Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Zimbra is open software for messaging and collaboration - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. Zimbra runs on Firefox, Safari, and IE The Zimbra web experience is the same across Windows, Mac and Linux through your favorite web browser, and also synchronizes with popular desktop clients including Outlook, Mail.app, iCal, AddressBook, Evolution (open source) and Thunderbird. The Zimbra server software runs on Red Hat Linux, Mac OS, and Linux variants. Zimlets are open-source based Zimbra plug-ins that extend Zimbra's capabilities by integrating third-party applications, services and data sources. Intuitive Message Management and Search - Conversation View hides redundant messages that clutter up your inbox
- Search Builder is a simple "WYSIWYG" tool to make advanced queries; save favorite searches as "virtual" message folders
- "Tagging" automatically highlights email from important people
- You can view attachments (like Word or Acrobat files) immediately as HTML instead of downloading and opening them in another applications
Address Book - Supports multiple Address Books (personal and server-side Global Address List)
- Easily share Address Books and contacts with peers
- Autocomplete from personal and/or Global Address List (GAL)
- Create personal distribution lists
Robust Personal and Shared Calendaring - View multiple schedules as 'overlays' on your calendar, one click to toggle them on and off
- Complete resource and group scheduling, with delegated access
- Share and publish calendars with peers
- Subscribe to remote calendars as iCal feeds
Online Documents - Create, share, and publish rich Documents online
- WYSIWYG editor makes it easy to add spreadsheets, images, etc.
- Turn Documents into collaborative Wiki pages
- First application to use the innovative AJAX Linking and Embedding (ALE) technology Zimbra pioneered
Easy Sharing and Publishing - Simple sharing model common to Address Book, Calendar, and Documents
- Share internally (read and/or write access) or publish externally with a simple URL (read only).
POP Account Aggregation - Set up multiple external email accounts to be viewed and managed within ZCS
- Email replies from different accounts can have different Signatures and Mail Identities
Voice Integration - When used in conjunction with a VOIP gateway such as Asterisk, users can quickly launch calls, conference calls and to access voice mail from within the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Productivity Enhancing "Mash-ups" - Use Zimlets to get single click access to calendar, contacts and maps.
- Easily create new Zimlets for your unique needs
View Mail in Basic HTML Mode - Basic mode with a non-Ajax web UI for poorer connections, legacy browsers or easier accessibility
Personalisation - Users can choose their own colour themes
- Administrators may quickly re-brand and/or create new themes
Zimbra Technology
- Fast, easy install - all dependent components are packaged together in one simple installer
- Proven open source - built with Linux, Apache Tomcat, Postfix, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Lucene
- Uses industry standard open protocols - SMTP, LMTP, SOAP, XML, IMAP, POP, iCal, CalDAV
- Efficiency and horizontal scalability - Zimbra server is 3-5x faster than comparable systems, plus each server has its own data store, message store, and set mailbox accounts. To scale simply add more servers
Additional features of Commercial Version Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Network Edition features enhancements not available in ZCS Open Source Edition: - Support from Zimbra. Access to Support Portal for email, and phone crisis support plus file and track feature enhancements
- Desktop client compatibility. Sync mail, contacts, and calendar to Microsoft Outlook and/or to Apple (Mail, Address Book, iCal)
- Professional administration. Real time mailbox backup and restore, high availability clustering, storage cost management
- Zimbra Mobile. Over-the-air synchronization of mail, contacts, and calendar data with mobile devices.
- Advanced web productivity. Ability to search for content inside attachments and view attachments as HTML instead of downloading
- Domain management. Ability to re-brand the web client and administer multiple customer domains
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