We performed a comparison between Microsoft Exchange and OpenText GroupWise 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."Exchange is easy to use. It also has a built-in calendar for all the stuff I'm supposed to be looking at and doing. Exchange tells you if you have a doctor's appointment or a scheduled call. It also has a place to store and manage your contacts. If I want to add a new contact, it will put in information about that contact stored anywhere within the Microsoft Suite."
"It is user friendly."
"It gives me benefit in terms of integration with other services such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive. It makes my work much easier."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is easy to use and we can allow many users because now our users are scattered They over a wide area. We can use it from anywhere. That is the main benefit for us."
"It's so much of a part of what I do every day that I don't give it a lot of thought. It just works, for the most part, until it doesn't, in which case I call tech support."
"Microsoft Exchange is stable."
"I like the logistics and the Microsoft protocol of reaching Outlook anywhere."
"The cost-effectiveness of the solution is most valuable."
"I like the ease of logging best in Micro Focus GroupWise. I also like its proxy capabilities from a user level. I also like how secure Micro Focus GroupWise is."
"Very secure with great storage capacity."
"It is important to have the updated version for scalability."
"Its search functionality can be better. It is currently not really easy. It has the capability to search your mailbox, but it has some restrictions in terms of the number of results that you can retrieve. You can only get around 250 results. If you want to do a deeper search, you need to use different functionalities of the product. The policy that we have for handling emails is that we do not delete emails at all. If I insert the text that I am searching for in the Search field, it only retrieves a limited number of emails. To search for an email from 2010, I need to use different search functions to find what I am looking for. Microsoft can also improve its licensing for its products. Microsoft's licensing is not very easy to understand. It can sometimes be really complex to understand what you need to have in order to comply with Microsoft licensing."
"Nothing is perfect, that's why I am giving Microsoft Exchange a nine."
"The only thing that could be improved is the pricing."
"There are issues when you add your domain to Microsoft Tenant, and you try to create that. Which is a problem for me."
"Microsoft could make it easier to combine comments in the GUI. It isn't easy to do certain things in Exchange, primarily if the administrator isn't used to the command line, so I think the customer interface could be improved."
"The management of .pst files and archiving need improvement."
"It's not always the finest solution in terms of integration with products that are not from Microsoft. It integrates very well with Microsoft products but not with third-party products."
"What I don't like about Micro Focus GroupWise is the removal of the Unix client. Micro Focus took that function away about ten years ago because there wasn't enough demand for it."
"The WebAccess feature is somewhat lacking and could be improved."
"Their support can be improved. It is not as good as it used to be."
Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in Email Applications with 78 reviews while OpenText GroupWise is ranked 10th in Email Applications with 3 reviews. Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4, while OpenText GroupWise is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText GroupWise writes "It has proxy capabilities, is secure, and allows easy logging". Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and ProtonMail, whereas OpenText GroupWise is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Zimbra Collaboration, Google Workspace and HCL Notes. See our Microsoft Exchange vs. OpenText GroupWise report.
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