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HCL Verse vs Office 365 comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

HCL Verse
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (13th)
Office 365
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. HCL Verse is designed for Email Applications and holds a mindshare of 1.2%, down 1.6% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 5.2% mindshare, down 7.1% since last year.
Email Applications
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

it_user660054 - PeerSpot reviewer
HTML mail with MIME pictures are displayed correctly. Draft synchronization is enabled.
HTML mail with MIME pictures are displayed correctly. Draft synchronization is enabled. Previously, users were not able to synchronize draft emails created and saved in Lotus Notes to the mobile device and in the opposite direction. This simply was not supported. After we switched to the Verse app, users appreciated this synchronization function. They can use already saved drafts from Lotus Notes and later process the email operation from a mobile device.
Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved
Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward. They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic. My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution. There are a diverse set of features, such as the search bar on top of the screens."
"The most valuable feature is the mail server."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"I like all of the features."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"It's inexpensive to license."
 

Cons

"The solution could improve by allowing us to use a color that we want in the editing boxes."
"Security is very important to us, so improvements to this functionality are welcome."
"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
"It would be a fantastic opportunity if their solution could be used in combination with VoIP software, allowing you to combine VoIP software and Office 365 on a single platform."
"The security should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"This is an affordable solution but the price could be improved."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."
"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."
"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
18%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
9%
Educational Organization
83%
Computer Software Company
2%
Government
2%
Financial Services Firm
2%
 

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Also Known As

Verse, IBM Verse
Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
 

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