Free Business Tools for Enterprise
By Dinh Cong Tuan
Documents: Zoho Docs
In terms of office applications, Microsoft Office has been, of course, on top but it is
not for free. Meanwhile, other application packages also have many utilities and they are
totally free, typically Zoho Docs - a sort of online office software that allows users to
share documents with each other without sending under the form of attached files.
Currently, Zoho Docs is the best choice for a free tool. Users can use up to 1GB online
data warehousing for free, un-compress almost every format of document, create documents,
spreadsheet and new presentations. Users can also organize the contents by folder as well
as add tabs to easily search or manage.
Warehousing: Box
You will always be attracted by the word "free" when looking for an online warehousing
service. But you also want that service to have a stable operation and data to be best
warehoused. Among this kind of services, Box.net is one of the best. There have been over
2 million people who use Box.net currently, each of them is provided with 1GB of free
warehousing. If you pay a small amount of money ($19.95/year), you will have more 15GB
warehousing for 5 users, which can be accessed by cell phone and you won't have to suffer
flat advertisings. Enterprise version ($15 for 50GB of storage) even has 256-bit
encryption function to protect data.
Invoice: Billing Manager
This product of Intuit allows you to send unlimited number of invoices. Apart from
Billing Manager, Intuit has a series of other products such as: QuickBooks, Quicken, and
TurboTax. Users can monitor unpaid bills and use logo of the company on the bills. This
program allows sending customers email to remind, managing contacts, can be integrated
with iPhone and remember customer information, so that you do not have to input data again.
Presentation: 280Slides
Although 280Slides.com has been a test product, it has received positive feedbacks from
user community thanks to its visual and easy-to-use interface. Despite being a web-based
program, 280Slides.com looks like a desktop-based application which allows users to input
data and export to PowerPoint format as well as integrate with YouTube and other sharing
websites. Users can also share works by SlideShare, and their colleagues can view the
content of those works on browser without downloading anything.
Web design: Office Live
Although Microsoft seems to slowly change into Cloud-base, but it did this job quite
well with Office Live Small Business. This service provides you with web design tool even
if you do not have any knowledge of this area. Users can upload and share documents,
create 100 e-mail addresses, manage contacts, documents and projects as they want. This
tool package also has charged version. Users may pay more $9.95/month to have marketing
e-mail tool, and purchase searching keywords in order to make their companies get more
priority in search engine.
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