We performed a comparison between HCL Notes and HCL Verse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."HCL Notes has fantastic built-in security. The email and personal communication components are excellent, but they are some applications provided by HCL that Notes previously provided when it was under IBM and Lotus. Everyone wants email, so that's just part of the product. However, more savvy users can build their own solutions for managing information, and that's the great thing about it."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"Its security is absolutely stratospheric. In an application, you can lock down to field-level security. For example, I could log in and see a field in an HR database with salaries. When you log in, you see exactly the same database, but the field with the salary just isn't there. So, you can literally have field-level security on it, and you can also have secure encryption. For example, I could give you that database allowing you to see the salary, but a calculation that shows how much they get per month in another field is encrypted. So, you won't be able to see that because you don't have the encryption key. You can implement high-level security very simply."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution. There are a diverse set of features, such as the search bar on top of the screens."
"The most valuable feature is the mail server."
"Some people complain that they want something more modern and jazzy."
"I love this product. I have used it for many years, and I have been a developer for it. If anything, it can be faster in the client version. The client version is a little bit hard. It is not fast. This is the only problem I see. Otherwise, it is a very good product."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. Some additional trainings could be added as well."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"The only improvement that we're planning to do is that all our applications are still designed in the layout and format of Notes version 4, and our plan over the coming years is to modernize their look. One of the things they're developing or considering deploying is a program to automatically upgrade the look and feel of databases. If they deploy that, that will be revolutionary. In other words, we decide on a corporate look and feel for our database and press a button. We've probably got 50 different applications in Notes, and it would just go through the whole lot and upgrade all of them to look the same."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"The solution could improve by allowing us to use a color that we want in the editing boxes."
"Security is very important to us, so improvements to this functionality are welcome."
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HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 13 reviews while HCL Verse is ranked 13th in Email Applications. HCL Notes is rated 8.0, while HCL Verse is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HCL Notes writes "Accessible from any device, good support, and works very well for emails, document sharing, and workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL Verse writes "Stable, scalable, and good interface". HCL Notes is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange Online and Zimbra Collaboration, whereas HCL Verse is most compared with HCL Domino, Office 365, Huddle and Hub. See our HCL Notes vs. HCL Verse report.
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