We performed a comparison between HCL Notes and Zimbra Collaboration 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 most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"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."
"The web interface is powerful and easy to use."
"Zimbra Collaboration has integrated a lot of their party tools and they have good documentation available."
"The configuration is simple."
"Zimbra Collaboration's sharing features are most valuable."
"Network NG Modules are valuable to us."
"One of the most valuable features involves the solution's automatic backup, which I find to be pretty simple and straightforward, and obviates the need for additional software."
"We can control all the data in my IT infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is the cost."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"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."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"They should enhance its online meeting features."
"It would be great if a group chat feature were created to allow for a team environment."
"Zimbra Collaboration's video conferencing could be improved."
"The installation is not straightforward, it can take two days for the full implementation."
"Zimbra must improve its solution to make it easy so that the users don't have to use webmail to connect to their accounts and log in to webmail every time. This is something that is lacking in Zimbra Collaboration. They should provide a better way to easily connect email applications on the desktop to the Zimbra server. They should also try to have more functionality for storage management, like Microsoft Exchange. Currently, the management of the email data must be done manually in Zimbra Collaboration, which we are finding very difficult. They should provide a way to save emails so that you can have more space on the server and storage. Because of the lack of this functionality, we are planning to migrate to Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft Exchange provides a better way to manage storage than Zimbra Collaboration. You cannot have a mail solution without storage management because emails will always increase. Zimbra Collaboration also needs tools for management. More back-office tools are required to manage the whole mailbox and space. You don't only manage emails but also the documents attached to the emails. Therefore, you require tools to select and decide what do you want to save or how do you want to free up space in your infrastructure."
"There are some security issues."
"The tool should improve its multi-cloud feature."
"It does have a few bugs."
HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews while Zimbra Collaboration is ranked 4th in Email Applications with 27 reviews. HCL Notes is rated 8.0, while Zimbra Collaboration is rated 8.0. 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 Zimbra Collaboration writes "Provides good email capability; lacking in security and performance". HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Google Workspace and Microsoft Exchange Online, whereas Zimbra Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Open-Xchange, IceWarp, Google Workspace and OpenText GroupWise. See our HCL Notes vs. Zimbra Collaboration report.
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