As you may know, we have been focusing a lot on integration between Zoho applications. For a end user, it is important that Zoho applications fit well into his workflow and integrate well with third party applications/services as well. Apart from integrating Zoho applications, we have also integrated Zoho with many third-party applications. Infact, we have too many such integrations. So I'll split this into multiple posts and expand on some of our integrations with non-zoho applications

Integration with Google/Yahoo

Let us start with login. We don't mandate you create an account with Zoho to try our apps. If you are reading this, you probably have a Yahoo or a Google account, right? So we figured, we'll just let you login to Zoho with you existing accounts. This way, you don't have an additional username/password pair to remember.



EchoSign Integration in Zoho Writer

If you are working on an agreement or any other document and you need to get it signed/approved, EchoSign is a great service to use for electronic signatures/approvals. To make the process seamless, we integrated EchoSign into Zoho Writer. So you work on a document and with a click or two, you can send the document for approval. You'll find EchoSign integrated as 'DigiSign' option under the 'Share' MenuTab in Zoho Writer.



Flickr & Picasa Integration in Zoho Show

When you try to insert an image in Zoho Show, apart from uploading the photos, you'll notice two options - Flickr & Picasa. If you already have your images uploaded in other sites, why re-upload them to Zoho. So we integrated Flickr & Picasa into Zoho Show to let your embed those images into your presentations.



Paypal, Google Checkout & Authorize.net integration with Zoho Invoice

Sending out invoices is just one part of the story. If you want to receive payments, your invoicing system needs to have multiple options for your customer to choose. Zoho Invoice integrated multiple payment gateways to receive payments - Paypal, Google Checkout and Authorize.Net. 



Integration with multiple IM Networks in Zoho Chat

With Zoho Chat 2.0, we added multi-protocol chat support. This lets you chat with users from other IM Networks including Yahoo!, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ or any network that supports the Jabber protocol. As Zoho Chat is integrated across mutliple Zoho Apps, you'll be able to chat with members from other IM Networks no matter which Zoho App you are in.



There are just a few examples of external services integrated into Zoho Apps. I'll talk about other integrations in follow-up posts. Meanwhile, if are there any third-party integrations you wish to see in Zoho, please let us know.