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."G Suite is a powerful suite of tools for messaging and collaboration that has met the fundamental needs of my company, both increasing productivity and reducing costs."
"Valuable features of the solution are that it's simple and effective."
"I use Keep to assign tasks to a team of programmers, which is very easy."
"The features we use quite a lot are the mail and Google Drive. We can store documents and share documents between both employees here, locally in Sweden, and we have an office in the US as well. It's a very easy way to share information and documents, and have online meetings and stuff with Google Meet. We use it quite a lot."
"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."
"The calendar is the most valuable feature."
"Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner."
"When it comes to email, Google has a very good anti-spam engine or solution. We get very less spams. We don't have to use an external anti-spam solution with this."
"The Zimbra Collaboration's most valuable feature is web access."
"Zimbra Collaboration's sharing features are most valuable."
"Zimbra Collaboration is a good tool for video calls...Zimbra Collaboration's initial setup phase was easy."
"Zimbra Collaboration's best feature is its compatibility with Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, which allows users to use Outlook on Windows or MacOS."
"The product is easy to set up."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"It has all collaboration features, such as document sharing, video conferencing, chatting, task sharing, and calendar sharing."
"A lot of other products like Microsoft Exchange offer email or collaboration features, but they are not as fast as Zimbra."
"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."
"Better integration without visual misrepresentation with the Microsoft suite is required."
"The initial setup is not intuitive at all."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly and improve its tools and features."
"Google Workspace has limitations as a document or file management system. Without a workspace account, manual actions are required to perform tasks such as managing groups of people. Additionally, managing permissions individually is a time-consuming and inefficient process. It's difficult to articulate, but the process is not very streamlined."
"G Suite is not as powerful as Microsoft Office Suite, so sometimes we have to change to Excel and PowerPoint."
"We need more functionality with Google Sheets"
"There's a bit of a learning curve."
"The solution could improve by making it easier to use."
"There are some security issues."
"It is good and competent, but you have to pay for video and group chat features."
"The installation is not straightforward, it can take two days for the full implementation."
"Zimbra Collaboration does not have a solution roadmap as aggressive as the new collaboration mail solutions. Additionally, they can have a better interface and integration with single sign-on."
"The solution could use more integration with third-party tools."
"File sharing permissions with Nextcloud integration need improvement."
"The support was lacking in my experience. However, recently the support I received was good. Perhaps they have improved."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while Zimbra Collaboration is ranked 4th in Email Applications with 27 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, Google Cloud Storage 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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