We performed a comparison between HCL Notes 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 initial setup was easy for me."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"HCL Notes has fantastic built-in security. The email and personal communication components are excellent, but they are some applications provided by HCL that Notes previously provided when it was under IBM and Lotus. Everyone wants email, so that's just part of the product. However, more savvy users can build their own solutions for managing information, and that's the great thing about it."
"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."
"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."
"The solution provides great security."
"The solution is very easy to set up and quite quick to deploy."
"Exchange Online's most valuable features are two-step verification and security."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is it helps the IT department with problems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams for shared calendars."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to-use solution."
"Microsoft Exchange Online has great functionality."
"The solution has been stable with good performance on offer."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"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."
"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."
"Migration can be an issue if you do not have a good audit process."
"The integration could be better if it could integrate well with other products and software."
"The product needs to embed AI for intelligent searches and analytics."
"I don't like it in general. It sort of has that Microsoft flavor to it, which is just the style they use and the way they color things and lay them out."
"From an IT perspective, we need clearer documentation to understand the product’s configuration process."
"The pricing could be cheaper."
"I would like to make the solution more user-friendly."
"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."
HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online is ranked 2nd in Email Applications with 85 reviews. HCL Notes is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Exchange Online is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HCL Notes writes "Accessible from any device, good support, and works very well for emails, document sharing, and workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online writes "Helps reduced IT operations, scalable, and simple setup". HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Google Workspace and IceWarp, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online is most compared with Google Workspace, Amazon WorkMail, ProtonMail, Zoho Mail and Microsoft Exchange. See our HCL Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange Online report.
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