Zoho Corporation

Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996, is a technology company based in California which provides SAAS services. The company was founded by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas.

History

From 1996 to 2009, the company was known as AdventNet Inc. In 2009, the company was renamed Zoho Corporation after its online office suite of the same name.

Locations

The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, USA, with offices in Singapore, Japan, China, India. The bulk of its sales and support operations are carried out from its office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and the Philippines. In addition, the company has research and development centres in Singapore, Beijing, China and Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, India.

Products

Network management framework

The company started as a network management framework provider for telecommunications and network equipment vendors. Initially the company developed other software such as an SNMP API stack, an element management system (EMS). The NMS framework is marketed as WebNMS which competes with similar NMS products from HP, CA and few other enterprises.

Zoho Office Suite

Zoho Office Suite is a web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM),project management, invoicing, and other applications developed by ZOHO Corporation (formerly AdventNet Inc.), a California-based company. It was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products such as spreadsheets and presentations, were incorporated later into Zoho. Zoho applications are distributed as software as a service (SaaS).

Features

Zoho uses an open application programming interface for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. It also has plugins into Microsoft Word and Excel, an OpenOffice.org plugin, and a plugin for Firefox.

Components

Zoho Sites

Zoho Sites is an online, drag and drop website builder. It provides web hosting, unlimited storage, bandwidth and web pages. Features also include an array of website templates and mobile websites.