Zimbra Collabration Suite

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a truly modern, innovative messaging and collaboration application.

Zimbra Collabration

Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, education, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits. IP Technics is a partner of Zimbra, offering implementation and support services for ZCS.

Ajax based web collaboration is at the heart of ZCS. 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. ZCS 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. Zimbra also offers Zimbra Mobile, which provides over-the-air “push” synchronization to smartphones as well as a Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The Zimbra solution also has a complete high security package including built-in anti-spam and anti-virus scanning. Now Zimbra also features Archiving and Discovery, an optional component to save and search email for various compliance issues.

IP Technics provides migration from proprietary and older open source messaging platforms to Zimbra. Compare features between Zimbra Collaborative Suite for Microsoft Exchange.

Options.	Zimbra Collaborative.	Exchange.
Apple iSync support.	Yes.	No.
Universal desktop client.	Yes.	No.
Flip phone J2E client.	Yes.	No.
Instant messaging.	Yes.	No.
Document management.	Yes.	No.
Briefcase / wiki.	Yes.	No.
Email grouping.	Yes.	No.
SOX compliance out of the box.	Yes.	No.
Integrated antispam, antivirus.	Yes.	No.
Web Interface Marginal.	All major browser supported.	Outside of IE.
Integration with other system.	Full SOAP	Marginal