Zarafa from closed to open
Milo Oostergo ([email protected])
www.zarafa.com Schedule
• Introduction
• Goal
• Community effect
• Conclusion
www.zarafa.com Company introduction
Start Launched op CeBIT Take over german Office Brazilie Packaged Started with International market leader Open Source Linux Software groupware partners
2002 (3) 2005 (6) 2006 (10) 2007 (20) 2008 (40)
- No external investment Company - Turnover growth >10% per month facts - Office in Delft (NL), Hannover, Stuttgart(DE), Belo Horizonte (Br)
(x) = Number of employees www.zarafa.com Zarafa Collaboration Platform
• Complete opensource replacement for MS Exchange
• AJAX based Webaccess with Outlook “Look & Feel”
• Outlook sharing: mail, calendar, contacts, tasks
• Integration with Linux (mail) Server
www.zarafa.com Supported clients
• AJAX based WebAccess
• Generic clients, like Thunderbird and Evolution via IMAP and Caldav
• All Activesync compatible devices: iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile
• Blackberry devices via Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Outlook 2000-2010 (closed source component)
www.zarafa.com More Zarafa features • Advanced collaboration features: – Rules / Quota – Freebusy / resource booking – Out of Office / signatures
• Other – Hosted / multi-tenant version – Active Directory and LDAP integration – Brick level backup with single email restore
www.zarafa.com Thousands of customers worldwide
Public sector:
Education:
Healthcare:
www.zarafa.com Z-Push the first step to opensource
www.zarafa.com Goals of making Zarafa opensource
• Ecosystem growth – Feedback – Code
• Balance: Zarafa uses open source and want to give back
• Strong push from government to go for more opensource solutions
www.zarafa.com In the digital evolution email is a commodity
• Everybody emails
• Always works
• What is new? What is required to do your job better? Mail nr 1 • Added value ICT: communication – Work efficiently filesharing – New ways of working
‘95 2005 www.zarafa.com Email is often abused in internal communication
Chat? ERP
CRM
www.zarafa.com Organisations want hybrid ecosystems
www.zarafa.com Choosing an opensource business model
www.zarafa.com Business Model value added services and features Enterprise Updates & Support Paid EnterpriseFeatures Upgrades Paid Features Support Maintenance (some closed) Zarafa Collaboration Platform (including open source 3 rd party components) Open Open PHPSpamAssasin. MySQL OpenLDAP Source Procmail Zarafa ServerApacheZ-Push Sendmail Free ClamAV Exim (free)Free Exim Zarafa WebAccess Postfix Linux PHP MySQL Exim mapi4linux Apache Qmail Postfix
Spam Assassin www.zarafa.com Selecting an opensource license
www.zarafa.com Timeline
Launched new Python integration API
Release of new Opensource Major IMAP Opened Adoption in Community launch improvement bugtracker Fedora site feedback
2008 2009 2010 2011
www.zarafa.com Opensource release in 2008
www.zarafa.com Adoption in major Linux distributions
www.zarafa.com Opened bugtracker
www.zarafa.com What did it bring us?
www.zarafa.com Examples of community contributions
www.zarafa.com 21/ Coupling between attachments in Zarafa and Alfresco DMS
www.zarafa.com Archiving of emails to opensource CRM
www.zarafa.com Adopted and packaged by many Linux distributions
www.zarafa.com 24/ Z-push: the opensource ActiveSync server standard
• Mobility for ActiveSync devices adopted by our competitors
• Accenture team developed setup for 100.000+ users
www.zarafa.com 25/ New packaging layout
www.zarafa.com What's next
www.zarafa.com Launch of community hub
www.zarafa.com New WebApp for easier building widgets and integrations
www.zarafa.com Examples of upcoming community integrations
• Chat & presence module
• Webodf viewer
• Email templating module
www.zarafa.com More opensource products
• Zarafa Archiving solution
• Z-Admin webbased administration interface
• ....
www.zarafa.com Conclusion
Opensource will help your business growing
– Larger brandname – More feedback on code and releases – New integrations & plugins made by community – New translations available
This all results have resulted in more customers, better software and higher revenue
www.zarafa.com Open, Compatible & Enterprise
Open Compatible Enterprise
www.zarafa.com 33/ Thanks a lot for joining this talk!
Contact me on:
Email: [email protected] Twitter: moostergo IRC: zMilo on freenode #zarafa
Want to know more technical stuff about Zarafa and it's architecture? Join my tutorial session at 14.30h
www.zarafa.com How to catalyze
• Systems (see last slide)
• Software flexibility needed to be adopted – Packaging – Zarafa Webapp plugin system
www.zarafa.com > 100 active developers create Zarafa plugins
www.zarafa.com 36/ Additional customer perspectives on email & integration (3)
www.zarafa.com Coupling between attachments in Zarafa and Alfresco DMS
www.zarafa.com CRM coupling
www.zarafa.com Zarafa Product Vision Open Integration Compatibility
Flexible Architecture & Storage
www.zarafa.com From start to growth
Imap
Open bugtracker Community site ZCP Open source Adopted by major community distributions
2008 2007 2008 2010
www.zarafa.com Zarafa Product Vision Open Integration Compatibility
Flexible Architecture & Storage - SSD - Archiving - virtualisation and cloud - Advanced Security www.zarafa.com Summary
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• Traditionally, costs have become the most important reason to migrate to open source
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Contact details
• http://www.zarafa.com • demo.zarafa.com • www.zarafa.com/download/evaluation.html • [email protected] • www.zarafa.com zarafagroupware
Who thinks cost advantage is key benefit of open source ?
-A- YES
-B- NO
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