Zoho Docs: The Glue

Posted on September 4, 2008 One Comment

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Zoho Docs was announced today and looks to be the glue that ties Zoho’s Writer, Sheet, Show and Chat services together. It also appears to have replaced Zoho Start. At least, when I click on the Start link I end up at Docs…

You can create folders. You can organize and tag files. You can upload any sort of file – in fact, you don’t have to upload one by one. You can also zip up a bunch of files, upload the zip and then tell Zoho to unzip and scan them on the other end. That’s a nice feature.

Click a file and it’ll open in a little tab as read-only. If you want to edit that file, you’ll click a button and get the appropriate app in a new browser window/tab.

Sharing is supported as well (I’m not sure if this is in conjunction with Zoho Share or in addition. I’m assuming the latter). As far as I can tell, you have to share files individually. I think it’d be nice if we could also set sharing at the folder level.

I have no clue what the storage limits are. The aggregate of what you got from Word, Sheet and Show? Heck, I don’t know what their individual limits are either!

If you’re familiar with the Google Docs interface, it is similar – just a wee bit late to the game. Well, similar in that you see multiple types of documents. Zoho Docs offers a bit more though. I spend a lot of time in Google Docs since it is part of my company’s Enterprise Google Apps solution. It’s OK… but the Zoho stuff is generally far superior in my opinion.

If you don’t have a Zoho account to play with, at least check out the video. It’s worth a look.

I’m not sure I’d call Zoho Docs revolutionary, but I’d certainly call it evolutionary. For folks considering going full-time online office it might just tilt the scales in Zoho’s direction.

And heck, the price is right.

Tags: google-docs, onlineoffice, zoho, zoho-docs, zoho-office

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One Response to “Zoho Docs: The Glue”

Will Flavell says:

September 8, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Zoho is nice, but if you are looking for a full service file storage and collaboration tool that offers big-business security, you might want to check out: http://www.doclanding.com.

Some of my friends are launching a product called DocLanding, http://www.doclanding.com, at DEMO today at 3:57 p.m. PST. It is a social tool that lets small businesses organize, store and collaborate on all of their documents. Trying to bring to document management capabilities of big business to entrepreneurs and small businesses. I was hoping that you might want to take a look at the service. We are also offering a free trial if you want to check it out. Right now they have free accounts for 256MB and it is only $9 per GB.

If you have any questions or need anything, please contact me, Bill at (402) 965-4360.

Thanks,
Bill

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