Bring Together Email, Calendaring and Enterprise Applications
Zimbra offers an open source solution for enterprise-class email, calendar and collaboration, built for the cloud, both public and private. With a redesigned browser-based interface, Zimbra offers the most innovative messaging experience available today, connecting end users to the information and activity in their personal clouds.
A Smarter Mailbox reduces time spent finding important emails
- View inbox by message or by Conversation
- Drag and drop messages into folders or onto Tag(s)
- Share tags across applications and mailboxes
- Messages may have multiple Tags and act as ‘virtual folders’
- Instant filtering of direct messages, distribution lists, feeds, and notifications
- Move bulk or unimportant email out of Inbox to Activity Streams
Robust calendar designed for the enterprise
- Day, Week, Work Week, Month, List, Schedule Views
- Drag and drop events to change date, time or duration
- Toggle visibility and color code multiple schedules and events
- Mark events public, private, busy
- Tag events for faster organization, share them with email, contacts
- Multi-Tab Event Compose makes toggling between calendar and email unnecessary
- Invite attendees from Global Address List (GAL), view free/busy and set optional/mandatory
- Set start-stop and duration times, automatically adjusted for users in other time zones
- Choose locations, resources and add attachments
- Configurable pop-up, email and SMS reminders
- Fully customizable repeating event settings
Group Scheduling Wizard finds an optimal time/place for large meetings in seconds
- Preview invitees’ free/busy times
- View time / date by number of available invitees
- Auto-suggests next available time / locations
- One click to preview all available conference rooms at selected time
- Set building, floor and room capacity suggestion preferences
Delegate access to calendars and share calendars with peers
- Right-click a Calendar icon to share it within or outside your workgroup
- Grant others View, Manage or Administration rights
- Allow delegates to schedule and accept meeting invites ‘on behalf of’
- Publish Calendars publicly to the web and send anyone public ‘Free/Busy Links” to share your availability without having to sent explicit invites
- Smart views for managing multiple calendars
- Import any iCal feed or Google calendar into Zimbra Calendar to create a master free/busy view across work, club and personal calendars.
- Create new Calendars to add Holidays, Sports, Facebook or Google Calendar as feeds in Zimbra
- Set feed display color to easily tell them apart from work schedules
- Choose whether feeds will appear in your global free/busy status across the organization
Save time and frustration by not starting over
- Right-click an event to Create a Copy, which will preserve invitees, attachments and notes (such as dial in numbers)
- Edit copied event without worrying about affecting original event
- Use the Trash Folder to view and restore from a list of deleted events (storage retention policy is admin configurable)
Search all core applications with a dedicated search tab
Search all core applications with a dedicated search tab
- Search email, contacts, events, task and documents
- Search within email bodies and over 200 different attachment types
- Simple interface to quickly filter on common attributes or add complex logical operators
- Offline capability easily provided with Zimbra Desktop or similar standards-based client
Save common searches as a virtual Search Folder
- Folders can be defined by multiple attributes (eg individual + attachment + unread)
- Like normal Folders, they can be moved and grouped within other inbox folders
- Quickly define highly refined searches with Search Language or Visual Search Builder
Refine searches quickly and easily with Visual Search Builder
- Advanced Search module available in each core application
- Add widgets for meta or body content, attachment type, date, location, status, Tag, time and more
- Search results refresh in real-time and minimize trial and error
- Save searches as Search Folders
- Quickly create powerful sorting options such as “Unread Messages Today,” “PDFs sent Project Team” or “All attachments over 1MB” (to prune an inbox)
Enhance the End User Experience with Zimlets
- New functionality may consist of simple hovers (view maps, calendar schedules) or entirely new application tabs (Zimbra Social)
- Zimlets can call 3rd party data sources (WebEx) or internal back office systems (CRM)
- Administrators configure which Zimlets are available to users and they can further refine their usage preference within the deployed set
Messaging and Collaboration: Zimbra Collaboration Server can be shared internally or externally
- Share Inbox mail folders, Address Book contacts, Calendars, Tasks, Briefcase folders and files
- One standardized sharing UI, which is integrated with Global Address List (GAL)
- Choose internal (read, manage or administrative access) or external publishing (view only with password or public URL)
- Available settings to users are all Administrator configurable
Streamline folder sharing management as new users join an organization or distribution alias
- Find Shares in any core application and add folders previously shared to them or a distribution alias to which they belong
- Manage share history in Preferences by application and user, change permissions or revoke status
- Administrators may use the Admin Console to quickly enable share notifications
Integrated document management (Briefcase) eliminates the need for separate document management tools
- Upload multiple files of any file type in one step from the desktop to Briefcase
- Save email attachments direct to Briefcase instead of downloading to the desktop
- Attach files during Email Compose from Briefcase
- Share Briefcase folders with peers
Create personal or team Task Lists with due dates, priority and percent complete
- Quickly sort Task View by priority, status and past due
- Set reminders on Tasks and receive email Daily Digest of Tasks
- Rich text compose for details and attach files
- Tag Tasks for additional organization or to associate with projects common across Zimbra applications