Zimbra Email and Collaboration Benefits
Every organization has access to basic email or a standard email server, but fewer have shared calendars- and fewer still mobility or document management. That’s a serious loss of potential productivity- and often legacy platforms contribute to this imbalance by presenting complexity and financial obstacles relegating most organizations to limited functionality.
Next-generation email and collaboration platforms offer solutions to these and many other common pain points by providing innovative features for end-users and IT administrators at lower total cost-of-ownership (TCO).
Common Organizational Platform Challenges
| Existing solution | Email (POP / IMAP) server only | Legacy email and collaboration platform (Exchange, etc) |
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| Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) benefits |
All versions of ZCS offer a complete email, contact, calendar and document management suite (included free Open Source Edition).
Network Edition features full enterprise-class administration capabilities plus mobile and desktop sync (of mail, contacts, calendar). |
Zimbra’s innovative AJAX experience puts Windows, Mac and Linux end-users at complete feature parity.
ZCS is based on highly scalable open source technology and provides simplified administration tools. ZCS runs on Linux or Mac OS X commodity servers. |
Learn more about Zimbra Collaboration Server features and compare ZCS On-site product editions or Zimbra hosted solutions.
Zimbra’s Innovative End-User Experience
Delivering a powerful and more flexible web-based experience is a major component of the Zimbra mission. Traditionally, email has been largely a client-focused experience on a single desktop (which is fine for some users) but can limit productivity (fewer features, no anywhere access, not cross-platform). Zimbra’s AJAX web experience liberates end-users by providing the best of both worlds (looks like a client but works on the web).
Work anywhere
The Zimbra AJAX web experience works on any computer; email and files travel with you.
Be more efficient
Large inboxes are easy to manage with Zimbra Tags, Conversation Views, and the Visual Search Builder.
It’s all-in-one
Email, calendar, documents, files and instant messaging are integrated.
Go mobile
Over-the-air sync to iPhone and BlackBerry plus virtually any device via our mobile web experience.
Your client, your choice
Zimbra also syncs with Outlook, Thunderbird and any other standards based clients that support POP/IMAP and iCal/CalDAV.
Zimbra Cuts Administrators Some Slack
Zimbra Collaboration Server is a highly scalable server platform designed with proven open source components; it provides administrators ease-of-maintenance plus maximum configuration flexibility to reduce total cost-of-ownership. An AJAX Admin Console simplifies end-to-end management platform management.
Reliable
Migration tools, clustering, full backup and restore, extensive command line interface (CLI) and AJAX Admin Console give more security and span-of-control.
Cost effective
Web scalability, hierarchical storage management, and single attachment store make for economical deployment.
Open and extensible
APIs to customize ZCS and integrate with other enterprise applications via web services; standards-based data formats and message storage mean no lock-in.
Works with existing infrastructure
Integrates with Microsoft Outlook, Active Directory and Exchange for split deployments or gradual migrations.
Choose on-site or hosted deployment
Zimbra has multi-tenancy, rebranding support and flexible class-of-service (CoS)- Zimbra can be run on-premises or hosted (we have hundreds of hosted email partners who can manage your deployment).
For a Zimbra Collaboration Server overview please look at our data sheet and feature list.