Zoho Office Suite is an Indian

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, presentations,

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s, note-taking,

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s, web conferencing,

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(CRM),

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, invoicing and other applications. It is developed by

Zoho Corporation Zoho Corporation is an Indian multinational technology company that makes computer software and web-based business tools. It is best known for the online office suite offering Zoho Office Suite. The company was founded in 1996 by Sridhar Ve ...

History

Zoho Office Suite was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products such as spreadsheets and presentations, were incorporated later into Zoho. Zoho applications are distributed as

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). Zoho uses an open

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for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. It also has plugins into

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and

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plugin, and a plugin for

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. Zoho Sites is an online, drag and drop

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. It provides web hosting, unlimited storage,

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and web pages. Features also include an array of website templates and mobile websites. Zoho CRM is a

application with features like procurement, inventory, and some accounting functions from the realm of ERP. The free version is limited to 10 users. In October 2009, Zoho integrated some of their applications with the

Google Apps Google Workspace (formerly known as Google Apps and later G Suite) is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet ...

online suite. This enabled users to sign into both suites under one login. Zoho and

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still remain separate, competing companies. In 2020, Zoho Workplace won ''Rank 1'' in the Indian government's '

Atmanirbhar Bharat Atmanirbhar Bharat (Devanagari: ) which translates to 'self-reliant India', is a phrase the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and his government used and popularised in relation to the country's economic development plans. The phrase is an ...

App Innovation challenge' in Office category while Zoho Invoice, Books & Expense won ''Rank 1'' in business category.

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