Zimbra Collaboration Suite Projects: Overview
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This pilot evaluation has ended. These pages are no longer relevant for the proposed service. A production service is being deployed as University Collaboration Suite (UCS) beginning Summer 2011. Please see your ITS Consultant for more information. |
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The predominant features of interest are its email and calendaring systems, in addition to a high level of extensibility and customization. Another valuable feature is its ability to interoperate with Microsoft Exchange for calendaring functions, providing a nearly seamless joining of Windows clients, and Non-Windows clients, scheduling environments. This capacity, taken in view of minimal to non-existent support for the OS X and Linux platforms by the eCollaboration software offerings previously evaluated by ITS, has led to a number of departments, Colleges, and Organizations within the University expressing serious interest in ZCS.
ZCS is also being strongly considered as a replacement for the current University Calendaring Service, as Oracle has announced the end-of-life for their Oracle Calendar product in October 2011. To address this more pressing need for a calendar replacement, and simultaneously assess its viability as an eCollaboration platform, ITS has initiated a series of projects related to ZCS. In specific, one project relating to the financial viability has been completed, and two projects covering the technical viability are ongoing.
- Financial Assessment (Completed 05/07/2010)
- Integration and Feature Testing (Completed)
- Calendar Pilot (Completed 09/2010)
- HA Cluster Design and Testing (Ongoing)
- Production Migration (In-Planning)
This page will continue to be updated with further information, including links to relevant data, as the project continues.
