Enterprise collaboration and online community software.
4.4/5 (72 reviews)Most popular features of all Collaboration apps
25 reviewers had the following to say about Zimbra Collaboration Suite's features:
Pros
- searching is great (as I remember it can search even inside archives) - good localization - intuitive UI/UX
Cons
- complicated backup flow - lack of mails management rules - lack of features in the mobile version
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I think that Zimbra is a perfect tool for emailing and management. Despite some issues, it is very easy to implement the service and it helps to communicate with customers and colleagues in the handiest way.
Pros
Zimbra is an open source software with an opportunity to send emails, keep contacts, and make notes in the calendar.
Cons
Thirdly, there might be some problems with data export and back up, because the software depends on servers.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We have control of the entire service and it allows us to function efficiently and quickly.
Pros
The account management console is very simple and easy to understand.
Cons
There is no way for the graphical administration interface to see the emails that are arriving and which is coming out, for purposes of tracking any particular activity with a user, it is difficult to do so quickly.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It does its job for us - provides us the corporate email & calendar while working on our servers. Otherwise, if you don't bother about privacy, you may consider GSuite instead.
Pros
- Full set of features required from a collaboration tool - Email, Calendar, Contact management - Integration with Apple devices (Apple Mail, Calendars)
Cons
- Poor web experience with Email - it screws up pasting images in the body of the email message - Sometimes calendar sends events from the past repeatedly (and yes, sends notifications whether you accepted that meeting one year ago once again)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It can also be used for data storage and sharing.
Pros
What I like the best about Zimbra are its splendid storage volume and the mobile version.
Cons
The Mobile Version of Zimbra can really use an upgrade, we can only send messages and cannot attach files.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I never had any issue to configure my email account on my mobile phones either through the MS Exchange protocol compatibility.
Pros
Easy for the users It has its own cloud-like file sharing feature It works on almost any kind of device through standalone clients or rich web client.
Cons
Being Linux based it might be a bit harder to set-up and configure for Microsoft oriented admins
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
It's easy to deploy, easy to be a admin and is very secure that is the real problem of the auto-admin mail systems.
Its diverse tools allow us to better plan our activities and keep us permanently communicated.
Pros
It is an easily accessible platform capable of integrating the most demanded requirements in an institution such as: mail, contacts, shared calendar and online documents. It is quite practical.
Cons
It is not the best option to integrate to mobile devices.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Simply Zimbra Collaboration Suite is the best way to stay connected in the institution where I work.
Pros
The biggest advantage offered by Zimbra Collaboration Suite is the ability to communicate with other users by integrating various tools such as email, contact book, task planning and calendar in a single software and with a very simple interface.
Cons
Although Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a great software, sometimes it presents operating problems that are resolved by closing and opening the browser from where you work.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It is an innovative email messaging and collaboration suite.
Pros
Fast organization and sharing. Integrates with several other tools.
Cons
The application for mobile devices has some flaws, among them, the loading of some thumbnails of the files that take a while.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It blocks the mails from the third party systems which are not trusted by this zimbra collaboration suite.
Pros
The progress of the task can be specified and the works to do further in regards to the task can also be specified. 6) A specified directory called brief case is available to store our files. 7) Zimlets are available to make the conversations between end to end users in a more formal, more interactive way. 8) Tags can be used to filter out the incoming mails that is to be called out in a particular category.
Cons
I didn't find any Cons. I find the working of this software Swift and smooth with no time lags while loading the incoming mails.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The deployment was easy, I was able to easily connect the server to our LDAP server and import all of our users.
Pros
They provide both ActiveSync and CalDAV/CardDAV access, which is important for us as a design company using mostly Mac computers.
Cons
The software itself is great. My only issue was for the few times I needed to reach out to Zimbra/Synacor's support, the response time was a bit slow (1-2 days). I assume if this had been an outage and had called in rather than only email my request, I would've received a faster response.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
- Functionality of sending and receiving mails - Appointments in Calendar - helped me in developing my basing understanding of mail clients - helped me in performing my daily work as our business runs through Zimbra
Pros
Functionality - availability of important basic functions like Calendar, Document Storage and mail backup is already there and is very easy to use . 4. ease - can be configured according to business requirements and use 5.
Cons
Cannot handle huge data and less storage space 4.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
In addition, it can be used to share documents online.
Pros
Version 8.8.15 of ximbra collaboration is much broader in terms of mobility for calendars and events in general.
Cons
The zimbra suite does not have many key functions for working with document editions directly in real time, or for the execution of discussion forums among our team employees.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Its a best application i can say over all a great experience in best price using since 4years no major issue that i experienced till now. It helps to keep the back up of all your important mails avoid spam mails and the best thing it is compatible with multiple devices and browsers.
Pros
It helps you to create calendars, create backup of important file and also easy document storage.
Cons
Sometimes we get bugs when any new update comes to fix that they really take long time which is the only drawback that i feel till now.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
With Zimbra it has been easier to encourage collaboration with different teams and team members.
Pros
This gives me the collaboration within my team using Zimbra and the features I've come to love in Outlook.
Cons
If you are use to the larger and more powerful collaboration suite known as Office 365, you'll be a bit disappointed with Zimbra.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Corporate email
Pros
Very good option for an institutional corporate email since it offers the basic functions for the management of work
Cons
It is very limited in certain options that have large email servers even in the capacity of shipments
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I like the easy installation and the web administrative console which can be used for many admin tasks. The Desktop app is great and easy to use.
Cons
Hard to customize the installation, lost data when I needed to migrate to another server. The API uses XML-RPC which is not easy to use, JSON is a lot easier.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Specially during the times we were connected to VPN, it used to easily work even in low or restricted network connectivity.It had easier and user-friendly User Interface, including refresh button, to force reload emails as per convenience.
Pros
1. Specially the optimized nature of it to work on limited or lower network connectivity like VPN, 2. Cost effective and Opensource nature.
Cons
It has sort of older look and feel compared to other open source email collaboration products.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
This is a useful program that solves your communication needs and helps keep you up to date with your emails, your meetings, and your daily tasks
Pros
You can filter e-mails by folders, and there is also a downloadable local version in case you need to work off-line.
Cons
It does not have a wide variety of themes.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Thanks to Zimbra I have been able to keep better communication with my teammates and at the same time I have improved my ability to plan thanks to the tools that this software has.
Pros
It has a very intuitive interface that makes this software an easy tool to use.
Cons
One aspect to improve is the interface design.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Our organization is based on Linux with end user using the same and we really don;t want to go MS Exchange option so we left with choices of Lotus Notes (Which is a very good yet expensive product), Novell groupwise and Zimbra.
Pros
It has very good Web base UI which is very easy to use.
Cons
The support is a bit so so maybe because of change of so many owners of the company. The web ui can use skin option to make it look and feel like different email platform in the market, e.g. if someone is use to outlook or gmail ui then a them/skin could provide that
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Zimbra Collaboration Suite has brought me many benefits professionally speaking.
Pros
What I like most about the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is that it groups several services in a single package.
Cons
I really do not find major flaws in this software. For a low price I think it covers very well the needs that can be presented to us in an office to keep communications.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I much preferred the presentation and management that the hotmail had a few years ago.
Pros
The general presentation menu is quite friendly to the eye., as well as its versatility to be used in cell phones.
Cons
The tricky process associated with downloading attachments compared to emails such as gmail or firefox.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
