We performed a comparison between IceWarp and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Microsoft, Zimbra and others in Email Applications."Its price is the most valuable. It is definitely one of the lowest price solutions."
"It's scalable and stable."
"It has great communication capabilities for team chatting and web conferences."
"The groupware module is the most valuable feature."
"An effective, functional, very good tool for controlling resources."
"IceWarp has multiple applications that are easy to use for many people."
"The most valuable feature of IceWarp is the chat rooms and file-sharing, they are useful. It is convenient that everything is in one place. You can easily share and collaborate documents, making the program's unity a significant advantage."
"The solution's voice services work well for our company."
"I like the fact that it opens up your video conferencing, and, in many cases, the audio at the same time."
"It has benefited my organization because I can use it on the phone, I can use it on a laptop, wherever I want. The communication channel is very easy now and I can call and chat. It's experienced. Together, my team manages everything. It's very easy."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"What is most valuable about Skype for Business is that almost everyone knows about it and almost everyone has it. You will be able to reach a large number of people."
"We chose Skype for Business after other colleagues suggested that we give it a try. It has served us well."
"The solution’s video quality is fine."
"The most valuable features are the history tracking which allows us to see who participated and who didn't in the meetings as well as the integration with Outlook."
"We really like the screen sharing tool. The user experience is smooth, and user-friendly."
"Although the documentation is extensive and in depth, you must familiarize yourself with it before taking full advantage of the product."
"Our customers sometimes have problems receiving mail."
"I would like to have a trial for mobile applications and more documentation similar to Google Drive with mobile applications."
"The solution should improve the mailing list feature. Google has a similar feature where you can automate sending files to different people in a sequence, but that feature is no longer available in the current version of IceWarp. Other features may also have been removed in the current version."
"With multiple databases for VOIP, chat and web IMAP, maintenance is cumbersome."
"The tool's configuration capabilities are not straightforward. Apart from that, if I want to archive emails into a vault so that they can be retrieved again later, the integration doesn't work, and IceWarp crashes."
"It is difficult to disable user rights on the console so some users accidentally delete their documents or user details."
"Although it is not a tool, video conferencing should be scalable and operate in a professional and efficient way."
"We would like to better customize our instructions within the Outlook plugin/invite, but we are unable to do so."
"Sometimes Skype is slow, and we cannot use other elements of our devices while using the Skype solution."
"I believe optimizing the solution for lighter endpoints, particularly for embedded endpoints on mobile devices, would be valuable."
"Whenever someone is using a messaging platform, the messages needs to be stored. In Skype for Business, the message will not be seen later on if you're not online. It isn't useful, in my opinion."
"If one of the users has a poor internet connection, this failure will compromise the meeting, causing delays and distortions in the communications."
"There might be some invitation issues with Skype for Business."
"The cost of Skype for Business has room for improvement."
"The solution isn't connected to Microsoft Teams, and I feel like there is better communication on that particular solution. The group capabilities are a bit less than Teams."
IceWarp is ranked 6th in Email Applications with 15 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 60 reviews. IceWarp is rated 8.6, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IceWarp writes "A tool that is scalable and can accommodate a large number of users but needs to improve the support it provides to its users ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". IceWarp is most compared with Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange, Zoho Mail, Zimbra Collaboration and KerioConnect, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, GoToMeeting, TeamViewer and Cisco Meeting Server.
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