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From Big G to Little Z: Google Apps vs Zoho Office Suite

May 26, 2008

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On Friday, I discussed Zoho CRM Enterprise vs. Salesforce and Google Apps.

Now I want to take a closer look at their office and collaboration suite.

Google Apps vs Zoho Office Suite

I won’t attempt to rehash the wheel, as Lifehacker.com did a great side by side analysis of these two David and Goliaths.

Google Apps standard is free, which is fine for most users and small businesses as long as you don’t mind seeing Google Adsense ads in your Gmail.

Zoho is free for the first 3 users.

For business users, Google offers a Google Apps suite, priced at $50 per user per year. This is equivalent to Zoho Business, priced at $40 per user per year.

Below is a table from LifeHacker.com. Note that Google Shared Calendar is not listed below as it is part of Gmail. In my opinion, the shared calendar is what kept the majority of email users onto Microsoft Exchange.

APPLICATIONS Google Zoho
Word Processor Google Docs Zoho Writer
Spreadsheet Google Spreadsheet Zoho Sheet
Slideshows Google Presentation Zoho Show
Web Clippings Google Notebook Zoho Notebook
Email Gmail Zoho Mail
Chat Google Talk Zoho Chat
Wiki (Google acquired JotSpot) Zoho Wiki
Database Application Zoho Creator
Online Database Zoho DB
Project Management Zoho Projects
Web Conferencing (Google acquired Marratech) Zoho Meeting
Customer Relationship Manager Zoho CRM
Personal Organizer Zoho Planner
Web site hosting Google Page Creator
Feed Reader Google Reader
Personalized Homepage iGoogle (Zoho Start Page only for Zoho Apps)

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Written by Jimson Lee · Filed Under CRM Planning & Implemenation, CRM Systems, Enterprise On-Demand, Enterprise Resource Planning, Research & Case Studies 

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One Response to “From Big G to Little Z: Google Apps vs Zoho Office Suite”

  1. John Irving on May 26th, 2008 10:00 pm

    I wonder where you put Google Sites. Many people think that it’s a project management tool. I disagree. Google Sites is not Google Projects. It’s like a web-space for a team, but not for collaboration or project management. Zoho Projects are meant for project management, but they still suck in this. Though some of their other apps are pretty good. I personally think that Google will buy another start-up.

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