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Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Partners
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) provides state-of-the-art messaging and collaboration software (email, calendaring, web document authoring, etc.) for the VAR's consumer and/or business customers. Zimbra was designed to permit VARs to easily incorporate it within value-added solutions that are deployed on your customers' premises or outsourced. If you are instead interested in offering Zimbra as a hosted ("Software as a Service") solution, please see instead see Zimbra Hosting Partners.
ZCS has much to offer to potential Value-Added Resellers:
- Higher enduser productivity -
- Rich Web 2.0/Ajax user interface with support for search, tagging, RSS, VoIP integration, etc.
- Extensible mash-up/portlet architecture (Zimlets) for integrating a broad range of intranet and Internet applications and services (thereby creating opportunities for additional VAR technology or professional services).
- Support for a broad range of email clients (Microsoft Outlook, Apple Desktop, Linux) and mobile devices via "over the air" sync.
- Easy "reskinning" and rebranding of the Zimbra UI to enhance the VAR's or else the end-user's brand.
- Low total cost of ownership (TCO) -
- Software appliance for decreased administrative overhead and easy bundling with other VAR services.
- Server consolidation based on performance, scalability, and increased functionality.
- Native support for volume and hierarchical storage management (HSM) to accommodate large quotas on commodity storage.
- Native cross-mailbox search for litigation discovery, policy, and compliance.
- Native anti-spam (AS) and anti-virus (AV) support.
- Strong internet-based security (SSL/TLS for all protocols) that does not require a VPN.
At the same time, Zimbra also uniquely protects both the VARs and enduser's investment:
- ZCS is itself open source.
- ZCS leverages mature open source server infrastructure - Linux/Unix file system for the message store, MySQL for meta-data storage, Apache for web container, Lucene for search, etc. (See the Zimbra Architecture Overview for more detail.)
- ZCS supports standard protocols for interoperability - POP3, IMAP4, iCalendar, HTTP/S, REST, RSS, MAPI, iSync, and so on.
- All ZCS operations and network protocols use open XML/SOAP for easy bi-directional integration with business applications (whether on-premises or hosted).
- Integration with existing directory, security (AS/AV), and compliance infrastructure.
- Zimbra uses standard MIME format for storing messages on disk (one message/file), which means the formats are open to operating system utilities and scripts.
- Zimbra worked in collaboration with IBM to co-found the Open Ajax Alliance to ensure that Web 2.0/Ajax solutions like Zimbra remain viable across devices, operating systems, browsers, and languages, just as is the case for the World-wide Web.
Next Steps
Zimbra offers multiple levels of VAR partnerships that we endeavor to tailor to your needs. If you are a VAR interested in offering the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for your customers or embedding ZCS within another software or appliance product, please fill out this brief form so we can follow up with you. You are also encouraged to either:
Most of all, we welcome your feedback on how we can work together to provide the best possible service to your end-user customers and help you build a successfully VAR leveraging Zimbra software.
Some of Zimbra's VAR Partners today that are offering ZCS as part of an overall solution to businesses or other organizations:
Enterprise & institutional clients; directory services auto-provisioning; HP, Red Hat & Apple expertise; 24/7 International help desk, support, backup & monitoring plans |
Open source software specialist in Brazil; 4Linux has handled deployment and training projects for as large as 15,000 people
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CingleVue has unique expertise to deliver communication technologies that are secure, reliable and cost effective for education services |
Leading Israeli open source and network infrastructure specialist for service, support, and hosting of innovative solutions |
Business collaboration solutions built with mobility in mind |
EFM is a leading hosting and services provider in Germany |
Specializes in implementing messaging solutions and providing value-added services |
IT Linux is a leading provider of services, support, and training for best-of-breed open source technologies |
LinuxCenter Latin America is a pioneer in open source based IT services including training, consulting, support and integration of top tier products |
On-demand email services for small and medium sized businesses, with unique "drag and drop" migration |
Providing next-generation messaging and integration services |
Qball Technologies is an IT services provider in Israel with a full-solution approach that uses best-of-breed open source implementations |
Design, deploy and manage next-generation messaging infrastructure in Canada |
Seacom, leading open Source architects, build integrated systems using best-of-breed open technologies. Seacom is the Italian Master Distributor of Zimbra solutions. |
StarXpert provides: modeling of architecture, installation of server(s)/cluster, data migration, training, support, development of Zimlets (extensions) |
Leading independent provider of applications and services for the online campus in Higher Education |
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