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Chennai-based bootstrapped Software as a Service (SaaS) Zoho has set up a new facility in Renigunta, near Tirupati. The new facility, inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has a capacity of 150 seats.The company will be hiring the employees locally in the following months to fill the vacancy. The office, which is the third location for the company after Chennai and Tenkasi, will also house a branch of Zoho University, Zoho's in-house training programme for skill development, wherein high school students are recruited and trained in software programming over a period of 18 months.Those who complete the course are recruited by the company as employees. Around 15 per cent of Zoho's 5,000 employees have come through this programme. At present Zoho Universityu has branches in Chennai and Tenkasi, with a total strength of 100 students.The company, with around 5,000 employees at present is also expanding its operations in Tamil Nadu, as part of a memorandum of ...
Software as a Service (SaaS) major Zoho Corp with products competing various technology giants in the world, has recently launched Zoho One, an integrated suite, forecasting that the SaaS businesses are going the way towards integration of their offerings. The company, which has never raised funds from outside investors or acquired a technology over two decades of its operations, is looking at new opportunities in technology and geography, said Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of the company, in an interaction with Gireesh Babu. Edited Excerpts:ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management business, was around 80 per cent of your business earlier. How is the business mix for you now?The cloud business accounts to around 40 per cent of the business now and in about 12 to 18 months it will be the majority of our business. Our business started with more IT focus, such as systems management in ManageEngine. ManageEngine itself is stepping into the cloud with many of its offerings moving ...