AppRiver from OpenText vs. WatchGuard XCS (Discontinued)

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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I like it because it tends to block out some of the things that shouldn't get in our inboxes, but they somehow end up in our mailboxes sometimes, not a big deal. The main thing that needs to be blocked out is any phishing and it keeps those emails out!

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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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• Very Secure!
• Easy to use and set up.
• Great to keep things safe for employees and employer.

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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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• I would like to see why the multi WAN doesn't work at times!
• Can be a little slow.
• Some things are blocked for no reason.

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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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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

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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I suggest WatchGuard because they offer so much. They offer the way to keep email and websites blocked that don't belong and they also help us connect to the server whenever we remote in from work. Everything is done with so much ease and there is not any hassle.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• It helps our computers be safe.
• Less worrying about IT fixing bugs on computers.
• Their beliefs are inline with ours.

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