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Microsoft Exchange vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Exchange
Ranking in File Archiving
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (3rd), Wireless Email (1st)
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in File Archiving
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Email Archiving (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the File Archiving category, the mindshare of Microsoft Exchange is 10.4%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 25.7%, up from 20.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

Hesham Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
A good solution for large enterprises, but is expensive when compared to other solutions
Regarding the decision of increasing the number of users, it depends on the organization's choice, whether to opt for CapEx or OpEx. Both options involve expenses over the years. Building an in-house Exchange solution requires investing in hardware, storage, connectivity, and administrative resources. Office 365 shifts the budget solely to OpEx as a subscription service. Scalability is another factor. Starting a new company favors Office 365 due to cost efficiency. As the organization grows, the choice depends on available resources and technical expertise. An internal Exchange setup is feasible with skilled engineers, while Office 365 suits those lacking in-house resources.
Jayson Martin - PeerSpot reviewer
The data retrieval process is seamless
The permission structure plays a big role in the solution's setup process. The deployment process involves setting up all connectors between the Veritas Enterprise Vault, emails, and file servers. At our company, we found the permissions created a complicated situation often during the setup of Veritas Enterprise Vault. The deployment of the solution overall took around a week for our organization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange is its communication capabilities."
"The most valuable features are that you can exchange information, tasks, attachments, and enhance the process in a short amount of time."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange is its security."
"With the cloud coming in, scalability is not an issue even for Microsoft."
"We have found it to be a stable solution. It is scalable and easy to install."
"The technical support is fine."
"It gives me benefit in terms of integration with other services such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive. It makes my work much easier."
"The functionality on the user side is quite good. Exchange provides an excellent platform for collaboration between users."
"The indexing and searching features are the most valuable features of Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data."
"The integration capabilities are second to none."
"Organizations can streamline governance processes and improve compliance by utilizing automated classification to tag and categorize data."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"We use the solution to archive emails."
"User behavior is very smooth."
 

Cons

"Exchange took time to be deployed. It requires extensive configuration and setting up servers and managing internal network access."
"In terms of Microsoft Exchange, I think maybe what can be done is to make it more user-friendly."
"Microsoft could improve on Exchange's hybrid deployment or HCW. They need to improve on that because I was having many issues with HCW in our environment at times."
"They could continue to improve the consolidation and integration of mailbox services to make them more flexible, easier to deploy, and more manageable."
"When an update wants to come, it should just come maybe once or twice rather than having us deal with constant updating."
"The tool is not easy to use. Every person has to have at least administration-level experience to use the tool."
"More AI features would be good."
"In terms of what should be improved, they should probably move to a cloud option like Office 365. We would like to get this functionality without the need to deploy complex hardware and software solutions. This should be the next thing, making Exchange more related to Office products, which are more cloud-oriented, less on-premise or desktop-oriented solutions, like the direction Google is strongly moving towards."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault should improve its indexing and customization options."
"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
"The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions."
"The quality of support by Veritas has declined in the last year."
"It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The platform's price could be affordable for small businesses."
"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are currently using enterprise licenses for the solution. They are different pricing models available. There are individual, cloud-based, and enterprise licenses all with different pricing models. The larger the number of users, the lesser the price. For small to medium companies like us, we feel it is expensive."
"I don't have enough information about the licensing costs of Microsoft Exchange, but I do know that you need two types of licenses to run it. You need the product key and the client access key to activate Microsoft Exchange. This means that apart from the standard Microsoft Exchange licensing fees, you have to pay additional costs."
"The pricing is expensive."
"Its price is very affordable, and basically, it is the standard of the industry. We have the Exchange 365 subscription, which includes the usage of Exchange Online. I don't know the specific cost, but it is the retail price of Microsoft 365 E3 licenses. Microsoft's licensing is not very easy to understand. Microsoft changes rules every other day, which makes it difficult for us to understand the licensing not only for Exchange but also for other products. It can sometimes be really complex to understand what you need to have in order to comply with Microsoft licensing."
"I rate Microsoft Exchange's pricing a six out of ten."
"It is not expensive."
"Since my company is on Microsoft Cloud, we pay for the licenses per user. Compared to volume licensing, I would say the present licensing cost is not expensive."
"We pay for the license annually."
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"It's an affordable solution"
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"The pricing is very high."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
43%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Zimbra Collaboration compare with Microsoft Exchange?
Zimbra is a free, open source collaborative software suite. The features I like best are the ease of integration and the email, calendar, and collaboration server with web interface. In addition, I...
What do you like most about Microsoft Exchange?
The initial setup was straightforward and fast.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Exchange?
The licensing and pricing are quite costly, which can demotivate customers from opting for features and upgrades. However, the solution provides value for money if one is well-acquainted with Excha...
What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?
Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault. It's a little complex to understand compared to other products. Veritas Enterprise Vault doesn't support cus...
 

Also Known As

Exchange, MS Exchange
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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