COVID-19, or the Corona Virus, is having a significant effect on how we interact. The consequences of this virus are not yet entirely known, but one thing we do know is that the rate of infection has taken everybody by surprise. Whilst a wide-spread panic is not going to help anyone, some precaution...

Zoho One was released in 2017, and at the time it was a revolutionary way to deliver business applications to any size business: an "all you can eat buffet" of software applications you need to run your business, for the admission price of AUD 50 per employee per month (USD 35, EUR 35) - i...

What is the most important thing to focus on when selecting a business application? Hands down, it is outcome. Yet we seem to be conditioned to focus on features. Features don't deliver anything, unless you use them - and used features may not lead to the outcome you need. Why are we focused on feat...

The office has gone through some interesting evolution over the last century - from a classroom style where the "manager" sits in the front, and rows of employees with typewriters in front of them hitting the right levers on these noisy machines - to the Beanbag, Pool and Foosball table fi...

Cloud and Mobile - they go hand in glove. But how mobile-friendly is your business process, and is the suite of applications supporting this? What is mobile anyway? Does this mean running everything on a mobile phone? And should you jump in, just because "it's there"? What are the consider...

Windows 7 is my favourite version of Windows released by Microsoft. And it is still supported - but that ends on January 14 2020. What are the options? What are the implications, and do you need to buy a new PC to run Windows 10? Chances are - yes, you do need to upgrade if your current computer has...

If you run a business, you have email. What's left to innovate with email? This same question was posed in 2004, when Google launched GMail. The innovation Google brought to the table was: "don't browse but search your inbox". This was a massive innovation - it changed the way we handled o...

A "purpose driven business", fashionable, but what is it exactly? And what purpose is driven by the business? Most importantly - does it matter?

The answer to the last question is YES! It matters - but not in the way you would expect. In this article, we break down the purpose, and what dr...

Implementing new business software is hard. Way harder than it should be - and usually we are the cause of the complexity. We tend to understand what we do in the business, but we do not fully understand why we do it, leading for overestimating the complexity of the process. There are three simple r...

A first look at Zoho Books Budgeting function. Note that the initial minor bug at release as mentioned in the video had been resolved at the second day of release. All Zoho Books users, with or without Zoho Inventory integration, will have the budget menu available.

On 19 and 20 September 2019, the Zoho team visited Sydney with the Zoholics customer conference. Every year, this conference gets bigger, and better. With this year a number of BIG announcements from the Zoho team with regards to the already excellent value offer of Zoho One. In this post we will br...

In any startup scenario, there are two things you will never have enough of: time and cash -  the latter at least until a successful funding round. A great practice for any startup is to practice being lean - it teaches you to be frugal with these two scarce commodities of time and money, so th...

If you ever played a computer game, you know that great games start easy, and incrementally introduce new complexities. As Nolan K. Bushnell coined the phrase to describe the best games: "easy to learn, difficult to master". So what does this have to do with business applications? Surely, ...

We spend a lot of money making our websites look great. All the latest design trends, the right imagery, the coolest animations and other effects. We spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on this. After all - it is the digital business card of your company, right? Wrong! Or to phrase ...

When you offer IT support to multiple clients, or in a complex environment, you want to be able to do this in the most effective and efficient manner. No time wasted on finding the support emails - everything should be at the fingertips. Further, there are a myriad of server, client, and device oper...

I have been in the business of implementing business solution for over 25 years. During this time, I have been amazed at two things: 1). the incredible speed of innovation in this sector, and 2). the incredible inertia of silly requirements that keep us from utilising these innovations. No - this is...

When you change your business model from advisory to full software sales, implementation and support partner, it is not a trivial change. Added to that, a full technology change from Microsoft to Zoho, it is an opportunity that does not come without risk. The numbers are in, and it is looking very p...