Benefits & Features - Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Easy & Accessible to Use – Whenever & Wherever You Are

Democracy in the workplace - Plays well with others:

You want your staff to get the job done, not to fight about systems. The standards based Zimbra platform offers freedom of choice, letting everyone talk to each other no matter what machine they use. Run your favourite application on your Mac, Windows, or Linux system. Or use the award winning web client with more features than most dedicated collaboration applications out there. We even offer an offline version of Zimbra – called Zimbra Desktop that blend the best of the web and your favourite clients together. Outlook users can use Zimbra as a complete Microsoft Exchange replacement, with all the features they're used to. Using Apple OS-X? Zimbra has full support through OS-X Sync services.

More Organised, More Productive

Willing to take the leap? The advanced web client to read your email, share your documents, manage group schedules, access corporate and consumer web-services without ever having to leave your browser. Intuitively designed and extremely powerful, the webclient makes navigation a breeze.

Wires optional

Mobile user? With native support for Apple’s iPhone, Blackberry, Microsoft Mobile and a general Java client that works on all other mobile phones we’ve got you covered.

Easy to Share

Zimbra was designed to share – Everything. With an advanced permissions model that allows you to share information with just your co-workers, selected users outside the company and even public users.

Best-in Class Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam

We bundle MailProtectors Premium Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam with Zimbra as standard. Not an optional add-on. Clients also have full control over the email with the ability to setup custom filters and review mail marked as spam. See the demo

Safe and Secure

Vorari has chosen UKFast® as our trusted hosting provider, which means that you will benefit from their network uptime and reliability guarantees. UKFast bandwidth is uncontested and aggregated, guaranteeing 24x7 connectivity. Coupled with the most sophisticated network in the UK, UKFast has been named the ISPA's Best Hosting Provider for the last four years running. The company consistently ranks as one of the UK's fastest bandwidth providers, officially rated by industry monitor Webperf (we are listed by server name, GraphiteRack). All data is backed up every day and retained for a period of two weeks. We can optionally offer additional off-site retention through IronMountain.

SSL Security for all services

All services are available via SSL for peace of mind.

Reflects your Brand

We don’t dictate your domain name. We can help you set one up or migrate the mail part of your domain. We also offer mail on our domain as well if you prefer.

Adapts and Grows with your Business

Exchange’s architecture hasn’t really changed since the mid 80’s. Zimbra is a modern messaging and collaboration platform that can grow with you. Use only what you need and upgrade when you like. It was designed to work with existing clients but in particular to excel on the web. Unlike Outlook/Exchange Zimbra can easily accommodate large mailboxes with ease.

Web-Services Ready: Mashups

Zimbra supports Zimlets. Zimlets enable the Zimbra platform to connect to just about any data source on the internet using web services. Find out more.

Take Control

No one likes being dependent on IT - especially not for things you can handle yourself. (We're also impatient ourselves). Need to add a new account? Go for it. Need to reset a password? Set up an email alias? You have full control to an administrative portal to manage your users.

Grounded in open source and easily extensible, Zimbra goes above and beyond the capabilities of MS Exchange in several key areas:

Freedom of Client Choice: Anywhere, Any machine

Browser - Zimbra Ajax client
PC Client - Outlook (Online, Offline, Cached Mode), Apple Mail and iCal, Eudora, Evolution, Thunderbird/Sunbird, RSS, etc.
Mobile - Wireless devices "over the air" synchronization: Blackberry (in Beta), Palm, Nokia, Motorola, Good, PocketPC, etc.

Intuitive Message Management & Self-Organizing Mailboxes

Powerful, fast search (including messages and attachments)
Seach Builder. A simple "WYSIWYG" tool to make advanced queries
Saved searches across folders. Save favorite searches as "virtual" message folders
Conversation views across folders. Hides redundant messages that clutter up your inbox
Filters
RSS/ATOM feeds
Tags. "Tagging" automatically highlights email according to your criteria
Email Folder Sharing: Any folder in your inbox (including RSS feeds and subfolders) can be shared with others. You have the ability to provide read only-access or allow others to manage.

Comprehensive Calendaring

Complete resource & group scheduling with free/busy management and delegated access
Multiple calendar views
Multiple calendars per user; View multiple schedules as 'overlays' on your calendar, one click to toggle them on and off
Calendar sharing
Subscribe to external calendars in .ics format

The Ultimate 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

Powerful 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

Powerful Document Storage: Briefcase

Store all your important files in Briefcase instead of as email attachments, which can be saved in one click directly to a Briefcase folder.
Access files over the internet with WebDav support

Flexible & 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).

Productivity Enhancing "Mash-ups" using Zimlets.
Extensible model for linking message content to external web services and applications (expressable via hover-over and/or click). Use Zimlets to get single click access to calendar, contacts, maps, Salesforce, and more. Easily create new Zimlets for your unique needs.

Intranet - ERP, CRM, Support, Finance, HR, VoIP phone, etc.
Internet – Google/Yahoo Maps, Skype, Travel, Package Tracking, etc.

Power User Friendly

Quickly view/create calendar appointments while in mail
Quickly create/edit contacts while in mail
Quickly view sender’s website while in mail

IMAP & 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