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Google Launches Apps Marketplace – 80% Revenue Share with Developers

March 10, 2010

The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps. Installable apps are easy to use because they include single sign-on, Google's universal navigation, and some even include features that integrate with your domain's data.
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Invoicera- SaaS Tool For Invoice Billing Management

January 25, 2010
Invoicera- SaaS Tool For Invoice Billing Management

Invoicera is a Delhi based startup that offers invoice generation system as a SaaS tool. The UI is very neat and seems to have been given some serious effort. The service comes with some very needful features like: • Multiple Currency Support (with real time currency conversion) • Automatic Invoice Scheduling • Alerts & Reminders • Late Fees...
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Itching to get ‘SaaSy’ – Overcoming Common Myths [SaaS]

November 10, 2009

Currently, we are witnessing one of the biggest shifts in enterprise software (software used for business) and as everything else, it comes with it's own set of myths, mindsets and confusion. Here are a few I have experienced over the last few years from people who are still not ready to adopt online software...
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Zoho Projects Integrates with Google Apps

October 20, 2009
Zoho Projects Integrates with Google Apps

Zoho Projects has announced an integration with Google Apps and Zoho customers can now login to Zoho Projects with the same username and password they use for Google Apps. Zoho Projects for Google Apps creates an integrated experience for Google Apps users that includes single sign-on, integration with Google Docs and Google Calendar plus the...
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SaaS gets another boost – Tata to distribute HyperOffice Collab Tools

August 21, 2009
SaaS gets another boost – Tata to distribute HyperOffice Collab Tools

SaaS Business in India - Telecom operators drive the next wave of online collaboration suite distribution?
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Zoho takes on Salesforce..Launches ‘Zwitch to Zoho’

July 21, 2009
Zoho takes on Salesforce..Launches ‘Zwitch to Zoho’

Zoho –Salesforce story is pretty well known (SF wanted to acquire Zoho, but Zoho refused) and today, Zoho launched the ‘Zwitch to Zoho’ program to lure Salesforce customers by playing
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Microsoft India Launches Online Business Services in India [Free Trial]

July 21, 2009

Microsoft has launched it’s online business suite in India (link), targeted towards Indian SMBs. MS”s online standard suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions
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Zoho Projects Goes Social – Adds Twitter like ‘Project’ Stream

July 1, 2009
Zoho Projects Goes Social – Adds Twitter like ‘Project’ Stream

Online collaboration is a beast and readers of this site have been getting a doze of online collab tools very frequently. Today, Zoho has entered into the ‘Yammer/Twitter’ domain of live streaming (and lot more) and has launched a newer version of Zoho projects. Zoho projects enables you to import your mpp files,
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Creately – Create Diagrams (Flowchart/Mind maps etc) Online Collaboratively

June 24, 2009
Creately – Create Diagrams (Flowchart/Mind maps etc) Online Collaboratively

There are very few options to create diagrams collaboratively and most of the current softwares are desktop based, cluttered with features and of course, heavily priced. Creately is an online tool to create diagrams like flowcharts/mind maps/Process
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Zoho Integrates Mobile Apps

April 28, 2009
Zoho Integrates Mobile Apps

For Zoho, 2008 was the year of launching new products (at an unbelievable rate!) and 2009 is when they are performing the much needed cleanup and integration of
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Instacoll Launches Live Presentations – “Software and Service” Model (Integrated with Twitter)

March 9, 2009
Instacoll Launches Live Presentations – “Software and Service” Model (Integrated with Twitter)

Instacoll has launched Live Presentations product that’s delivered as ‘Software and Service’ model (embraced by Microsoft for it’s Live product suite). Essentially, Live Presentations is available as a desktop software as well as
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Cloud gets a sequel – Zoho launches CloudSQL

December 2, 2008
Cloud gets a sequel – Zoho launches CloudSQL

Zoho has launched CloudSQL, middleware technology that allows businesses to connect and integrate the data and applications they have in Zoho
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Salesforce shows it’s Force

November 3, 2008
Salesforce shows it’s Force

Salesforce has gotten inside out with Force.com, the platform that allows customers to run their Web sites using salesforce.com’s cloud services. Force.com Sites gives customers the power to publish their Force.com data
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Microsoft’s Cloud Computing tryst with Azure

October 29, 2008

Microsoft has finally accepted the viability of online office business and has launched it’s cloud computing platform, Azure (interestingly, Azure means unclouded!) Unlike other SaaS providers like Google and Zoho, MS is playing the software+service game (and not software as a service) And as we edit, organize and store media, the PC has quietly moved from...
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IBM Goes SaaS-Y with Lotus Notes Domino

October 23, 2008
IBM Goes SaaS-Y with Lotus Notes Domino

Big blue has launched SaaS version of Lotus Notes Domino, it’s email collaboration software. Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging includes hosted mailboxes and the Lotus Notes client – costs between $8 and $18 per user per month. The hosted service has certain limitations like space constraint (1GB-per-user-mailbox) and the service doesn’t gel well with Notes apps
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Zoho mail goes offline (with Google Gears)

October 10, 2008
Zoho mail goes offline (with Google Gears)

First it was Zoho docs and now Mail – Zoho has done it (i.e. gears implementation) much before Google! Zoho mail is stepping out of private beta and has integrated Google gears support enabling users to read mails
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Zoho Launches Marketplace for Apps, Pokes Google

October 1, 2008
Zoho Launches Marketplace for Apps, Pokes Google

Zoho is moving fast and after aggregation of all it’s service (i.e. zoho docs), comes Zoho Marketplace – a service that brings users and business application developers together. Zoho Marketplace provides a growing catalog of business applications that users can try and purchase. If you like an application you can buy it from the developer...
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Zoho Docs – Finally!

September 5, 2008
Zoho Docs – Finally!

Zoho has finally stitched all it’s office offering under a common application called Zoho docs. Zoho docs enables users to manage documents centrally (which otherwise are scattered all over the place)  and serves as a central repository of all your Zoho writer, spreadsheets, presentations. Zoho docs also supports folders – so that one can logically group...
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Zoho launches Zoho Share : Gets Consumer Oriented

August 21, 2008
Zoho launches Zoho Share : Gets Consumer Oriented

Zoho has launched Zoho Share – a central repository showcasing content published by Zoho users. While Zoho has focused on enterprise customers, its a no-brainer for them to showcase all the public files that are being uploaded by users. The Sharepoint part is very important: Zoho Share is a central place where we bring together all...
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