Foundation Zoho: Work and Create Online

  • 5h 55m
  • Ali Shabdar
  • Apress - ex-Peer Information
  • 2009

With over 1.3 million users and growing every week, Zoho.com is a popular online suite of productivity applications that include email, word processor, spreadsheet, accounting, collaboration, social networking and other creative tools. It's basically like having an online version of Microsoft Office, and Google Apps. And do you know what's great about Zoho?

It's cost efficient and free depending on the services you choose; it's hosted on their servers; little or no tech support will ever be needed; runs nicely on thin clients like netbooks or smartphones like iPhone. Also, according to CIO magazine: "[Zoho have] got more applications than Google… The apps they have are richer"

Foundation Zoho gets you started with the vibrant Zoho.com and shows you how to use it for day-to-day tasks as well as have fun with it. This book also shows you how to use Zoho with iPhone or even with Microsoft Office, if you still wish to use it.

What you'll learn

  • How to use Zoho.com as an at home and work office and productivity tool. Work but have fun as well.
  • What Cloud Computing is and how it is important and is used in practice.
  • Adopt Zoho.com as your daily business and at home
  • Do it yourself (DIY) solutions, that requires little or no technical knowledge nor is support required.
  • See how Zoho can play a key role in the future of business applications, to increase productivity and collaboration, while at the same time minimizing and all but eliminating costs and overhead.
  • How to use all of the major Zoho applications; and how to incorporate them into daily activities.
  • How to increase productivity and collaboration in business using these applications.
  • How to be more productive in using Zoho itself, by learning shortcuts, tips, and miscellaneous tools and plugins.
  • Extending Zoho.com to your iPhone or Microsoft Office and much more…

About the Author

Ali Shabdar is an independent Cloud consultant to several SMBs and entrepreneurs. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry from programming and system analysis to implementing Web 2.0 technologies.

He guest-blogs occasionally for different websites and is currently working for Plus Holding as New Media Manager in Dubai.

In this Book

  • Getting Up and Running with Zoho
  • Processing Your Words
  • Of Numbers and Sheets
  • Present Yourself
  • All in One Box
  • Live in the Cloud
  • Publish in the Cloud
  • Zoho Utility Applications
  • The Plaza
  • Manage Your Business
  • Manage Your People
  • Manage Your Invoices
  • Manage Your Projects
  • Take Control of Your Meetings
  • Data Is Everything
SHOW MORE
FREE ACCESS