shortcuts and more in Zoho Notebook We rolled out another update to Zoho Notebook with more goodies. Here is the list. If you are used to keyboard shortcuts, some of them are supported now inside Zoho Notebook. Supported ones are - Save (CTRL + S), Copy (CTRL + C), Paste (CTRL + V), Undo (CTRL + Z) and Redo (CTRL + Y).
As promised earlier, Zoho Show launched during the weekend. Log on to your Zoho Show account and you would be in for a surprise seeing the all new UI and the host of new features available at your finger tips now. A demo video is available here. A sample presentation created using the new version of Zoho Show below. As the last slide in the above slideshow says, coming soon are transitions, charts, export to ppt etc. Zoho Show was well-received by the press & the blogosphere and here are some quotes about the release. Thanks everyone for test driving Zoho Show 2.0 and the reviews! Our advisor Zoli lists a set of cute slideshows created by you, our users. Try Zoho Show 2.0 and we will glad hearing your feedback. ps : This release was given as preview a week back to those who opted-in to receive news about Zoho. If you too are interested in knowing about upcoming Zoho updates, please head here.
PC World announced a list of 25 most innovative products for 2007 and we are honored to see Zoho Notebook included. The list includes both software and hardware products. AdventNet’s Zoho tools include everything from wiki software to customer relations management and project management applications, many of them free. Zoho Notebook (free, in public beta) continues the winning streak. You can enter text, graphics, audio, video, and embedded content from other sites onto your notebook’s pages-or use the page as a single word processing document or spreadsheet. Put together everything on a certain subject, and you’re ready to share your work with online compatriots. As some of you may recall, Zoho Notebook was announced in Jan at DEMO conference and was open to public in May. Over the last seven months the application has been maturing rapidly with several updates and lots of regular users. Over the next few months you’ll see several updates enhancing the functionality of the application further. We will be talking about Zoho Notebook and other Zoho applications at the Show Stoppers event in Vegas. Popularity: 13% [?] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zoho Notebook Among PC World's Most Innovative Products of 2007", url: "http://blogs.zoho.com/general/zoho-notebook-among-pc-worlds-most-innovative-products-of-2007/" });
A lot many new features have gone in to Zoho Meeting since its Beta launch. A few of them below. We have added the ability to do Skype conferencing in Zoho Meeting. This allows you to converse with your participants. Zoho Meeting also remembers the names/email addresses of the participants you have recently invited. When you type in the first few letters, there is an auto-fill/suggest box which helps fill the names easily. One feedback we receive quite often is, ‘How do I invite users to a meeting?’. There are multiple ways you can invite people to a Zoho Meeting session, at various stages of the meeting session. 2) After creating a Meeting, there is an link to ‘Invite‘ people. Clicking on that will give you multiple ways to invite people - standard Zoho Meeting invitation through email, sending a link using your Mail Client or IM, or using the Meeting Key to join Do give Zoho Meeting a shot and let us know what you think! Popularity: 6% [?] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "http://blogs.zoho.com/announcements/zoho-meeting-skype-integration-and-more/" });
Some much asked for functionalities are part of the latest Zoho Wiki update.
Telegraph, UK has come up with ‘The 101 most useful websites‘, ranging from Technology to Travel. And Zoho is listed high up at Number 5! Telegraph describes Zoho as, And ‘The Washington Post’ carries today PCWorld Erik Larkin’s article on the recently released Zoho Invoice. From the article, ‘Zoho Adds Invoicing to its Online Suite‘ Popularity: 3% [?] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "http://blogs.zoho.com/general/the-washington-post-telegraph-on-zoho/" });
We are doing the registration for our regional Heritage Fair using Zoho Creator (creator.zoho.com). Our form (embedded here: http://www.redriverheritage.ca/registrationonline.html) gets the users to fill in all the information we choose and then puts it into a spreadsheet for us. Creator has database functions that I haven’t attempted to use, but they would likely allow you to do the fancier parts of your registration process, including setting limits for certain workshops. Everything on Zoho is available for free. Though we’ve only given it a limited trial (so far about 50 students are registered), I’m quite pleased with the results so far. Thanks to James for suggesting Zoho Creator! And one more example of Zoho Creator in action : Bryan at CollegeMediaInnovation.org posts about using Zoho Creator to create a list of multimedia projects from various student journalists. The submission form used by Bryan & the data he’d collected. He has also compiled a list of schools doing video as well. Thanks Bryan, for using Zoho Creator! If you are to organize an event or collect data, take a look at the examples above. And don’t forget to tell us how you are using Zoho Creator in the comments. 1) Got this tweet from Suzie Vesper of New Zealand. She’s done a couple of nice screencasts on Zoho Creator to act as easy tutorials. 1) Creating a form and 2) embedding it in your blog/website/wiki, downloading the data collected to your computer. The wiki page where she’s embedded the app & the screencast tutorials. 2) Prithwis Mukerjee in the comments points to B-School students using Zoho Creator (in the embedded ‘BlogPostURLs View’, click on each of the URLs & you will see that the students have created Zoho Creator apps & embedding forms in their blog)