Zimbra for Education
Email and Collaboration Solution
Zimbra provides a state-of-the-art messaging and collaboration solution for modern educational environments. Higher educational institutions are in the midst of upgrading legacy email systems to eliminate multiple email systems or to satisfy the needs of their students, faculty, staff, and alumni. With the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, educational institutions can meet the specific needs of faculty and staff. At the same time, taking advantage of innovative functionality, scalability, and cost efficiency that enables broad student and alumni populations to maximize their productivity.
What is Zimbra?
Zimbra, a VMware company, is the leader in open source, next generation messaging and collaboration software. Zimbra offers various open source solutions, in addition to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, to meet the enterprise community needs for a variety of industries, including education , businesses, and service providers. Zimbra is compatible with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary) including Linux and Mac OS X on the server side; Windows, Linux and Mac on the desktop; and Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers.
Advantages of Zimbra
With the belief that existing email and collaborating solutions are dated, Zimbra decided to create the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.The result of this creation is an innovative experience which solves many of the problems facing administrators and their end-users. Here are some of the key IT advantages of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:
- Better reliability through faster online move, backup and recovery of mailboxes
- Cost effective for your IT Department
- Easy to maintain with simplicity to integrate with active and existing directories
- Flexible use of web client, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple for email, contacts, and calendar
- Compatible with Windows, Apple and Linux computers
- Integrates your entire organization
- Streamlines your workflow and saves time
Constituent groups are demanding more features and functions. As well as many advantages of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for the IT department, Zimbra offers several advantages and must have features for the end user. Zimbra Collaboration Suite provides an elegant experience through innovative Ajax-based web client with
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Unicon Can Help
Direct Sales and Implementation as a Trusted Service Provider
As a Zimbra Value-Added Reseller (VAR), we understand the technology and will work with your institution to determine functional specification and integration needs, and then implement the most current version of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, ZCS will provide email and calendaring as part of the institution’s Web portal and other online campus services.Unicon has a proven track record of implementing open source technology solutions for higher education institutions.We understand the needs of higher education and believe that Zimbra is a great match for you.
Unicon Services for Zimbra
- Installation and Configuration
- Branding and User Experience
- Customization and Integration
- Hosting Solutions
- On-Premise
- Remote
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Unicon is an independent organization and is not responsible for any information provided by Zimbra, Inc.
The Power of Open Source
While the most prominent appeal of open source is that it is a low cost alternative to proprietary software, there are many other advantages to adopting open source technologies:
- Avoids vendor lock-in
- Easy to customize
- Promotes collaboration and innovation among peers
- Achieves economies of scale with community-based sharing and contribution
- Supports project, team, and code transparency
- Allows wide range of uses with open licensing
Advantages of Unicon
Leverage Unicon's experience with open source to reduce risk and ensure success. Our strengths include:
