Barracuda Essentials vs. OpenText InfoArchive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Barracuda Essentials is an email security platform designed to protect users and businesses from volumetric threats like malware and spam, as well advanced threats like targeted spear phishing and ransomware, and provides email archiving and data protection from corruption and deletion with cloud backup and recovery of emails and files, data leak prevention and encryption.N/A
OpenText InfoArchive
Score 8.2 out of 10
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OpenText Archiving solutions present solutions for archiving and managing the enterprise information lifecycle for a range of structured and unstructured information, including email, files, Microsoft SharePoint data, including ERP data (SAP, Oracle), instant messaging, web and social content, within one repository. The suite features OpenText InfoArchive, an enterprise archiving platform for preserving both structured and unstructured data sources, irrespective of the archive method.…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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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
Barracuda Essentials
6.6
16 Ratings
25% below category average
OpenText InfoArchive
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Ratings
Anti-malware10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability5.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection2.113 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing3.012 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
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Barracuda Essentials
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User Ratings
Barracuda EssentialsOpenText InfoArchive
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(16 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
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Usability
8.9
(8 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.2
(9 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Barracuda EssentialsOpenText InfoArchive
Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
The Barracuda Essentials solution is definitely a great alternative to network security and especially corporate email to prevent employees from clicking on malicious links, spam, phishing, trojans and ransonware. The solution today is implemented in almost all sectors of the company and we have control of everything and good protection guaranteeing principles of compliance and security.
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OpenText
OpenText InfoArchive offers the ease of accessing data and documents eliminating interruption to productivity, allows my organization to cost-effectively upgrade two active data to new applications while keeping historical and complete company data just a click away, It is a scalable solution with cloud services that increases productivity and reduces costs and wasted time.
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Pros
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Barracuda Essentials Spam Filtering works and it is very easy to add or remove senders from the Spam filter lists.
  • Barracuda Essentials provides excellent protection from Phishing and other Malware.
  • Barracuda Essentials email encryption is so easy to use and easy to setup. Our users love it.
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OpenText
  • OpenText InfoArchive is a highly scalable cloud-based solution for archiving structured and unstructured information, it has been a very helpful tool in my organization because it allows me to quickly address compliance guidelines without changes in costs, saving time in long processes and searches.
  • In my organization, this modern tool is essential for its information filing functions, maintaining convenient access to structured and unstructured information, saving time and costs, thus maintaining relevant data in a centralized manner.
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Cons
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Encryption is always on. There's NO way to turn it off so false encryption leads to real issues. Many banks and other companies cannot read/accept encrypted email. There should be a "Do Not Encrypt" type of keyword to prevent encryption (competing products have this).
  • There's no indication an email was encrypted (like with Proofpoint or ZIX mail).
  • MSP management interface needs work. You have to request licenses by email and wait. Pretty archaic today. Most competing product sites let MSP's increase/decrease licensing as needed, immediately.
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OpenText
  • OpenText InfoArchive is perfect for business processes achieving agility and time and cost savings, it is a software that works perfectly being flexible and easy to use with features that fit all needs, it controls file data for data access contextual, offers a modern interface and maximum security, the features are innumerable and its perfect operation from start to finish.
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Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Its the best email security gateway product I have used.
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OpenText
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Usability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Essentials is simple to use. It has a user dashboard that is simple to navigate even for those who have few computer skills. One can barely realize that the program is even running in the background heading off those emails that can cause damage to my computer or our overall system.
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OpenText
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Support Rating
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
This is the best tool in the industry. It provides the best support on top of the product. If one has any trouble configuring things or troubleshooting things, Barracuda's support is renowned for resolving bugs and issues as well as assisting troubleshooting and fixing issues. I would highly recommend it as it covers all email security bases.
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OpenText
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Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Essentials has a far easier admin pannel than is provided by mimecast along with far more filtering options such as dkim. Much easier to do the initial setup along with much better support provided. Barracuda Essentials has Advanced threat protection that uses AI to spot patterns and gives you the option to remove a suspect email from all inboxs
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OpenText
OpenText InfoArchive is a cloud-based solution that offers the ease of searching and secure data navigation by dismantling outdated applications and systems while maintaining productivity, it is a modern, secure and easy-to-use archiving solution with accessible information. with visualization in specific views with data encryption, security and privacy controls, it is very complete and offers a unique experience.
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Return on Investment
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Barracuda Essentials has had a very positive impact especially since the Pandemic with many remote workers. Our IT objective is 99.9% uptime with many redundancy fail safes in place. Barracuda Essentials helps meet that objective by protecting the vast amount of email we receive daily.
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OpenText
  • OpenText InfoArchive is a solution that has had a huge impact on my organization addressing privacy and consolidating compliance efforts for structured and unstructured data, since using this cloud-based solution the results have been positive, addressing data archive challenges. organized and safe manner, efficiency of the workforce and develop a business transformation strategy.
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