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Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications:  An Open Letter

Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications: An Open Letter

By Adron Hall on March 13, 2012

Alright, there are a dozen office suites out there that sit in various places on one’s computer, in the cloud, can do X, Y, and Z and the list goes on. However, I don’t want to talk about any of those suites. I want to talk about the suite we all want, the suite that […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged google, google docs, microsoft, MS Office, office, office suite, Open Letters, rants, zoho

Can Office 365 Help Microsoft's Future?

Can Office 365 Help Microsoft’s Future?

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 18, 2011

Microsoft today took the wrappers off their Office 365 offering and allowed any business to try out the beta version. The general availability is scheduled for sometime later in the year. Office 365 is Microsoft’s answer to other online Office Suites such as Google Apps and Zoho Office Suite. After dilly dallying for a long […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, google, google apps, insights, microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365, MS Office, Office 365, Office Web Apps, office365, Online office suite, productivity, zoho, Zoho Office Suite | 1 Response

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

By Zoli Erdos on January 19, 2011

This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, business suite, CRM, erp, integration, intuit, quickbooks, Small business, smb, sme, xero, zoho, zoho books, zoho invoice | 3 Responses

Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer

Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer

By Zoli Erdos on January 8, 2011

It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple.  Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, google, mobile, mobility, motorola, shell computer, situational hardware, smartphone, sridhar vembu, superphone, web applications, web apps, zoho | 2 Responses

The Master of Guerilla Marketing Turns Microsoft's Prank Around

The Master of Guerilla Marketing Turns Microsoft’s Prank Around

By Zoli Erdos on December 10, 2010

CloudAve readers know I am a fan of edgy marketing.  Now it’s time to update my recently compiled inventory of software marketing pranks.  A major show like Salesforce.com’s DreamForce would not even be real without some guerilla marketing activity – except the players seemed to have traded places this year.  Guerilla Marketing is normally David’s […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged conferences, CRM, df10, dreamforce, edgy marketing, forced, Guerrilla marketing, marc benioff, marketing pranks, microsoft, microsoft dynamics, salesforce.com, software marketing, zoho | 1 Response

Zoho Support: A Step Towards A More Integrated Suite

Zoho Support: A Step Towards A More Integrated Suite

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 14, 2010

Zoho (CloudAve sponsor since beginning. See past CloudAve coverage of Zoho related news here) last week announced that they are releasing Zoho Support, a customer care solution integrated with their existing business suite. This is one of the applications long sought out by Zoho customers (Accounting app is another one I could think off) and […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged zendesk, zoho, zoho support

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

By Zoli Erdos on November 5, 2010

In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged gmail, gmail performance, google, google apps, gsnail, hotmail, outlook, performance, productivity, saas, webmail, yahoo, zoho, zoho mail

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not?  The Backdoor Experiment.

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.

By Zoli Erdos on October 29, 2010

There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged 37signals, Basecamp, pricing, project management, transparency, zoho | 11 Responses

Software Marketing Pranks

Software Marketing Pranks

By Zoli Erdos on October 26, 2010

I envy software marketing types.  They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference.  They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block.   My question: who […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Just for fun, Marketing | Tagged billboards, box.net, boxed software, conferences, edgy marketing, Great Plains, humor, kashflow, marketing pranks, microsoft, netsuite, Oracle, paypal, saas, sage, salesforce.com, sap, sharepoint, siebel, software marketing, wepay, zoho | 5 Responses

India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering

India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 7, 2010

Tata Communications, India’s leading service provider, announced an expansion of their cloud offerings, making it the first comprehensive India based cloud solution available for customers. Today, they announced the addition of Instacompute and Instaoffice to their list of offerings. The launch marks the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, compliance, federated clouds, google apps, iaas, India, Indian government, Instacompute, Instaoffice, orangescape, regulations, saas, tata communications, zoho | 1 Response

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth... in Search of Revenue.

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.

By Zoli Erdos on September 29, 2010

I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity boosters, first of all: Threaded conversations Labels Search Google did to email what all new product teams should: throw away […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Conversation threading, email, folders, gmail, google, labels, Microsoft Outlook, productivity, search, zoho | 3 Responses

CloudAve is on WordPress Now

CloudAve is on WordPress Now

By Zoli Erdos on September 5, 2010

We’ve moved.  No, we’re still moving. You can see the evidence all over, we’re still in the middle of a platform move, combined with a facelift, most of which is yet to come.  You may have read about our crowdsourced logo-redesign effort, which is still ongoing, but has not produced the WOW-effect I expected (feel […]

Posted in Featured Posts, General | Tagged blog platforms, blogging, cloudave, full-service blog host, pressharbor, wordpress, zoho | 1 Response

Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?

Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 12, 2010

Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature. Today’s workplace has exploded beyond the office walls and into coffee shops, […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged box.net, cloud computing, Enterprise, google, google gears, offline access, saas, zoho | 2 Responses

Atlassian: Fully Funded. By Customer Revenue. Oh, and the $60M T-shirt

Atlassian: Fully Funded. By Customer Revenue. Oh, and the $60M T-shirt

By Zoli Erdos on July 14, 2010

It was 2006, the first Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and I just met Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian. I had followed the company for a while (OK, I admit, had been a fan), met Mike, but this was the first time with Jeffrey, so we took our box lunch to a cozy little […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged accel partners, atlassian, bootstrapping, confluence, Entrepreneurship, esop, ipo, jira, social software, startups, vc funding, venture capital, venture funding, zoho

Know When Your Server Will Fail Before it Actually Happens

Know When Your Server Will Fail Before it Actually Happens

By Zoli Erdos on June 28, 2010

When your server goes down, it’s bad enough –even worse if you have to keep on trying to reach support in vain, then if you finally get through, you’ll have to convince them there’s trouble.  If you have such a host, run! (and I can even tell you where to).  So whenever I ran into […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged predictive monitoring, server failure, servers, web hosting, zoho | 2 Responses

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