Zoho To Release a Business Office Suite
Zoho, the makers of a popular online office suite, is staged to launch a business version of their suite, designed to compete with Google Apps. Like Google Apps, the Zoho Business
suite will offer a combination of user management and an integrated suite of applications and
services. However, unlike Google Apps, Zoho’s Business Suite will offer more apps from start, including a slideshow app and Wiki.
Specifically, the Zoho Business will offer:
- Single sign on across applications
- Company level administration console
- Multiple levels of security including SSL
- Telephone support
- Remote back-up
- Document and data storage management self service
- Co-branding
Zoho Business will include the following applications :
- Writer (Word Processor)
- Sheet (Spreadsheets)
- Show (Presentations)
- Wiki (Group Wikis)
- Planner (Organizer)
- Notebook (Note Taker)
- Chat
- Calendar
- Start Page
- Domain management
With Zoho Business, users will be able to add multiple locations, each with their own time zone, and set up local admins. Some aspects of the interface can be "branded" with customers’ own images and customers will be able to apply their own domains to the Zoho applications. Also, when Zoho Mail is out of private beta, the company will begin hosting email for businesses.
Zoho Business will be unveiled at the Office 2.0 conference and then will begin a private beta. (You can sign up for the private beta here). The beta will continue for about a month, then move into public beta, with general release planned for Q1 2008. The final cost for the business suite will be $50 per year. Zoho will continue to offer a personal suite at no charge. There’s also a mobile suite optimized for the iPhone.
Get a sneak peek at what the Personal and Business Suites will offer here:
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