Crayon Channel APAC

Email and collaboration tools for customers of all sizes, and all workstyles

Eliminate the need for disparate communication tools and help your customers to break down cross-department collaboration barriers with Zimbra.

Zimbra offers an integrated suite of solutions for email, calendaring, file sharing, activity streams, social communities, search, and analytics, designed for social, mobile and the cloud. Give your customers a solution that ensures the flexibility to work from virtually anywhere, via computers, tablets, and mobile phones.

With its vibrant open-source community and worldwide partner network, Zimbra is the third largest collaboration provider in the world, and is trusted by more than 5,000 companies, service providers and government agencies.

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Solution Offerings

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Zimbra 9 offers extensible version integrates with Slack, Dropbox and Zoom. Best-in-class security privacy and data sovereignty, and modern responsive UI delivers everyone the best collaboration experience, everywhere.

Zimbra Connect

Get everything you need – chat, video calls, file sharing – all within the familiar Zimbra Web Client.

Zimbra Open-Source Edition

Open-source power meets enterprise-grade security. Email, chat, video, tasks, files, storage – all in one secure platform. Choose your deployment: cloud, on-premises, or hybrid.

Zimbra Suite Plus

Easily add real-time backup, mobile sync, & other features to your Zimbra Open Source. Affordable options deliver powerful functionality without breaking the bank.

Crayon and Zimbra are better together.

Crayon and Zimbra provide a powerful partnership for success. We offer partners a path to increased revenue with productivity solutions, while Zimbra empowers your customers with a flexible, open-source platform. Deliver exceptional value on-premises or in the cloud.

Zimbra Partner Program.

The Zimbra Partner Program, offered through Crayon, is not just another channel program – it’s a strategic partnership designed to propel both Zimbra and its partners to new heights. With nearly 100% of Zimbra sales globally driven by the partner network, the program prioritizes partner success. You retain complete control over your customer relationships while benefiting from exceptional Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a robust incentive structure.

Joining the Zimbra Business Service Provider program through Crayon unlocks a treasure trove of benefits designed to fuel your business growth:

Discounted Internal Use Licenses and free demo licenses to help you understand the value of Zimbra products and drive your Zimbra revenue
Easy order process through Crayon
Generous margins and incentives
Joint Partner lead-generation events, co-branding for marketing and sales collateral
Sales enablement training and certifications, technical and sales workshops

Partners attaining Gold or Silver status also gain:

Access to support & discounted training
Volume price discounts
Priority listing on zimbra.com partner directory
Priority for lead referrals
Priority for joint-marketing activities & funds
Priority support for media & PR activities
Zimbra Premium Level Support

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Zimbra Business Service Provider (BSP) Program?

The Zimbra Business Service Provider Program is a licensing program allowing partners to host Zimbra software in their own data centres to provide the collaboration service back to end customers.

What is the Zimbra Value-Added Resellers (VAR) Program?

The Zimbra VAR program allows partners to provide value-added sales and services to Zimbra end-customers, across multiple geographies and industry verticals. There are three designation levels of VARs: Authorised, Silver and Gold. Please refer to the Program Prerequisites section, in the Zimbra partner Portal, for more details.

What are the pre-requisites for a partner to join the Zimbra BSP Program?

There is a monthly minimum spend of 200$ USD for a new BSP partners. Higher tiers like Silver BSP and Gold BSP has a monthly minimum spend of $1000 USD and $5000 USD respectively.

BSP Partners can attain three levels of status with Zimbra, Gold, Silver and Registered Partner.

Partners are required to host their solutions in a multi-tenant environment for end-user organisations to become registered partners as a pre-requisite. For Silver and Gold, there is a higher monthly revenue commitment requirement with stronger eligibility requirements around technical proficiency and customer satisfaction ratings.

Is Zimbra free? What version do I need?

Zimbra has both a free Open-Source Edition as well as a premium Network Edition but Zimbra 9, which is the latest version, is exclusively only in Network Edition.

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Blogs

Microsoft Security SPD Attainment

In part 1 of our new 3 part series, Michael Brooke explains why attaining the Microsoft Security SPD is good business strategy for partners.

Training

Project Online Retirement

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Press Release

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Press Release

CRN Asia Channel Leaders

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Blogs

Copilot for All

Learn how Microsoft’s strategic Copilot for All framework combines with Crayon’s inhouse AI expertise to drive practice development and revenue growth for partners.

On Demand Webinars

Data Protection Webinar

Watch the on‑demand webinar on turning data risk into revenue. Learn how partners use data protection maturity models to drive recurring revenue and customer trust.

On Demand Webinars

Accelerate Your Security Practice with Microsoft SPD

Join our team for a business and technical deep dive into the Microsoft Security SPD and why attaining it is great for business.

Business

AvePoint Partner onboarding content

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On Demand Webinars

Copilot Partners: Unlock your opportunities

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Training

Modern Work Solution Partner Designations Webinar

In our latest webinar, our in-house Modern Work experts Jye Wong and Ksenia Turner will run you through a practical refresher on Solution Partner Designations; what they are, why they matter and how to get started.

Guides and eBooks

Data Protection Playbook #3

As SMBs mature in the Data Protection lifecycle, they need help to optimise spend, reduce the compliance burden and ensure results align to business objectives. The third installment of our Data Protection Playbook series provides practical guidance for partners on how to address emerging pressure and connect ongoing investment to measurable business value.

Training

Copilot Agents: Level up from chatbots

Copilot Agents: what are they and how do they differ from AI assistants and chatbots? Our in-house Copilot expert Ksenia Turner explains the use cases and service opportunities for partners.

Blogs

Proving Data Protection Compliance

Fragmented data protection systems and processes create compliance proof-gaps for SMB customers. Scott Hagenus, Director, Cybersecurity here at Crayon explains.

Guides and eBooks

Data Protection Playbook #2

How can partners help their SMB customers to move from silos of security and continuity to a more cohesive, measurable and insurable data protection framework? The second edition in our Data Protection Playbook series maps out their journey, and yours.

Blogs

Data Protection Partner Playbooks for SMB Customers

As cybersecurity and continuity converge in platforms and in practice, partners need new playbooks to address modern Data Protection standards. Our in-house cybersecurity pre-sales lead, Michael Brooke explains why.

Insights

Data Protection Resource Round-Up

Data Protection priorities are shifting for SMBs. Ramp up your ability to respond with curated insights, articles and resources to help you guide every customer conversation with confidence.

Insights

M365 Copilot Hub

All the latest insights, articles and resources on M365 Copilot, curated into one place.

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Blogs

Data Protection for SMBs

From rethinking backup to governance frameworks and behavioural analytics, what's involved in building a complete Data Protection strategy for SMB customers?