We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and SendGrid based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Email solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"The implementation was very professional. There are a lot of features I can get through Fortinet and FortiMail, such as security. FortiGuard is the most reliable and professional mitigation center to handle incidents and risk that I have to face."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"The deployment is simple."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the conditions in automation."
"The solution scales well."
"It is easy to set up."
"The API side of things is valuable. It is flexible enough to handle pretty much anything that needs to be done in an automated manner."
"My integration team likes that it's very easy to integrate and very easy to automate based on activities that happen on our core banking application."
"They have pretty good support in terms of any issues."
"Easy API documentation is the most valuable feature of SendGrid, including its deliverability rate."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"Networking should be simplified."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
"They should make the solution more user-friendly."
"The reporting part needs improvement."
"The biggest problem that we have faced is with the authentication during login. For certain people, SendGrid requires MFA, which is good as a security feature, but it doesn't always work in all geographies. We've got people and users who are based in Nigeria, and some of those people had real trouble logging into SendGrid because the MFA wouldn't send codes to people on their numbers. The security mechanism that they use for login doesn't work in all geographies."
"SendGrid is a great solution. I don't have any areas of improvement."
"The contact limit alerts need to be improved."
"Maybe they could have a mobile application to give to admins, so they could see some insights related to the data."
"SendGrid has room for improvement in the UI/UX or dashboard usability for users. Another area for improvement in the tool is its conditional logic facilities. The response time of SendGrid technical support needs improvement."
"A long time ago, I may have had an issue, and I had to wait for support, which wasn't that helpful. However, that was a very long time ago. Overall, I've had a good experience."
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews while SendGrid is ranked 1st in Cloud Email with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while SendGrid is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SendGrid writes "Clean and simple to use with good integration capabilities". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas SendGrid is most compared with ZeptoMail, MailChimp, Mailgun and Amazon WorkMail. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. SendGrid report.
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