In the last article we focused on two online word processors; AjaxWrite and ThinkFree. Here comes the rest.

ZOHO Writer – A free productivity suit for individuals and subscription based for organizations. In the ZOHO productivity suit you will find Zoho Writer for word processing, Zoho Sheets for spreadsheets, Zoho Show for presentations, Zoho Creator for database applications, Zoho Wiki for writing and editing article for Wikipedia, Zoho Notebook for note taking, Zoho Mail for collaborative activities, Zoho Business for business solutions, Zoho Projects for project management and scheduling, Zoho CRM for CRM solutions, Zoho Meeting for web conferencing, Zoho DB & Reporting for databases and reports, Zoho People for human resource and recruitment management, Zoho Chat for instant messaging, Zoho Start for a summary of your documents (a dashboard), Zoho 24×7 for monitoring websites, Zoho Polls for online polls, Zoho Viewer for viewing documents online and Zoho Challenge for conducting online tests for recruitment candidates.

Yes, it was a quite a long list. But I find these tools as a complete package of solutions for an organization. Zoho Writer consists of rich functionalities and it has a different look and feel from MS Office. It also has a left navigation panel for managing document while they are been written / edited.

Google Docs – This suit of online productivity software offers the facility for creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It offers real time collaboration, search tool for searching for documents and mobile access through your smart phone or PDA. Unlike many of other online productivity suits, Google Docs offer versioning of the documents and you can compare different versions of the document for the difference. If you are creating a document collaboratively, the changes made by the other parties would appear immediately. Google Docs support all popular office file types. Additionally, you can edit the HTML code. Although there are limits for the file sizes such as document size and picture sizes they usually don’t bother users. Talking about another plus point; being available in different languages make Google Docs popular worldwide.