Zimbra Network Professional Edition includes all the features of Zimbra Network Standard Edition plus the following:

• Outlook/MAPI sync: MAPI-based Outlook synchronization with cached mode and offline support
• Apple iSync: Two-way synchronization with Apple iSync enabling compatibility with Apple iCal, Address Book, and other applications in the Apple iSync framework

Zimbra provides a state-of-the-art collaboration solution for modern-day educational environments. With the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, educational institutions can meet the highest-end needs of faculty and staff, while also taking advantage of innovative functionality, scalability, and cost efficiency that enables broad student and alumni populations to maximize their productivity.

• Fully integrated collaboration suite (email, address book, calendaring, document authoring, sharing, etc.) for maximum educational productivity via a single solution
• Rich, interactive web interface for complete functionality from campus, home, or any other PC location
• Over-the-air mobile device synchronization for "always on" access and productivity
• Broad compatibility with external collaboration clients (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail/iCal/Address Book/Entourage, Novell Evolution) for maximum user flexibility
• Modern collaboration techniques (e.g. RSS, VOIP, mash-ups, tags, advanced search) for efficient communication and data interaction
• Comprehensive and flexible sharing model, enabling sharing of address books, calendars, documents, or other content by class list, study group, research team, faculty department, etc.
• Collaborative document authoring for efficient work on group projects and assignments

Key administrator benefits:

• Deployment flexibility: software, appliance, or hosted
• Customizable and brandable user interface to enhance the educational brand
• Flexible web-based or command line administration
• Secure, ubiquitous user access with no required client-side administration or VPNs
• Native two-way synchronization with Outlook, Mac/Linux desktops, and a broad spectrum of mobile devices, enabling access across diverse user environments
• Native anti-spam (AS) and anti-virus (AV) protection
• Efficient storage management (e.g. single-copy message storage, hierarchical message storage), lowering the cost of services such as permanent alumni mailboxes
• Cross-mailbox search for litigation discovery, policy enforcement, and compliance
• Class of service based provisioning for segmenting functionality, quotas, etc. based on class of user
• Open source code for transparency, extensibility, and investment protection
• Modular server-side architecture with proven service-provider class scalability
• Standards-based protocols/interfaces and extensible mash-up framework (Zimlets) for seamless integration with external applications, directories, and web services/portals
• Optional ad serving framework for recouping system costs and/or nurturing merchant relationships
• Favourable educational pricing