Thursday, September 1, 2011

SaaS - Part2

Looking at the 3 sites again. I think Microsoft 365 would be an option in a large corporate-type setting, where there would be email integration, conferencing options, different levels of permissions, etc. This might be a more cost effective option for large business who may not want to pay an open license for Microsoft products. For the average user, whether a single user or smaller group or small business, I would not recommend Microsoft 365. It costs money, the setup, management and implementation of is not easy for the average user.

Zoho and Google docs on the other hand are free, require only a username and password and are very easy to use.

Zoho could be a bit overwhelming for some. There is a lot of color and lots of options, almost too many. There is a Zoho writer and Zoho docs, they seem to be the same thing. The docs are a list of the documents you have and the writer is the actual word processing application. There is a Zoho planner and a Zoho Calendar, a planner can incorporate a to do list, calendar and some other features but a calendar is just a calendar. I think some of these things could be integrated a bit better.

The presentation software in Zoho does however have more templates and color options than Google Docs.

I like Google docs, it is very easy to use and very easy to share. I also really like Google Forms. I didn't see a comparable application with the other two. I would highly recommend Google Docs to anyone.

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