Week 5 and 6
here are the two online tools I chose to review.
Ivovia online room planner
http://designedition50.icovia.com/icovia.aspx?promo=RCZP
I used this to plan our living room as we are buying new furniture, I like the fact you can edit out the dimensions of the room, with the slider. and add doors and windows. it give the impression it would be used by architect’s, while other online planners are set up to provide you with furniture to buy from websites, and are quite basic, this lets you just plan where things will be put with a simple icon to represent the furniture.
It is a pay for app but with the ability to use it online free, with the limitation you can not save the plan when you have finished your planning but as most savvy web user can get around most problems a simple screen shot of your desktop and you have a jpeg of your room. The pay for app lets you use collaboration, and save and modify plans an unlimited amounts. It does say on the main website it is geared towards the professional industry which i think it does very well.
Zoho
https://ww.zoho.com
Zoho is a online business solution to file creation and collaboration. while I have no business anymore, I will be using this when I do. The collaboration apps include chat, docs, discussions, mail, meeting, projects, share and wiki. These apps are very good and seem stable, it does seem like it is as simple google docs.
Business apps include Assist, business, challenge, creator, CRM, invoice, marketplace, people, recruit, reports, site24X7 and support.
The Productivity apps include calender, notebook, planner, ms office sharepoint, zoho plugin for ms office, zoho viewer, sheet, show, and writer.
I personally can not see any problems with this online app and think that the creator has took tested methods and applied them to this app, I could see this replacing ms office as the business sectors choice of software, especially global corporations.