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Zimbra for Education
Zimbra provides a state-of-the-art collaboration solution for modern-day educational environments. With the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, educational institutions can meet the highest-end needs of faculty and staff, while also taking advantage of innovative functionality, scalability, and cost efficiency that enables broad student and alumni populations to maximize their productivity.
Key user benefits:
- Fully integrated collaboration suite (email, address book, calendaring, document authoring, sharing, etc.) for maximum educational productivity via a single solution
- Rich, interactive web interface for complete functionality from campus, home, or any other PC location
- Over-the-air mobile device synchronization for "always on" access and productivity
- Broad compatibility with external collaboration clients (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail/iCal/Address Book/Entourage, Novell Evolution) for maximum user flexibility
- Modern collaboration techniques (e.g. RSS, VOIP, mash-ups, tags, advanced search) for efficient communication and data interaction
- Comprehensive and flexible sharing model, enabling sharing of address books, calendars, documents, or other content by class list, study group, research team, faculty department, etc.
- Collaborative document authoring for efficient work on group projects and assignments
Key administrator benefits:
- Deployment flexibility: software, appliance, or hosted
- Customizable and brandable user interface to enhance the educational brand
- Flexible web-based or command line administration
- Secure, ubiquitous user access with no required client-side administration or VPNs
- Native two-way synchronization with Outlook, Mac/Linux desktops, and a broad spectrum of mobile devices, enabling access across diverse user environments
- Native anti-spam (AS) and anti-virus (AV) protection
- Efficient storage management (e.g. single-copy message storage, hierarchical message storage), lowering the cost of services such as permanent alumni mailboxes
- Cross-mailbox search for litigation discovery, policy enforcement, and compliance
- Class of service based provisioning for segmenting functionality, quotas, etc. based on class of user
- Open source code for transparency, extensibility, and investment protection
- Modular server-side architecture with proven service-provider class scalability
- Standards-based protocols/interfaces and extensible mash-up framework (Zimlets) for seamless integration with external applications, directories, and web services/portals
- Optional ad serving framework for recouping system costs and/or nurturing merchant relationships
- Favorable educational pricing
Next Steps
If your business is interested in deploying the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, please fill out this brief form so we can follow up with you. You are also encouraged to either:
Most of all, we welcome your feedback on how we can work together to provide the best possible service to your organization.
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