So far, Google Doc is the only web office suite that I’ve used. I don’t like the idea of signing in to different websites. I prefer all in one suite such as Windows Live but with greater web experience.

Zoho is not a new name and is among the pioneers in office suite, and in fact the first that allows editing offline by utilizing Google Gear, even before Google doc used it on its Google Doc.

Zoho allows signing in using Google ID, and that is the reason why I really want to use it. And it offers more than what Google Doc has.

Borrowing Zoho’s sentence, Zoho is a collection of collaboration & productivity tools for personal and business purposes, applicable for everybody’s usage. Screen shot below is a part of what Zoho offers.

1. Sign Up – Accept your Google or Yahoo ID. By default, this is your main menu. You’re allocated @zoho email account.

There are 2 versions available :

a. Zoho Personal (personal free edition, consisting of 10 free applications) – Is the default menu, where you access your personal applications.

• Calendar
• Documents – It is like my document
• Desktop
• Writer – doc
• Sheet – excel
• Show – power point
• Wiki – Creating you own wiki
• Tasks
• Notes – It is not, but not too sure what it is, it is like what we want to be reminded of
• Links – Bookmark tool
• Contacts

b. Zoho Creator (business pack) – Consists of applications for business. There are bunches of applications for selection.

On the free account, you can install up to 10 applications which give you full functionality, but with limited number of projects. Go for paid version for unlimited applications and projects.

3. Zoho Marketplace – Part of business suites. Here you can browse other business apps, what’s popular and what’s recent applications. Apart from that, if you need a new solution not in the marketplace, you can submit the request and Zoho team will help find the solution.

4. Zoho Plugin – Plugin for web browser, iPhone, Outlook, windows mobile and etc.

5. Zoho Utilities -Besides the applications and plugins mentioned above, there are also utilities which require separate registration.

• Site 24×7 – Website monitoring tool. There is a free version.
• Zoho Polls – To create polls.
• Zoho Viewer – Sharing documents with your friends. Upload many types of files and share it with others with an option of setting the expiry date.
• Zoho Challenge – Online testing tool.

My cent: Foooh!! I can’t go through each applications in detail, too much!! I’ll use Zoho Personal and few applications from Zoho Creator such as project management and customer support.