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."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 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."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The solution provides great security."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution is easy to access, and you can bring your own device to access from anywhere."
"Microsoft Exchange Online has great functionality."
"It is for emails, and it seems to work okay."
"It helps us manage the email focus from our side."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is its ease of use."
"I have not had issues with stability of the product."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange Online are spam filtering, 50 GB of email storage, good integration with Outlook, and ease of management."
"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."
"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."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"I think there should be an incorporation of DLP on the business premium version of Exchange, as well."
"There is room for improvement in terms of optimization."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The solution’s technical support could be improved."
"It should integrate better with social media formats."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"Migration can be an issue if you do not have a good audit process."
"This product is too complex to use."
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 Zimbra Collaboration, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online is most compared with Google Workspace, Amazon WorkMail, ProtonMail, Zoho Mail and Open-Xchange. See our HCL Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange Online report.
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