We performed a comparison between HCL Notes and Zoho Mail 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."It is easy to integrate the product with other services."
"The solution provides great security."
"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."
"The solution is practical, good interface, and performs well."
"The most valuable feature is the access that it provides to documents. This offers us an easy way to make changes."
"HCL Notes is stable most of the time."
"The initial setup was easy for me."
"The most valuable feature is the UI."
"The solution has more security compared to other products. Zoho Mail comes with TLS and SSL. It has email-sharing features. It is an advanced product."
"Zoho gives you a set amount of free users, so you can use it until you reach the limit and see if it's something you want to adopt. I tried it and stuck with it. Since then, I've seen a lot of improvement. I already think it's top-notch, but I believe it will become one of the best in the world."
"The notifications, scheduling, and meetings are all integrated."
"Zoho Mail organizes your email well, and you can do a lot of things if you use other Zoho applications along with it."
"The most valuable features of Zoho Mail are its security, integration with cloud storage, and wide range of features available. It integrates well with Outlook and mobile devices."
"Zoho Mail is a stable product."
"It also offers the search functionalities. For end users, the search is quite easy to use. There are a few tabs to select to find exactly what you're looking for. It's pretty simple. As long as the data is available, you can use filters like from whom, to whom, subject, attachment, and even use advanced settings. It's pretty nice."
"We can create email accounts for our customers."
"GUI and replication can be improved."
"We had trouble connecting this solution to the database from Microsoft. We have done it, although it can be easier."
"The solution could improve by adding some more features."
"The loading time can be excessive."
"Web support is very old and needs an upgrade. We can handle a different password for the client to access the mail services, compared to the web services. We need to implement many other components to get access to the web access. There could be a feature to interpret if the web access is available from any end-user equipment."
"I would like to HCL update Notes' development tool and make it more attractive like Microsoft Visual Studio and similar products. For example, there's a programming language that I used for my product Woodpecker called LotusScript. LotusScript has been available since around 1995. When LotusScript was released, it was like the original Visual Basic, but it has improved since then."
"I would like to see integration with other solutions."
"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."
"Zoho Mail needs to add an IT system management feature."
"The interface isn't quite good. Everything looks a little low-quality."
"The solution doesn't need to be improved."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"We face some challenges in our current architecture with the introduction of data privacy regulations. When you are sending a calendar invite to a group of people for a meeting or an event, there is no structure for privacy. You can't hide all the contacts. Maybe that feature exists, but I don't know where it is."
"The initial setup of Zoho Mail can take some time because we have 30 to 35 users and we need to register each one. This can take one or two days to complete. The process could be better for administrators to register their users. If the setup interface was better in explaining the process it would be helpful to become more user-friendly."
"Zoho Mail needs to improve its integration because direct integration is not possible with many applications."
HCL Notes is ranked 7th in Email Applications with 12 reviews while Zoho Mail is ranked 9th in Email Applications with 8 reviews. HCL Notes is rated 8.0, while Zoho Mail is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HCL Notes writes "Accessible from any device, good support, and works very well for emails, document sharing, and workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho Mail writes "An intuitive tool that offers an ample number of features at very customer-friendly prices". HCL Notes is most compared with HCL Verse, Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino, Google Workspace and Microsoft Exchange Online, whereas Zoho Mail is most compared with IceWarp, Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Workspace, ProtonMail and Zimbra Cloud. See our HCL Notes vs. Zoho Mail report.
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