Zoho Desk is first ‘made in India’ software

Built here by a 150-member team, Zoho Desk uses customer data from past interactions and from other Zoho products, like Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, to organise tickets and intelligently present information to agents so that they can better understand a customer’s problem and resolve it efficiently.

“Zoho has challenged conventional wisdom so many times in its history. We built the first software products from India when IT services were the rage and established them in the global market. We are now showcasing something that has never been done before: the first software product created in rural India, world-class in its refinement, competing with the best,” says Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho Corp. “What started out five years ago as a small team of three engineers has blossomed into a team of over 150 people, located in beautiful rural surroundings near Tenkasi. 

In an industry where companies have come to believe that the only location that matters in the cloud is few square miles of downtown San Francisco, we are proving that a determined and sincere group of people can build path-breaking products anywhere,” Vembu said. “We believe rural talent should not have to leave home to find opportunity. Our broken urbanisation model creates severely overcrowded and polluted megacities and denudes rural areas of talent. That is why what Zoho Tenkasi is doing matters.” Zoho Desk, the sixth product launched this year by Zoho, has many uses including helping to clean user interface packs innovations like work modes. Zoho Desk is free up to 10 users. Paid plans begin at ₹720/user/month for the professional edition and increase to ₹1,500/user/month for the enterprise edition.