We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and HCL Notes 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."They are launching more and more features for mobile, which I understand our customers appreciate."
"The solution is stable."
"personally prefer to use G Suite applications, such as Gmail, Slides, and Sheets, because they give you the freedom to share the document you're editing and co-work with other colleagues simultaneously."
"Extremely reliable, providing great collaboration features."
"I like everything that Google does. They have good products."
"Users can work anywhere with an internet connection."
"It's certainly easier to meet. We have offices around the world and the ability to have a company meeting on Google Meet platform makes it a whole lot easier to actually have everybody virtually in one room at the same time."
"G Suite Enterprise provides many features, such as business increased search visibility, email address, and domain. It's a large whole ecosystem that is the major benefit. You can manage your whole team and have many tools. Over seven years, the solution has gone through some drastic upgrades and improvements which are done automatically, I do not have to manual upgrade."
"It is one of the best products in the world for workflow applications. It works very well for workflows or decisional processes where a task needs to be first approved by someone. After that, the task moves to the next or final stage where another person approves it with some notes or attached documents."
"The solution provides great security."
"HCL Notes has fantastic built-in security. The email and personal communication components are excellent, but they are some applications provided by HCL that Notes previously provided when it was under IBM and Lotus. Everyone wants email, so that's just part of the product. However, more savvy users can build their own solutions for managing information, and that's the great thing about it."
"The product is very stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"The security and performance of the solution are good even though our platform is variable, except for the mail services."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"When I compare with Office 365, G Suite has fewer features."
"Their tool called Sheets is the counterpart to Excel but it doesn't have the same functionality that Excel would have. So usually if somebody needs to go back to Excel or Office, it's because of Excel."
"There are times the plugins or extensions in the solution do not work properly and I need to disable and enable the solution."
"I believe Google Drive has potential for improvement. Enhancements could be made in terms of synchronization and the functionality of the Google Sheets app, particularly in areas like formulas and pivot tables, to make it more comparable to Microsoft Excel. Google Chat needs to make improvements so that we can send Excel and PDFs from the mobile app itself. I would like to see Google Bard integrated with the product."
"I'm not sure if Google Drive has a customizing feature, however, if it did, then it would be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see more encryption of documents, mail, and things like that. There should be a better way to encrypt mail and documents that are pushed through this system. That would be some improvement or additional features that could be good to have."
"Sometimes, I would like to be able to use the solution offline, and I can't do so. It would be ideal if there was some sort of offline mode available."
"I believe that Sheets could have a more functional and user-friendly interface. Google Sheets currently lacks macros and cross file links which can be found in Excel."
"The only improvement that we're planning to do is that all our applications are still designed in the layout and format of Notes version 4, and our plan over the coming years is to modernize their look. One of the things they're developing or considering deploying is a program to automatically upgrade the look and feel of databases. If they deploy that, that will be revolutionary. In other words, we decide on a corporate look and feel for our database and press a button. We've probably got 50 different applications in Notes, and it would just go through the whole lot and upgrade all of them to look the same."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"Notes needs a major upgrade for the UI."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"It is a heavy program and uses more resources than an email client should."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while HCL Notes is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL Notes writes "Accessible from any device, good support, and works very well for emails, document sharing, and workflows". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, Google Cloud Storage and Citrix ShareFile, whereas HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online. See our Google Workspace vs. HCL Notes report.
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