CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 vs. Exclaimer

We use CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 with Office 365 and the integration is fantastic. I never have to worry if a use isn't going to see the right template, or if the plugin isn't going to work right. The system just works as advertised and it does it well. The signature templates are very easy to use and apply.

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Exclaimer is highly beneficial for larger companies that have a range of business units and requirements around the look and feel of signatures. Smaller organisations are unlikely to need the same degree of customisation, so the requirement is diminished. Particularly as there is something of a cost premium and another platform to manage.

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• Uniform Signatures: CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 allows administrators to create and manage email signatures centrally, ensuring all employees have consistent and professional signatures across their entire organization.
• Automated Disclaimers: Automatically appends legal disclaimers and compliance-related information to all outgoing emails, which is crucial for industries with strict regulatory requirements.
• Promotional Banners: Allows the inclusion of promotional banners, links to recent blog posts, or company news in email signatures, turning every email into a marketing opportunity.

• Allows for easily customizing the templates for the signatures.
• Allows uploading custom logos or banners to be applied in the different signatures
• Allows assigning specific signatures to groups of users
• Connects easily with all Google Suite email accounts within the organization

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• I would absolutely love to see the introduction of being able to force a branding format (Font, size etc) across our email real estate, this was a feature moons ago but would love to see this come back especially when Microsoft can kill all this for you at the drop of a hat....erm Aptos makes me sad!
• Easier to navigate training and how to videos to allow you to work out how to make changes and be creative yourself more
• I genuinely cant think of another point here!

• A complete tutorial could be added to avoid common pitfalls (such as when to use 0 and when to use auto).
• The email add-in seems quite clunky when getting going.
• There is no way to self-serve user-specific changes (such as toggling on/off certain extras, such as direct dials, extensions, and job titles).

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The solution is pretty much set-and-forget. It does what it needs to do, nothing more, nothing less, and it does it very well.

We are very happy with exclaimer it runs 99.9% of the time without any issues. It also very easy to use and maintain and the design team are happy to use it as its so user friendly. When compared to how much time we used to spend updating banners exclaimer saves us hours. This more than justifies the cost and when it comes to renew we wont be thinking twice about doing so

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As already described, the set-up process is kept totally simple. This makes setup quick even for untrained administrators. If anything is unclear, you can find all the information you need on the manufacturer's website. As access and configuration are carried out via the web browser, adjustments can be made from any end device. Whether on the move, in the office or at home.

In the order that I recall the setup process: Signature templates need to be set up (attribute mapping to AD) Office 365 connector needs to be set up (global admin needed and exclaimer engineer for guidance) Signature policies need to be set up (who gets which signatures) Office membership groups need to be setup (who in the org will use exclaimer) Members need to be added to those groups (user membership) Agents need to be deployed on the end-user hosts (local agent)

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We have not witnessed any downtime so far ...

Never had any issues with availability during our outages.

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There are no performance issues related

I have to admit that there has been an odd occasion when the pages have taken a while to load. This is the exception rather than the rule.

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No problems but we had a couple of questions about functionality or edge use cases and anytime I contacted CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 support I was absolutely happy with their responses. Very helpful, polite and smart people are working over at CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 support. I would suggest other companies to take note on CodeTwo Email Signatures 365's quality of support and service.

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I've only had one issue in 7 years where I needed to reach out to Exclaimer for support, but it was handled quickly and resolved my issue. No messing around to provide additional information. Just a quick solution to what I was facing which resolved the issue on the first go around.

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It is important to make sure Active Directory is correctly populated and that content is standardized, eg telephone number formats.

Our implementation was relatively easy as we weren't cutting over from anything. We just got the software installed, set up the file share and got active directory set up. We got exsync on a scheduled task and it just worked. We built our templates and policies and it has always been relatively smooth.

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Unfortunately, we have often had problems with CI-Sign. Rolling out the signatures often didn't work and the administration was a problem for our e-mail administrators every time. In addition, the support was unfortunately not good. All this is better with CodeTwo Email Signatures 365. Above all, we are delighted with the application's outstanding support.

Exclaimer blows the doors off compared to Letsignit. Exclaimer is a little more expensive, but you get what you pay for. What you get is a much better user interface, real analytics instead of one crappy report you have to manually sort, and a much more robust campaign area. With Letsignit I was constantly getting messages that they were experiencing one problem or another, leading to service outages that impacted our users. Gotta love it when the CEO calls because he can't find his email signature. I've had no service interruptions with Exclaim and no email "excuses." That's the sort of thing that makes you lose confidence in a supplier quickly. Oh, and no communication/bills in French. I lived near the Canadian border, I get it, but you have customer databases, communicate appropriately.

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Everything runs smoothly between us

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The product is very reliable :-)

you can easily design more than one signature and spit it among the organisation

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We used the Design Template service; this was a very pleasant experience and the design team we in constant communication with us to ensure the templates were designed exactly to our remit.

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• End user spend less time to no time at all with setting up or editing their signatures
• Signatures are always conform to company standards
• It can take a few seconds for the signature to be inserted, this might bother some users

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• Uniform feel for all emails sent by the organisation.
• Meets regulatory Compliance.
• Ability to send out the right phone numbers for the right departments.
• It is easy to onboard new staff with the correct details from day 1 (no setup is needed from the new starter).

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