Zoho Wins "Best Enterprise Start-up" at The 2007 Crunchies
Award Acknowledges Company's Comprehensive Online Suite of 14 Business Apps
PLEASANTON, Calif. - January 22, 2008 - Zoho today announced it won the award for "Best Enterprise Start-up" at the inaugural 2007 Crunchies Awards. A collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, The Crunchies recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year as determined by the Internet community.
"The Crunchies reflect the wisdom of the crowd," said
Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist.
"Having the community at large judge Zoho the best enterprise start-up validates our decision to deliver a broad online application suite that is quickly evolving to reach parity – on feature-by-feature basis – with desktop alternatives."
The "Best Enterprise Start-up" category is for a start-up focused on enterprise or business-to-business applications and services. With over 82,000 nominations across 20 awards categories, Zoho won its category over finalists 37Signals, Attributor, EditGrid, and Ribbit.
In its write-up of the Zoho win, Duncan Riley of TechCrunch notes, "Zoho's comprehensive online suite of 14 business applications ranging from document editing to CRM continues to lead the way in the move away from desktop computing to working in the cloud."
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About Zoho and AdventNet
Zoho is creating the most comprehensive suite of affordable, online collaborative productivity applications and business applications for today's knowledge workers. To date, Zoho has launched 16 different applications and more are in the works. Zoho has received numerous awards including a 2008 PC WORLD 25 Most Innovative Products Award for Zoho Notebook and "Best Enterprise Start-up" at The 2007 Crunchies. Nearly 200 developers work on the Zoho suite. For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com and blogs.zoho.com.
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