Zoho.com began as a BETA offering open source collaborative applications and web 2.0 tool features. As with most online application software entrepreneurs they have now taken their site to the commercial side of the web. It still offers free accounts but has now set up two subscription accounts for professionals and enterprises.
Some of the applications available are: a document creator, a notebook, a wiki, a planner, chat, a dashboard for documents, email, a project management software, an on-demand CRM, invoice, a web conferencing tool, an application creator with script builder, an online database & reporting tool and Zoho show. The themes, colors and designs of the Zoho presentations are more modern and colorful than Google.
One tool I prefer is the Zoho Show. It is a PowerPoint show but with extra features that Google documents doesn't have like: cool themes, the ability to browse Flicker & Picasa for images and a sidebar to add clip art, shapes and symbols.
Like other web 2.0 sites Zoho offers the ability to post and embed the media you create with Zoho applications. You can publish your creations and embed them in other websites, blogs or social networking sites such a Facebook.
Zoho surpasses Google documents in offering more features for business use. With it you can create live forms for databases, a desirable feature for online business entrepreneurs. The forms include 50 templates many relating to business as would be expected. Other forms included are: polling, fundraising proposals and IT resumes.
