Posts tagged with "Zoho"

Large enterprises are not the only organizations that stand to benefit from using BI software. For a while, business intelligence software was too expensive and too complex to meet the needs of small businesses, many of which rely on simple spreadsheets to analyze critical business data. Today, thanks in part to cost savings afforded by the cloud, there are a host of BI solutions available to help small businesses visualize, analyze, and report on their complex data. Zoho Reports Zoho offers an affordable software-as-a-service business reporting tool suitable for small businesses. You can upload data to Zoho Reports from spreadsheets, databases, ... READ MORE

In this second installation of our “Search for a New CRM” series, we research and discuss possible alternatives to our current CRM system, Zoho. Our needs have been identified and desired solution features outlined; the next step in our CRM search is researching and narrowing down the possible choices. This series will give you a front row seat of our process as we conduct our CRM search. Check out Part 1 to read more about our current CRM situation and what the catalyst was to find a new solution. Our CRM Needs In a nutshell, we need a CRM solution that will ... READ MORE

Researching, identifying, choosing, and implementing a business software system can be a long process. The investment in a system is one that will last years and affect how an organization functions, both internally and externally. Investing in a new software system is a big step and all the key stakeholders in an organization should be involved in the decision-making process. As with most companies, we have a CRM system in place to manage our sales and marketing processes. As our organization grows and evolves, our needs change and our current CRM system may no longer fit our requirements. This series will ... READ MORE

Salesorder.com calls itself "the world's favorite web-based ERP." And yet, Salesorder.com may not be the first company people think of when they hear that term. CEO Nick Spooner joined us for a talk about their under-the-radar sales strategy, and why their biggest competitors have the wrong business model for SMBs. To learn more about Salesorder.com, visit their website. What inspired you to establish Salesorder.com? Our view of the world is crystal clear: small businesses are very badly served when it comes to unified information systems. There are five major brands when it comes to accounting software, led by QuickBooks and Sage. Small businesses ... READ MORE

By now, you've probably heard about Zoho's newest addition to their iOS mobile app offerings--the Zoho Projects mobile app. The company unveiled it last week in San Francisco at the Zoholics user conference, in addition to new Android apps for their Zoho CRM and Zoho Docs services. Just like their other offerings, the Zoho Projects mobile app requires that you be subscribed to the Zoho Projects service and pay a monthly fee ($3 in this case) in order to access the app. It's great that Zoho is showing more support for Android users, which is no doubt due to Zoho's close collaboration ... READ MORE

More of Zoho is brought to Google. In addition to Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, Zoho Invoice and Zoho Creator Helpdesk have been added to the Google Apps Marketplace. These Zoho products, now integrated with Google, take advantage of Google Apps user information. Zoho plans to integrate further business productivity applications with Google due to high user demand. Zoho Invoice is an online invoicing software that can be used for invoice management, tracking expenses, receiving payments, and monitoring general business health. Google account contacts can be added directly to Invoice. It can also receive ... READ MORE

Zoho, a web-based productivity software vendor, has added search features to their platform. Zoho is adding "actionable" search features that allow users to do keyword searches across an organization, and across multiple applications like email, documents, forums, and contacts. Zoho's new unified search tools act like a search engine for the productivity software. Zoho users will be able to access data from multiple applications including Zoho Mail, Docs, Writer, Sheet, Notebook, Discussions, and Accounts. Zoho's search results are grouped by filters that give users the ability to view results from each category or application. ... READ MORE

With the proliferation of SaaS business productivity platforms last year, there came many debates about the security issues cloud computing may raise. Or rather, there were many tech pundits stating that the growing popularity of cloud computing led to sophisticated and safe applications, and therefore cloud security issues were a moot point. Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission announced they wanted to examine the issue for themselves, and will be holding a roundtable at the end of this month to discuss potential privacy problems; roundtable participants will include industry stakeholders. In terms of business productivity software providers, vendors big and ... READ MORE