Zoho, A Fuller Web Suite

Although Google Docs is great, and can take your office suite from your local machine to the internet however, it is still a bit short on features however there is another, more powerful websuite that has more features. Zoho has a word processor, spreadsheet and slide show program just like Google Docs but, it also has more advanced features that Google Docs has left out. In addition to the basic applications, Zoho has other applications as well like Zoho Notbook for note taking, Wiki for running a wiki page, Planner to plan events and many others. There is also a line of business applications such as CRm to manage sales, Project Management tools, and many others. However these business applications have limited free use and then users need to pay for full access for the services they want, unlike Google Apps which charges one flat fee for full access to all their services. There is one major downside to Zoho, beside the price the user interfact looks as though the application UI has not been updated since the late 1990s. The other problem is there is not easy way to navigate between applications which I really need and is why I use Google Docs because they make it very easy to navigate between applications and has a modern UI. I think Zoho has a lot of potential and if they had a one price for full access business model and up date their UI they may be a worthy opponent to Google but for now they are still in need for further development.

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