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Zoho on sustainable footing says Sridhar Vembu
Launched in 1996 as AdventNet, the company later reinvented itself to become Zoho Corporation in 2005. It has three divisions — Zoho, ManageEngine and WebNMS. Privately held and profitable, Zoho has a development centre in Chennai, which is its resource hub, with over 2,700 employees. Zoho has a sales headquarters is in Pleasanton, San Francisco,[…]
Six keys to building a cloud business, Zoho style
In place of the Venture Capital fueled growth strategies of rivals in the small business market, Zoho takes an engineering-led approach to building a Cloud business. Zoho has adopted a unique approach to the high-volume small business market, avoiding what Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, describes as an investment bubble. Instead, it has taken a bootstrap[…]
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu interviewed by The Hindu Business Line
It’s time Indian firms stepped out and sold across the world says Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho in this interview with The Hindu Business Line. When you think of an innovative software product company, Chennai-based Zoho comes on top of your mind among. It mainly competes with Salesforce in the customer relationship management space[…]
How secure is your data?
A question we get asked on a regular data is how secure is my data in the Cloud? There are some simple steps that you can take to improve your security. Your Suppliers Security Credentials Does your Supplier have a Security policy? What is it? Are they externally audited? These are some of the[…]
Zoho CEO: Cloud’s in a bubble, Salesforce is the new Siebel
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu fears rivals like Salesforce are in a venture capital-fueled cloud bubble that spends on marketing instead of product development. “What has happened is Salesforce has become the Siebel or SAP in that market. In my opinion, they invested more in the whole sales and marketing side than in the product. Most[…]
Zoho Creator workshop in London sold out success
The first full day UK Zoho Creator workshop on the 11th of May 2015 was a sold out success. The theme for the day was to build an App for a Wine Store – Manage inventory, Place Orders, Automatically Invoice the customer, etc. The day was structured into 17 manageable sections, each part becoming[…]
Bubble burst is coming soon, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu says
Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho talks freely to Times of India about the possibility of the bubble bursting with tech start ups and criticises fat cat salaries. “Venture capital is funding a lot of losses, and that is the movie that has been seen several times before, it always ends badly . If you[…]
From Hot Box to Zoho CRM – Lead management
We couldn’t resist taking this picture this week as it demonstrates how some customers manage probably the most important contribution to their business – Leads. Leads can be defined as an expression of interest in your business, they are what drives new business and they grow the business. This particular customer had a simple[…]
Improving lead conversion with Zoho CRM
Customer Challenge The Zoho CRM customer that FlexableIT was working with was a B2C customer in the financial services market. They effectively have a two step sales process: Outbound dialling to identify potential customers for the product. Once identified documentation is sent to the customer for signature. This effectively was the first sale. The second[…]