Zoho Corporation

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Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd
Private
Founded 1995
Founder Sridhar Vembu
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Sridhar Vembu
(CEO)
Number of employees
 4000[1]
Slogan Work online.
Website www.zohocorp.com

Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996, is a technology company based in California which provides SAAS services.[2] The company was founded by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas.

History

The company started as Vembu Software in a small apartment that was located in a Chennai suburb, Tambaram .From 1996 to 2009 was later called AdventNet and was re-christened as Zoho in 2005.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.[1] In addition, the company has research and development centres in Singapore, Beijing, China and Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, India.[3]

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.

IT management products

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Main article: ManageEngine

Until 2003, the company's business focused only on large and enterprise class customers. During the slowdown in 2003, and as a plan to bring in more revenue, the company venturednto SMB market by offering commercial IT management products which were either stripped down versions of their WebNMS framework, or built on top of WebNMS codebase. The company marketed their IT management products under the ManageEngine [4] branding. Their first product released under the ManageEngine brand was a network monitoring software called OpManager 4.0 which competed with WhatsUp Gold and other monitoring products. Following OpManager 4.0's success, a host of other related products were developed and marketed targeting various segments of IT management. The ManageEngine became a commercially successful brand in the following years. ⊂

Zoho Office Suite

During the Web 2.0 and SaaS boom in 2005, the company launched Zoho Office Suite with a web-based word processor, and later expanded to offer other applications, including spreadsheets, mail, a calendar, contacts list, and other business-oriented programs such as CRM.[5]

Most of the Zoho Suite products offer a free edition and a host of paid editions. At this time of writing,[when?] the Zoho Suite of products offers both personal productivity applications and business productivity apps which rely on the subscription business model for revenue. Some of the notable business competitors include products from Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

Zoho AppCreator

Zoho AppCreator is a web-based software that enables users to create mobile apps, without knowing iOS or Android programming languages. Users can create mobile apps by just dragging and dropping fields. Users can also share the app with colleagues. Zoho AppCreator has a single database for everyone to work with.

Notebook

Notebook is Zoho's note-taking mobile app. Users can jot down text, create a checklist, capture a photo, and record audio – all in a single note card. They can also create dedicated text, audio or photo notecards. Notebook syncs across devices, so users can access their notes from anywhere and at any time.

Zoho Writer

Zoho Writer clutter-free word processor. It has three modes that the users can work on – Compose (for writing and formatting), Review (for collaboration) and Distribute (for publishing). The new interface provides a “Reader View” that is free of clutter like buttons and background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability.

Gamescope

Gamescope is a new Zoho Projects feature that makes project activities like creating and completing tasks more engaging and exciting. It encourages employees to play friendly games with one another and earn rewards. The unique aspect of this is that anyone can create and play the games without involving the manager.

Revenue

The company bootstrapped itself, and is held privately. It also does not disclose its revenue publicly but as of 2012, it was believed to be a quarter of Salesforce, and Zoho is known to spend the bulk of its revenue on product development, unlike Salesforce which is known to spend more than 50% of its revenue on sales and marketing.[6]

References

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