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Zimbra Email & Collaboration

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What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration?

Zimbra offers social collaboration software.

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Zimbra Email & Collaboration has proven to be a valuable tool for various user groups and organizations. For faculty staff, departments, …
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Popular Features

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  • Document collaboration (8)
    7.0
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  • Versioning (8)
    7.0
    70%
  • Video files (8)
    7.0
    70%
  • Audio files (8)
    7.0
    70%

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What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration?

Zimbra offers social collaboration software.

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  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Zimbra 8 Admin Demo

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Zimbra 8 End User Demo

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

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Avg 7.8

Communication

Features that allow team members to communicate about collaborative projects and keep each other informed of their opinions and progress.

7.6
Avg 8.0

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

7.5
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration?

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. Built on an open source core, it features a modern interface, pre-integrations with popular third-party apps like Zoom, Slack and Dropbox, and can be deployed in the cloud or in on-prem and hybrid environments. Enterprises, governments, financial institutions, service providers and remote teams around the world rely on Zimbra to support complex privacy, data sovereignty and security requirements. The vendor states Zimbra powers hundreds of millions of mailboxes on desktop and mobile devices in more than 140 countries, and is offered by more than 500 BSPs and 2,000 channel partners. Also available now for small and medium-sized business is Zimbra Cloud, starting at $2.95 per month for 30 GB of storage.

Zimbra Email & Collaboration Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: File tracking
  • Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools

Communication Features

  • Supported: Chat
  • Supported: Notifications
  • Supported: Discussions
  • Supported: User directory and online status
  • Supported: Sharing and privacy
  • Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders

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Zimbra Email & Collaboration Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Zimbra offers social collaboration software.

Zoho Mail, Webex Calling, and Google Meet are common alternatives for Zimbra Email & Collaboration.

Reviewers rate Task Management and Scheduling and Search highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Zimbra Email & Collaboration are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Zimbra Email & Collaboration has proven to be a valuable tool for various user groups and organizations. For faculty staff, departments, and programs in educational institutions, Zimbra offers individual and shared email accounts along with collaborative features like shared calendars and address books. This allows for seamless coordination, meeting invitations, and conference scheduling among teachers, students, and workers. With the ability to store contacts and provide visibility into availability, Zimbra facilitates easy integration of new meetings and conferences.

In the corporate world, Zimbra serves as a reliable platform for email communication, contact management, and file sharing within a group of companies. Its multi-domain support and versatile management options cater to users regardless of their location. By enhancing collaboration through email communication, file sharing, task control, and event invitations, Zimbra improves overall productivity and promotes seamless communication between teams.

Moreover, Zimbra is also used as a white-label reseller platform, providing coordination, collaboration, and messaging capabilities for the entire organization. Its cost-effectiveness makes it an attractive alternative to other solutions like G Suite for organizations with large teams. The intuitive graphical interface of Zimbra ensures that it is user-friendly and easy to navigate while integrating smoothly with other applications.

Overall, Zimbra's versatility makes it an essential tool for solving communication problems across various industries by allowing seamless access to emails on different devices. Its structural organization of agendas and timetables improves efficiency and accessibility while promoting sharing and collaboration within teams. Additionally, the task feature in Zimbra enhances productivity by expediting work processes for users.

User-Friendly Web Interface: Users have consistently praised the highly user-friendly web interface of Zimbra, surpassing even thick clients like Outlook. Several reviewers have mentioned that they find the interface intuitive and easy to navigate, resulting in a positive overall experience.

Simplified Administration: Administrators appreciate that Zimbra is relatively easy to maintain and administer compared to other locally hosted environments such as Exchange. The simplified management process and reduced complexity are highly valued by multiple users.

Powerful Scripting Interface and API: Many users have expressed their satisfaction with the availability of a powerful scripting interface and RESTful API in Zimbra. They highlight how this feature allows them to write scripts and automate account management tasks, leading to enhanced efficiency and productivity.

High Availability and Bug Fixes: Some reviewers have expressed their dissatisfaction with Zimbra's multi-server environment, stating that it needs improvement in terms of high availability and bug fixes. They feel that these areas could be better optimized to enhance the overall performance and reliability of the software.

Technical Support Experience: Several users have mentioned that they are not satisfied with the technical support provided by Zimbra. They have reported that their experiences over the past two years have been less positive compared to previous interactions. This suggests a decline in the quality or effectiveness of Zimbra's technical support services.

Limited Functionality on Mobile App: Reviewers have noted that the mobile version of Zimbra lacks certain functionalities when compared to its web counterpart. Specifically, features like file attachments and online chat are missing, making the mobile app too basic for some users' needs. This limitation hampers productivity when accessing emails on-the-go.

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Because Zimbra Email & Collaboration has a free option, you have to set it up a lot more for your company. When M365/google or others are just plug and play and a lot easier to set up for most organizations. It makes sense from the stand point of trying to save money and then wanting a great email provider.
Mochammad Zachri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zimbra Email & Collaboration service is well suited when you are in a small to large teams, somewhere around 20 - 100. It covers the purpose of team collaboration, it has many rich features, it supports many integrations with another 3rd party. It's more than just an email provider, but less than something like G Suite.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nowadays, it is a very welcome tool because it helps perfectly with team collaboration [and] sending files quickly. [It provides] great availability because it is easy to access from anywhere in the world. Some integration options with some other applications also help. The tools of agenda, tasks and calendars are very useful and easy to use and that today make all the difference when we want agility.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As I mentioned before, Zimbra has two versions - one web and another mobile. The mobile version is ideal for quick and short messages that only contain letters, as they can be read on any cell phone, the web version is ideal for the office where the messages are more careful and complete and should contain more information.

Zimbra is not good to use as an online chat tool.
Eliz Marvic Melicio Carvajal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is ideal for companies that wish to have their own control of their mail service and the management of their messages and contacts because it allows a complete administration of these systems. When it comes to a group of companies who want to manage different domains, the ideal is to have your own mail platform. ZImbra is also suited when you have to save costs. Although you pay for licenses, you have the possibility to pay as you go and therefore do not have to invest in this service for a long time. It is also suited for when companies, such as Venezuelan ones that have limitations to make payments or investments in USD or EUR, have a much harder time using expensive cloud systems.


Alexander Palma Ibarra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
One of the most outstanding capabilities of Zimbra is the low cost in the administration and implementation of the system. Zimbra creates a copy of the email and attachments per server, instead of an email per user. It supports anti-spam and existing infrastructures, has an efficient text comprehension system in emails, can review the content from any computer, at any time and with a web interface is very easy to operate.
Sam Massanopoli, RHIT Superstar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zimbra is well suited as a communication tool. I also use it for data storage and data sharing. It is easy to create distribution groups and make changes to the signature line. I'm hard pressed to come up with any scenarios where it is less appropriate.
Vinicius Lima | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zimbra is well suited to environments that need a collaboration suite to improve users' and teams' integration and productivity. You can rely on Zimbra Collaboration Suite features to work together in different projects without messing things up. Keeping everything organized is very important in these situations.

If you have a large environment you will probably feel that Zimbra administration can be difficult. You have to use a lot of command-line integration to configure it properly and to maintain routines. So be prepared to do that. If you want more friendly administrative tools Zimbra may not be totally suitable to your needs.
Paul Chauvet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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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