We performed a comparison between KerioConnect and Microsoft Exchange Online 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 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."
"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."
"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."
"We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"The user interface is good."
"It is a reasonable solution."
"Microsoft Exchange Online is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature as it encompasses all aspects of collaboration, communication, reporting, and storage."
"It is a stable, and highly scalable product."
"The solution has been stable with good performance on offer."
"The best thing about Microsoft Exchange Online is that it's integrated with the Outlook application."
"I enjoy not having to maintain the local infrastructure, local servers, local whatever. You use the software and don't have to worry about the details."
"All of the features are beneficial, but the scheduling feature is particularly useful."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"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."
"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."
"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."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"It is tricky to integrate Microsoft Exchange Online if you are in an infrastructure provided by other vendors."
"For non-technical people, some configurations might be a little bit difficult. We can use it on our laptops or our portable devices like mobiles and others gadgets, but we have had repeated problems with syncing. That is, when using different gadgets and devices, there are issues with syncing. The configuration could definitely be improved."
"The licensing price of the solution could be lower."
"We'd like to have the ability to recall emails on the web. I'm not sure if that is available yet."
"When you migrate from on-prem to cloud, if you choose to or are forced to do the hybrid, they need to devise a way to undo the hybrid."
"Documentation is lacking."
"The solution’s API integrations could be improved."
"The UI could be improved to look more like the desktop version for ease of use."
KerioConnect is ranked 9th in Email Applications with 7 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online is ranked 2nd in Email Applications with 85 reviews. KerioConnect is rated 6.2, while Microsoft Exchange Online is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KerioConnect writes "Lightweight, simple, and robust; easy to maintain and doesn't require a lot of system resources to run". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online writes "Helps reduced IT operations, scalable, and simple setup". KerioConnect is most compared with Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra Collaboration, IceWarp, Google Workspace and Open-Xchange, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online is most compared with Google Workspace, Amazon WorkMail, ProtonMail, Zoho Mail and Open-Xchange. See our KerioConnect vs. Microsoft Exchange Online report.
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