{"id":566244,"date":"2022-03-09T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=566244"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:41:27","slug":"businesses-choose-zoho-workplace-as-google-workspace-and-microsoft-365-change-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/566244\/businesses-choose-zoho-workplace-as-google-workspace-and-microsoft-365-change-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses choose Zoho Workplace as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 change prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=March+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoho<\/a><\/strong>, a global technology company, announced that its enterprise collaboration and communications platform, Workplace, now serves over 16 million users globally.<\/p>\n<p>The company attributes its substantial growth to increasing demand for contextual applications with utmost standards for user privacy as well as rising costs from other collaboration platform providers.<\/p>\n<p>Within days of Google announcing that it would be ending the free edition of Workspace, Zoho&#8217;s Workplace platform experienced a 120% increase in migrations from Google-hosted domains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zoho has always been about persistent long-term execution, and our investment in Zoho Workplace attests to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As competitors continue to raise prices or eliminate free editions for those who need them most, Workplace continues to serve businesses and professionals with a feature-rich suite that increases productivity while remaining broadly affordable,&#8221; said Andrew Bourne, Regional Manager for Africa, Zoho Corp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ad-free approach and respect towards user privacy will add to the overall experience that our solution provides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/workplace\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=March+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn about Workplace.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Unparalleled Growth<\/h3>\n<p>Zoho Workplace experienced 34% year-to-year growth in 2021, with more than 40% of new customers making the switch from Google and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Growth was strong in all segments, with the SMB customer base increasing 40%, mid-sized by 36%, and enterprises by more than 20%. In Africa, Workplace saw 59% growth.<\/p>\n<p>Demand is largely driven by businesses still facing harsh realities of the pandemic, and its impact on their growth and budget.<\/p>\n<p>Unforeseen hikes in operational costs to support collaboration makes it more difficult for these businesses to recover and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zoho is unique amongst its productivity suite competitors for not rolling out a cost increase for 2022, nor removing their freemium offerings,&#8221; commented Thomas Randall, Senior Research Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other providers have justified price add-ons and increases to reflect the additional value they believe their customers have received over the pandemic for using their tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet freemium offerings and price consistency have been central for many customers and businesses to stay afloat during lockdowns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that such offerings are in short supply, Zoho will likely see increased demand for their Workplace services as customers seek strong ROI for productivity and collaboration software.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/workplace\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=March+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to try out Workplace today.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/privacy-commitment.html?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=March+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoho Privacy Pledge<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products.<\/p>\n<p>More than 75 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses, including Zoho itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As competitors continue to raise prices or eliminate free editions for those who need them most, Workplace continues to serve businesses and professionals with a feature-rich suite that increases productivity while remaining broadly affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":566414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[16626],"class_list":["post-566244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-zoho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566416,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566244\/revisions\/566416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}