HCL Notes vs Microsoft Exchange vs Zimbra Collaboration comparison

HCL Notes is a secure on-premises email client that allows teams access to email, calendar, and contact management capabilities. The solution integrates other collaboration tools seamlessly along with HCL Domino business applications, into a single workspace. HCL Notes is most commonly used in corporate environments for email, but can also be used to create websites, custom applications and business workflows, discussion groups, and document libraries. In addition, the solution enhances user experiences, helps internal teams collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, and streamline communication management operations.

HCL Notes is available for Windows, Apple iOS, and Android.

HCL Notes Features

HCL Notes has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

• Instant Messaging with HCL Sametime.
  
  
• Unified Inbox: This HCL Notes feature helps you consolidate multiple email accounts into one viewable platform.
  
  
• Filters: The HCL Notes filters allow users to filter their emails by sender, date received, opened/unopened, and more.
  
  
• Reminders: With the reminders feature, users are prompted with reminders to send or reply to emails.
  
  
• Notifications: HCL Notes notifications feature pings users, notifying them when they receive new emails.
  
  
• Task Management: HCL Notes has built-in task creation and assignment functionality.
  
  
• Reporting & Statistics.

HCL Notes Benefits

Some of the benefits of using HCL Notes include:

• Mobility and accessibility: HCL Notes provides users with access to their mail and calendar wherever and whenever they are doing work.

• Easy integration: With HCL Notes, you can interact with files directly from your email messages — preview, download, follow, comment, or share them with your team.

• Better access capabilities: HCL Notes makes it possible for you to access profiles, roles, skill sets, and areas of responsibility for all your contacts. It also allows you to view related blogs and collaboration histories of shared work.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by HCL Notes users.

An Administration & Technical Director at a tech services company says, "Its security is absolutely stratospheric. In an application, you can lock down to field-level security. For example, I could log in and see a field in an HR database with salaries. When you log in, you see exactly the same database, but the field with the salary just isn't there. So, you can literally have field-level security on it, and you can also have secure encryption. For example, I could give you that database allowing you to see the salary, but a calculation that shows how much they get per month in another field is encrypted. So, you won't be able to see that because you don't have the encryption key. You can implement high-level security very simply."

PeerSpot user Bogdan C., Kierownik Biura Informatyki at an insurance company, mentions, “The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes.”

Marcos S., Diretor at MASTERDOM, comments, “The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well. The usability of the old applications to the new version of the client is very good. The migration is very good for some legacy applications.”