Zimbra collaboration Suite 5.0

Zimbra collaboration Suite 5.0 is leading open source server and client software that gives you modern and innovative messaging and collaboration experience. It integrates email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring into a browser-based interface. The Zimbra server is applicable in Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. The Zimbra Web 2.0 Ajax client runs on Firefox, Safari, and IE, and provides easy integration of web portals, business applications, and VoIP using web services.
Key Administrative Benefits
- Enhance reliability and efficiency
Move online, backup and recover individual or a group of mailboxes in a speedy manner - Cost effective
Native hierarchical storage management or Information Lifecycle Management (HSM / ILP) lowers overhead - Easy to maintain
Allow simple integration with Microsoft Active Directory and existing LDAP - Compatibility with existing infrastructure
Web services combine with existing enterprise applications like CRM, ERP, etc - Security
Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus
Key End-user Benefits
- Elegant experience
Innovative Ajax-based web client with fast and powerful search, comprehensive shared calendar and mail that combine with contacts and calendar - Flexible client choice
Use PC client Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail and iCal, Thunderbird/Sunbird, RSS, etc. - Stay Connected
Support for mobile devices: Blackberry (via partner solutions), Treo, Palm, Nokia, Motorola, Good, Pocket PC, etc. - 1Freedom of choice
Support of Windows, Apple and Linux computers
Zimbra for Government and Non-Profits
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) provides state-of-the-art messaging and collaboration solutions (email, address book, calendaring, web documents, etc.) for organizations to either deploy on your own premises, through your outsourcing partners, or via hosted service providers.
ZCS has much to offer to government and non-profit organizations:
- Higher end-user productivity
- Rich Web 2.0/Ajax user interface(see Flash demos) with sharing, search, RSS, VoIP, tagging, etc.
- Wiki-based collaboration for simple document/spreadsheet authoring, ad hoc sharing, and inclusion of desktop documents/public folders.
- Extensible mash-up/portlet architecture (Zimlets) for easily integrating intranet applications and Internet web services.
- Support for a broad range of email clients (Microsoft Outlook, Apple, Linux) and mobile devices via “over the air” sync
- Easy “reskinning” and rebranding of the Zimbra UI to enhance the organization’s brand.
- Low total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Web and mobile delivery to accommodate end-users at the lowest possible cost.
- Software appliance for decreased administrative overhead.
- Server consolidation based on scalability and increased functionality (native mobility, collaboration, archiving, etc.).
- Volume and hierarchical storage management (HSM), as well as a single-copy message store to accommodate large quotas on commodity storage.
- Cross-mailbox search for litigation discovery, policy, and compliance.
- Native anti-spam (AS) and anti-virus (AV).
- Strong internet-based security (SSL/TLS for all protocols) that does not require a VPN, and supports single sign-on via business’s portal.
- Class of service provisioning for all major features.
