We performed a comparison between KerioConnect and Zimbra Collaboration 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."The most valuable features are its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"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."
"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."
"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 have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"Zimbra Collaboration is light to manage. It works on the Linux operating system, which is far better to manage than Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Exchange works only on the Windows server. We prefer working on the Linux server for security reasons and ease of management. Zimbra Collaboration also has some integrated tools for security. It some modules to fight malware. These modules are not very powerful but are still doing a great job. Microsoft Exchange doesn't have a basic module. You have to purchase a security solution and add it to the solution. The cost of Zimbra Collaboration is one more reason for liking it. It is also very simple to migrate from Zimbra Collaboration to another email solution."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is the cost."
"Network NG Modules are valuable to us."
"One of the premium features was customized rooms tailored to the collaboration needs. Many of the clients customize features such as organization logos and scanners."
"The product is easy to set up."
"Good email solution and it's open-source."
"We can control all the data in my IT infrastructure."
"The web interface is powerful and easy to use."
"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."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"It could be simpler to use and install, but I still wouldn't use it because there isn't a compelling use case."
"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."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"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"
"The tool should improve its multi-cloud feature."
"It would be great if a group chat feature were created to allow for a team environment."
"Some issues cause the solution not to function correctly or to cause downtime once a month."
"Zimbra Collaboration does not have a solution roadmap as aggressive as the new collaboration mail solutions. Additionally, they can have a better interface and integration with single sign-on."
"The solution could improve by making it easier to use."
"Zimbra must improve its solution to make it easy so that the users don't have to use webmail to connect to their accounts and log in to webmail every time. This is something that is lacking in Zimbra Collaboration. They should provide a better way to easily connect email applications on the desktop to the Zimbra server. They should also try to have more functionality for storage management, like Microsoft Exchange. Currently, the management of the email data must be done manually in Zimbra Collaboration, which we are finding very difficult. They should provide a way to save emails so that you can have more space on the server and storage. Because of the lack of this functionality, we are planning to migrate to Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft Exchange provides a better way to manage storage than Zimbra Collaboration. You cannot have a mail solution without storage management because emails will always increase. Zimbra Collaboration also needs tools for management. More back-office tools are required to manage the whole mailbox and space. You don't only manage emails but also the documents attached to the emails. Therefore, you require tools to select and decide what do you want to save or how do you want to free up space in your infrastructure."
"Zimbra Collaboration's video conferencing could be improved."
"In the next release, Zimbra Collaboration should include a security feature to allow access for mobile device administrators."
KerioConnect is ranked 8th in Email Applications with 8 reviews while Zimbra Collaboration is ranked 4th in Email Applications with 28 reviews. KerioConnect is rated 6.2, while Zimbra Collaboration is rated 8.0. 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 Zimbra Collaboration writes "Provides good email capability; lacking in security and performance". KerioConnect is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, IceWarp, Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Workspace and Open-Xchange, whereas Zimbra Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Open-Xchange, IceWarp, Google Workspace and HCL Domino. See our KerioConnect vs. Zimbra Collaboration report.
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