Musical Inspiration for Application Development

A darkened room, classical music
and buckets of tea please...

I do a lot of application development on the Zoho Creator platform. I've created a few simple applications that collect data from users in the manner of a feedback form.

The majority however are much more complex. At the moment I am working on two projects that integrate data across two platforms and contain a strong reporting element requiring integration with Zoho's Business Intelligence platform Zoho Reports

Featured Zoho Partner

As a Zoho partner for over 2 years I've created numerous applications for my clients using the web development platform of Zoho Creator. Apps for all sorts of uses, some simple, yet unique for my clients and some more generic, yet far more complex. Credible Systems uses a handful of these to help us run the business too. We eat our own dog food so to speak.

Recent advances in Zoho integration have allowed a new dynamic to these apps though. The integration between ZohoCRM and Zoho Creator allows us to easily build apps that expose and use CRM data. YOUR customers, YOUR contacts, YOUR opportunities.

This work recently culminated in a Zoho Case study. More details here: http://bit.ly/n6ziWu

Integration V's features

The comparison between on premises software (traditional) and cloud computing (emerging/maturing) are made on a variety of levels, with a primary element being cost.

The ROI of any technology is always far more than the price on the box. One needs to factor in the costs of administration, servicing, security, backup, training, availability, customisation and heck, the list is loooong.

Just hold that list in mind a moment and digest a comment made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference...

For every $1 Microsoft makes on its software, partners make $8.70 in additional revenue servicing and customizing these products

Raju Vegesna at Zoho summed this up very succinctly.

"If integration costs more than software it is a bug, not a feature."

With close to 30 products offered Zoho obviously understands the value of integration. Early products were developed and the effort seemed to be on digging deeper and deeper to make very full featured standalone products.

Zoho Creator - in House?

Zoho Creator is a Platform as a Service. (PasS) It allows people like me and you to create forms driven database applications with relative ease and access them via a browser.

Even better, sprinkle lightly with Zoho's Deluge script and the addition of logic and workflow transforms the app from data collection to a workflow driven tool that can solve many unique business problems.

Until now this has only been available via a subscription from Zoho. Many people, myself included have asked for either a Zoho device or a version of Zoho that will run behind a company firewall.

Well according to a post by the Zoho Creator team on Facebook today that might be happening.