Software company Zoho has partnered with Auckland FC to enhance the club’s flexibility and functionality with digital tools.
Rakesh Prabhakar is the country head of Zoho for New Zealand and Australia.
Prabhakar said Zoho is proud to be supporting the club’s volunteer management activities going forward, using a solution built on their low-code app development platform, Zoho Creator.
“Building the app on Creator allows us to customise the functionality to fit the club’s needs and processes. It also gives us additional flexibility and the option to create a completely new, Auckland FC-branded mobile app for volunteers,” says Prabhakar.
“This partnership will be an excellent opportunity for Zoho to get our brand out to a wider audience, showcase our technological capability through the volunteer management app, and align ourselves with an ambitious, inspiring, and successful organisation like Auckland FC.”
Despite being a billion-dollar tech company, Zoho has always been privately owned and operated .
“We know what it’s like to grow a business without the right tools—we were growing and we didn’t have the systems that we needed to scale our business. So, we built them and made it our mission to keep building for growing businesses,” says Prabhakar.
“Football is going through a rapid growth phase in New Zealand at the moment, and Auckland FC is at the forefront of that growth. So, partnering with Auckland FC wasn’t just a business decision, it was also our way of championing an organisation that’s helping New Zealand grow.”
Auckland FC CEO, Nick Becker, believes that this partnership will be advantageous for Auckland FC.
“Zoho is a brilliant brand to be working with. We’re excited to sharpen our tools for volunteers and work with a business with ambitious goals,” says Becker.
“It is great to have them as part of Auckland FC.”
