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 Yahoo! 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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New Hosting Services Options
Maintain your email system on-premise or outsource hosting?
While it is becoming popular to outsource student and alumni email, the issue remains as to what to do with faculty and staff email. Delivering one email system to the students and another to the faculty and staff creates undesired complexity and cost for the IT department. Now there is a better way.
Zimbra's Hybrid Hosting Solution
In response to the needs of higher education, Zimbra introduces its new Hybrid Hosting solution combination. Zimbra’s New Hybrid Hosting Model offers the following advantages:
- Delivering ONE messaging and collaboration system to all constituents
- Several hosting options with the ability to run on-premise or to outsource
- Intellectual Property, owned by the institution, travels on the collaboration platform
- Student data and information collected cannot be shared with third parties
- APIs for importing and exporting email, address book and calendar
- Commitment to maintain 99%+ uptime when hosted by Zimbra
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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.
Advantages of Unicon
As a consulting and systems integration company, Unicon provides. Domain Expertise in Higher Education, by offering educational institutions with ‘best-fit’ open source solutions to IT business challenges.Unicon has provided learning technology services and solutions to over 175 clients Unicon has a Commitment to Open Source by participating and contributing to various community organizations while providing services for open source and community source solutions.Unicon is dedicated to hire Experienced People with diverse backgrounds and knowledge, who bring proven abilities for large scale projects.In addition, Unicon prides themselves on having Large Company Abilities, Small Company Values, through large-scale consulting capabilities, but offering the personalized relationships of a small company.At Unicon, our top priority is to understand your institutions future vision, in addition to, your current challenges.Together we choose a solution that is right for you.
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
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