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 initial setup was easy for me."
"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 access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The technical support is fine."
"Microsoft Exchange is highly stable for the end-user systems. When we move to Office 365, it will be even more stable even. There's less administration required and it's very robust. We are really quite happy in using that."
"Internal communication stability within Exchange is ensured by the stability of the internal network which is guaranteed by default."
"Communication is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"Microsoft Exchange is a powerful solution. It can easily integrate with Active Directory and other business applications. It does not require any training, it is flexible and simple to use. When comparing Microsoft Exchange to other solutions, such as Lotus Note, it is more straightforward for business."
"Technical support is good."
"Support is very good."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"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."
"In terms of probability, every now and then there are changes coming and going. The changes are not that frequent because every month they got updates back, so that is an issue."
"The cost could be cheaper."
"The price of Microsoft Exchange could improve, it is priced high."
"They could improve on the search function, it takes too much time."
"Load balancing is lacking."
"Microsoft Exchange could improve security. They can elevate a lot of security features."
"Exchange took time to be deployed. It requires extensive configuration and setting up servers and managing internal network access."
"The licensing model could be improved."
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, Microsoft Exchange Online and Zimbra Collaboration, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and OpenText GroupWise. See our HCL Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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