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."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The solution provides great security."
"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."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"Microsoft has a very good support team."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange are its ease of use, and simplicity of communication, and we can track communications between teams."
"It has a feature that allows you to retain an email and recover it as an administrator. When you activate this feature, even if a user deletes an email, the email is still in the system, and we can retrieve it as an administrator. It is a very useful function. We turn this feature on for some of the mailboxes because we need to keep all the records. I like the way emails are classified in this solution. It makes it really easy to take a look at the most important messages. This is a really good functionality. Some of the emails directly exchanged with you are marked as important and shown in one tab, and everything else is in another tab. We usually don't have any issue with Exchange. It can be integrated with different solutions."
"The initial setup is quite a straightforward process. I don't think it is a very complicated solution. Plenty of things could be more complex, but the ordinary, general settings are quite simple."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"On-premises Microsoft Exchange is good because it protects data privacy."
"I like the logistics and the Microsoft protocol of reaching Outlook anywhere."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. Some additional trainings could be added as well."
"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."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"The management of .pst files and archiving need improvement."
"I'd like the archiving process to be faster."
"There is a lot of spam email that comes in, so they should add functionality to help fix this problem."
"We would prefer to be able to manage the solution on the cloud."
"The product or service could be improved in terms of Microsoft Outlook client compatibility."
"There are issues when you add your domain to Microsoft Tenant, and you try to create that. Which is a problem for me."
"In terms of Microsoft Exchange, I think maybe what can be done is to make it more user-friendly."
"The pricing could be better, and it could have an easier implementation."
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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