Together we win - Zoho Launches Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program
"Businesses are hurting. They already face tremendous pressure on revenue and cash flows. Not knowing when things will get back to normal is even worse," said Sridhar Vembu, Zoho co-founder and CEO.
Zoho Corporation, a global company that offers the most comprehensive suite of business software applications in the industry, is launching its Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program (ESAP) to help Zoho customers worldwide weather this global crisis. ESAP is one way Zoho is committing itself to helping its small business customers. For up to 20,000 qualified paying customers with 25 employees or less, Zoho is waiving the cost of every single application they currently use, for up to 3 months or until 1 July 2020.
“Every bit of help we, and other companies, can offer to keep these small businesses afloat will go a long way, not just financially but emotionally as well. We are in this together, and contributions from every business help our community get through this pandemic. Certain industries have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and we strongly encourage our customers in these industries to please apply for this Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program," continued Vembu.
Gibu Matthew, Zoho Corporation’s VP and GM for Asia Pacific told Thailandtoday.co that we are getting closer to real big change in digital transformation and should be well-prepared for both normal situation amid intensified competition and emergency crisis situation which requires necessary Business Contingency Plan to ensure companies to continue their operations despite external threats to their work processes, prevent or minimise the impact on revenues and economy as a whole, and implement a comprehensive recovery strategy to mitigate damages and financial losses to the company. For Thai SMEs, Zoho communication and collaboration tools by using cloud-based technologies with high security and backups stored in multiple datacenters while managing paper documents into digitised shared drives are encouraged. This will enable the workforce to work remotely and keep the business running without face-to-face interactions and also in line with the future of work trend.
Earlier this month, Zoho launched Remotely, a virtual productivity platform of 11 collaboration applications, provided to businesses of all sizes around the world for free, so that companies could effectively make the transition to remote work. Since its release 2 weeks ago, more than 5,000 new companies are running on the platform, and that number is increasing every day. We have seen an average of 500% growth in the usage of our collaboration apps and 1,000% growth in daily new users of Zoho Meeting.
"Our business has been extremely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. We were on the leading edge of the impact," said Anders Boulanger, Founder and CEO of The Infotainers, a Canada-based event entertainment company. "We work delivering custom presentations in our clients' trade show booths, and one by one trade shows have been canceled leaving us with little to no income for the next 4 months or more. Last week, we were forced to lay off one of our employees. At the moment, we are taking extreme cost-cutting measures and many of our month-to-month subscriptions are on the chopping block. We would definitely consider our business a 'Zoho Shop'. We will touch at least 2 or 3 Zoho applications on any single work day, so they are mission critical to our business' long-term success. It means a lot to us that Zoho is reaching out and supporting their loyal customers. Having 3 months of complimentary services means that we can survive that much longer and we can put off laying off another employee. Every little bit helps when it comes to finding savings and this gesture goes a long way!"
