Stack Overflow for Teams is a team knowledge management and Q & A platform for development billed per teammate, featuring roles and permissions, and integrations with popularly used collaboration tools.
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Zimbra
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Zimbra is an email and collaboration platform and productivity suite that includes contacts, calendar, tasks, chat and file sharing, plus videoconferencing, document editing, and file storage.
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Pricing
Stack Overflow for Teams
Zimbra by Synacor
Editions & Modules
Basic
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Business
$14
per month per teammate (unlimited)
Enterprise
Custom
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Stack Overflow for Teams
Zimbra
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Discount available for annual pricing.
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Features
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Project Management
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Stack Overflow for Teams
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Ratings
Zimbra by Synacor
9.0
6 Ratings
15% above category average
Task Management
00 Ratings
9.86 Ratings
Gantt Charts
00 Ratings
8.13 Ratings
Scheduling
00 Ratings
9.85 Ratings
Workflow Automation
00 Ratings
7.23 Ratings
Mobile Access
00 Ratings
9.76 Ratings
Search
00 Ratings
9.86 Ratings
Visual planning tools
00 Ratings
8.53 Ratings
Communication
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Zimbra by Synacor
6.6
9 Ratings
19% below category average
Chat
00 Ratings
7.07 Ratings
Notifications
00 Ratings
5.38 Ratings
Discussions
00 Ratings
2.07 Ratings
Surveys
00 Ratings
7.72 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase
00 Ratings
7.73 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting
00 Ratings
7.63 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
00 Ratings
8.04 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook
00 Ratings
7.53 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
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In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees.
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
Zimbra's mobile application leaves much to be desired; it is its weakest point.
This forces the use of third-party applications on smartphones, which only offer a more or less complete integration with the ActiveSync protocol.
Zimbra allows for an on-premise scenario, which is not for everyone, especially considering that the trend nowadays is to outsource email; in any case, it also offers this alternative.
The cost of Zimbra as a SaaS solution comes too close to that of more widely adopted competing options.
Zimbra lacks a robust integrated chat system, which its competitors offer.
The web usability of the solution is adequate, with all functions integrated into a single interface. However, it is important to note that in the desktop environment, it lacks its own application and relies on ActiveSync synchronization with reference solutions like Outlook or Thunderbird. Some features, such as the briefcase, will be excluded. The same happens on smartphones.It is also common for competing solutions to include integrated chat or video call tools, which Zimbra lacks. These shortcomings are among the most frequently requested by users.
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.
It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content.
Zimbra is a significantly cheaper option than one of the Microsoft solutions, such as Exchange. It is able to run in a free environment, as it is in the case of Linux. It offers the advantages of a powerful mail manager, such as indexed searches and the integration of contacts and notes, all in one platform. It is constantly updated and the operation of its connection in mobile equipment is remarkable and very efficient. Additionally, it is able to easily integrate with Outlook solutions with its connector, which brings all the benefits of Zimbra to the user under the interface known as "mail manager." So far, I have been using Zimbra for several years and I have not missed my previous work platforms.
Zimbra is a cheaper email service than other similar platforms and in my point of view offers better features, that's why the company migrated services to this platform several years ago and without a doubt, it has been the best investment.
Zimbra has a more user-friendly interface for employees, this has improved response times to external customers of the company.
The implementation of Zimbra in the company motivated the IT engineering department to make improvements in open source to adapt it to the needs of the company.
