We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and KerioConnect 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."The valuable features of this solution are ease of use, performance is great, and collaboration. It is very easy to share and joins documents."
"The solution is easy to use, and you don't need a lot of knowledge for it."
"It's a secure solution that enables you to choose those you wish to share with."
"In terms of email, I could probably do the same things with other programs, however, I find 90% of my usage is Gmail."
"The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is the sheets and documents."
"The email is excellent."
"The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"The user interface is good."
"The most valuable features are security and privacy because you installed it on your server, within your company premises, not in the cloud."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"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."
"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."
"They can maybe improve its graphical user interface. Google is not really known for having a PC interface. It is just a nice-to-have feature."
"Expensive with a complicated licensing structure."
"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."
"Improvements to G Suite would be the ability to collaborate more easily and better quality video compression in Google Meet."
"And I think Google Translate could add more features. For example, it could be integrated when typing in a document or a web browser like Grammarly."
"Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult."
"The solution could improve the Google Cloud identity login to laptops that sometimes do not work. The collaboration for Google sites, they are not equivalent to others, such as Sharepoint."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"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."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"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."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while KerioConnect is ranked 9th in Email Applications with 7 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while KerioConnect is rated 6.2. 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 KerioConnect writes "Lightweight, simple, and robust; easy to maintain and doesn't require a lot of system resources to run". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, Google Cloud Storage and ProtonMail, whereas KerioConnect is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra Collaboration, IceWarp, Microsoft Exchange Online and Open-Xchange. See our Google Workspace vs. KerioConnect report.
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