We performed a comparison between KerioConnect and Microsoft Exchange Online 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."We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"Kerio Connect is secure, flexible, and easy to control from the user interface. It has many security features able to be controlled from one place, such as anti-spam. I have found it very convenient. Additionally, you can analyze log files and share folders which is helpful."
"The most valuable features are security and privacy because you installed it on your server, within your company premises, not in the cloud."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"What I like most about Kerio Connect is that it supports ActiveSync, and that is its most critical feature. The solution is also a nice, simple, robust, and stable mail server."
"We use the solution as a mail server. It connects with Outlook and is used for calendaring and similar tasks."
"The user interface is good."
"The online version is faster, as it is a cloud instance. We can have massive mailbox capacity: 100 GB per user, which is huge. We can't provision such capacity internally, as the company would get burnt out paying for mailbox storage."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is very simple and easy to use."
"The product was simple to use."
"I like that Exchange Online is easy to use and that I do not need to maintain the previous Exchange Server. I also do not need to worry about the security of the Exchange Server. If there are any issues, then it will be the service provider's problem and not mine."
"Exchange Online's best feature is its webmail platform."
"It is a reasonable solution."
"All of the features are beneficial, but the scheduling feature is particularly useful."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is its performance."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"We are considering switching to Microsoft Exchange. One reason is that it doesn't improve our workflow and doesn't integrate well with Microsoft 365 applications."
"Most of our clients use Outlook and Kerio Connect. Occasionally, Kerio can be a bit slow. They could make it faster to get onto the web interface without so much load time. It's just slow with Outlook, however, for some reason."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"It could be simpler to use and install, but I still wouldn't use it because there isn't a compelling use case."
"The solution could improve the redundancy because we only have one copy of the Kerio Connect server on our hardware. The next step for us is to move to the cloud and if Kerio does not have a cloud version available they should release one"
"Migration can be an issue if you do not have a good audit process."
"The mail-blocking feature is not great and could be improved."
"The ActiveSync services and the mapping services could be improved."
"The solution’s pricing could be better."
"There is room for improvement in terms of optimization."
"I don't like it in general. It sort of has that Microsoft flavor to it, which is just the style they use and the way they color things and lay them out."
"In the past, we had issues with DB in mailboxes."
"The solution could improve with the integrations with some of the known applications is still not possible, there must be more connectors."
KerioConnect is ranked 9th in Email Applications with 8 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online is ranked 2nd in Email Applications with 85 reviews. KerioConnect is rated 6.2, while Microsoft Exchange Online is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KerioConnect writes "Basic and simple to use but lacks connectivity with the CRM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online writes "Helps reduced IT operations, scalable, and simple setup". KerioConnect is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra Collaboration, IceWarp, Google Workspace and Open-Xchange, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online is most compared with Google Workspace, Amazon WorkMail, ProtonMail, Zoho Mail and CodeTwo Exchange Rules. See our KerioConnect vs. Microsoft Exchange Online report.
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