Zimbra Social [EOL] Reviews

The most valuable features for our company are the Outlook Connector, which provides Exchange-like options, such as the global address list. The Outlook Connector can be configured as an Exchange account on phones (both Android and iOS). This provides access to the address list and calendar, dynamic distribution lists (which are automatically updated independently of given parameters), and LDAP authentication.

We are going to configure single sign-on so that corporate users will not need to enter their log-in credentials each time they try to access the web client from domain computers.

Before Zimbra, our company used Rackspace’s email system, which provides two options: Exchange accounts and IMAP accounts. Exchange accounts are expensive; so only a few managers had them. The rest of the employees had to use IMAP accounts, which only provide the local address list and calendar. These features were not synchronized with devices.

With Zimbra, we have resolved this issue. Now all employees have Exchange-like features.

Administration is the most valuable feature because it supports the settings, monitoring, and it enables the Zimbra Collaboration Plugins.

Zimbra Collaboration and Social Integration have broken the presumptions in our school that open source solutions are limited and not user-friendly.