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    Barracuda Message Archiver

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe Barracuda Message Archiver is designed to help organizations reduce email storage requirements, meet demanding compliance requirements, and address e-discovery requests easily and effectively. Integration with the Barracuda Cloud provides long-term email storage and backup.N/A

    AppRiver from OpenText

    Score4.5 out of 10
    N/AAppRiver from OpenText (formerly from Zix from 2019, which was acquired by OpenText), is a hosted messaging gateway and security platform featuring anti-spam and email encryption / data loss capability.N/A
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    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
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    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
    Considered Both Products
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    50%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    67%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda Message Archiver and AppRiver from OpenText
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    Ratings
    AppRiver from OpenText
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
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    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
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    Google Vault
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    Enterprises
    Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (25 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Message ArchiverAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    This is the perfect solution for a quick implementation of archivation. You configure it once and it keeps on going. Users do not need to interact to archive, only to find things back.
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    OpenText
    AppRiver is great for both small and large organizations. Small businesses are unlikely to have much if any technical support staff available to them, for which AppRiver would be a great help. Likewise for large companies, having AppRiver can save your tech support team from dealing with basic, common, and repetitive application support, and allowing them to better focus on more important tasks at hand.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Archiving with journaling.
    • Search with WebClient.
    • Search with Add-In.
    • Stubbing.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    • Very useful daily quarantine list emailed to users.
    • Suspicious emails can be viewed online in their sandbox to check validity before releasing from quarantine.
    • Multiple ways to filter emails (domain, email address, text, etc)
    • Link protection is one of the newest options available and we absolutely love it!!
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • the folder structure of the mailbox is harder to keep up with
    • it is a bit confusing when you search for non email items, like contacts.
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    OpenText
    • They do not support DMARC and DKIM at this time and I don't know when or if they ever will.
    • Their SPF record is not great and can possibly cause issues, at least that is what my support company has told me.
    • Scanning of links in emails seems super limited and or non-existent. THings get through with completely bad malicious all the time and I assume they are not scanning them or they don't have a proper AV on their end.
    • Once a domain is whitelisted any bad emails that may be spoofing that email domain are let through and no other filters apply to the emails. It's frustrating to have to white list 20+ individual email addresses from a company and not be able to white list just the domain and not feel secure doing that.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I would give a ten...but I don´t know the benefit in 2 years between Barracuda in Cloud and Microsoft in Situ Mailarchive. Lets see then!
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
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    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    The product is good but for this specific product there are often some technical problems. Mostly support in Vienna can solve them soon. The development is very, very slow. I have asked for some changes. They gave the okay to make it with a feature request...but 3 years later there is still no code for my problems. Not even one feature request was done.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    The support in Vienna is very, very great. They are fast and can support almost all problems by themselves. Especially Mr. Michael Holzer is a very high specialist and you can ask him almost everything. Just write a mail to emeasupport and you will be sure, that some minutes or hours later you will get a kind and professional call.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    AppRiver's live support is above what I expected, and I use it exclusively. I always get a professional, courteous, and knowledgeable tech that is easy to understand within a few minutes of placing a call. If you do have to leave a message they have always promptly returned my call.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Think about using offline archives. They make a lot of trouble. Better train your users to use the Outlook Addin Search without using offline archives, which need a lot of power, network and harddrive space. Headers only functionality was promised years ago but is still not implemented.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It was a lot cheaper, i mean a awfull lot.
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    OpenText
    AppRiver requires the least amount of management time, the pricing is better and the minimums are such that almost all SMB's won't be buying shelfware. If you are an MSP, become a partner and you will see spam problems become a thing of the past.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • i had no negative impact.
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    OpenText
    • Efficiency, teams adapt quickly to changes or new business needs.
    • Support gives us alternatives on how to establish new timings for new business lines on email.
    • An increase in profit owing to a reduction in the amount of assistance our in-house IT staff is required to provide.
    Incentivized
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