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Trio Facebook s Workplace takes aim at enterprise users with desktop chat app
The Indian software firms all-in-one business app suite has seen impressive growth since its launch in 2017, says analyst.Credit: Zoho Zoho has unveiled a range of updates to Zoho One, i stanley cup ts all-in-one cloud app suite, with new analy hydrojug traveler tics capabilities and access to its Zia AI assistant.Billing itself as the operating system for business. Zoho One launched in July 2017; it bundles more than 40 of Zohorsquo apps, spanning CRM, HR, business analytics, office productivity tools and others. Subscriptions start at $30 a month per employee.The Indian company has added a variety of new features to Zoho One since its launch. Its Slack-like team chat tool, Cliq, unveiled last September, was followed by Zoho Flow, a no-code hydrojug traveler , automated workflow automation platform, which rolled out earlier this year. The companyrsquo Sprints project management and PageSense website testing tool are also included in the packaged offering. As part of the updates announced this month, the vendor also plans to bring its two-year old Zia AI assistant to Zoho One. Zia was initially available within Zohorsquo CRM tool, offering suggestions to sales reps based on customer data. It will now be extended across all Zoho One apps, offering contextual information from a variety of sources.For instance, Zia can pull data from Zoho CRM and service desk tool Zoho Desk to inform users of how many customers in the sales pipeline have an open support ticket.Because [Zoho One] is built with integ Gbff Android love and IT apps
The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google.At a press conference Monday, the Defense Information Systems Agency DISA announced that it is allowing military users to run applications in production mode on its cloud computing platform, which is called RACE for Rapid Access Computing Environment.FAQ: Cloud computing demystified Since its launch a y polene italy ear ago, RACE has been available for test and development of new applications, but not for operations.Military officials say RACE is now ready to deliver cutting-edge applications to military personnel.Henry Sienkiewicz, technical program director of DISArsquo co owala tumbler mputing services and RACE team, said RACE is more secure and stable than commercial cloud services. Google, for example, has suffered from frequent service outages, including high-profile Gmail and Google News outages in September. We have service-level agreements with all of our services for all of our applications. Wersquo;re using the same method of SLA inside the RACE environment as well as our regular computing environment. We achieve 99.999% availability at all times, Sienkiewicz said.In contrast, Google claims 99.9% availability for Google Apps.Sienkiewicz said DISA is applying the same rigor in availability and performance o polene bolsos f any of our other applications such as payroll, financial systems and logistics systems. Itrsquo t |
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