We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and HCL Notes 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 feature is that it is simple to use."
"Everything is synchronized across every single device you use to access G Suite. That is why we like it."
"It's a secure solution that enables you to choose those you wish to share with."
"personally prefer to use G Suite applications, such as Gmail, Slides, and Sheets, because they give you the freedom to share the document you're editing and co-work with other colleagues simultaneously."
"The solution offers a workflow where we can collaborate and share documents. Its most valuable features are Gmail and Google Drive. Google Drive is great for file collaboration. It improves productivity. The product is on the cloud; we don't have to connect to the office through a VPN."
"The document sharing in which multiple people can work on the same document. To go along with that is the archiving of documents. If you mess up a document, it's easy to go get a previous version."
"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."
"G Suite Enterprise provides many features, such as business increased search visibility, email address, and domain. It's a large whole ecosystem that is the major benefit. You can manage your whole team and have many tools. Over seven years, the solution has gone through some drastic upgrades and improvements which are done automatically, I do not have to manual upgrade."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The solution provides great security."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"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."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"I don't recommend Google Workspace to others. It's expensive. Also, Google doesn't have enough oversight on their partners, so you will face some difficulties dealing with them instead of directly with Google."
"I am not a big fan of how Gmail organizes the mail. I find it complicated to see which mail from which users send at which date. Especially if there is a lot."
"It would be nice to have additional software, such as Microsoft Teams, since our basic edition, Google Meet, cannot record video."
"G-Suite is excellent for what we're trying to do, but it could use some extra features. For example, it would be helpful if we had a seamless way to convert Excel macros to Google Sheets."
"To a degree, the project management service could be improved."
"I found that there is no desktop application for this solution, and that's a major fault of this application."
"Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult."
"The initial setup is not intuitive at all."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"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."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. Some additional trainings could be added as well."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"I would like to HCL update Notes' development tool and make it more attractive like Microsoft Visual Studio and similar products. For example, there's a programming language that I used for my product Woodpecker called LotusScript. LotusScript has been available since around 1995. When LotusScript was released, it was like the original Visual Basic, but it has improved since then."
"Web support is very old and needs an upgrade. We can handle a different password for the client to access the mail services, compared to the web services. We need to implement many other components to get access to the web access. There could be a feature to interpret if the web access is available from any end-user equipment."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while HCL Notes is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL Notes writes "Accessible from any device, good support, and works very well for emails, document sharing, and workflows". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, Google Cloud Storage and Citrix ShareFile, whereas HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online. See our Google Workspace vs. HCL Notes report.
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