Launched in 1996 as AdventNet, the company later reinvented itself to become Zoho Corporation in 2005. It has three divisions — Zoho, ManageEngine and WebNMS. Privately held and profitable, Zoho has a development centre in Chennai, which is its resource hub, with over 2,700 employees. Zoho has a sales headquarters is in Pleasanton, San Francisco,[…]
In place of the Venture Capital fueled growth strategies of rivals in the small business market, Zoho takes an engineering-led approach to building a Cloud business. Zoho has adopted a unique approach to the high-volume small business market, avoiding what Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, describes as an investment bubble. Instead, it has taken a bootstrap[…]
It’s time Indian firms stepped out and sold across the world says Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho in this interview with The Hindu Business Line. When you think of an innovative software product company, Chennai-based Zoho comes on top of your mind among. It mainly competes with Salesforce in the customer relationship management space[…]
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu fears rivals like Salesforce are in a venture capital-fueled cloud bubble that spends on marketing instead of product development. “What has happened is Salesforce has become the Siebel or SAP in that market. In my opinion, they invested more in the whole sales and marketing side than in the product. Most[…]
Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho talks freely to Times of India about the possibility of the bubble bursting with tech start ups and criticises fat cat salaries. “Venture capital is funding a lot of losses, and that is the movie that has been seen several times before, it always ends badly . If you[…]
We are delighted to announce that Zoho are coming to Bristol, and supporting FlexableIT on their stand at the Business Showcase South West. On show will be Zoho CRM Plus, a comprehensive suite of 8 products covering all the business apps that your business needs to be more customer centric. Zoho CRM Plus consists[…]
India is big. India is diverse. India is clustered. I see this clustering happening in the software product industry, too. Something significant has happened in the last five years in Chennai. A large number of B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) product companies have emerged successfully in gaining solid customer momentum and investor confidence by[…]
Did you know that Zoho decade ago as a corporate social responsibility experiment, Zoho created Zoho University? Zoho University is now among the largest contributors of workforce to the 2,600-strong Chennai-based IT company Zoho Corporation. Nearly 15%, or about 300 of Zoho’s employees are graduates of Zoho University which has no exams, deadlines or assignments. Read more[…]
Thursday 19th of March, Zoho have announced changes to Zoho Privacy Policy and Zoho Terms of Service. These will take effect on the 19th of April 2015. If you wish to continue using Zoho’s products after the 19th of April, you will be governed by the new Zoho Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.[…]
Zoho Corporation currently employees 2,800 – the majority of whom are based in Chennai, India. Over the next fiscal year, according to Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho Corporation the headcount will increase to over 3,000. At the same time Zoho Corporation will be moving employees to a fully owned campus. Two years ago, Zoho Corporation purchased[…]