Business Tech Business Chat with Andrew Bourne of Zoho

In today’s dynamic and ultra-competitive landscape, African enterprises, especially SMEs, face significant challenges in achieving operational efficiency and expanding their market reach. Accessible and user-friendly technology can however be a powerful game changer, even for smaller businesses and a big catalyst in growth and effecting meaningful operational efficiencies.

Business Tech Africa invited Andrew Bourne to join us on one of our BTA business Chats discussing the benefits of SaaS technology, particularly in small enterprises.  

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Zoho Corporation, headquartered in India, began its development journey over 26 years ago and sits with over 850,000 customers, with 120 million users globally, across diverse industries.

Zoho has a wide range of tools across Zoho and ManageEngine, and Zoho Corporation’s AI solutions are informed by a vast range of functional data. This is a core differentiator for the company, putting it in a unique position to serve businesses with cutting-edge technology.

Key Quotes:

Andrew Bourne – Head of Zoho Southern Africa:

“We build everything on our own. so number one, it just makes it more cost effective, but also the apps really connecting to each other like a puzzle. Today now we’ve got more than 120 million users that trust and use the software, so it’s just grown tremendously over the last few years”.

“Zoho doesn’t go and buy other software companies, and so what that does is you have a company that is building all the apps on the same solid foundation, with security and privacy built into it. But also there’s a big cost benefit. The fact that we’re not buying other companies means we’re not spending all this money to now acquire big, big companies. And so the long-term vision of Zoho is to build this ecosystem of applications that is always going to be very competitively priced, but also world-class”.

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