Microsoft Exchange Online vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"Exchange Online doesn't just do email, it allows for collaboration with inbuilt chat and calling facilities and document sharing."

"A valuable feature of the solution is its global usability."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is it helps the IT department with problems."

"Exchange Online's performance and stability are very good."

"It has helped us because we don't have to worry about servers crashing."

"Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to-use solution."

"The product enables us to have remote meetings."

"The most valuable feature is the cloud environment."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra for our team's productivity is its efficiency in handling email communication."

"One of the premium features was customized rooms tailored to the collaboration needs. Many of the clients customize features such as organization logos and scanners."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is email functionality."

"Zimbra Collaboration's sharing features are most valuable."

"A lot of other products like Microsoft Exchange offer email or collaboration features, but they are not as fast as Zimbra."

"Good email solution and it's open-source."

"The solution is easy to implement."

"The web interface is powerful and easy to use."

"The solution’s pricing could be better."

"We'd like to see more integration with other platforms."

"This product is too complex to use."

"When initially setting up, it took a bit of time because we had a lot of PST files with the users, and we had to migrate them batch by batch."

"Using this solution is initially quite complicated."

"For example, recently there were some spam incidents that Microsoft does not currently mitigate because they have another paid solution to do so. It would be nice to integrate the security and the anti-spam (i.e. the fake links, etc.) along with the Exchange Online default."

"There is room for improvement in terms of security, as it could be better."

"The interface is a bit confusing."

"Some issues cause the solution not to function correctly or to cause downtime once a month."

"In the next release, Zimbra Collaboration should include a security feature to allow access for mobile device administrators."

"The antispam and antivirus features are hard to understand on mobile devices."

"The product must be more customizable."

"The new patches are, at times, not so good, so we don't install them, causing the tool to be not so stable overall."

"Zimbra Collaboration's video conferencing could be improved."

"I would like to see a Microsoft schedule function added."

"File sharing permissions with Nextcloud integration need improvement."

"The pricing for this solution is good. We renew our contract every three years. I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."

"The cost is around $12 to $16 per user."

"The subscription fee is monthly."

"The product is very cheap."

"There is a license required for the solution and it is paid annually."

"The price of the solution could be less expensive."

"We pay per user per year for the cluster with over a thousand users."

"I think that the price is a little high, especially considering that Google have a similar, free email solution."

"Zimbra Collaboration is less expensive than Microsoft Exchange. Zimbra works for small companies because it is not expensive. Zimbra Collaboration has more security tools than Microsoft Exchange. If you are choosing between Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange, you have to take into account the cost of security tools with Microsoft Exchange. When you purchase Microsoft Exchange, you will also have to purchase tools for security, which adds to the cost. The migration from Zimbra Collaboration to another email solution is very simple and easy. Migration from Microsoft Exchange to another email solution is very difficult. Microsoft doesn't allow migration that easily. In fact, you have to pay for tools to do that. You have to buy some expensive tools to migrate."

"If you choose the network edition, it is a little pricier. They have the open-source edition too which is only community supported."

"When it comes to the licensing of Zimbra Collaboration, my license covers the servers and I find its terms to be much simpler than those of Microsoft Exchange."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the price a four"

"The price of the solution is low."

"The solution is not expensive compared to other products."

"We are using perpetual licenses. We have deployed it in our local data center, and we buy perpetual licenses on a per-user basis."

"The solution is competitively priced."