(Cross-posted @ CloudAve » Zoli Erdos)
Archives for January 2011
Trouble with My Feed
Posted on January 22, 2011 ·
I’m experiencing trouble with my Feedburner feed – apologies and I certainly hope to get it fixed soon.
(Oh, and Googlers who read this are most welcome to chip in to help
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Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books
Posted on January 19, 2011 ·
This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out Zoho’s overall strategy.
The following video introduction is a bit “cutesy”:
-and that’s quite intentional. In fact simplicity is one of the key points in Zoho Books:
- Clear, streamlined UI, tabs, easy terminology –i.e. Money In, Money Out. This service is clearly targeted at non-accountants, which is most of us in a small business – hey, even I can understand most of it.
- That said, Books offers the opportunity to share data and collaborate with accountants (Ouch, did I really needed that reminder for tax time?;-) )
- Multi-currency support – this is typically a later add-on in many systems, but Zoho has a wide international presence with most of their other services
- Integration with Zoho CRM, Invoice, Mail – somewhat basic now, will be improved as we’ve seen with the rest of Zoho’s offerings
- Support for electronic payment systems like Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net. This is a “hidden treasure” inherited from twin service Zoho Invoice, which is a subset of Book’s functionality and can be easily upgraded. Why hidden? Because relatively few know that Paypal offers 50 cent (yes, that’s $0.50 per transaction) Business Payments NOT available through the Web, only via their API, i.e. apps like Zoho Invoice and Boooks.
Having said that, is Zoho Books a Quickbooks killer?
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve » Zoli Erdos)
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
Posted on January 8, 2011 ·
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just one powerful mobile device, which:
- brings connectivity, the browser and personalization, with
- data and apps in the cloud, while
- the actual devices we interact with are inexpensive displays and keyboards (and other peripherals) that come in various shapes and sizes, truly focusing on usability, ergonomics and convenience.
The first product that gets quite close to the vision is the Motorola Atrix 4G…
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve » Zoli Erdos)
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