Zoho has made its popular online database available to people who are mobile by releasing Zoho Creator Mobile, according to a wire report. With the help of this solution, users can access their private and shared applications developed in Zoho Creator via their mobile phones and devices.
“Mobile devices are constant personal companions, far more ubiquitous than laptops with WiFi or cellular network connections,” Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist, was quoted as saying in the report. “A lot of applications benefit tremendously from this kind of mobile access, so we’ve made it possible for our customers to view and enter data into their applications right from their mobile.”
Users with a mobile device can download Zoho Creator Mobile at http://creator.zoho.com/mobile or http://creator.zoho.com/m. Visitors to http://creator.zoho.com through a mobile device will also be directed to the Zoho Creator Mobile page.
Zoho Creator Mobile is compatible with mobile devices that are equipped with Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, and other WAP browsers. The Zoho Creator Mobile interface is also iPhone ( News - Alert) optimized.
Zoho has received a lot of appreciation for this service. More than 500,000 customers use over 60,000 applications created in Zoho Creator.
“I think the release of the mobile version is a big step ahead not only needed in today's market but also a very valuable addition to the current software pool. Don't forget that this is what the Web is all about: application and data access, everywhere, from anywhere, from any device imaginable. Disclaimer: I like Zoho. A lot!”
S.M. Schrama, web 2.0 weblogger, was quoted as saying in the report.
“Zoho has been pretty good and quick to extend the majority of its suite’s solutions for mobile access, and now Creator isn’t the one that’s left behind. ...Zoho has generally been able to beat Google ( News - Alert) to the punch..,” Kristen Nicole, Mashable, was quoted as saying in the report.
“To really get traction for SaaS ( News - Alert) delivered office productivity, there can be no barriers to what people can do with them. Google apps is very much second best as a word and spreadsheet tool to MS office - Zoho ups the ante by creating more functionality across more application areas than Google,” Ben Kepes, diversity.net.nz, was quoted as saying in the report
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