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Bring Together Email, Calendaring and Enterprise Applications

VMware Zimbra is an enterprise-class email, calendar and collaboration solution built for the cloud, both public and private. With a redesigned browser-based interface, Zimbra offers the most innovative messaging experience available today, connecting end users to the information and activity in their personal clouds.

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OVERVIEW

Messaging and Collaboration for the Post-PC Era

  • Connect users to their personal clouds with a smarter mailbox that integrates email, voice, tasks, address book, calendar, files and enterprise applications
  • Choose multiple deployment options: in a private cloud as a virtual appliance or hosted in the public cloud
  • Out-of-the-box integrated click-to-call, visual voicemail, chat and presence
  • Stay connected anywhere on any smartphone or other device with automatic sync
  • Work online or offline with Zimbra Desktop or clients such as Microsoft Outlook
  • Integrate with external directories for authentication, address lists and provisioning
  • Operate at a lower total cost-of-ownership (TCO) than comparable legacy platforms

Advanced, Integrated Web Experience

  • Boost productivity with an innovative, recently enhanced robust browser-based interface
  • New dedicated search tab with common and easy-to-customize filters
  • Easily send and receive authenticated and encrypted email messages
  • Productive document management, check in/out, instant sharing of documents and folders
  • Calendar wizard finds optimal group meeting times and is interoperable with Microsoft Exchange 2007 / 2010
  • Transform Zimbra into a customized “collaboration hub” by integrating external applications and web services – such as Facebook, Twitter, Socialcast and enterprise applications including Oracle and SAP

Flexible Deployment Options and Virtualization-Ready

  • Option to deploy as a Zimbra Collaboration Server natively on hardware or virtualized or deployed as a software virtual appliance
  • Deploy Zimbra on-premises or as a Cloud service from a VMware hosting partner
  • Fully supports multi-tenancy and delegated administration for hosting and service providers
  • Role-based delegated administration to create domain or limited administration settings per account
  • Zimbra leverages high availability, disaster recovery and backup from VMware vSphere
  • Smartcard and Common Access Card authentication

Integrated Unified Communication

  • Out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel for click-to-call, visual voicemail, call record history, presence and instant messaging
  • Extend Zimbra to work with other third-party unified communication solutions through the Zimbra SDKS

Anywhere Mobility

  • Synchronization to iOS (iPhone, iPad), Windows and Android-based smart phones and tablets
  • Use any BlackBerry smartphone with Zimbra via Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
  • Manage security policies and remote device wipe, PINs and device management features on user accounts
  • Rich browser-based experience for Zimbra email, contacts, calendar and files on any xHTML-capable device

Zimbra Desktop and Desktop Clients

  • Get the same powerful Zimbra experience offline with Zimbra Desktop, the free email client for Windows, Mac or Linux desktops.
  • Aggregates Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Hotmail and other POP/IMAP accounts
  • Sync Gmail, Yahoo! Address Book and Calendar
  • MAPI synchronization to outlook 2003/2007/2010 with full delegate, offline access and support for S/MIME

Simplified Administration

  • Simplified task-oriented AJAX Web Administration Console enables anywhere administration
  • Integrated anti-Spam, antivirus and directory services (LDAP, Active Directory)
  • Real-time mailbox backup and restore; native hierarchical storage management (HSM)
  • Cross-mailbox discovery and archiving for regulatory compliance
  • Manage end-user features, quotas, storage policies via Class-of-Service (CoS)
  • Migration Wizards enable customers to rapidly and easily migrate from Microsoft Exchange and Domino environments to the Zimbra

Zimbra Email Features

Zimbra Email Features:

A Smarter Mailbox reduces time spent finding important emails

  • View inbox by message or by natural Conversation View
  • Drag and drop messages into folders or onto Tag(s)
  • Share tags across applications and mailboxes
  • Messages may have multiple Tags and act as ‘virtual folders’
  • Instant filtering of direct messages, distribution lists, feeds, and notifications
  • Move bulk or unimportant email out of Inbox to Activity Streams

Email Compose Tabs eliminate the need for new windows with every message

  • Multiple email compose or calendar event tabs may be open at the same time
  • Tabs simplify context switching between email and calendar
  • Rich compose with cut and paste from desktop apps and inline images
  • Attach file multiple files at once from either your computer or Briefcase
  • Autocomplete to contacts in your personal or Global Address List (GAL)

Integration of email, contacts and calendar makes toggling between them unnecessary

  • Preview your daily schedule next to a meeting invite in Email.
  • Drag a message onto the Email Calendar Widget to automatically create a meeting with the email recipients, including any attachments and email notes
  • Drag a message onto Contact Collector to add all message recipients to your Address Book

Recover gracefully with Undo Send, Restore Email and Scheduled Delivery

  • Choose a default delay time between 2 – 20 seconds for messages to be actually sent through the mail queue after hitting the Send button
  • In the Trash folder you may Recover Deleted Items for up to 30 days (administrator configurable)
  • From the Send button drop-down select at future date, time and even time zone to send an email to one or more recipients

Simple sharing with Delegated Access to inbox or folders

  • Right click on your inbox, a folder or sub-folder and share it within or outside your workgroup (administrators may disable public share if security policy does not allow it)
  • Grant others View, Manage or Administration rights
  • Allow delegates to reply ‘on behalf of’
  • Share message folders for specific use cases, such as only correspondences about the “Q2 Customer Appreciation Dinner”.