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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exclaimer

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AExclaimer is a provider of email signature solutions, operating with the goal of empowering businesses to u

    $0.90

    per month (billed annually) per user

    FortiGate

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A
    Pricing
    ExclaimerFortiGate
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0.90
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Standard
    $1.45
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Pro
    $1.75
    per month (billed annually) per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ExclaimerFortiGate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsLicensing is based on the number of active mailboxes Exclaimer adds email signatures to. Subscriptions are on a monthly or annual basis. Volume and charitable discounts are available. Minimum number of users is 10 per month.FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Features
    ExclaimerFortiGate
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Exclaimer and Fortinet FortiGate
    Feature
    Exclaimer
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    Ratings
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings8.351 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings8.852 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings8.953 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings7.752 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings9.152 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings9.348 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings9.251 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings8.539 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ExclaimerFortiGate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (288 ratings)
    8.7
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (67 ratings)
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ExclaimerFortiGate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    Fortinet FortiGate addressed an immediate security issue we had a few years ago. The device gave us a much clearer picture of the activities on our network and also more importantly, increased our awareness of threats from the internet as a whole. Fortinet FortiGate helps us to mitigate these threats with regular signature updates from Fortiguard labs, identifying certain characteristics which, once recognised by Fortinet FortiGate, can be harnessed to deploy powerful 'playbooks'.
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    Pros
    Exclaimer
    • 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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    Fortinet
    • SD-WAN - Load balancing of Internet traffic is a USP of Fortigate and makes it stand tall in the competition. Be it 3 or more Internet Links, multiple Subnets/segments of users to distribute and bandwidth load balancing for links and users. SLA based monitoring of Internet Links / MPLS links, makes it even better to choose the links on the basis of performance (Latency, packet loss, Jitter etc).
    • SSL VPN configuration - As we all have WFH force (to some extend or all employee) during Covid-19, it is impossible to plan BCP without having a SSL VPN. In Fortigate, the SSL VPN configuration is very easy with the help of wizard. The deep CLI-level debugging is also very helpful in troubleshooting. Type of tunnel can be easily configured - Full Tunnel or Split Tunnel for SSL.
    • Explicit Proxy - This is also a great feature to shape and re-route the traffic, configuring the Proxy on the Firewall itself. We are using this feature in Pilot for now, and planned to rollout in few weeks looking at the success rate of the POC.
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    Cons
    Exclaimer
    • 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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    Fortinet
    • Documentation is missing a great deal of detail and assumes the customer and just guess and fill in the blanks themselves
    • Fortinet has lots and lots of video guides on topics that only a small percentage of customers would ever need
    • The documentation and video guides do not get updated so most is only relevant to older software versions
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Exclaimer
    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
    Incentivized
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    Fortinet
    Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve.
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    Usability
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    The firewall runs very well, firmware updates are fairly quick but you must follow the upgrade path. Neglecting this step will cause a lot of pain. If you decide to go with Fortinet FortiGate switches and/or access points, they can be managed within the firewall which is great. We're also using the FortiAnalyzer which easily plugs into the firewall for any reporting you may require.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Exclaimer
    Never had any issues with availability during our outages.
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    Fortinet
    We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years
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    Performance
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD.
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    Support Rating
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    The Support team at Fortinet is excellent. They can not only help you configure the device for what you are trying to do, they offer suggestions on improving rules, and troubleshooting issues. Their response time is fast, ensuring you are up and running immediately with no questions asked. We had a hard drive failure in one of our Fortinet Fortigate appliances. The tech answered immediately, and started rebuilding the drive after some preliminary investigations. After rebuilding, there were still errors and issues, so they dispatched a brand new Fortinet Fortigate appliance. The tech then backed up the configurations for when the new device came in, which showed up in a few hours. A restore of the configuration took less than a minute, and there were no more errors or issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Exclaimer
    No answers on this topic
    Fortinet
    I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version
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    Alternatives Considered
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
    [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the dashboard as per your requirement if you have multiple VDOMs within a single firewall.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Exclaimer
    Everything runs smoothly between us
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    Fortinet
    No changes needed to terms and conditions.
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    Scalability
    Exclaimer
    you can easily design more than one signature and spit it among the organisation
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    Fortinet
    My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here.
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    Professional Services
    Exclaimer
    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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    Fortinet
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    Return on Investment
    Exclaimer
    • 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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    Fortinet
    • The pricing given to us for our firewall was well within what we were already spending for other vendors solutions and had the added value of eliminating a separate expense for a dedicated web filtering appliance.
    • We have also adopted Fortinet's security fabric approach and thus changed vendors for our switch and AP devices. These devices have come at reduced prices as compared to another previous vendor we were using, particularly in relation to ongoing annual maintenance costs.
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    ScreenShots

    Exclaimer Screenshots

    Screenshot of how Exclaimer helps amplify every email with optimized email signatures for the whole organization.Screenshot of the Social Feeds feature. This can display the three latest social posts in an email signature, to strengthen connections and communities.Screenshot of where Exclaimer gives users the ability to automate and schedule signature updates. This helps to guarantee consistent, branded signatures on every email – even from mobile devices and Macs.Screenshot of the Exclaimer Cloud Outlook Add-in, which allows users to choose their email signature as they compose a message.Screenshot of where users can assign signatures to teams, departments, or entire organizations. This interface lets users tailor messages for specific recipients, fostering engagement through personalized approaches.