deletion in accordance with wikipedia s deletion policy . please share your thoughts on the matter at this article s entry on the articles for deletion page . feel free to edit the article but the article must not be blanked and this notice must not be removed until the discussion is closed . for more information particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion read the guide to deletion . % 5b % 5bwikipedia % 3aarticles for deletion % 2fzoho corporation % 5d % 5dafd zoho corporation pvt. ltd. type private founded 1995 founder sridhar vembu area served worldwide key people sridhar vembu ceo number of employees 4500 1 website www.zohocorp.com zoho corporation founded in 1996 is a technology company based in california which provides saas services . 2 the company was founded by sridhar vembu and tony thomas . contents 1 history 2 locations 3 products 3.1 network management framework 3.2 it management products 3.3 zoho office suite 4 revenue 5 references 6 external links history edit from 1996 to 2009 the company was known as adventnet inc. in 2009 the company was renamed zoho corporation after its online office suite of the same name . locations edit the company is headquartered at its largest campus in estancia it park in chennai tamil nadu india . formerly it filed headquarters in pleasanton california usa . the company also has offices in singapore japan china and other cities in india namely new delhi and tenkasi . the bulk of its sales and support operations are carried out from its office in chennai tamil nadu india and the philippines . 1 in addition the company has research and development centres in singapore beijing china and tenkasi . 3 products edit network management framework edit the company started as a network management framework provider for telecommunications and network equipment vendors . initially the company developed other software such as an snmp api stack an element management system ems . the nms framework is marketed as webnms which competes with similar nms products from hp ca and few other enterprises . it management products edit main article manageengine until 2003 the company s business focused only on large and enterprise class customers . during the slowdown in 2003 and as a plan to bring in more revenue the company ventured into smb market by offering commercial it management products which were either stripped down versions of their webnms framework or built on top of webnms codebase . the company marketed their it management products under the manageengine 4 branding . their first product released under the manageengine brand was a network monitoring software called opmanager 4.0 which competed with whatsup gold and other monitoring products . following opmanager 4.0 s success a host of other related products were developed and marketed targeting various segments of it management . the manageengine became a commercially successful brand in the following years . zoho office suite edit during the web 2.0 and saas boom in 2005 the company launched zoho office suite with a web based word processor and later expanded to offer other applications including spreadsheets mail a calendar contacts list and other business oriented programs such as crm . 5 most of the zoho suite products offer a free edition and a host of paid editions . at this time of writing when the zoho suite of products offers both personal productivity applications and business productivity apps which rely on the subscription business model for revenue . some of the notable business competitors include products from google microsoft and salesforce . revenue edit the company bootstrapped itself and is held privately . it also does not disclose its revenue publicly but as of 2012 update it was believed to be a quarter of salesforce and zoho is known to spend the bulk of its revenue on product development unlike salesforce which is known to spend more than 50 % of its revenue on sales and marketing . 6 references edit a b d monte leslie 2014 11 24 . is zoho the future of enterprise software . www.livemint.com . ht media ltd. retrieved 2015 08 05 . developers at zoho s office in ramapuram chennai . zoho has around 2 600 employees of which about 96 % are based in india . d monte leslie 2014 11 24 . is zoho the future of enterprise software . www.livemint.com . ht media ltd. retrieved 2015 08 05 . it s an 18 year old indian software product company not too many people have heard of and venture capital and private equity investors have wooed unsuccessfully for close to two decades . zoho corporation eyes 100 million users of its products in five years . www.financialexpress.com . the indian express p ltd. 2015 08 05 . retrieved 2015 08 05 . recently the company had opened an r & d centre comprising 120 people at thenkasi in tamil nadu . vembu sridhar 2007 07 10 . happily bootstrapping zoho ceo sridhar vembu part 1 . interview with sramana mitra . sramanamitra.com . access date requires url help lohr steve 2009 08 29 . zoho thriving amid the giants . bits . new york times . retrieved 2011 07 19 . milian mark 2012 11 29 . no vc zoho ceo couldn t care less for wall street . go.bloomberg.com . retrieved 2015 03 28 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zoho corporation & oldid 742585782 categories companies based in pleasanton californiacompanies established in 1996software companies based in californiasoftware companies of indiaindian brandshidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlarticles for deletionpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersvague or ambiguous time from august 2015articles containing potentially dated statements from 2012all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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