Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) vs Zimbra Email & Collaboration

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Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) is well suited for midrange environments. If you want to silo your communication and collaboration environment is easy to implement without effecting your datacenter environment (Storage,vCPU,vRAM). You have your own little island with the BE6000. And with a second pair, you could easily cluster your environment and have a redundant solution.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Zimbra is great for an email system for a medium or large organization with appropriate IT staffing. The system is easy to use for end-users, and has a fantastic web interface. Unfortunately, it is overly complex, when considering staffing requirements and price, when compared with Office 365 or Google Apps for smaller organizations. For other education customers, it is hard to compete with Microsoft and Google providing their services for "Free" now though

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Paul Chauvet

Information Security Officer

SUNY New PaltzHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Hosted PBX

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

User templates

Call reports

Directory of employee names

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Answering rules

Call recording

Call park

Call screening

Message alerts

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Video conferencing

Audio conferencing

Video screen sharing

Instant messaging

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Task Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Mobile Access

Search

Visual planning tools

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Surveys

Internal knowledgebase

Integrates with GoToMeeting

Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

Integrates with Outlook

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

Advanced security features

Integrates with Google Drive

Device sync

Pros

It helps with easy installation and setup for new office / migration.
Supports Hybrid Cloud and on-prem deployments.
Scalable Solution - catering to upgrade from a legacy platform.

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Verified User

Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Filter emails with specific information required.
Very good storage capacity.
Has a mobile version and another web.
It has a friendly and modern graphic interface.
It is compatible with all operating systems.

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EDUARDO SANDOVAL

Account Executive

TIGO COLOMBIATelecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Cost could always be lower, but you get a solid product for your investment
Licensing can still be confusing if you need multiple products on the appliance
Redundancy/DR

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Eric Taylor

VoIP Network Administrator

Penn State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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The password change is not activated when you access by IMAP, Pop3 or Exchange sync. You have to know that the password change is required and you must go to the website to do so.
The management of mail rules should have more checking options.
There should be more applications compatible with Zimbra, the ones that appear in the Zimlets.

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Eliz Marvic Melicio Carvajal

Coordinador de desarrollo de software

Ingeniería de Consulta IncostasOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

BE6K [is] not just a bare metal server ,it is [a] complete solution with its own management tools.

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Oleksandr Tsapenko

Business Development Manager/Product manager

Wise IT UkraineInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) 8.3

Based on 6 answers

Support for the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000) comes in the form of Cisco SmartNET or Cisco TAC Support. Cisco TAC Support thrives on providing an easy way to get support and they have never disappointed us, whether it was for hardware replacement or simple day-to-day questions that we needed answers to.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

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Zimbra Email & Collaboration 10.0

Based on 2 answers

It just works very well, solid solution for the deployment of communication, mail and messaging services that are agile and simple to use.

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Diego Gamez

Analista de Proyectos

Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Zimbra Email & Collaboration 8.0

Based on 2 answers

Overall, we were satisfied with the implementation. We perhaps should have spent more time consulting with Zimbra or others regarding best practices but as we got to know the system better we were able to make changes relatively easily after the fact.

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Paul Chauvet

Information Security Officer

SUNY New PaltzHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We couldn't get the MiCollab to work properly. It always crashed. With Mitel, we couldn't change our provider to someone else that had more capability and less cost.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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We selected Zimbra because it has a lower cost in the market, offers more development features for its open source, has a very easy to use interface and adjusts to the needs of the company.

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Alexander Palma Ibarra

Coordinador de Proyectos

IC CORPORATION VENEZUELATelecommunications, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

This system facilities upgrading legacy phone systems to VoIP and lowers the total cost of ownership with cost-effective, time-saving operations.
Faster deployment times, with pre-installed, ready to use applications.
Support for Hybrid Cloud helps easier migration to cloud, if necessary.

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Verified User

Contributor in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Since all of our ROI studies and strategies are performed at the corporate level, I'm really not sure what positive or negative impacts Zimbra has had on our overall business objectives. I can say that at least one positive impact it has on my business objectives, in the medical record department, is the ability to be as paperless as possible.

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Sam Massanopoli, RHIT Superstar

Health Information Manager

Peak ResourcesHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000)

Zimbra Email & Collaboration

Likelihood to Recommend