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 solution provides great security."
"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."
"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."
"It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"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 initial setup was easy for me."
"The most valuable feature of Zimbra for our team's productivity is its efficiency in handling email communication."
"Zimbra Collaboration's best feature is its compatibility with Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, which allows users to use Outlook on Windows or MacOS."
"We can control all the data in my IT infrastructure."
"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."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"It has all collaboration features, such as document sharing, video conferencing, chatting, task sharing, and calendar sharing."
"The configuration is simple."
"The Zimbra Collaboration's most valuable feature is web access."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"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 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."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"There is a chat component but it does not work properly."
"I can confidently say that Zimbra is good enough for 2,000 client users. But, at the same time, if my client needs more than that and we have two options—Zimbra or Microsoft—I'm going with Microsoft because many admins will speak to Microsoft's ability to handle that many."
"The product must be more customizable."
"The solution could improve by making it easier to use."
"Zimbra should provide a desktop client. Right now, we are using a web browser for accessing our emails. There should also be a desktop client."
"File sharing permissions with Nextcloud integration need improvement."
"The antispam and antivirus features are hard to understand on mobile devices."
"Zimbra Collaboration could improve the migration from a basic solution to a more containerized solution. For example, the installation should be able to extend to the containers and manage them with some solution, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes."
"They should enhance its online meeting features."
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, IceWarp, Open-Xchange, Google Workspace and OpenText GroupWise. See our HCL Notes vs. Zimbra Collaboration report.
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