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."The most valuable features are security and privacy because you installed it on your server, within your company premises, not in the cloud."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"The user interface is good."
"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."
"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 its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to -use email solution."
"The most valuable feature as it encompasses all aspects of collaboration, communication, reporting, and storage."
"Exchange Online's best feature is its webmail platform."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange Online are the frequent updates. They upgrade and optimize the features to make them better and better. They have a very strong ecosystem and they integrate together."
"Exchange Online's most valuable features are two-step verification and security."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is very simple and easy to use."
"Its most valuable feature is the unlimited storage. It also has very little downtime."
"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."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"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"
"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."
"The product needs to embed AI for intelligent searches and analytics."
"We would like to have more automation with Microsoft Exchange Online."
"I would like to let new users know that there are challenges regarding user provisioning, HRMS and the AD. Also, the data migration integrity needs to be checked in terms of the old data."
"For example, recently there were some spam incidents that Microsoft does not currently mitigate because they have another paid solution to do so. It would be nice to integrate the security and the anti-spam (i.e. the fake links, etc.) along with the Exchange Online default."
"The UI could be improved to look more like the desktop version for ease of use."
"Microsoft needs to lower the price of the extra production add-ins for Exchange Online."
"The solution could improve with the integrations with some of the known applications is still not possible, there must be more connectors."
"This solution involves a lot of work for an administrator. It is not always easy to find exactly what you are looking for within the system."
KerioConnect is ranked 8th in Email Applications with 7 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 "Lightweight, simple, and robust; easy to maintain and doesn't require a lot of system resources to run". 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 HCL Notes. See our KerioConnect vs. Microsoft Exchange Online report.
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