It’s certainly encouraging when the first day of the year starts with an article that names you as one of the best software in the space the previous year.

Dion Hinchcliffe in his recent artcle named Zoho Suite as the best Office 2.0 Suite. In his words…

The Office 2.0 phenomenon become a true reality this year as just about any kind of business application could be found in a purely browser version. Zoho has been diligently releasing product and product this year and now has entire online productivity suite that has a word processor, spreadsheet, wiki, project management, presentation, contact management, and much more. While you can find the individual pieces from various other Web apps, Zoho provides a nice integrated, one-stop package that is very reminiscent of Microsoft Office. Microsoft and Google have been slow to get fully into this space and it may very well end up that smaller players establish dominance in an area that most expected the Big Two would dominate in this space.

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On this final day of 2006 I want to take a few minutes to recap a great year for Zoho. There were many product releases, many many updates and other interesting news as well. Here is a short summary.

Here are the new product releases we did in 2006.

• Zoho Sheet – 24 Fed 2006
• Zoho Creator – 06 Mar 2006
• Zoho Polls – 06 April 2006
• Site 24×7 – 14 June 2006
• Zoho Show – 22 June 2006
• Zoho Projects – 25 Aug 2006
• Zoho VO – 10 Oct 2006
• Zoho Wiki – 20 Dec 2006

We also released some useful tools that enhance our offerings.

• MS Office Plugin
• Quick Read Browser Plugin
• Zoho API
• Desktopize for Zoho

Product updates are as important as product releases. Here is a brief summary.

Zoho Writer – 30+ Updates
Zoho Sheet – 20 Updates
Zoho Show – 20+ Updates
Zoho Creator – 20 Updates

…and the list goes on.

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- Dharma

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SaaS-a-fras asks a question in his recent post about new products from Zoho in 07.

How many new products will Zoho launch in 07?

Frankly, we dont know the answer for this. While we surely will release some apps, no one (including Zoho) can answer this question.

A decision to do a product could take few months in some cases to couple of hours in other cases. The source of ideas can be from anywhere. They come from internal teams in some cases or it could even come from you…..oh yea…you guys force us to do some products. Let me give you an example. Earlier this year when we released Zoho Writer and Sheet we didnt have fixed plans on doing a presentation app. But then users started asking us about release dates of our presentation app when we didnt even decide to do a presentation app at that point. More users kept asking us about the presentation app and that fuelled the development effort.

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