Microsoft Exchange Online vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"The features of Microsoft Exchange Online are very intuitive and well-built, keeping the user experience in mind. The usability and the accessibility are the best aspects of this solution."

"Its most valuable feature is the unlimited storage. It also has very little downtime."

"It helps us manage the email focus from our side."

"The solution is easy to use and the cloud version has taken a lot of challenges away from the user."

"I like that Exchange Online is easy to use and that I do not need to maintain the previous Exchange Server. I also do not need to worry about the security of the Exchange Server. If there are any issues, then it will be the service provider's problem and not mine."

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

"I have found the interface to be user-friendly and the overall simplicity valuable features."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange Online are spam filtering, 50 GB of email storage, good integration with Outlook, and ease of management."

"Zimbra Collaboration has integrated a lot of their party tools and they have good documentation available."

"The solution is easy to implement."

"The stability is good and keeps getting better with each new update."

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

"The product is easy to set up."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is the cost."

"The most valuable feature is sending messages as well as text and documents. It's a big solution for us since internal communication is a must in our organization."

"The backup and storage management features of Zimbra Collaboration are valuable."

"What I don't like about Microsoft Exchange Online is too much integration because now it has many services connected to it. In the beginning, it was just email, and now it's also Teams and Visio, and many other services which I don't like. Microsoft Exchange Online should focus on one service. The product now lost focus, and this is its area for improvement. I would also like more freedom in choosing to use just one service, for example, just Microsoft Exchange Online, which means I don't need Teams or any other Microsoft product or service there. Right now, all services are either in the Microsoft Office suite, or there are more products or services integrated with Microsoft Exchange Online, and I'd like to just focus on one."

"The ActiveSync services and the mapping services could be improved."

"Functionality wise, I can't really say it's improved from Exchange Online, I think it's not so much change on-premise. It's about the same. Other than that, it's the extra features that make a difference, really"

"The pricing could be cheaper."

"I would like to have the option to have my electronic signature posted on my emails by default. I am able to add it manually but cannot get it by default."

"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."

"The solution’s pricing could be better."

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

"They should enhance its online meeting features."

"File sharing permissions with Nextcloud integration need improvement."

"It is good and competent, but you have to pay for video and group chat features."

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

"It would be great if a group chat feature were created to allow for a team environment."

"There are some security issues."

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

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution."

"I would give the cost a five out of ten."

"My company needs to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product. I feel that the price of the product is affordable."

"The subscription fee is monthly."

"I find it reasonably priced."

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

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"I pay approximately $120 or $150 per year, and as long as I pay that amount, they will do regular updates so that I always have the most recent and greatest version of the application."

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

"I use Zimbra Collaboration's community version. We may move to the enterprise version since prices are affordable."

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

"We do not pay for licenses to use this solution."

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

"There is an annual standard licensing fee to use Zimbra Collaboration and there is no other cost."

"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."

"We pay yearly licenses for Zimbra Collaboration."