In 2011 Salesforce.com took over the project management solution from Manymoon for an estimated US$25-US$35 million, and proceeded to rename it Do.com.

Last week however, just 2 years later, they announced that Do.com will soon be discontinued.

Rather than buying up new startup businesses and trying to integrate them into a core product, Zoho prefer to build their apps in house, by taking on board their customer comments and designing software that integrates seamlessly.

Since 2011 Zoho Projects online project management software has been growing and growing and is now packed full of feastures as well as getting the mobile app aas a standard free addition to all subscribers, allowing you to effectively manage projects from your mobile device.

You can manage pretty much any project with Zoho Projects, from a software design project, to a construction project to simply moving house, with Zoho Projects you can manage it from conception to completion.

Zoho Projects also helps your team work and collaborate with each other more effectively.  And, with the mobile app, they can do this anywhere at any time.

And for the Do.com users who will soon need to look for an alternative solution, the Zoho Projects team have also come up with a new feature designed just for Do.com users - Do.com users can effortlessly migrate to Zoho Projects including importing tasks, tasks lists, notes and other items they had already created in Do.com.

Do.com users can also enjoy more features in Zoho Projects, such as time tracking & billing, Gantt charts and resource utilization, advanced analytics and more.

Furthermore Zoho Projects integrates with the Zoho Office suite, works with Google Apps and allows you to obtain files from Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive and even Microsoft SkyDrive into your project.

For more information on how you can migrate from Do.com to Zoho Projects for FREE please contact us here or drop us a note to info at mangoho dot com.

Zoho Projects -1.1 Million Users - 780,000 Projects - 12 Million Tasks - 1.48 Million Milestones!

I have a lot of mates who are self employed guys involved in physical types of work that often involve travel to various places around the country to scope and carry out the work. From tree surgery, to auto retrofitting, to contract labouring, plumbing, electrical, painting, onsite building work. You name it, there are no limits.

Those of you reading this and indeed the people working in these industries themselves might think there is no place for cloud software solutions in those sort of rugged, outdoor types of jobs. "I don't need that mate... just get in and do the job innit?"!

Well yes... and no... You can do the business side of things more efficiently by using technology to automate some of the more laboriious processes, saving time with matters like quoting and invoicing and the dreaded accounting.

By using our cloud apps specifically designed for mobile use, people in these types of jobs can go on site and do the following right from their mobile device:

• Create and send professional looking quotes with your business name and logo, to the client, onsite
• Create and send invoices to the client for payment
• Get paid online
• Log payments in cash/cheque
• Log onsite expenses
  

You can also of course send emails to team mates and even sketches of work that needs to be done, for example, if you send out workers to assess a job, they can easily sketch it and send back the details to be checked:

This can all be done with Zoho Invoice, which is online invoice management software designed to automate the whole process of quoting, invoicing and getting paid, making it easier for your customers to pay, and ultimately speeding up the payment and accounting processes.

The basic concept is: by doing the quote or invoice in the field, using your mobile device, the data is automatically updated there and then and you do not need to do any number crunching back at home. Customer accounts are updated. Income is logged. Reports can be run on monthly revenue. Job done.

Zoho Invoice works on a basic license platform based on numbers of clients.

It has a free version if you are just starting off, that allows up to 5 customers and 1 admin user.

The Standard version is designed for people who have a small but growing customer base of up to 500 customers and a small team of of up to 3 people working for them, who alsoneed to create quotes/invoices for work done and is priced at about 10 GBPGBP per month.

The Professional license allows unlimited customers and unlimited users and is priced at 20 GBP per month and is more suited to larger businesses.

There are discounts for 12 month purchases and the mobile app for all users in your business, all licenses is FREE.

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If you are interested in using cloud technology and want to take your business to the next level, contact us here.

Zoho have just released a new "blog summary" feature in Zoho Sites, the online website CMS (content management system) and cloud hosting solution.

From what we see you are now able to set whether you want to have the blog summary on or off in Blog Settings section.

You can set how many summary posts to display per page using the 'Post per page' function.

A common request for Zoho Sites has been the ability to add SEO settings for individual blog posts but at this stage it looks like there is no function to do this but we will keep you informed, hopefully Zoho will continue to develop this module of their website content management solution.

Mobile devices are being used more and more. We do everything on them. Receiving email is just one of the daily tasks we all do and take for granted.

Zoho Campaigns, the powerful and affordable online email marketing solution from Zoho now includes mobile friendly email templates as standard.  But what does “responsive” mean?

This means that the email, how it is formatted on the screen, the sizing of the images and placement of the content of the email, looks great on any device including tablets, smartphones and of course desktops and laptops.

The advantages with this of course are that your open rates will be much higher as people can access your emails on the go, from their mobile devices, instead of the email waiting for them in their inbox slowly getting swamped by other emails.

Why not give Zoho Campaigns a try? It is free for up to 500 subscribers and good for up to 2,500 emails a month.  The paid versions are extremely competitively priced and provide integration to social media (so your campaigns are published there too, further increasing exposure) and basically provide a very solid platform on which to carry out effective email marketing campaigns.

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For more information on Zoho Campaigns email marketing software and on our email marketing services for business in Wales and UK please contact us here.

Zoho People, the affordable and easy to use online HR solution from Zoho now allows users to save draft data when adding records in forms.

What use is this I hear you say? 

Well, in all of our implementations of Zoho People one of the first things the users ask is "Can I save this and come back to it later?"  This is especially the case on the longer forms such as adding monthly expenses, where they may have a stack of receipts to get through. Or, it can take a number of sessions to complete an employee record as you might not know all the details.

So, from now, yes you can!

Zoho People has extensive employee management features and is a perfect online HR management solution for small businesses wishing to expand and manage their human resources. 

For more information on Zoho People online HRIS solution and out Zoho consulting services for companies in Wales and the UK please contact us here.

Zoho Reports is a powerful online business Intelligence (BI) reporting solution that allows managers of businesses visibility into their business data and create intuitive  reports, charts and management dashboards so they can make better business decisions from more accurate data.

Zoho Reports allows you to create and share very impressive reports without and hardware, software or IT assistance.

Zoho have created this "How to Get Started with Zoho Reports" video guide and we are happy to share it with you!

Zoho Reports Implementation Services

We have extensive experience setting up Zoho Reports for small and large companies in Asia and Europe. Please contact us for more details of out Zoho consulting services to see how Zoho Reports can be used in your business.

Zoho Sites is an online (cloud) based CMS, or Content Management System for websites. Zoho's latest online business tool is possibly the easiest CMS we have come across and maybe the easiest on the market!

It comes with a selection of approximately 20+ templates and we're told this will be grown in the future. It has an easy to read interface and intuitive drag and drop functions. Zoho Sites allows you to create an attractive personal or business related websites in literally minutes.

We thoroughly recommend this tool for individuals or businesses looking to create simple, affordable websites that look good and perform well and that are easy to maintain.

The average small-medium business needs to factor in costs of course, so the best part is that Zoho Sites is just 39USD per year.  Yes, host your website for about 20 quid a year!

Zoho have released a couple of videos showing how to use Zoho Sites, check this one out below to see just how easy it is!

Please contact us for further details or to have your website up and running in a few days.