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. Unicon, a Zimbra Value-Added Reseller (VAR), is providing a host of Zimbra products to academic institutions via direct sales, as an ASP hosted service, and as a dedicated hosted solution.

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, Yahoo! maps)

Each of these features are incorporated in all Zimbra Hybrid Hosting Model location options; Zimbra Free Hosted, Zimbra Hosted Standard, On-Premise Standard, Hosted Professional, and On-Premise Professional.

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 5.0 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

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.

More Information

For additional information:

• Take the Zimbra tours
• What's new in ZCS 5.0
• Complete ZCS 5.0 feature list(PDF)
• Compare product editions
• Read a customer case study: Eastern Illinois University(PDF)
• Zimbra Network Edition Benefits