January 29, 2007

 

Zoho, which sells Web applications, and Omnidrive, a Web storage platform vendor, have announced a technology partnership that provides users of the Omnidrive platform the ability to view, edit, share and publish office and other types of documents from directly within Omnidrive using Zoho products.

 

The announcement of the partnership comes at the same time that Zoho and Omnidrive both launch web service API’s that will allow other applications to directly integrate and operate with the two platforms.

 

Users of Omnidrive will now be able to double-click on any supported document from within the Omnidrive web interface to directly edit documents using Zoho applications.

 

Omnidrive allows a user to store all their files online, and with this partnership users are no longer required to download their documents to view or edit them. The supported Zoho applications include Zoho Write, a word processor, Zoho Sheet, an online spreadsheet and Zoho Show, a web-based presentation editor. The supported document types range from Word documents and HTML pages through to PowerPoint presentations.

The product integration, according to Zoho officials, marks “the first time that a storage provider and a provider of Web office applications have partnered to provide a full desktop-like experience on the Web.

 

The way company officials describe it is “Omnidrive’s ability to aggregate storage and to provide access from anywhere together with the first-class office applications from Zoho combine to form an environment where users can now access, collaborate and publish common files with just a Web browser.”

 

Omnidrive and Zoho officials like to say they have “beaten Google (News - Alert), Microsoft and many other larger companies to be the first to provide an end-to-end product for users.” From the ability to easily link files from the desktop with Omnidrive, through to the advanced editing capabilities of the Zoho applications, this collaborative effort marks what they consider “a big step forward for the role of the Web in enabling better access, collaboration and sharing of documents.”

 

Traditionally, Omnidrive officials say, “storing files online has served little purpose other than backup or simple access handled by a Web browser. At the same time Web applications are now able to closely emulate the desktop experience, but have never been able to easily tap into a users existing files. Omnidrive has bridged this gap by providing an active online storage solution that can read and write to desktop and Web applications, allowing users of those applications to easily tap into their existing repository of files that were previously stuck on their desktops.”

 

 

 

 

 

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