HCL Domino vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"One valuable feature of HCL Domino is its integration with other directories."

"It is an excellent solution."

"We have been able to set up a portal using a special XPage application that gives our customers access to this system."

"The DAOS feature is the most valuable. It helps to save some of my storage."

"The most valuable feature of HCL Domino is how robust it is."

"The most valuable feature of HCL Domino is how robust it is."

"I find the HCL Domino server scalable."

"It is a wonderful tool; it offers a very stable environment, the security is very good, the integration capabilities are great, it is a beautiful platform for low-code and no-code developments and offers comprehensive solution development, and the pricing is excellent."

"The web interface is powerful and easy to use."

"The logs, troubleshooting, and tracking we have found to be the most valuable features, and when we have any issues with lost messages these features are useful because it is very easy to track and log."

"Premium features, such as auto discovery and archiving, mobile management and HSM, make life much easier."

"Zimbra Collaboration has integrated a lot of their party tools and they have good documentation available."

"For an SMB, it is a recommendable email solution."

"This is a good email solution and it's open-source which is great and the most important feature for us."

"Despite sticking with Gmail for over a decade in terms of business, Zimbra have impressed me with some other aspects as well; if the time comes, I would prefer Zimbra to my current solution."

"Zimbra Collaboration is mainly used for messaging, emails, calendars, video conferencing, and document sharing."

"An area for improvement in HCL Domino is security. New enhancements in the IT industry mean that security should be improved. The HCL Domino GUI also needs improvement."

"The biggest problem for us is the performance. We have been working with this product for a long time and our database now contains approximately two million documents."

"The client version of this solution could be faster and be made simpler for non-IT users."

"The client version of this solution could be faster and be made simpler for non-IT users. You will need to have some knowledge of Notes to correctly install this solution."

"Scalability needs to be improved to be on the level that's required. Support could also be enhanced."

"HCL Domino needs to be more user-friendly, as end users prefer Outlook over it, because they find Outlook easier to use."

"Many people are not very happy with its speed."

"The speed of the Notes client is an area that could be improved."

"The installation is not straightforward, it can take two days for the full implementation."

"We have had an issue with security."

"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 security and performance issues which is one of the concerns of using an open-source product."

"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."

"The antispam and antivirus features are hard to understand on mobile devices."

"There are some bugs we found that could be fixed."

"In the next release, Zimbra Collaboration should include a security feature to allow access for mobile device administrators."

"While I don't have precise pricing information at hand, my understanding is that it tends to be on the higher end."

"I'd rate it a seven out of ten in terms of price."

"The license for Domino is yearly. The price is high."

"We're happy with the price of our license — it's pretty standard."

"The pricing is subjective and contingent on the intended usage."

"The pricing is individually determined. For us, in our current deployment, we pay $12.50 Canadian per month per user."

"It is less expensive compared to other vendors."

"HCL Domino's pricing depends on the number of users, but its license is not cheap."

"Zimbra Collaboration is less expensive than Microsoft Exchange. Zimbra works for small companies because it is not expensive. Zimbra Collaboration has more security tools than Microsoft Exchange. If you are choosing between Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange, you have to take into account the cost of security tools with Microsoft Exchange. When you purchase Microsoft Exchange, you will also have to purchase tools for security, which adds to the cost. The migration from Zimbra Collaboration to another email solution is very simple and easy. Migration from Microsoft Exchange to another email solution is very difficult. Microsoft doesn't allow migration that easily. In fact, you have to pay for tools to do that. You have to buy some expensive tools to migrate."

"We pay yearly licenses for Zimbra Collaboration."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the price a four"

"There is an annual standard licensing fee to use Zimbra Collaboration and there is no other cost."

"Zimbra Collaboration offers a good price-to-feature ratio."

"The solution is competitively priced."

"Zimbra Collaboration is expensive, and there is no perpetual license option."

"The solution is not expensive compared to other products."