We performed a comparison between KerioConnect and Microsoft Exchange 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."Kerio Connect is secure, flexible, and easy to control from the user interface. It has many security features able to be controlled from one place, such as anti-spam. I have found it very convenient. Additionally, you can analyze log files and share folders which is helpful."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"What I like most about Kerio Connect is that it supports ActiveSync, and that is its most critical feature. The solution is also a nice, simple, robust, and stable mail server."
"We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"The most valuable features are security and privacy because you installed it on your server, within your company premises, not in the cloud."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"We use the solution as a mail server. It connects with Outlook and is used for calendaring and similar tasks."
"The user interface is good."
"It is a product that is simple to manage, and easy to use."
"It is user friendly."
"Customers can benefit from this new pricing model because it's expensive and now with the subscription they can budget for this."
"Exchange has helped us with encryption."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange is its security."
"It is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange is the collaboration tools."
"It is a very stable tool...It is a very scalable tool."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"Most of our clients use Outlook and Kerio Connect. Occasionally, Kerio can be a bit slow. They could make it faster to get onto the web interface without so much load time. It's just slow with Outlook, however, for some reason."
"The solution could improve the redundancy because we only have one copy of the Kerio Connect server on our hardware. The next step for us is to move to the cloud and if Kerio does not have a cloud version available they should release one"
"It could be simpler to use and install, but I still wouldn't use it because there isn't a compelling use case."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"We are considering switching to Microsoft Exchange. One reason is that it doesn't improve our workflow and doesn't integrate well with Microsoft 365 applications."
"Currently, its administration is too cumbersome. It's unwieldy. It's slow. It consumes too many resources. Configuration needs to be much more streamlined and administratively automated."
"Some users encounter stability issues. I connect with the support team through my local partner, which takes time."
"I would like to see the search capability of the Outlook client improved"
"The price of Microsoft Exchange could improve, it is priced high."
"From a reliability perspective, they need to improve the search engine, it is not very powerful."
"Sometimes we don't get support quickly enough - for example, if there's some global hacker attack, we don't get served as quickly. The skills of the technical staff can also vary, and Microsoft could perhaps improve their training."
"For the next release, there are some features on the cloud-based Exchange that aren't included on-prem. It would be great if these features were made available in the next release. For instance, integration between Exchange and its on-prem calendar is not available for the on-prem solution."
"The support needs to be more knowledgeable."
KerioConnect is ranked 8th in Email Applications with 8 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in Email Applications with 78 reviews. KerioConnect is rated 6.2, while Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KerioConnect writes "Basic and simple to use but lacks connectivity with the CRM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". KerioConnect is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, IceWarp, Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Workspace and Open-Xchange, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange, IceWarp and HCL Notes. See our KerioConnect vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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