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.
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