Zoho Debuts Zoho Marketplace and Zoho Creator 3.0

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zoho today announced Zoho Marketplace at http://marketplace.zoho.com and the Zoho Creator Partner Program. Additionally, Zoho launched Zoho Creator 3.0, its solution for easily creating powerful online database applications in minutes. A video tour of the features and benefits that Zoho Creator 3.0 and Zoho Marketplace bring for end users is available at http://www.viddler.com/explore/RodrigoVaca/videos/1/, and a video tour of the features and benefits for developers and partners is available at http://www.viddler.com/explore/RodrigoVaca/videos/2/.

“Zoho Creator 3.0 epitomizes our mission on the web — give our customers powerful applications that are simple to use”

“Zoho Creator 3.0 epitomizes our mission on the web — give our customers powerful applications that are simple to use,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Zoho Creator is an ideal solution for people who are not developers, but who still want to create their own ‘situated applications.’ These small, situation-specific applications are often needed immediately, on the fly, and Zoho Creator eliminates lengthy development cycles to deliver solutions in minutes.”

Zoho Marketplace Debuts with Zoho Creator Partner Program

The Zoho Marketplace establishes online community and a marketplace where those seeking to buy and sell Zoho Creator applications can easily find one another. Buyers and sellers are free to negotiate their prices and execute transactions in whatever way best suits them.

Users who want to buy Zoho Creator applications can find ready-made applications in the Zoho Marketplace and install them in seconds. Users can also post their application needs in the Zoho Marketplace, letting developers bid to develop that particular application.

In turn, developers who want to sell Zoho Creator applications can develop custom web-based solutions based on customers’ unique requirements as posted in the Zoho Marketplace. Or developers can build ready-made applications and post them in the Zoho Marketplace for broader distribution — with zero upfront investment, zero royalties, and Zoho’s renowned support.

The new Zoho Creator Partner Program encourages anyone — resellers, consultants, developers, and other Zoho Creator users — to take advantage of the complete web application development and delivery infrastructure provided by Zoho Creator and the Zoho Marketplace. Zoho Creator Partners can distribute end user applications and resell Zoho Creator itself, earning money from the software they develop, as well as from commissions paid for the licenses bought from Zoho. Interested parties are invited to visit http://creator.zoho.com/hythernizam/form/2/.

Zoho Creator 3.0

Ease of use has been the hallmark of Zoho Creator and continues to define the 3.0 edition. Users can create highly customizable applications using simple drag and drop operations. Zoho Creator’s Form Builder, View Builder and Script Builder make it easy to create business applications in less time than with traditional database applications. Recognized by users as the web equivalent of Microsoft Access combined with Visual Basic, Zoho Creator 3.0 gains custom HTML pages, mashups, and more. To date, users have created more than 100,000 applications in Zoho Creator.

Key additions in Zoho Creator 3.0 include:

• Custom HTML pages. Build custom HTML pages by embedding deluge code in HTML. Users can also embed forms, views and other widgets. It’s equivalent to JSP (where Java code embedded in HTML). This way, users can create dynamic HTML pages.
• Mashups. Combine data from external websites via web API's using the GetURL and PostURL statements in Deluge. If the content is of type XML, write XPATH to filter the content. There is also an option to convert JSON to XML.
• More. Zoho Creator 3.0 also gains stateless forms, CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations, enhanced interactivity in applications, and scriptable Multiple select components.

While users find Zoho Creator an optimal platform for building situated applications, users and developers alike benefit from the following Zoho Creator features:

• Deluge scripting. An easy-to-learn online scripting language, Deluge lets developers add powerful logic to their applications.
• Data security. Zoho Creator supports encryption to prevent data from being accessed while in transit. Unless an administrator decides to make data public, data stored in Zoho Creator can only be accessed by the people with permission to view/edit/create it.

Availability and Pricing

Zoho Creator 3.0 is available immediately and offers a variety of plans, including personal and business editions that are free of charge for an unlimited number of users (personal edition) or for the first five users (business edition). Additional business plans provide enhanced security through SSL scripting, rebranding, data backup, non-branded embedding and additional storage.

For more information on situated applications, please visit http://blogs.zoho.com/uncategorized/the-democratization-of-the-tools-o f-software-production-situated-software-and-zoho-creator/. For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com. To get breaking Zoho news, please visit and subscribe to the RSS feed at http://blogs.zoho.com/.

Community Comments on Zoho Creator

In the past I used an off the shelf program FileMaker for data collection, Now I boot up my browser and head to Zoho. Zoho Creator provides me a quick and very easy tool for creating business applications that I can easily embed in our school web site to gather data. Tim Lauer, Principal, Lewis Elementary School in Portland, Oregon

Zoho is providing a tremendous service and it's hard to believe they are providing free apps that outperform many paid services. I definitely recommend Zoho's suite of web applications to anyone looking to add reliable and easy to setup functionality to their existing website. Cassie Leik, Co-founder of Cora Boutique, Shopcora.com

Thank you Zoho for your thoughtful software that anyone can use. Zoho Creator is an amazing application that is easy to use and setup. It was a godsend for the applications I needed for my website, saving me thousands of dollars to have someone else make the databases and design the pages. Wayne "Kila" Watts, Chief Pilot, PilotSpeak.net/

About Zoho and AdventNet

Zoho is creating the most comprehensive suite of affordable, online collaborative productivity applications and business applications for today's knowledge workers. To date, Zoho has launched 19 different applications and more are in the works. Zoho has received numerous awards including a 2008 PC World 25 Most Innovative Products Award for Zoho Notebook, and “Best Enterprise Start-up” at The 2007 Crunchies. Nearly 250 developers work on the Zoho suite. For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com and http://blogs.zoho.com/.

Zoho is a division of AdventNet, in business since 1996 providing innovative software products and serving more than 40,000 customers worldwide. For more information on AdventNet, please visit www.adventnet.com.