Web Based Applications

Web based Applications

Today I chose to explore Zoho Writer. One feature that I really appreciated was the fact that users could log in using either their Yahoo account or their Google account. However, I think that I would like it better if I could explore it without logging in. Zoho really seems like a combination between Microsoft Office and social networking sites. Really, I wonder if Zoho is paying Microsoft royalties because their products really are pretty much Microsoft Office products that allow users to save and share online. It seems like Zoho is an open source application because you can alter some features if you would like. I read on their site that they are also willing to build applications if that is what a company needs.

I played around in Zoho Writer and Zoho DB and Reports. I liked the database pre-made reports populated with sample data. Exploring those reports gave me a little idea of what project management is all about. I never knew that supervisors assigned their employees work then compared the estimated days of completion against the actual days of completion.

So all-and-all it was pretty interesting. I think that maybe I would use it someday to do collaborative work. I still think that I would save my work to another source just to be sure that it is secure. I did not like the way that every time you opened up another application another window was opened. Also it was not as fast as Microsoft Office when you tried to open other applications or try out other features. But it was a good product for being free.