HCL Domino vs Microsoft Exchange comparison

HCL Domino
Read 19 HCL Domino reviews
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77% willing to recommend
Microsoft Exchange
Read 78 Microsoft Exchange reviews
  • 5,216 Views
  • 4,515 Comparison Views
93% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

HCL Domino
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (17th)
Microsoft Exchange
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (3rd), Wireless Email (1st), File Archiving (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of HCL Domino is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Exchange is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software
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Email Applications
14.0%
Wireless Email
41.7%
 

Featured Reviews

ElvisHenriquez - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2023
Good support, provides good access control for documents, and saves space with DAOS
It's for communication, collaboration, and applications It has been helpful for payroll solutions and controlling what we are seeing. It helps in providing good access control for the documents we are sharing with our team and with the external team. The DAOS feature is the most valuable. It…
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AK
Jul 7, 2022
Beneficial communication tracking, reliable, and simple installation
We are using Microsoft Exchange for internal communication between teams Microsoft Exchange has helped our company stay organized in the workplace, it makes time more efficient. The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange are its ease of use, and simplicity of communication, and we can…
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"HCL Domino is an application development and collaboration platform with strong stability and security. Deployment of this platform is easy and takes only 10 minutes."
"I find the HCL Domino server scalable."
"The DAOS feature is the most valuable. It helps to save some of my storage."
"The most valuable features of the solution are security and integration."
"We can scale it if we want to."
"It serves as a centralized solution that fulfills all my requirements from operating my email server to managing various aspects of my operations."
"The pricing is excellent."
"It is an excellent solution."
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"What I love about Microsoft Exchange is the good integration since 2013, particularly its integration with the calendar and other software such as Zoom, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, etc."
"It integrates well with calendar, scheduling, etc. It's easy for employees to make meetings and plan their agendas."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I find Exchange's basic mail features to be highly valuable."
"Support is very good."
"The search tools are good."
"The initial setup is quite a straightforward process. I don't think it is a very complicated solution. Plenty of things could be more complex, but the ordinary, general settings are quite simple."
"Customers can benefit from this new pricing model because it's expensive and now with the subscription they can budget for this."
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Cons

"From the Domino side, it should support DKIM and DMARC."
"The solution could improve Kubernetes or Dockers migration to new environments in the cloud."
"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."
"HCL Domino could improve by having integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft 365."
"The product's user interface is one of its shortcomings since it is outdated, making it an area for improvement."
"Scalability is also an issue. We have problems with large databases."
"Designing a new template could provide a refreshed visual experience for users without significant changes to the underlying functionality."
"When you compare with Microsoft Exchange, the UI could be more user-friendly."
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"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange improve their documentation."
"In the version we have, I would like to see better communication between the end device and the Exchange server."
"There can be occasional challenges during the product's implementation phase, making it an area where improvements are needed."
"Microsoft Exchange's customer support could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"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."
"The calendar integration in Exchange is not that great. The email features are okay, but it doesn't integrate well with the calendar and appointments, especially Zoom appointments. It integrates fine with Microsoft Teams, but Zoom is a challenge."
"They could improve on the search function, it takes too much time."
"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."
More Microsoft Exchange cons
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We're happy with the price of our license — it's pretty standard."
"HCL Domino's pricing depends on the number of users, but its license is not cheap."
"We pay annually for the use of this solution and it is only a standard fee."
"I'd rate it a seven out of ten in terms of price."
"The pricing is individually determined. For us, in our current deployment, we pay $12.50 Canadian per month per user."
"HCL Domino has reasonable pricing. It's not expensive."
"Customers have to pay for a license for the Notes Client, not for the Domino database. There is a quarter license that we use."
"The license for Domino is yearly. The price is high."
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"This solution is expensive."
"I have Outlook 365 Professional, and Exchange comes in the bundle with other solutions, such as Word and OneDrive. I pay for the use of the bundle monthly and I can imagine if you are a company with many licenses the pricing model would be a lot different."
"Microsoft Exchange itself does not require a license, but users who will have mailboxes will require a license. It depends on the number of users to choose which license. If you exceed 2,000 mailboxes, it's preferable to get the enterprise license."
"We renew the product license with Microsoft every three years. The cost is included within a bundle of services. It's an enterprise agreement with Microsoft."
"There are different prices depending on the customer's use cases and amount of users. The price of the solution could improve."
"Compared to the other options in the market, the licensing costs attached to Microsoft Exchange seem reasonable."
"There is an annual cost to use Microsoft Exchange, and the price could be less expensive."
"I rate Microsoft Exchange a four out of ten for pricing because it is quite cheap, and many companies use the solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HCL Domino?
The most valuable features of the solution are security and integration.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HCL Domino?
The pricing is individually determined. HCL has a simple pricing model: per user per year. We pay $100 US per user per year. But "guest" users are permitted without any licence requirement. And any...
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What needs improvement with HCL Domino?
There are small areas of improvement. HCL has taken over from IBM, and is making rapid improvements. IBM sat on it for almost 20 years and did nothing, whereas HCL is making a big effort, and we ar...
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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...
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What do you like most about Microsoft Exchange?
The initial setup was straightforward and fast.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Exchange?
Compared to the other options in the market, the licensing costs attached to Microsoft Exchange seem reasonable.
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Compared 7% of the time
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Compared 6% of the time
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Also Known As

IBM Lotus Domino, Lotus Domino
Exchange, MS Exchange
 

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Overview

HCL Domino (formerly IBM Domino) is a secure, enterprise-grade, application development platform. From IT to business, HCL Domino is the only low to pro-code application development platform that allows your business to build robust applications to solve workflow and process challenges fast. HCL Domino powers businesses around the world with 15,000 customers and 10 million apps built on our platform. HCL Domino has always been a secure, rock-solid, and proven solution.

  • Low cost of ownership - minimizing administration needs through automated installations, policies and monitoring helps staff focus on higher value tasks.
  • Minimized infrastructure - reducing costs by using less power, memory, data storage, network bandwidth and servers.
  • Rich application environment - supporting workflow-driven and people-oriented applications that help a wide variety of business operations deliver enhanced results.
  • Security-rich - helping protect your critical business assets. You can control information access, protect information and guarantee document authenticity.
  • High availability - featuring advanced clustering, replication, server fault recovery and automated diagnostic tools.
Built to deliver the enterprise-grade security and reliability that businesses require, Microsoft Exchange provides email, calendar and contacts on your PC, phone and web browser.
 

Sample Customers

A1 Telekom, Acubiz, Afrisam, E. A. Juffali & Brothers, Fiducia & GAD, and Pakistan State Oil
Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport, Scitec Nutrition, British Airways, InnoGames, Osteology Foundation, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH, NTC Contracting
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