by Aner Ravon
New school year approaches and the Collaboration 2.0 players take it to the next level.
Google has announced Google Apps -THE collaborative suite of Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Page Creator with Writely and Spreadsheets underway (read reviews by Techcrunch and ZDnet).
In the meantime, Zoho has launched it’s latest addition to their excellent online office suite. This time is Zoho Projects - online project management which racks up next to Zoho Writer, Spreadsheets and Presentation tools.
And let us not forget 37Signals, the coolest dudes in town, and their unique SME offering for collaboration.
These folks take hungry and angry stabs at Microsoft and they seem to be stepping up their gamel. It is early to tell how much Microsoft will bleed exactly, but let us all consider one significant factor here. Office apps, online, do not only eliminate cost but offer an optional revenue option with advertising. If you’re OK with adsense, targeted at your content and business, in exchange for zero cost - how can this be a bad proposition?
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I agree with you that these services offer a viable alternative for very small businesses.
But for larger companies, assuming the required features are there (and they seem to be, given your reviews), non-product issues would be SLA/uptime and security/privacy.
If I’m a small broker/dealer and I use any of these products, am I still following regulatory guidelines?
(I’m not saying these are the specific questions that need to be addressed, but rather that those companies should look beyond “hip” products and adopt an “Enterprise” mind set, taking into considerations who the Buyer is).
I’m not at all saying the MSFT is doing a good job on these issues, but we keep ignoring the fact that GOOG services are all “beta”, “as is”, are frequently down (”There was an error accessing your gmail account”) etc.
For occasional use that’s ok, but should a company of say 25 employees switch over to GOOG services just because they are free? There is a learning curve involved, user habits that will need to change and other considerations (have I mentioned security and privacy?).
IMHO, the service that will look beyond features, and will cater to enterprise needs (which extend will beyond product features), will get the business.
Oren
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Thanks for taking note of the Zoho Projects launch, Aner!
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