Rabbit is a web-based operating system that connects people, processes and content, combining the power of social networking into an enterprise environment. A key component of Rabbit is its information sharing capabilities, which let users work on documents they’ve uploaded to Rabbit’s web workspace, and share this with other users. Rabbit has selected Zoho for this because of Zoho's proven ability to provide high levels of functionality and performance, and to provide a smooth transition for enterprise users from working locally on the desktop to working on the web.

All documents, spreadsheets and presentations uploaded and stored in Rabbit can be opened using Zoho. The documents and spreadsheets can be edited and saved back where as the presentations can be viewed. Below is a screenshot of files in Rabbit being opened using Zoho.



New documents and spreadsheets can be created too from inside Rabbit by invoking Zoho Writer and Sheet. This video by the Rabbit team explains the functionality in detail.

Rabbit has a 14-day trial. Try them out.

Zoho is primarily about working online. We have a great set of online productivity apps which businesses find extremely useful for collaboration. Microsoft SharePoint is ubiquitous in enterprises for content management, but it lacks several advantages that cloud applications like Zoho enjoy.

Today we are pleased to announce Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint that brings the advantages of Zoho online productivity applications to ubiquitous Microsoft SharePoint.

Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint extends the value of Microsoft SharePoint by allowing users to create new documents using Zoho's office suite and then save them directly to SharePoint in Microsoft Office supported formats. Users can view or edit existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations using Zoho Writer, Sheet & Show and save them back to SharePoint.

This video gives a good overview of this add-on.

Installation video is available here. As Zoho applications are served from the cloud, you don't need any installations on desktops to create/view/edit documents. Once you install the add-on for SharePoint server, you can be more productive with just your browser.


Zoho Collaboration on Microsoft SharePoint

Apart from providing editing capability for existing documents, the add-on also provides collaborative editing functionality. Based on sharing permissions already defined in SharePoint, multiple users can collaboratively work on documents/spreadsheets/presentations in real-time. This feature basically brings one of the key advantages of an online office suite to SharePoint.


While collaboratively editing documents, you can also chat with other members using our integrated Zoho Chat.

Data Behind your Firewall

Along with small and medium businesses, we see a good percentage of departments in larger organizations using our productivity apps for collaboration. There are  businesses which prefer keeping their data behind the enterprise firewall. For such organizations, this new add-on brings in the best of both worlds - Collaboration capabilities of an online application while keeping the data behind your firewall.

If you have SharePoint installed in your intranet behind your corporate firewall, you still will be able to view/edit documents using our online applications. After changes, your documents are saved back to your SharePoint server behind your corporate firewall leaving no data on Zoho Servers.

When you open the document, a copy is transferred temporarily to Zoho servers securely. When the document is closed, it is permanently deleted from our servers immediately leaving no data on our side.

Pricing & Availability

Starting today, this add-on is available for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2003 versions. You can try the 30 day evaluation version for unlimited users. After the trial period, it costs $2/user/month on an yearly subscription or $3/user/month for monthly subscription.

If you have already invested in Microsoft SharePoint, this add-on is a great compliment that brings in the advantages of online productivity applications to SharePoint. If you are able to access SharePoint, you'll be able to view/edit documents without having to invest on productivity suites for every desktop in your business.

Additional information is available @ http://www.zoho.com/sharepoint

Please do give it a try and let us know what you think. 

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Japan's NTT Communications (NTT Com) unveiled their first foray into Cloud through a concept called "Setten" in Japan starting with a suite of applications for businesses. We are very excited to announce that some of Zoho's Applications are included as part of NTT Com's offerings.

NTT Communications is one of the largest telecommunications company in Japan and they are unveiling their cloud concept 'Setten' offering virtual office environment with a suite of online applications. To start with, the offering will include

Back in 1996, we started AdventNet (Zoho's parent company) with a focus on Network Management. In the past 13 years, the company has grown significantly serving multiple markets and employing about 1000 people globally.

Today, we are announcing the name change for our parent company from AdventNet Inc to ZOHO Corporation. This name change represents the evolution of the company. Zoho Corp will have three divisions, each focusing on different market segments.

• Zoho.com - The division focused on Online Business, Productivity & Collaboration Applications
• ManageEngine - The division focused on Enterprise IT Management and
• WebNMS - The division focused on the needs of OEMs.

In fact, these three brands/divisions represent three different phases of the company. In 1996, we started serving the needs of OEMs; We evolved by offering installable products for Enterprise IT Management. We currently serve over 40K customers under our ManageEngine brand. We then evolved from products to SaaS, with Zoho to serve a bigger and broader market. As we bootstrapped our way from platforms to end products to Online Apps, the focus has always been on building a strong business by serving the customers well. Thanks to the continued support of our customers, we continue to remain private & continuously profitable for the past 13 years with no external funding.

