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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AExchange Online Archiving from Microsoft is a tool that helps the user solve archiving, compliance, regulatory, and eDiscovery challenges. Hosted on Microsoft globally redundant servers, with IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Exchange Online Archiving is compatible with Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010. It’s also available as an add-on service for mailboxes that are hosted online.

    $3

    per month per user

    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
    Pricing
    Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingAppRiver from OpenText
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingAppRiver 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
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    50%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    67%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingAppRiver from OpenText
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving and AppRiver from OpenText
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    Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
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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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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (25 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingAppRiver from OpenText
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft has a variety of models and tiers available to choose from. Depending on the nature of your firm, you should seek the advice of a specialist. Also, if you're like most people and use Microsoft Office, ask about it. Having the ability to collaborate online while still saving your documents to SharePoint increases your overall productivity.
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    • Great granular-level management and backup of all Microsoft 365 mailboxes
    • Content search and investigation of mailboxes without modifying a user's password (without the user knowing)
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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
    Microsoft
    • Time to restore the mailings
    • To change the characteristics of the archive I need to communicate with the administrator
    • When the administrator eliminates the mail account it also eliminates the archives created
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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
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    The Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving tools are the best with multiple Cloud capabilities which enables the smooth running of all the data processing projects and securing entire business data and easy transfer of any data size across the Cloud services. Archiving functions are also the effective ones with great data analytical capability.
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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
    Microsoft
    • Is included with exchange online plans at no extra cost, so why not use it?
    • Has helped solve some specific user requirements eg auto-delete emails older than a certain age, and auto move emails from certain folders after a period of time.
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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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