Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Zimbra is a leading email solution for enterprise, service provider, education, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits. It's no wonder Zimbra is a popular choice for today's growing Mac and Linux email server base. Managing enterprise e-mail has become a major challenge for system administrators, with its soaring costs of managing storage, security, and availability. That is why Zimbra has developed an open source messaging server and client called the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. This solution was built with a focus on manageability, scalability, compatibility, and performance.
Why Zimbra?
- You will be more productive
- You will save money
- You can share & collaborate with colleagues
- Comprehensive, innovative features & open source
- 60,000 organisations & 40+ million paid mailboxes can't be wrong!
Web Collaboration Features
Zimbra offers several tools which help users to share and collaborate on any application.
- Mail, Address Book, Documents, Calendar, Tasks
- Advanced (AJAX) & Standard (HTML) Web Client Access
- Mobile xHTML interface for iPhone and other devices
- Sharing calendar with internal or external users
- Basic Zimlets (dates, names, maps)
- Supports Arabic
Web Technologies
Ajax Based Web Collaboration
Ajax based web collaboration is at the heart of ZCS 5.0. The powerful web client integrates email, contacts, shared calendar, VoIP, and online document authoring into a rich browser-based interface. Also, our unique open source Zimlet technology makes it easy for you to include custom 'mash-ups' in the ZCS web client.
Ajax Based Admin Interface
ZCS 6.0 also includes an elegant Ajax based Admin Interface plus full scripting tools to manage the ZCS server. Full support is provided for standards-based APIs (IMAP / POP / iCal / CalDAV) as well as MAPI and iSync, which enable seamless compatibility with other clients like Microsoft Outlook©, Apple© desktop suite, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Deployment Methods
Zimbra Web Only
Zimbra is compatible with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer browsers, allowing ease for its users. In addition, Zimbra Collaboration Suite has many web services which tailor to the unique needs of your business, unlike any other product suite. Some of the many features being Zimbra Calendar, Zimlets, and Unified Messaging.
Zimbra Desktop is a next generation email and calendar application you can install on your computer. It's like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but it also incorporates the latest features and experiences popular on the web to create a totally new and more powerful tool.
Zimbra Mobile
Zimbra also offers Zimbra Mobile, which provides over-the-air "push" synchronization to smartphones as well as a Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Protection and Search Features
Security
The Zimbra solution also has a complete high security package including built-in anti-spam and anti-virus scanning.
Archiving and Discovery
Now Zimbra also features Archiving and Discovery, an optional component to save and search email for various compliance issues. To learn more about the deployment methods and protection and search features of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, contact a Unicon Representative.
Zimbra vs Microsoft Exchange
- Flexibility
- Better administration
- Solid security
- More than just the basics
- Full feature set
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Zimbra vs Gmail
By taking a close look at Zimbra vs., we found that although Gmail has some great features geared for simple users, it lacked many of the features businesses wanted. Comparing Zimbra vs. Gmail illustrated that Zimbra is truly built for the innovative and progressive business that is looking to centralize communication into one application suite.
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