We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and Zimbra Collaboration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Google Mail lets you link a task to a specific email and add a reminder. That's helpful for reviewing your schedule. It's based on Slack, so you don't have these folders like in Microsoft mail. Using Slack instead of folders is a bit more intuitive. It's easier to find again a specific email than using Microsoft Suite. If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of Google's search capability."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is email."
"Google integrates well with our system. G Suite has an open API, so you can connect any open system with Google capable of working with API. This is the main reason we use it."
"I think it is a great subscription for me. I think it is important, especially when making an internal email subscription. For example, I can easily create my colleague's email address, and we can use it. I benefited from G Suite. I am using the G Suite Drive, which provides 30GB of storage, and it is helping for me. I think it's better for me."
"The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward."
"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."
"The logs, troubleshooting, and tracking we have found to be the most valuable features. We have any issues with lost messages the features are useful. It is very easy to track and log."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra for our team's productivity is its efficiency in handling email communication."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is the cost."
"The configuration is simple."
"It has all collaboration features, such as document sharing, video conferencing, chatting, task sharing, and calendar sharing."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is email functionality."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"The backup and storage management features of Zimbra Collaboration are valuable."
"I believe that Sheets could have a more functional and user-friendly interface. Google Sheets currently lacks macros and cross file links which can be found in Excel."
"With the Internet of Things, a platform that integrates well with others would be even better."
"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."
"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly and improve its tools and features."
"Google Workspace needs to be more flexible, like Microsoft Excel."
"The user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better."
"Not all tools are available in the one facility."
"The antispam and antivirus features are hard to understand on mobile devices."
"The tool should improve its multi-cloud feature."
"Zimbra Collaboration could improve the migration from a basic solution to a more containerized solution. For example, the installation should be able to extend to the containers and manage them with some solution, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes."
"There are some security issues."
"It is good and competent, but you have to pay for video and group chat features."
"I can confidently say that Zimbra is good enough for 2,000 client users. But, at the same time, if my client needs more than that and we have two options—Zimbra or Microsoft—I'm going with Microsoft because many admins will speak to Microsoft's ability to handle that many."
"The product must be more customizable."
"Zimbra should provide a desktop client. Right now, we are using a web browser for accessing our emails. There should also be a desktop client."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while Zimbra Collaboration is ranked 4th in Email Applications with 28 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while Zimbra Collaboration is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zimbra Collaboration writes "Provides good email capability; lacking in security and performance". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Google Drive Enterprise, whereas Zimbra Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Open-Xchange, IceWarp, KerioConnect and Microsoft Exchange Online. See our Google Workspace vs. Zimbra Collaboration report.
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