Zoho Corp (formerly AdventNet Inc) will continue to operate with its headquarters in Pleasanton, CA with offices in Austin and New Jersey. Zoho Corp also has offices in India, Japan, China and UK.

While the AdventNet name will be retired, we will continue to operate under the same guiding and customer-honoring principles that brought the company to prominence. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support over the years and we hope you'll let us serve you in years to come.

Rafe Needleman who hosts the Webware 100 awards every year has announced the winners for 2009. We'd asked you to vote for Zoho in this year's Webware 100 awards and you've responded enthusiastically!! Thanks for making Zoho a winner in the Productivity category. And congratulations to all Webware 100 winners!

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We are delighted to announce that Zoho is one of the winners of TiE50 for 2009! The TiE50 awards are announced by TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a global, not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurs across its international network. See the full list of winners here. Congrats to all the winners!

The TiEcon 2009 conference is being held on May 15-16, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Zoho is one of the event's sponsors and our CEO Sridhar Vembu will be speaking at the conference.

Over the past year or two we have had some initiatives on mobile capabilities for selected Zoho applications. With Zoho Mobile, we are aggregating all our previous initiatives with consistent user interface and extending it to multiple applications and mobile platforms.

Zoho Mobile can be accessed from your favorite smart phone @ http://mobile.zoho.com (or http://m.zoho.com to keep it short). In the current version of Zoho Mobile, the following applications are available.

• Zoho Mail
• Zoho Calendar
• Zoho Writer
• Zoho Sheet
• Zoho Show
• Zoho Creator

These browser-based applications come with a consistent user interface across multiple mobile platforms. We currently support the following mobile platforms.

• iPhone
• Android
• BlackBerry
• Windows Mobile &
  
• Symbian (S60 Platform)
  

We certainly plan to expand the coverage to other platforms like Palm moving forward. Also, the applications we support on these platforms will be expanded further as some of our Business applications make their way into Zoho Mobile. We also have plans to offer some native applications for selected platforms under Zoho Mobile.



Zoho Mobile is also localized to Japanese. We plan to make this available in additional languages soon.

Do give Zoho Mobile a try from your mobile phone and let us know your feedback.

Zoho Gadgets launches today with the aim to connect Zoho applications with external applications. Zoho Gadgets, available at http://gadgets.zoho.com, can be integrated/embedded with online applications like iGoogle, Facebook, Orkut, Gmail & more. To start with, we are offering six Zoho gadgets.

• Zoho Docs (Including Writer, Sheet & Show)
• Zoho Mail
• Zoho Calendar
• Zoho Tasks
• Zoho Contacts and
  
• Zoho Planner
  

All the gadgets are OpenSocial compatible - this means you can now use these gadgets in any OpenSocial compatible social network. We plan to provide gadgets for other Zoho Applications moving forward.

These gadgets can be embedded individually in any websites or can be added to iGoogle or any personal dashboard.

Gadgets for iGoogle
You can now add all Zoho Gadgets to your start page. To add Zoho Gadgets to iGoogle, just click on the iGoogle link in Gadgets page and add these gadgets for them to appear in your iGoogle page.

These gadgets support oAuth when plugged into iGoogle or Gmail. This means, Zoho Gadgets can be accessed without entering Zoho Credentials inside iGoogle/Gmail. Also, as you know, we do let you login to Zoho with your Google credentials. This means, we automatically show your Zoho contents if you use this option to login to Zoho.

Gadgets for Facebook & Orkut
Gadgets can be added to Facebook by clicking on the Facebook icon in the Gadgets page and bookmarking the gadget. Your gadgets will be visible from the Applications bar at the bottom in Facebook.


As you may know, we have Zoho App for Facebook as well.

Similar to Facebook, these gadgets can also be added to Orkut. Clicking on the Orkut link in Gadgets page will redirect you to Orkut page where you have an option to add the application to your profile.


Gadgets in Gmail
We have many users using Gmail for email and Zoho for Documents. If you are one of those users, you can now view your Zoho Documents within Gmail. To do this, you'll have to enable the Labs feature in Gmail. To do this, go to Settings > Labs Tab > Enable 'Add any gadget by URL' and save the changes.

Now, go to Settings > Gadgets tab and paste the XML URL of the gadget and click 'Add'. This XML URL is available under OpenSocial option in the Gadgets page.




