Acronis Backup Cloud vs OneNote

Acronis Backup Cloud

Acronis is a great solution for organizations with an IT department or consultant. It works great for IT administrators that have multiple data centers so they can have a central backup location. Acronis would not be a great fit for organizations with low bandwidth or slow internet speeds

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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OneNote

Organizing data and information objects, according to your own logic of structure. For example, organizing all info about the cases you are working on, so each case will have a dedicated section or a page. Collaborating with colleagues who are working together on a project, so they can share a notebook, a section, or a page, and from there share meetings notes, lists of action items, links to other resources, and more.

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Verified User

Program Manager in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Backup Cloud

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OneNote

7.6

Versioning

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8.4

Video files

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4.8

Audio files

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6.1

Document collaboration

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8.1

Access control

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7.5

File search

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8.6

Device sync

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9.6

Acronis Backup Cloud

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OneNote

8.6

User and role management

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9.0

File organization

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8.1

Device management

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8.7

Acronis Backup Cloud

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OneNote

8.7

Performance

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8.3

Reliability

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9.1

Storage Reports

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8.7

Pros

The Acronis backup console is easy to use.
Acronis offers an online recovery console to access items quickly and easily.
The ability to backup and restore Office 365 mailboxes.
Creating backup plans and schedules is simple.
Email alerts notifying administrators on backup failures.
The backup deduplication and compression features is one of industries best.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Tabs-Enabling quick look up even without using the search feature. Also, because of the sub-tabs, items can be updated quickly and neatly.
Search-As the content grows, this is without a doubt one of the more used features and it does not disappoint.
Multi-Format and document linking. If there is something that is customer facing, I put these things into the short version when I am giving my presentations.
Writing - With the growth of tablets, this seems to be a no-brainer. However, I use it to overwrite illustrations. Again as with the advantage of presenting in a more natural flow, using the pen/highlighting tools to draw attention is invaluable.

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Brad Bratcher

Data Protection Specialist

Dell EMCComputer Hardware, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

The fact Acronis is an OS client base backup, which leads to more backup failures. Although most issues can be corrected with restarting services.
Recovering backups from the cloud(internet) is a lot slower then acessing local backups.
The backup error reports are not detailed enough to help administrators fix issues.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Task management (it would be nice for one note to be able to send notifications to your device)
Integrations with other services (Ifttt, etc.)
It would be great for the iPhone application to support drawing

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Gavin Scott-Miller

Project Manager

Comm-WorksInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Backup Cloud9.1

Based on 1 answer

The cost savings we realized from moving to this software has us hooked - it does everything we need it to do on a very high level (virtualization, for example) and is very low cost for us.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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OneNote10.0

Based on 13 answers

If you are only interested in using OneNote, without using other MS Office products, then I would recommend using Evernote instead. OneNote does, however, come as part of Office Home and Student, which includes the three base products, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Those products are useful for students as well as most office employees, and getting the package may be worth the price.

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Jeremy Ma

Application Developer

CVS Caremark CorporationPharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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OneNote9.0

Based on 5 answers

Nothing is perfect, but this is a great note taking environment.

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dan berezowski

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

PCS Receivables Corp.Financial Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I believe Acronis has the easiest interface to control backups and restores. The backup solution that didn't work the best for us was Symantec Backup. The other backup solutions (Unitrends, Barracuda,and Veeam) have similar backup features as Acronis and are recommended. Uniterends backup is more advanced and can be complicated not for organizations without IT staff.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Evernote is also a great product that I had used for years. However Evernote limits you with many various things when you don't have a premium subscription. So this makes one note really great for many use cases, and for many various teams. I think one note is a clear choice winner

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Gavin Scott-Miller

Project Manager

Comm-WorksInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

ROI has been huge. The cost is incredibly cheap, and we saved $1500/month by switching.
With a heavy impact on profits, we're able to bundle this backup plan into our basic server management plans with no additional cost, which raises the value of our offerings significantly.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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The real ROI is being able to quickly create and manage all your notes. This can be invaluable when you need to go back in time and find specific information.
This tool helps simplify and organize note-taking and sharing.

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