We performed a comparison between HCL Domino and HCL Notes based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both of these HCL products are very stable, robust, and reliable. HCL Domino slightly nudges ahead of HCL Notes in this comparison. HCL Domino is very mature and makes collaboration easier during application development, saving time and keeping teams productive. HCL Notes was originally developed as an email application solution, with the added benefit of workflow and application development as added features. Currently, the savviest of users are able to truly utilize HCL Notes for all of its application building and development capabilities, making it a very complete solution.
"It is an excellent solution."
"The DAOS feature is the most valuable. It helps to save some of my storage."
"I like that HCL Domino is stable. It's a great product. I also like that HCL Domino is a mature product under IBM, which is why many companies use it."
"We can scale it if we want to."
"The pricing is excellent."
"It serves as a centralized solution that fulfills all my requirements from operating my email server to managing various aspects of my operations."
"We have been able to set up a portal using a special XPage application that gives our customers access to this system."
"I find the HCL Domino server scalable."
"It is one of the best products in the world for workflow applications. It works very well for workflows or decisional processes where a task needs to be first approved by someone. After that, the task moves to the next or final stage where another person approves it with some notes or attached documents."
"The solution provides great security."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"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."
"When you compare with Microsoft Exchange, the UI could be more user-friendly."
"The solution could improve Kubernetes or Dockers migration to new environments in the cloud."
"HCL Domino could have a better interface."
"The solution is expensive."
"It would be advantageous if the web server could seamlessly pick up configuration changes without the need for a complete restart."
"HCL Domino could improve by having integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft 365."
"The client version of this solution could be faster and be made simpler for non-IT users. You will need to have some knowledge of Notes to correctly install this solution."
"From the Domino side, it should support DKIM and DMARC."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"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."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"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."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
HCL Domino is ranked 17th in Rapid Application Development Software with 17 reviews while HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews. HCL Domino is rated 8.0, while HCL Notes is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HCL Domino writes "A stable and versatile enterprise solution consolidating various functions like email, collaboration, and application development in a user-friendly manner". 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". HCL Domino is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Power Apps, Zimbra Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online and HCL Verse, whereas HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange Online and Zimbra Collaboration.
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