Features and Benefits
Scalar Managed Zimbra offers the following innovative features and benefits:
Rich Email features, including Tagging, Conversation Views and Fast Search to make email manageable.
Contact Management to allow personal and global address lists to be shared across the entire organization.
Group Calendars with global free-busy times and Microsoft Exchange interoperability to ensure your colleagues can plan efficiently. Personal calendars also have the same shared functionality. Notifications and reminders can be sent via SMS or email. Zimbra also comes pre-installed with a WebEx Zimlet that allows users to save a Calendar meeting also as a WebEx meeting without having to ever login to WebEx. Zimbra does the work automatically and provides the dial-in information and WebEx URL to peers who receive the Zimbra meeting invite.
Sharing and Document Management is made easy with the ability to share files and folders throughout the organization and manage workflow in email through Tasks.
Over-the-air sync to iPhone, BlackBerry, Android or any mobile web browser allows you to offer increased mobility throughout your organization, enabling and empowering teleworkers.
Desktop Sync allows “work offline” mode with any email client like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird or Zimbra Desktop. Zimbra Desktop aggregates information across accounts (Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) and social networks (Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.) to help make communicating and sharing information easier than ever.
Comprehensive anti-spam and anti-virus filtering ensures your organization is protected from viruses and unsolicited email.
Industry leading storage quota of 7GB per user.
Backup and DR/Restore allows you to enjoy complete protection with a combination of full and incremental backups of all data stored within Zimbra for a 28-day retention period. Additionally, users can self-restore previously deleted data, reducing IT helpdesk requests.
Zimlets Zimbra’s open standards and technologies provide the flexibility to integrate new applications as “tabs” or mash-ups in the user experience (such as Salesforce.com, LinkedIn, Facebook or your internal back-office systems like Oracle). These “Zimlets” are embeddable directly within the Zimbra web client, enabling your organization to do more and create custom workflows without opening another application.
Optional Extras
BES – Blackberry Enterprise Server
Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (ZCB) provides seamless, real-time synchronization of Zimbra user mailbox data to BlackBerry devices. This solution allows BlackBerry users to access Zimbra with the native BlackBerry applications for mail, calendar & address book and enables Zimbra Administrators to manage BlackBerry usage from BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
Key features include:
- Over-the-air synchronization of mail, address book and calendar
- Access to Zimbra GAL
- Search messages
- Open and view attachments
- Create calendar appointments & meetings
- Accept & decline meeting invitations
- Ability to add/provision users in the BlackBerry Administration Console
Archive and Discovery
Archiving and compliance is the reality for today's organization (SOX, HIPAA, FRCP, corporate governance) but it can be a costly and time-consuming proposition. Many legacy solutions require expensive hardware and specialized administrative expertise, and are difficult to use. The increased strain on your team and budget typically means lower compliance levels and ultimately results in liability.
Scalar Managed Zimbra fully supports Archiving and Discovery; it is available as an optional licensed add-on to Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Archiving and Discovery is:
- Integrated- it's much easier to use one combined email and archive system than bolt on and learn totally different 3rd party software.
- Comprehensive- powerful search indexing of all meta data and over 200 different attachments types.
- Simple to use - Zimbra search is an elegant way to manage complex discovery compared to basic text search.
- Cost effective - more efficient server (3-5x better than industry) means less hardware plus Zimbra HSM architecture works well with utility storage.
Managed Zimbra for Edu
Most Universities across the country are taking a serious look at outsourcing their email systems. Reasons include:
- reduced costs
- improved availability
- reduced redundancy
- ability to refocus IT resources on delivering higher value solutions and integration
Scalar Managed Zimbra can help you with the challenges of running, managing and maintaining your current email environment.
Read about our work with the University of Guelph here.
Why Scalar?
- Scalar is Zimbra’s #1 Canadian partner and their only partner offering hosted solutions. We have the largest number of Zimbra-hosted mailboxes in Canada.
- We are a highly successful solutions integrator with annual double-digit growth, as evidenced by our debut at # 21 on the PROFIT 100 ranking in 2010.
- We have unparalleled experience designing, deploying and managing large email systems.
- We’ve been delivering cloud services for over four years and hosting Zimbra customers for the past three.
- Scalar Managed Zimbra is a 100% Canadian Hosted and Managed Solution, allowing you to keep your IP in Canada.
- We offer 7x24 Help desk and system monitoring.
- We have flexible deployment models for on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud.
- We have strong relationships and significant expertise with our key partners:
- VMware Gold Partner
- NetApp Platinum Partner
- EMC Velocity Advantage Partner
- And not forgetting, #1 Zimbra partner in Canada!
