OmniDrive becomes perfect with Zoho

Raju Vegesna  January 19, 2007 02: 52 pm    

Early last year I talked about Shortcomings of existing online storage solutions where the primary issue was upload/download. Once you have your documents uploaded to online storage solutions, you have to download them to view/edit them. This defeated the purpose of having online storage and hence online storage solutions were used more for backup than being your extended drive.

All of this is history today. OmniDrive, the online storage solution overcomes this limitation by integrating Zoho Apps. I call it ‘The Perfect Online Drive’. What does this mean? Well, if you have your documents online in OmniDrive, you can view/edit these documents just by double clicking on them. The documents then are opened in Zoho Applications. As of today you can open Word, HTML, txt and ODT formats in Zoho Writer. Next week this will also work with Zoho Sheet and Show as well.

Apart from viewing/editing documents online, you can also create new documents directly from OmniDrive.

It was really great working with OmniDrive on this solution. Look forward for more integration. Below are couple of screenshots.
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Here is the article on TechCrunch.

Here is the announcement from OmniDrive.

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    […] Zoho says Omnidrive is ‘perfect online storage’ […]

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    […] Working with the Zoho guys was a treat - they have a really smart group of people there who are working on wonderful things, it was a great privilege to work with them on this project, I am certain you will see much more come out of this relationship in the future. Zoho now say that Omnidrive is ‘perfect online storage‘. Awww, shucks.. Share This […]

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    January 19th, 2007 | 6:13 pm

    […] For additional information, see the Omnidrive and Zoho blogs. For background on the companies, see our previous coverage of Zoho and Omnidrive, and see Webware’s recent coverage of Omnidrive here. […]

  5. The Zoho / Omnidrive Deal » Solo Technology
    January 19th, 2007 | 10:18 pm

    […] Apparently I wasn’t totally out in left field. Zoho and Omnidrive announced today that they have integrated their respective services. [Zoho] [Omnidrive] Store your documents in Omnidrive, open them in Zoho — and save them back to Omnidrive. […]

  6. Basu
    January 20th, 2007 | 4:09 am

    This is awesome. It’s a great idea and it means that I can stop manually syncing everything every few days. Just one question: is there a way to move documents in Zoho to Omnidrive directly?

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    January 20th, 2007 | 5:33 am

    […] Zoho et Omnidrive (une société dans laquelle Michael Arrington est impliquée) nouent un partenariat dans lequel les utilisateurs pourront depuis la solution de bureau en ligne archiver automatiquement et synchroniser leurs documents en ligne sur Omnidrive. Inversement depuis Omnidrive vous pourrez ouvrir directement vos documents sur Zoho. Ce partenariat permet d’offrir aux utilisateurs une solution complète de collaboration et hébergement offline/online. Plus d’infos sur les blogs d’omnidrive et zoho […]

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  9. Sridhar
    January 20th, 2007 | 8:56 am

    Basu,
    Yes, we will provide a way to add Zoho documents in Omnidrive in a future update. This would also provide another back-up for your Zoho documents, in addition to the back-ups we ourselves are doing.

    Sridhar

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    January 20th, 2007 | 3:33 pm

    […] オンライン・オフィス・アプリケーションの Zohoとオンライン・ストレージのOmnidrive (下記情報開示を参照)は、今日(米国時間1/19)、両社の機能を拡充する提携を発表する。この統合によって最近アップデートされたZohoのAPIが一層強化される。この提携によって、ユーザーはZoho上のOfficeドキュメントをすべてOmnidriveサービス内にオンラインで集中保管することができるようになる。またOmnidriveに保管したOffice文書ファイルをクリックすると、その文書が自動的にZohoサービスで開かれる。これによってユーザーはOmnidriveのオンラインファイル共有を利用して他のユーザーと共同作業が可能になる。この提携でOmnidriveはデスクトップとオンラインの双方でほぼ完全にシームレスにファイルを作成、編集する機能を提供できるようになった。ユーザーが文書をデスクトップあるいはZoho Writerでアップデートした場合、Omnidriveのファイルリンク機能により、他のロケーションにある文書も自動的にアップデートされ、同期が取られる。このリンク機能はわれわれが以前にオンラインストレージサービスについて比較記事を書いたときに、まず目をつけた主要な機能だった。さらに詳しい情報は、OmnidriveとZohoのブログを参照。両社の背景についてはZoho、Omnidrive（英語版記事） （日本語版記事）のそれぞれの記事参照。また最近、Webware’sがOmnidriveについての記事を掲載している。.情報開示： 2006å¹´12月、TechCrunchのファウンダー、Michael ArringtonはOmnidriveに投資し、同社の取締役に就任した。詳しくはTechCrunchのAbout pageを参照のこと。[原文へ] Omnidrive Zoho […]

