HCL Domino vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"Domino's dual functionality as both a messaging and application solution is a standout feature compared to Exchange, which solely focuses on messaging."

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

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

"The full-text searching capabilities are great."

"Overall, I would rate HCL Domino as eight out of ten. I would recommend HCL Domino and Notes applications for small and medium-sized companies since it offers a good return on investment."

"The pricing is excellent."

"They offer good support and provide a roadmap."

"We can scale it if we want to."

"Good email solution and it's open-source."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra for our team's productivity is its efficiency in handling email communication."

"One of the premium features was customized rooms tailored to the collaboration needs. Many of the clients customize features such as organization logos and scanners."

"The Zimbra Collaboration's most valuable feature is web access."

"The configuration is simple."

"We can control all the data in my IT infrastructure."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is email functionality."

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

"Recently, IBM sold the product to HCL. Since Pakistan and India have some problems on a domestic level, we were actually considering replacing it with Indian products from the organization. We're just facing some regulatory issues."

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

"Designing a new template could provide a refreshed visual experience for users without significant changes to the underlying functionality."

"The solution is expensive."

"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."

"For me, the one thing missing is a really good reporting engine."

"Its performance and integration could be better. It has capabilities for large deployment with several servers, but in the latest interface, running with different servers isn't supported."

"They should provide its integration with other AI applications."

"Some issues cause the solution not to function correctly or to cause downtime once a month."

"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."

"It does have a few bugs."

"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 tool should improve its multi-cloud feature."

"It would be great if a group chat feature were created to allow for a team environment."

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

"The solution’s forums don't have much information or documentation on administration tasks."

"Customers have to pay for a license for the Notes Client, not for the Domino database. There is a quarter license that we use."

"My company's customers need to make monthly or yearly payments towards the license charges of the product."

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

"HCL Domino is costly, but it still depends on how your organization views it price-wise."

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

"HCL Domino has reasonable pricing. It's not expensive."

"Price is reasonable compared to the other solutions."

"For 30 licenses, we pay $1,500 every year. It is not an expensive product."

"If you choose the network edition, it is a little pricier. They have the open-source edition too which is only community supported."

"When it comes to the licensing of Zimbra Collaboration, my license covers the servers and I find its terms to be much simpler than those of Microsoft Exchange."

"The price of the solution is low."

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

"The solution is competitively priced."

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

"We do not pay for licenses to use this solution."

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