We performed a comparison between HCL Notes and Microsoft Exchange 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 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."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"The solution provides great security."
"I like the logistics and the Microsoft protocol of reaching Outlook anywhere."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Our customers are satisfied with the features included in Microsoft Exchange."
"It's so much of a part of what I do every day that I don't give it a lot of thought. It just works, for the most part, until it doesn't, in which case I call tech support."
"It integrates well with calendar, scheduling, etc. It's easy for employees to make meetings and plan their agendas."
"I find the Outlook client very valuable. It allows me to connect to the Exchange Server and send and receive emails easily. The graphical interface is user-friendly and has a good look and feel."
"What I love about Microsoft Exchange is the good integration since 2013, particularly its integration with the calendar and other software such as Zoom, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, etc."
"All of Exchange's features are valuable. For example, we can configure the MAPI profile, IM profile, or mobile profile."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"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."
"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 solution could improve by adding some more features."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"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."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. Some additional trainings could be added as well."
"It's not always the finest solution in terms of integration with products that are not from Microsoft. It integrates very well with Microsoft products but not with third-party products."
"I think it could be more scalable."
"An area for improvement would be the convenience of working with Azure services from Exchange on-premise installations."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"I'd like the archiving process to be faster."
"When an update wants to come, it should just come maybe once or twice rather than having us deal with constant updating."
"It doesn't work very well on a virtual machine. We had to move it around. There are also issues when you try to move it between computers."
"I think that improvements should be made in creating greater abilities for Microsoft Exchange in terms of Reasearch and Development."
HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in Email Applications with 78 reviews. HCL Notes is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4. 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 writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, HCL Domino, Google Workspace, Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and IceWarp. See our HCL Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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