Mimecast Cloud Archive vs. AppRiver from OpenText

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mimecast Cloud Archive
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Mimecast Cloud Archive provides an archive storage solution for data retention, as well as search and retrieval of email, attachments and MS Teams conversations. The cloud archiving solution offers search capabilities for employees and automated tools for administrators that simplify management of mailboxes, e-discovery and litigation support.N/A
AppRiver from OpenText
Score 7.6 out of 10
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AppRiver from OpenText (formerly from Zix from 2019, which was acquired by OpenText), is a hosted messaging gateway and security platform featuring anti-spam and email encryption / data loss capability.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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AppRiver from OpenText
Chose AppRiver from OpenText
From AppRiver to Office 365, the support crew was exceptionally detailed and helpful. For new users, distribution groups, members on lists, and adding supplementary email addresses to current profiles for my teams, they led me through the process.
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Features
Mimecast Cloud ArchiveAppRiver from OpenText
Secure Email Gateway
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Mimecast Cloud Archive
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Ratings
AppRiver from OpenText
8.6
7 Ratings
2% above category average
Anti-malware00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
Data Loss Protection00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Threat Detection00 Ratings9.87 Ratings
Sandboxing00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Management Tools00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
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User Ratings
Mimecast Cloud ArchiveAppRiver from OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(11 ratings)
9.0
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(2 ratings)
8.4
(25 ratings)
User Testimonials
Mimecast Cloud ArchiveAppRiver from OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
Mimecast
If you want to keep your production email system from getting bloated with old, out of date emails and want the archived emails to be easily searchable, Mimecast Archiving is an ideal tool. It is also completely cloud-based, so requires no additional infrastructure to implement it. If you are paranoid about storing your email in the cloud (albeit in a totally secure environment), then Mimecast is not for you.
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OpenText
AppRiver is great for both small and large organizations. Small businesses are unlikely to have much if any technical support staff available to them, for which AppRiver would be a great help. Likewise for large companies, having AppRiver can save your tech support team from dealing with basic, common, and repetitive application support, and allowing them to better focus on more important tasks at hand.
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Pros
Mimecast
  • Message archiving is essential in healthcare and Mimecast makes it easy and at a reasonable cost. One of the features we appreciate most is the search function. Outlook can be pretty frustrating when it comes to searching for messages and Mimecast adds plenty of filtering and search capabilities that help find what Outlook can't.
  • Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) is a great service that proxies URL's in email and adds an extra layer of protection against malicious attachments. The addition of TTP a couple years ago demonstrates Mimecast's continued development to meet modern threats.
  • Online mailbox can be used for email continuity if your mail server is down. We don't have frequent downtime but it's good to know communications can keep flowing if we do.
  • Support is always helpful and timely.
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OpenText
  • Very useful daily quarantine list emailed to users.
  • Suspicious emails can be viewed online in their sandbox to check validity before releasing from quarantine.
  • Multiple ways to filter emails (domain, email address, text, etc)
  • Link protection is one of the newest options available and we absolutely love it!!
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Cons
Mimecast
  • Although many people seem to love it, I think their search capability takes some getting used to. It works and you can find anything you need but it is not as clean as if searching in Outlook.
  • When an incoming domain is on the Mimecast's blacklist the email is totally blocked and there is no notification of this so if a user tells me they are not getting email from somewhere I sometimes have to assume this is the issue and go the extra step and add that domain to a white list not knowing if it will really solve the issue.
  • The Large File send options in outlook work fairly well but if one is sending a dozen files the receiver SHOULD get an option to download them all into one size but they do not. Instead they have to download each file individually.
  • Some of their new client releases can cause issues so you must test the clients well and usually stick with a good one when you get one that works well in your environment.
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OpenText
  • They do not support DMARC and DKIM at this time and I don't know when or if they ever will.
  • Their SPF record is not great and can possibly cause issues, at least that is what my support company has told me.
  • Scanning of links in emails seems super limited and or non-existent. THings get through with completely bad malicious all the time and I assume they are not scanning them or they don't have a proper AV on their end.
  • Once a domain is whitelisted any bad emails that may be spoofing that email domain are let through and no other filters apply to the emails. It's frustrating to have to white list 20+ individual email addresses from a company and not be able to white list just the domain and not feel secure doing that.
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Likelihood to Renew
Mimecast
Does everything we need in the realm of email archiving, does it well and does it at a price point that seems very reasonable.
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OpenText
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Usability
Mimecast
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OpenText
AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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Support Rating
Mimecast
It does a good job. The support team of the product was good and responsive and was also able to fix the issues I was experiencing at the time. It isn't perfect and takes some time to set up properly in the environment but once set up the product does what it is supposed to do which is what you are paying for.
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OpenText
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.
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Alternatives Considered
Mimecast
Users are not able to delete emails hence Mimecast EIA becomes a very useful tool during e-discovery. For EOA, they offer an inplace archive which means that emails can be deleted if the service is not turned on.
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OpenText
AppRiver requires the least amount of management time, the pricing is better and the minimums are such that almost all SMB's won't be buying shelfware. If you are an MSP, become a partner and you will see spam problems become a thing of the past.
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Return on Investment
Mimecast
  • We needed a product that would allow us to keep at least 7 years worth of emails as required by the business and Mimecast, with its unlimited archiving, meets this requirement perfectly.
  • Being a cloud-based solution allowed us to save on hardware, infrastructure, and maintenance costs when compared to our previous on-prem appliance.
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OpenText
  • Efficiency, teams adapt quickly to changes or new business needs.
  • Support gives us alternatives on how to establish new timings for new business lines on email.
  • An increase in profit owing to a reduction in the amount of assistance our in-house IT staff is required to provide.
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