For now, you'll be able to add Zoho Docs, Calendar and Tasks gadgets to Gmail. If you are using Gmail, we figured you won't need Zoho Mail & Zoho Contacts inside Gmail :)



Gadgets for OpenSocial Apps
Zoho Gadgets can be added to any application that is OpenSocial compatible. The OpenSocial option in our Gadgets page provides the link to the XML file needed to integrate the gadget.



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All these gadgets can be embedded anywhere with our standard embed option. Just copy and paste the code in your blog or website for the gadget to be embedded. Of course, this also means you can embed these gadgets in other Zoho Applications like Zoho Notebook, Wiki, Writer, Show etc which support standard HTML embeds.



This is just the beginning for Zoho Gadgets. We have more gadgets to come for our other applications. We also have plans to make these gadgets available in other social networks like Ning moving forward. These gadgets will also make their way to the Desktop component in Zoho Business.

Please do try out these gadgets in social networks and let us know your feedback.

Injoos is a collaboration platform for teams with integrated document, project and knowledge management features. All documents, spreadsheets, presentations uploaded to Injoos can now be viewed, edited & saved back online, thanks to Injoos using the Zoho API.

You can upload all types of files to Injoos. The below screenshot lists an uploaded Resume document. Click on the View/Edit link.


It will open the document in a new tab using Zoho Writer editor.


Similarly, xls, csv files will open in Zoho Sheet editor and ppt, pps files in Zoho Show. Jagdish at Injoos has done a nice flash video to explain this feature. Give Injoos a try.

Zoho Chat is one of our key applications that enables conversation between Zoho users. Our Chat bus integrates many Zoho Applications under the hood. Today, with 2.0 version, we are taking it couple of steps further with multi-protocol support and many other new features.



Multi-protocol support

With Zoho Chat 2.0, you can now login to multiple Instant Messaging networks. You can login to Yahoo!, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ and any network that supports Jabber and simultaneously chat with members from other networks. You have options to save your login credentials of other networks within Zoho Chat and automatically login to multiple networks when you login to Zoho.


The mini-tabs at the bottom let you login and view status of members from other IM networks. You also have an option to view the status of all users from all networks from the 'All' tab.

Application Integration

Chat clients supporting multi-protocols is nothing new. There are many standalone and online apps currently available. Uniqueness of multi-protocol support in Zoho Chat 2.0 is our integration with Productivity, Collaboration & Business Applications.

Zoho Chat is the common bus that runs across most of Zoho Applications. It is currently integrated with our productivity & collaboration applications like Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, Mail, Notebook, Docs and even our business applications like Zoho Meeting, Business etc. This means, when you are logged into multiple IM networks (like Yahoo, Google, AIM etc) in Zoho Chat, you will receive chat messages no matter which Zoho application you are in. You could be working in a document in Zoho Writer and chat with a Google or Yahoo user in the same tab and all your chat transcripts are archived and available for a future search.

When messaging apps are integrated with productivity apps, it can be really powerful and when you combine it with features like multi-protocol support, we believe it is going to be further useful.

Zoho Meeting Integration

Zoho Meeting is integrated with Zoho Chat 2.0 which lets you share your desktop with other users. As we support multi-protocols, you can share your desktop with users from any IM network. For now, windows users will be able to share desktops. If you are viewing another user's desktop, you can be on any operating system.

Option to share your desktop is now available in the chat window.


Zoho Calendar Integration

In Zoho Chat 2.0, you'll notice a small bar on the bottom right that lets you view your events from Zoho Calendar. You can also add a new event by just typing it into the text box. Say something like 'Meeting with John at 2PM' and it'll appear in Zoho Calendar.



You'll also notice a feeds section which is basically a notification area. This displays your unread chat messages, document sharing messages etc. 

You can also send out quick messages to other Zoho users using the quick message option (on the top right). This will send out the message as a notification to Zoho users. You can also send these quick messages to offline users.

More Goodies...

Zoho Chat 2.0 comes with more goodies. You can now choose your background image in Zoho Chat. We also added Audio notifications which are configurable.

If you are chatting with other Zoho users, you now have an option to send files through chat. If you are sending images, we also show you a preview of sent images. You can also wake up the other user using our new 'Buzz' option.

Zoho Chat also lets you chat with groups. If you have groups created in Zoho Business, you can start a chat session with all members within the group with a single click.

We have other good features from our previous versions intact like the History section that lets you review/search all chat transcripts with all users and the Embed options that let you embed your chat boxes on your website/blog.

Our team has been hard at work for this update. This is an important milestone for us and we hope you'll find this useful. As always, we are looking forward to your feedback. Try Zoho Chat 2.0 now.