Foundation Zoho: Work and Create Online

by Ali Shabdar

Overview

With more than 1.3 million users and growing every week, Zoho.com is a popular online suite of productivity applications that include email, word processor, spreadsheet, accounting, collaboration, social networking and other creative tools. It's basically like having an online version of Microsoft Office, and Google Apps. And do you know what's great about Zoho?

It's cost efficient and free depending on the services you choose; it's hosted on their servers; little or no tech support will ever be needed; and it runs nicely on thin clients like netbooks or smartphones like the iPhone. Also, according to CIO Magazine: "[Zoho has] got more applications than Google… The apps they have are richer."

Foundation Zoho gets you started with the vibrant Zoho.com and shows you how to use it for day-to-day tasks as well as have fun with it. This book also helps you to utilize Zoho with iPhone or even with Microsoft Office, if you still wish to use it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430219910
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/29/2009
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Ali Shabdar is an independent cloud consultant to several businesses and entrepreneurs. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry from programming and system analysis to implementing Web 2.0 technologies. He guest-blogs occasionally for different websites and is currently working for Plus Holding as new media manager in Dubai, where he lives with his wife, Maryam.

Table of Contents

Introduction. The Internet age and Web 2.0. Book audience. Prerequisites. Book approach. How this book is structured. The story of Zoho. > Part I - Everyday Tasks: Getting started. Process the words (Writer). Of numbers and sheets (Sheet). Present yourself (Show). All in one box (Docs). Plan your life (Planner). > Part II - Step into the business: The plaza (Business). Manage your business (CRM). Human resources (People). Precious invoices (Invoice). Manage the projects (Projects). Take control of your meetings (Meeting). Data is everything (Creator, DB & Reports). > Part III – Plug-ins/Extensions: Zoho Browser Plug-ins. Turing your Browser into a WebOS. Zoho for MS Office. Zoho CRM Plug-in for MS Outlook. Zoho on Facebook. Zoho on iPhone. Zoho on MS Windows Mobile. > Part IV - AdvancED: Zoho CloudSQL Introduction.