ZOHO
Transcript: ZOHO Made by: Tolentino, Edrianne John S. Zoho Corporation - is a Pleasonton, California-based information technology and business management software as a service (SaaS) developer.[2] The company was founded by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas in 1996, and has development offices in India. Zoho Corporation History -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. History Sridhar Vembu -Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corp. (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. Sridhar Vembu Location -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.[1] In addition, the company has research and development centres in Singapore, Beijing, China and Tenkasi. Location Products Network Management Framework IT Management Products Zoho Office Suite Products Network Management Framework -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. Network Management Framework IT Management Products Until 2003, the company's business focused only on large and enterprise class customers. During the slowdown[clarification needed] 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 [5] 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. IT Management Products Zoho Office Suite -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.[6] The Zoho Suite products have both a free edition and paid editions. Zoho Office Suite Operations The company launched and grew without outside funding, a term known as bootstrapping, and is held privately. It does not disclose its revenue publicly, but as of 2012 it was believed to be a quarter of Salesforce. The company has various Zoho Corporation Partner programs across the world. Operations