Welcome to Zimbra, a powerful Open Source Messaging and Collaboration Application offering email, group calendars, contacts and web document managing.
Benefits
The overwhelming complexity of managing high volumes of email communication with legacy systems is painful. Which administrator really likes getting yelled at when messages or mailboxes are lost? How many employees enjoy scrolling through of hundreds emails because searching is too hard?
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 solves the problems faced by administrators and their end-users:
| Key Administrative Benefits | Key End-user Benefits |
| Better reliability. Faster online move, backup and recovery of individual or a group of mailboxes | Elegant experience. Innovative Ajax-based web client with search, shared calendar and mail that is integrated with contacts and calendar |
| Cost effective. Native hierarchical storage management and clustering | Flexibility. Use web client, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple for email, contacts, and calendar |
| Easy to maintain. Simple to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory and existing LDAP directories | Stay Connected. Support for mobile smart devices: Blackberry (via partner solutions), Treo and etc |
| Extensibility. Web services integration with existing enterprise applications | Freedom of choice. Support of Windows, Apple and Linux computers |
| All in one. Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus | Save time. Zimlet “mash-ups” simplify tasks |
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Something I come across all the time with Zimbra is that although it’s easier to install, support, and maintain than Exchange, quite often IT departments still would prefer to not deal with their own email infrastructure. It’s often just not worth their valuable time in which case hosting Zimbra is a pretty good idea.
For all ye IT departments, what if you could have a fully managed outsourced Zimbra solution? Imagine never having to administer your user population let alone ever needing to take a help desk support call. Zimbra provides administrators so much flexibility as outlined above, but sometimes an IT department needs to outsource to maximize their existing resources.
I’m a huge advocate of Zimbra and have never looked back. Most of my own customers who had decided to completely outsource their email all use a company called http://www.specialai.com.
SpecialAI is great because they can become your help desk. No more being pestered by demanding users allowing you to focus on more business centric IT projects. Some of my customers used to get the same service with an outsourced Exchange solution but I’m so happy that there is a fully managed option out there for Zimbra!