Google Workspace vs Microsoft Exchange vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

"From a security point of view, Google will alert you if anything strange is happening. They will flag it for you so you are aware."

"Google integrates well with our system. G Suite has an open API, so you can connect any open system with Google capable of working with API. This is the main reason we use it."

"The tool helps me keep a backup of old emails. Like everyone else, I love the Google search engine for searching emails on webmail. The Google Workspace connector for Outlook works well, so I have no issues with that."

"There are several online forums and a lot of support materials online."

"The product can scale easily."

"The collaboration features are valuable."

"Overall, I rate Google Workspace a ten out of ten."

"Good performance, even on relatively slow connections; no local apps required."

"Our customers are satisfied with the features included in Microsoft Exchange."

"The platform's most valuable feature is the mailbox roles."

"Exchange is easy to use. It also has a built-in calendar for all the stuff I'm supposed to be looking at and doing. Exchange tells you if you have a doctor's appointment or a scheduled call. It also has a place to store and manage your contacts. If I want to add a new contact, it will put in information about that contact stored anywhere within the Microsoft Suite."

"The integration of Microsoft Exchange with other tools allows for seamless collaboration and increased productivity within teams."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange are it is always online and has broad email and file-sharing capabilities."

"Communication is the most valuable feature of the solution."

"I find the desktop version of Microsoft Exchange looks better than the online version. You can make it a white background. You might be able to make the online background white, but I have no idea how to do that. I know how to do it only on the desktop version"

"Zimbra Collaboration has integrated a lot of their party tools and they have good documentation available."

"Zimbra Collaboration's best feature is its compatibility with Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, which allows users to use Outlook on Windows or MacOS."

"One of the premium features was customized rooms tailored to the collaboration needs. Many of the clients customize features such as organization logos and scanners."

"The configuration is simple."

"One of the most valuable features involves the solution's automatic backup, which I find to be pretty simple and straightforward, and obviates the need for additional software."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra for our team's productivity is its efficiency in handling email communication."

"The most valuable feature of Zimbra Collaboration is email functionality."

"The backup and storage management features of Zimbra Collaboration are valuable."

"There are 120 different products and Google is ready to copy their competitors and vice versa. Some of them work, and some of them don't. There are many newer tools with no-code environments which allow for a leaner self-owned system, where I'm not tied to paying hundreds and thousands of dollars a year to another company."

"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."

"We would like to use something within Google Workspace for project management, but we didn't find it there."

"Google Meet is a very good product, but it's not up to the mark if you compare it against other products like Zoom or Microsoft Teams."

"Google Workspace lacks the ability to copy and move files from one folder to another easily."

"Integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved. The new integration was implemented last September, and we are facing some issues with OAuth 2.0 authentication."

"To a degree, the project management service could be improved."

"There's a bit of a learning curve."

"When we started using Exchange on the cloud, we had a lot of initial problems relating to our main database and we also experienced issues with the accidental deletion of inboxes, amongst other things. In fact, many of the files we had moved to the cloud had disappeared. There also seems to be a problem with the retention of information."

"Microsoft Exchange could improve the price."

"The only thing that could be improved is the pricing."

"At the end of the day, the biggest area for improvement is having better and more knowledgeable support technicians."

"The product or service could be improved in terms of Microsoft Outlook client compatibility."

"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange improve their documentation."

"One thing for improvement would be to have an offline version of Exchange available for use if our connection goes down."

"The support needs to be more knowledgeable."

"Zimbra Collaboration does not have a solution roadmap as aggressive as the new collaboration mail solutions. Additionally, they can have a better interface and integration with single sign-on."

"In the next release, Zimbra Collaboration should include a security feature to allow access for mobile device administrators."

"The solution’s forums don't have much information or documentation on administration tasks."

"I can confidently say that Zimbra is good enough for 2,000 client users. But, at the same time, if my client needs more than that and we have two options—Zimbra or Microsoft—I'm going with Microsoft because many admins will speak to Microsoft's ability to handle that many."

"We have had an issue with security."

"The tool should improve its multi-cloud feature."

"Zimbra Collaboration's video conferencing could be improved."

"There are some security issues."

"The pricing of Google Workspace, so far, has been reasonable."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

"The price of Google Workspace is reasonable. I pay less than 100 a month."

"It's low in cost as compared to Office 365. There is an annual licensing cost."

"The overall cost is very reasonable when considering all of the security features that you are receiving. It is a bit more expensive than our local host and/or other hosting companies that are available on the market, but it is worth it."

"I can't recall the exact pricing per user for Google Workspace, but I know it's not that expensive. I'm in a mid-sized company that's able to maintain and afford Google Workspace, so it has competitive pricing, and I would rate its price as four out of five."

"It's cheaper to run a couple of users in a Google platform than what it would be with Microsoft Exchange."

"The price of the solution can vary."

"The pricing is expensive."

"The price of Microsoft Exchange is reasonable."

"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."

"There is an annual cost to use Microsoft Exchange, and the price could be less expensive."

"We pay for the license annually."

"The product pricing is reasonable if you utilize its full suite of features."

"The solution is expensive to maintain because it requires frequent updates and ongoing server maintenance."

"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."

"Zimbra Collaboration offers a good price-to-feature ratio."

"When it comes to the licensing of Zimbra Collaboration, my license covers the servers and I find its terms to be much simpler than those of Microsoft Exchange."

"We are using perpetual licenses. We have deployed it in our local data center, and we buy perpetual licenses on a per-user basis."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the price a four"

"Zimbra Collaboration is less expensive than Microsoft Exchange. Zimbra works for small companies because it is not expensive. Zimbra Collaboration has more security tools than Microsoft Exchange. If you are choosing between Zimbra Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange, you have to take into account the cost of security tools with Microsoft Exchange. When you purchase Microsoft Exchange, you will also have to purchase tools for security, which adds to the cost. The migration from Zimbra Collaboration to another email solution is very simple and easy. Migration from Microsoft Exchange to another email solution is very difficult. Microsoft doesn't allow migration that easily. In fact, you have to pay for tools to do that. You have to buy some expensive tools to migrate."

"Zimbra Collaboration is expensive, and there is no perpetual license option."

"I use Zimbra Collaboration's community version. We may move to the enterprise version since prices are affordable."

"If you choose the network edition, it is a little pricier. They have the open-source edition too which is only community supported."