We performed a comparison between KerioConnect and Microsoft Exchange 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."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."
"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."
"It's relatively simple to use."
"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."
"We use the solution as a mail server. It connects with Outlook and is used for calendaring and similar tasks."
"We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use, excellent pricing, and it is platform agnostic."
"It has a feature that allows you to retain an email and recover it as an administrator. When you activate this feature, even if a user deletes an email, the email is still in the system, and we can retrieve it as an administrator. It is a very useful function. We turn this feature on for some of the mailboxes because we need to keep all the records. I like the way emails are classified in this solution. It makes it really easy to take a look at the most important messages. This is a really good functionality. Some of the emails directly exchanged with you are marked as important and shown in one tab, and everything else is in another tab. We usually don't have any issue with Exchange. It can be integrated with different solutions."
"It's an excellent product from Microsoft. It provides more flexibility to the end-users. As it's connected with Teams, it also enables collaboration."
"For me, the solution is very user-friendly. I've used it a long time and I know where everything is."
"It is easy to set up."
"It is a very stable tool...It is a very scalable tool."
"Microsoft Exchange's most valuable feature is that it's old-fashioned communication, meaning it's good for people who aren't able to work comfortably in a cloud environment."
"Microsoft Exchange has good performance and is user-friendly."
"The deployment is a plug-and-play process."
"It could be simpler to use and install, but I still wouldn't use it because there isn't a compelling use case."
"Having a native Outlook map integration would make Kerio Connect better."
"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."
"I would like to see better support from their support team."
"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."
"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"
"We are considering switching to Microsoft Exchange. One reason is that it doesn't improve our workflow and doesn't integrate well with Microsoft 365 applications."
"Deployment should become a bit easier, the process is a bit complicated. You have to have done it one or two times before you get it right. The first time you do it, it won't be perfect. There are a lot of complications compared to Gmail For Business, which is a bit easier when it comes to configuration."
"The management of .pst files and archiving need improvement."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The security features could be improved. There should be a better policy management system."
"Load balancing is lacking."
"The calendar integration in Exchange is not that great. The email features are okay, but it doesn't integrate well with the calendar and appointments, especially Zoom appointments. It integrates fine with Microsoft Teams, but Zoom is a challenge."
"In the version we have, I would like to see better communication between the end device and the Exchange server."
"It is important to have the updated version for scalability."
KerioConnect is ranked 9th in Email Applications with 8 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in Email Applications with 78 reviews. KerioConnect is rated 6.2, while Microsoft Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KerioConnect writes "Basic and simple to use but lacks connectivity with the CRM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". KerioConnect is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, IceWarp, Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Workspace and Open-Xchange, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange, IceWarp and HCL Notes. See our KerioConnect vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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