Zoho Moves Into China With Baihui Partnership

Web office suite maker Zoho is announcing their launch into China today. The launch comes by way of a partnership with Chinese company Baihui. The products included in the partnership are: Writer, Sheet, Show and CRM. Writer, Sheet and Show are free, CRM is available at nearly the same rate as the U.S. version. Other business apps will be launched to the Chinese market in the near future.

Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna provided some additional information about Baihui, "Baihui’s parent company, PC Stars is the largest online distributor in China with more than 2400 resellers and over 1000 system integrators." 

Zoho continues to increase their product offering, both in features and languages. Earlier this month Zoho launched their enterprise CRM product and the Telegraph newspaper named Zoho as one of the 101 most useful web sites. I’m wondering if a partnership with Dell might make sense — get icons for Zoho’s products right on the desktop from the initial launch and push them as a value add on system purchases — might be a good move for additional distribution.

Editor’s note: Zoho is a current CN sponsor.