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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Zimbra
Collaboration
Open Source Messaging and Collaboration

What Is Zimbra Collaboration?

KEY BENEFITS

Zimbra Collaboration is an open source messaging and collaboration solution,


trusted by more than 5,000 companies and public sector customers, and over
100 million end users, in over 140 countries. Zimbra includes complete email,
address book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks, and can be accessed from the
Zimbra Web client, MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and other standardsbased email clients and mobile devices. You can deploy Zimbra as a traditional
binary install on Linux or through one of our many Zimbra hosting providers.

Open source messaging


and collaboration solution
including full-featured email,
calendar, address book, filesharing and tasks

Key Benefits
Complete Email and Collaboration Solution with High
Availability

Zimbra offers sophisticated email, calendaring and collaboration features,


but is less complex to deploy/manage and is as much as 50% less expensive
than Microsoft Exchange. Zimbras ability to offer varying class of services
for different users is especially attractive to large and diverse companies
and organizations. Zimbra enables high availability through support for
virtualization, and online backup and restore, including at the individual
mailbox level.

Superior End-User Experience

By providing a rich, consistent user experience on all major platforms


(Windows, Mac, Linux)online through a Web browser (Firefox, Chrome,
Internet Explorer, Safari) and via MS Outlook, Thunderbird and other desktop
clientsZimbra increases end-user satisfaction and reduces support costs
and user training needs. The streamlined browser interface provides natural
conversation; enables rich compose, cut and paste; and provides sophisticated
and easy-to-customize filters. Users can easily manage and search large inboxes
of email and voicemail messages, multiple calendars, contacts and task lists.

Simplified and Integrated Unified Communications

IT administrators can easily connect Zimbra to a unified communications


solution to provide integrated click-to-call, voicemail, chat and presence for
users. Zimbra includes out-of-the-box integration for Cisco and Mitel, with
support for other unified communications solutions through an open API.

Up to 50% less than Microsoft


Exchange, due to savings
on licensing, hardware and
operations
Rich and consistent Web and
offline experience across
multiple platforms
Powerful search capabilities
and support for very large
mailboxes
Simple and powerful Webbased or CLI administration
Support for mobile devices
(tablets and smartphones),
including policy management
Full synching with Microsoft
Outlook
S/MIME for email encryption
and digital signatures, and
support for Department of
Defense Common Access Card
(CAC)

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ZIMBRA COLLABORATION

Zimbra Collaboration

Reduced Administration and Maintenance

Zimbra has an easy-to-use Web-based administration console enabling IT


administrators to securely access the application anywhere, anytime. Through
the console, administrators can easily manage access and policies for a diverse
set of users in a large organization. Zimbra also empowers end users through
end-user self-service administration, reducing IT administration and support
overhead and increasing end-user satisfaction.
Zimbra also supports both hierarchical storage management and multitenancy.
Hierarchical storage management optimizes storage costs through tiered
storage. Multitenancy enables service providers to cost-effectively support
multiple businesses in a hosted environment.

Key Features
Advanced Web Client

Rich browser-based interface with application features such as drag and


drop, tagging and conversation views
Ability to send and receive authenticated and encrypted email messages
Comprehensive search-based inbox; ability to search within attachments;
saved search folders
Innovative calendar wizard that finds the optimal time and place for large
meetings within seconds
Effective sharing and collaboration with peers, including inboxes,
contacts, calendars and tasks
Robust enterprise calendars with shared free and busy times;
interoperable with MS Exchange

KEY BENEFITS
Hierarchical storage
management allows cost
savings while deploying large
user mailboxes
Out-of-the-box integration
with Cisco and Mitel voicemail
and unified communications
Extensibility with Zimlets
for connecting to other
applications and services
Support for virtualization on
KVM and vSphere
Built on leading open
source components such as
OpenLDAP, Jetty, MySQL,
NGINX, Postfix and Apache
Lucene, and runs on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu and
other Linux distros
Flexible deployment choice
between a traditional install
on Linux or via a Zimbra SaaS
provider

Innovative hub of communications that integrates third-party services


as mashups or application tabs

Web-Based Administration

Real-time mailbox backup and restore; native hierarchical storage


management
Cross-mailbox discovery and archiving for regulatory compliance
Integrated antispam, antivirus and directory services (LDAP, Active
Directory)
Open Web service APIs and REST interfaces

Integrated Unified Communications

Out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel for click-to-call, visual


voicemail, call record history, presence and instant messaging
Support through the Zimbra SDK for extending Zimbra to work with
other third-party unified communications solutions such as eZuce

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ZIMBRA COLLABORATION

Zimbra Collaboration

Flexible Deployment Options


Dedicated or Multitenant
Full support for multitenancy and delegated administration for hosting
and service providers
Role-based delegated administration for creating domain settings or
limited administration settings per account
Customizable Web client experience
Management of end-user features, quotas and storage policies via the
Class-of-Service feature

Zimbra is the perfect


collaboration platform
for the cloud: a proven,
scalable, cost-effective
solution, Zimbra has
simplified our IT and
significantly improved the
productivity of our users.
Joe Trifoglio, CIO, ZipRealty

Server or SaaS
Option to deploy Zimbra Collaboration as a traditional binary install on
Linux or via a Zimbra SaaS partner

Support for Other Desktop Email Clients

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) synchronization to


MS Outlook 2013/2010/2007/2003 with full delegate, offline access and
support for S/MIME
Support for all POP3, IMAP4, Calendaring Extensions to Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (CalDAV), and vCard Extensions to Web
Distributed Authoring and Versioning (CardDAV) clients

Mobile Access

Synchronization with iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows


smartphones and tablets
Ability to set mobile security policies including device wipe, PINs and
device-management features on user accounts
Rich browser-based experience on any smartphone or tablet

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ZIMBRA COLLABORATION

Zimbra Collaboration

By implementing Zimbra,
we deliver world-class
communication services
to our employees, while
achieving cost savings
that we can reinvest in
patient care and medical
equipment.
Kevin Soukup, Senior System
Administrator, Monroe Clinic

About Zimbra
Zimbra is trusted by more than 5,000 companies, including global brands
such as NTT Communications, Comcast, Dell, Cadbury, Investec, Rackspace,
Red Hat, VMware, H&R Block and Vodafone. With its vibrant open source
community and worldwide partner network, Zimbra is the third largest
collaboration provider in the world. Zimbra is privately held with corporate
headquarters in Frisco, Texas and offices in San Mateo, California; London;
Singapore; Tokyo and Pune, India. For more information, visit Zimbra.com or
connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Zimbra 3000 Internet Blvd., Suite 200 Frisco, Texas 75034 Tel +1 (972) 407-0688 www.zimbra.com
Copyright 2015 Zimbra. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property
laws. Zimbra is a registered trademark or trademark of Zimbra in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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