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.
"The most valuable features of the solution are security and integration."
"The full-text searching capabilities are great."
"I find the HCL Domino server scalable."
"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."
"HCL Domino is the best product from a security point of view."
"The pricing is excellent."
"They offer good support and provide a roadmap."
"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."
"Notes is a perfectly adequate front end. It's clear and straightforward."
"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 most valuable feature is the UI."
"The solution provides great security."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product's user interface is one of its shortcomings since it is outdated, making it an area for improvement."
"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."
"HCL Domino needs to be more user-friendly."
"HCL Domino could have a better interface."
"The solution could improve Kubernetes or Dockers migration to new environments in the cloud."
"For me, the one thing missing is a really good reporting engine."
"From the Domino side, it should support DKIM and DMARC."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"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 interface could be more user-friendly. Some additional trainings could be added as well."
"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."
HCL Domino is ranked 17th in Rapid Application Development Software with 18 reviews while HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 13 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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