Carbonite Information Archiving vs. AppRiver from OpenText

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Carbonite Information Archiving
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Carbonite Information Archiving (formerly Zix Information Archiving, or sold under the name ZixArchive), stores an unlimited number of files and communications across email, SMS, and emerging platforms like Microsoft Teams and social media. It helps protect organizations against compliance violations and unplanned litigations and is offered as a replacement for organizations moving off of aging, on-premise, email-only hardware.N/A
AppRiver from OpenText
Score 4.5 out of 10
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AppRiver 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
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite Information Archiving
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Ratings
AppRiver from OpenText
8.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Anti-malware00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Threat Detection00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Sandboxing00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management Tools00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
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8.9
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Usability
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10.0
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Support Rating
8.1
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8.4
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User Testimonials
Carbonite Information ArchivingAppRiver from OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
Archiving is almost exactly what I'm looking for in a solution, especially now that it's fully rolled out to our users. The one pain point is the initial setup of the archive, which is a little lacking. Some archiving solutions simply need an administrator account to thread all of the old data in the inboxes. For Zix Information Archiving (ZixArchive), I must manually export a PST and send it to Zix Support for upload. I'd like to have users' entire mailboxes automatically uploaded into the archiver without several fairly time-consuming steps.
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I would highly recommend AppRiver for inbound email filtering. We have been very pleased with the performance and the ease of use. The occasional email does get through, but I have had that happen on any email filtering we have used in the past. Great product and great support as well
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Pros
  • Recovery of deleted data.
  • Retention of information from archive portal.
  • Powerful search features.
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  • Ease of management for a MSP. Even though there is no integration w/ PSA tools currently, I don't see this as a negative. The management is multi-tenant and simple to navigate.
  • Support via chat is fast and very competent. Only downside is they are just available during extended business hours, not 24x7 on the chat.
  • Reselling Office 365 is very simple and gives us an advantage over our competitors. Includes pre sales support and post sale support.
  • Encrypted email services act much like others, it works very well and includes and Outlook Plug in to make it obvious you intend to send messaged encrypted.
  • Email continuity. Email queuing is included, so if your onsite server goes down, mail queues at the spam filter until service is restored. You can step it up w/ their email continuity service which give you access to your mail at the spam filter in cases where your mail server is down for an extended period of time.
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Cons
  • Setup (would be nice to get historical data from before setup)
  • Download a copy of a message instead of just delivering from within the individual message
  • Integration of archive into other features (e.g., threat protection/tools)--the ability to get to the archiver's copy of the message would be nice
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  • We had an issue with bills coming to us instead of going directly to the client that took a little longer to fix than we would have preferred.
  • It would be nice if the bills included the domain name. When I was receiving my client's bill, it was difficult to tell which domains the bill was for.
  • Cost a little more than from Microsoft directly.
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Usability
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AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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Support Rating
Each time I have contacted support, I have had a resolution on the first call.
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
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AppRiver takes Microsoft 365 and simplifies the billing, provisioning, and support, to the point that we no longer have to deal with Microsoft directly, are able to simply focus on the product, rather than all the settings, setup, and all the other headaches typically associated with setting up a Microsoft365 Tenant.
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Return on Investment
  • Supports our document retention polices.
  • Allows for recovery of data easily.
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  • We were able to drop our email scanning software that was taking hours to clear the cache of emails daily. The reduction in delays on email scanning improved our efficiency as emails take seconds to minutes to get to where they are going not hours.
  • Encrypted email service (Cypher-Post) is difficult to use as well as our recipients do not like how difficult it is to use. The stub emails that contain links often get deleted because people are trained not to click on links in emails. This has caused substantial delays in people getting emails from us.
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