Social Layer in Zoho? Facebook.

Perhaps the main purpose of all enterprise social tools that are now widely deployed in business applications, is to create a Team environment at work. When employees know more about each other, they are more interested in working together and achieving common goals. And where can you find out more about a person? Most likely, in the external social network (like Facebook), he (or she) would express himself better than in the intranet profile. So, why not use Facebook as an internal social network? Today it has become especially easy for Zoho users. Zoho has added support for Facebook Connect and enabled logging in their applications using Facebook account.

A couple of years ago, Zoho created the App for Facebook, which allows you to create documents and share them directly in your Facebook-account. So, now you can create a private group in Facebook and use it as a workspaces. In addition, now you can easily provide an access to your Zoho documents for contractors who do not have Zoho account, but have a Facebook profile.



Of course, for Zoho the Facebook Connect support means also 400 million potential users who do not need to register to begin using Zoho apps. Besides Facebook, Zoho also supports Google, Yahoo and Google Apps credentials.

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