Zoho Office Suite
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| Founded | 1996, Pleasanton, California, United States |
| Founder | Sridhar Vembu |
| Headquarters | Chennai |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Sridhar Vembu CEO |
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Number of employees
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5000+ |
| Website | www |
Zoho Corporation is a technology company based in California with development offices in India which provides SAAS services. The company was founded by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas in 1996.
From 1996 to 2009, the company was known as AdventNet Inc. In 2009, the company was renamed Zoho Corporation after its online office suite of the same name.
The company is headquartered at its largest campus in Estancia IT Park in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Formerly, it filed headquarters in Pleasanton, California, United States. The company also has offices in Singapore, Japan, China, and other cities in India, namely New Delhi and Tenkasi. The bulk of its sales and support operations are carried out from its office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and the Philippines. In addition, the company has research and development centres in Singapore, Beijing, China and Tenkasi.
Zoho Corporation started as a network management framework provider for telecommunications and network equipment vendors. Initially the company developed other software such as an SNMP API stack, an element management system (EMS). The NMS framework is marketed as WebNMS which competes with similar NMS products from HP, CA and few other enterprises.
Until 2003, the company's business focused only on large and enterprise class customers. During the slowdown in 2003, and as a plan to bring in more revenue, the company ventured into SMB market by offering commercial IT management products which were either stripped down versions of their WebNMS framework, or built on top of WebNMS codebase. The company marketed their IT management products under the ManageEngine branding. Their first product released under the ManageEngine brand was a network monitoring software called OpManager 4.0 which competed with WhatsUp Gold and other monitoring products. Following OpManager 4.0's success, a host of other related products were developed and marketed targeting various segments of IT management. The ManageEngine became a commercially successful brand in the following years.
In 2005, the company launched Zoho Office Suite, which includes a web-based word processor, a spreadsheet program, a mail program, a calendar, contacts list, and other business-oriented programs. The Zoho Suite products have both a free edition and paid editions.
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