Socialtext [EOL] vs Zimbra Social [EOL] comparison

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Socialtext and Zimbra are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Additionally, 100% of Zimbra users are willing to recommend the solution.

Socialtext [EOL]

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0% willing to recommend

Zimbra Social [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

Socialtext [EOL]

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Socialtext [EOL] and Zimbra Social [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Socialtext [EOL]

Average Rating

6.0

Number of Reviews

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Zimbra Social [EOL]

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

it_user687171

Senior acquisitions marketing manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution facilitates sharing information with vendors and not having to send everything via email.

We use this product with our lettershop for direct mail. We post the PDF files for the lasering of the order form and the vendor posts the lasering order form files for our approval. This is much faster than trying to attach large files and sending several emails to accomplish this task.

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it_user522870

Lecturer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The administration feature supports the settings and monitoring. There is need for more collaboration in the education sector.

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. There is…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Using Socialtext was a time saver."

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

"It is a great product, easy to setup, configure, and maintain."

Cons

"Their spreadsheet page is OK but nothing like Excel."

"We currently have a ticket open for this one, but it is being ignored."

"At the beginning, the setup was not easy due to lack of resources and knowledge of this product."

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Overview

The Socialtext collaboration platform allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate faster, decide faster and change faster. The more aware your people are of what colleagues are doing, the broader your participation in conversations, and the more easily new insights spread across your organization, the faster your business can respond to changing customer expectations and business conditions.

Socialtext

VMWare Zimbra provides open source email and calendar groupware software, Zimbra is a popular choice for Linux and Mac OS X email servers and supports SaaS.

Zimbra

Sample Customers

McKesson, Accolo, Southeastern Railway, Blue Man Group, OSIsoft, Epitaph Records, St. Louis Public Radio

Escorts, Wasgau & VNC, UniMAP, HOLA, Ring Line, TIGC, Xmission, Lafayette College, Future Group, Sheela Foam

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