We performed a comparison between Microsoft Exchange Online and OpenText GroupWise 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."There are many valuable features such as email, calendar, and the ability to share your calendar and documents with coworkers. Knowing that the emails go through the EOP filtering service is nice as well."
"It's easy to use and there is more integration."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is if you have people that are geographically distributed from each other is good. For example, if you have people in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, having an online solution works best because then you can reach the scale of the data centers that are available by Microsoft. Additionally, if you're only going to have two to three people using the solution the cost is a lot less than having an onsite server and licensing. It is highly beneficial in these areas."
"Stability has increased exponentially since 2010."
"All of the features are beneficial, but the scheduling feature is particularly useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy to configure."
"It has helped us because we don't have to worry about servers crashing."
"Very secure with great storage capacity."
"The cost-effectiveness of the solution is most valuable."
"I like the ease of logging best in Micro Focus GroupWise. I also like its proxy capabilities from a user level. I also like how secure Micro Focus GroupWise is."
"Microsoft Exchange Online could improve the management usage, it should be more user-friendly."
"Migration can be an issue if you do not have a good audit process."
"The licensing price of the solution could be lower."
"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."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"What I don't like about Microsoft Exchange Online is too much integration because now it has many services connected to it. In the beginning, it was just email, and now it's also Teams and Visio, and many other services which I don't like. Microsoft Exchange Online should focus on one service. The product now lost focus, and this is its area for improvement. I would also like more freedom in choosing to use just one service, for example, just Microsoft Exchange Online, which means I don't need Teams or any other Microsoft product or service there. Right now, all services are either in the Microsoft Office suite, or there are more products or services integrated with Microsoft Exchange Online, and I'd like to just focus on one."
"The SaaS platform performance could be improved. At a previous company, we used this same solution on-premises. The data exchange was much faster compared to the SaaS platform and we sometimes experience lags."
"We use different software for email spoofing filters and similar functions because Exchange is quite limited in this area."
"What I don't like about Micro Focus GroupWise is the removal of the Unix client. Micro Focus took that function away about ten years ago because there wasn't enough demand for it."
"The WebAccess feature is somewhat lacking and could be improved."
"Their support can be improved. It is not as good as it used to be."
Microsoft Exchange Online is ranked 2nd in Email Applications with 85 reviews while OpenText GroupWise is ranked 10th in Email Applications with 3 reviews. Microsoft Exchange Online is rated 8.6, while OpenText GroupWise is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online writes "Helps reduced IT operations, scalable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText GroupWise writes "It has proxy capabilities, is secure, and allows easy logging". Microsoft Exchange Online is most compared with Google Workspace, Amazon WorkMail, ProtonMail and Zoho Mail, whereas OpenText GroupWise is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra Collaboration and HCL Notes. See our Microsoft Exchange Online vs. OpenText GroupWise report.
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