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    January 20th, 2007 | 5:57 pm

    […] As the Zoho blog correctly points out, with other remote storage services you first need to download and then open the file with the proper app. Now, with the Zoho/OmniDrive partnership, no need. Storage and then being able to update/change/manipulate many types of files are all available in a single, web-based solution. […]

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    January 22nd, 2007 | 1:01 pm

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  13. Mayank
    January 23rd, 2007 | 6:21 pm

    Wow! it seems that this update or news has got some really good responce! Well, certainly that is a really cool collaboration. Omnidrive is certainly good and after zoho’s integration it becomes even better and I’m sure that will help both the companies :)

  14. Tony Hirst
    January 27th, 2007 | 6:40 am

    So will it also be possible to save files onto Omnidrive from my zoho account, and access my zoho a/c from omnidrive?

    At the moment, it seems like the two are separate, with no way to reconcile them (unless perhaps I save a zoho doc to an omnidrive directory on my desktop?)

    tony

  15. Raju Vegesna
    January 27th, 2007 | 10:19 am

    Tony:

    At this point we dont have a way to save one files in the other application. But we are working towards that. As I said, this is just a beginning of a long term relation.

  16. iAdvert.mobi » Zoho and Omnidrive Working On Web App Data Standards
    January 27th, 2007 | 4:28 pm

    […] Late last week, Web Office provider Zoho and online storage company Omnidrive announced a partnership, allowing users to edit a Zoho office document and save directly into Omnidrive. Also, both Omnidrive and Zoho released APIs. The news has already been covered in-depth elsewhere - e.g. TechCrunch and Zoli’s Blog. As Zoli Erdos pointed out in his post, the partnership is a useful step forward in seamless on-and-offline computing. […]

  17. Martin Kelley
    February 6th, 2007 | 11:17 am

    I like the direction this is going and look forward to seeing it develop. Here’s a problem I’m looking at. I have non-techie clients who run a small conference center. They want an easy way to produce PDFs of their upcoming event fliers and have them available from their website. What I’d love to do is have them make up their fliers in Zoho inside Omnidrive, then export them as PDFs also to Omnidrive, all linkable from their site. With Zoho’s javascript code, they could even have it easily sync up on their site. Even better would be if there was some sort of automatic link to PDFs of public Zoho documents. Lots of work here, but a webmaster can dream!

  18. Zoho, Omnidrive Partner For Office Document Storage
    March 1st, 2007 | 1:46 am

    […] For additional information, see the Omnidrive and Zoho blogs. For background on the companies, see our previous coverage of Zoho and Omnidrive, and see Webware’s recent coverage of Omnidrive here. […]

  19. Sunday Shorts » Solo Technology
    March 4th, 2007 | 7:59 pm

    […] Omnidrive enhanced their Zoho integration by adding support for Zoho Sheet. Good stuff and some more interesting tidbits listed in that article. I forget, did we ever see anymore on the hopes for a Netvibes widget for Omnidrive? […]

  20. J Leiderman
    April 4th, 2007 | 9:52 pm

    It seems to me that if Zoho and OmniDrive are really to be integrated, in all of the Zoho applications the “Save As” command should give the user the option of saving to an OmniDrive folder (by analogy with the desktop OS option of choosing a different folder/directory as the location of a saved document).
    Otherwise, many compliments and thanks for the most useful of the online-document engines on the scene.

  21. 59ideas
    September 28th, 2007 | 1:48 am

    Interesting… Since Zoho already has a whole suite of applications, what is stopping Zoho from creating ZohoDrive?

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