Benefits

Unison provides both IT departments and end users with significant benefits versus legacy email and groupware systems:

Fast deployment – single server and client
Easy management a unified server and admin control
Lower maintenance – modern architecture and streamlined administration
Cost-effective – Linux OS, commodity hardware, low-cost storage
Higher security – runs on Linux, single standards-based user directory
Higher IT control – all communications can be monitored, recorded, encrypted and controlled centrally
Simple backup – a single data store for all company communications

All messages in one place – better, easier communication for businesspeople
Fast performance – everything happens instantly
No mailbox size limits – handles large modern mailboxes with ease
No downtime – Linux server and modern database mean higher reliability
Combine voice and text – click-to-call, click to conference, voicemail arrives in inbox
Presence-aware – communicate better, by knowing the free/busy status of colleagues
User-friendly – Familiar interface, but simpler and more intuitive than Microsoft Outlook