HCL Domino vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"We can scale it if we want to."

"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."

"IBM Lotus is good but there is other, better software available with much better pricing, and value-added functionality and features."

"This solution works very well straight out of the box; we have no plans to customize it."

"The best feature of HCL Domino is that you can use Notes for messaging plus application, not just for messaging."

"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."

"They offer good support and provide a roadmap."

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

"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 backup and storage management features of Zimbra Collaboration are valuable."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is the cost."

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

"The product is easy to set up."

"Zimbra Collaboration is light to manage. It works on the Linux operating system, which is far better to manage than Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Exchange works only on the Windows server. We prefer working on the Linux server for security reasons and ease of management. Zimbra Collaboration also has some integrated tools for security. It some modules to fight malware. These modules are not very powerful but are still doing a great job. Microsoft Exchange doesn't have a basic module. You have to purchase a security solution and add it to the solution. The cost of Zimbra Collaboration is one more reason for liking it. It is also very simple to migrate from Zimbra Collaboration to another email solution."

"A lot of other products like Microsoft Exchange offer email or collaboration features, but they are not as fast as Zimbra."

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

"When you compare with Microsoft Exchange, the UI could be more user-friendly."

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

"When you compare with Microsoft Exchange, the UI could be more user-friendly."

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

"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."

"IBM Lotus is good but there is other, better software available with much better pricing, and value-added functionality and features."

"HCL Domino could improve by having integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft 365."

"From the Domino side, it should support DKIM and DMARC."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"They should enhance its online meeting features."

"The new patches are, at times, not so good, so we don't install them, causing the tool to be not so stable overall."

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

"Zimbra is not very stable, but it's okay."

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

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

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

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

"We chose to pay for our licensing fees annually."

"We pay annually for the use of this solution and it is only a standard fee."

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

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

"We are using perpetual licenses. We have deployed it in our local data center, and we buy perpetual licenses on a per-user basis."

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

"I use Zimbra Collaboration's community version. We may move to the enterprise version since prices are affordable."

"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."

"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 not expensive compared to other products."

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