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    Intermedia Email Plus

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIntermedia Email Plus Exchange Email is a combined email productivity and security suite, providing anti-phishing, email archiving, email backup and archiving, as well as access to AnyMeeting web conferencing included via a subscription.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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    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
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    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
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    OpenText
    Chose AppRiver from OpenText
    At the time, 5 years ago, we switched from Intermedia to Appriver based on price and portal features. AppRiver had better pricing, did support themselves, and integrated Office 365 into their own customer portal for easy management. They were the only ones at the time. I cannot …
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    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
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    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
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    Features
    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Intermedia Email Plus and AppRiver from OpenText
    Feature
    Intermedia Email Plus
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    AppRiver from OpenText
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-malware8.01 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Customizability8.01 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection7.01 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.01 Ratings9.77 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption8.01 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Management Tools8.01 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (25 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Intermedia Email PlusAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Intermedia
    This is the perfect solution for businesses that want a scalable solution with a fixed cost per user. Intermedia is amazing with no contracts.
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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.
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    Pros
    Intermedia
    • Excellent support
    • Great performance
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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!!
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    Cons
    Intermedia
    • Email filtering is good, but not excellent
    • Office 365 default settings require a little tweaking (registry)
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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.
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    Usability
    Intermedia
    I love the usability of Intermedia Email Plus. The only downfall isn't their fault. The issue with Office 365 registry settings requires changes to connect to Intermedia Email Plus flawlessly.
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    OpenText
    AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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    Support Rating
    Intermedia
    Native English speaking support, excellent response, and quick resolution. Support is amazing at Intermedia.
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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.
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    Intermedia
    Intermedia Email Plus support is better, costs are comparable or better, and backups are better than the alternatives.
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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
    Intermedia
    • Scalable for seasonal/variable employee count
    • Easy administration
    • Easy onboarding
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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.
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