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Zimbra Collaboration Suite
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) provides state-of-the-art messaging and collaboration solutions (email, address book, calendaring, web documents, etc.) to either deploy on your own premises, or via a hosting partner.ZCS has much to offer to business users.
Higher end-user productivity
- Rich Web 2.0/Ajax user interface with sharing, search, RSS, VoIP, tagging, etc.
- Wiki-based collaboration for simple document/spreadsheet authoring, ad hoc
- Extensible mash-up/portlet architecture (Zimlets) for easily integrating intranet applications and Internet web services.
- Support for a broad range of email clients (Microsoft Outlook, Apple, Linux) and mobile devices via "over the air" sync.
sharing, and inclusion of desktop documents/public folders.
Low total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Web and mobile delivery to accommodate IT and non-IT (or boundary) workers at the lowest possible cost.
- Software appliance for decreased administrative overhead.
- Server consolidation based on scalability and increased functionality (native mobility, collaboration, archiving, etc.).
- Volume and hierarchical storage management (HSM), as well as a single-copy message store to accommodate large quotas on  commodity storage.
- Cross-mailbox search for litigation discovery, policy, and compliance.
- Native anti-spam (AS) and anti-virus (AV).
- Strong internet-based security (SSL/TLS for all protocols) that does not require a VPN, and supports single sign-on via business’s portal
- Class of service provisioning for all major features.
At the same time, Zimbra also uniquely protects your business’s investment:
- ZCS is itself open source.
- ZCS leverages mature open source server infrastructure – Linux/Unix file system for the message store, MySQL for meta-data storage, Apache for web container, Lucene for search, etc. (See the Zimbra Architecture Overview for more detail.)
- ZCS supports standard protocols for interoperability – POP3, IMAP4, iCalendar, HTTP/S, REST, RSS, MAPI, iSync, and so on.
- All ZCS operations and network protocols use open XML/SOAP for easy bi-directional integration with business applications (whether on-premises or hosted).
- Integration with existing LDAP/Active Directory, security (AS/AV), and compliance infrastructure.
- Zimbra uses standard MIME format for storing messages on disk (one message/file), which means the formats are open to operating system utilities and scripts.
- Zimbra worked in collaboration with IBM to co-found the Open Ajax Alliance to ensure that Web 2.0/Ajax solutions like Zimbra remain viable across clients, operating systems, browsers, and languages, just as is the case for the World-wide Web.