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AppRiver from OpenText

Overview

What is AppRiver from OpenText?

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.

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Recent Reviews

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AppRiver is a versatile solution that addresses various needs for companies and organizations. One key use case is its ability to provide …
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AppRiver by Zix

1 out of 10
October 28, 2022
We reseller exchange email services from Microsoft through AppRiver. This includes domain emails, exchange, and 365 apps.
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Customer Review

10 out of 10
July 30, 2021
Incentivized
Zix is being used across the whole organization and was recommended to us for use by a former employee. We are currently subscribed to …
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AppRiver Review

8 out of 10
August 11, 2020
Incentivized
Our IT suggested we migrate our emails to Microsoft, so we started utilizing AppRiver when we migrated the whole company. We have had so …
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Popular Features

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  • Anti-malware (6)
    9.8
    98%
  • Threat Detection (7)
    9.8
    98%
  • End-to-End Encryption (7)
    9.0
    90%
  • Management Tools (7)
    8.7
    87%
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Pricing

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What is AppRiver from OpenText?

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.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Secure Email Gateway

Secure email gateway software prevents the transmission of emails that contravene company policy or contain malware, phishing attacks, spam or other unwanted emails

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Product Details

What is AppRiver from OpenText?

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.

AppRiver from OpenText Features

  • Supported: Policy-based email protection and data loss prevention
  • Supported: Gold standard email encryption
  • Supported: Unlimited cloud-based storage and eDiscovery for over 50+ data sources
  • Supported: Secure transmission and indefinite storage, sharing any file type up to 100 GB
  • Supported: Advanced threat protection with adaptive, machine learning capabilities and multi-layer filtering
  • Supported: Microsoft 365 access backed by 24/7/365 live support

AppRiver from OpenText Video

AppRiver Advanced Email Security (Short Version)

AppRiver from OpenText Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported Languages16 languages supported

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Anti-malware and Threat Detection highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of AppRiver from OpenText are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

AppRiver is a versatile solution that addresses various needs for companies and organizations. One key use case is its ability to provide company-wide inbound email filtering, effectively quarantining suspicious emails. This feature ensures that employees and users are protected from potential email threats and allows for a safer email environment. Another important use case is the filtering of email for both the company and its Managed Services Clients through AppRiver SecureTide. This effectively stops the majority of spam and summarizes questionable emails for review by end users, reducing the risk of malicious content reaching the recipient's inbox.

For businesses looking to resell Office 365 and encrypted email services, AppRiver is an ideal choice. It simplifies license management for Microsoft products, ensuring that licenses are assigned and removed appropriately without any hassle. Additionally, AppRiver serves as a cloud-based solution across multiple locations, providing a reseller with collective experience and support.

AppRiver proves to be valuable beyond just email filtering and Microsoft products. Users appreciate its intuitive interface that simplifies management, reducing the amount of basic user support required. Its support team is highly regarded, offering thorough guidance during implementation and assisting with various tasks. Moreover, AppRiver enables users to enhance their offerings by deploying and managing Microsoft Office products and other cloud and email solutions. Overall, AppRiver is a trusted solution that solves a range of problems such as spam filtering, email encryption, license management, secure file sharing, archiving, and more.

Useful Daily Quarantine List: The daily quarantine list emailed to users has proven to be a valuable tool for staying organized and ensuring the validity of suspicious emails, according to many reviewers. This feature helps users efficiently manage their email flow by providing a centralized location for reviewing and releasing potentially harmful messages. By allowing users to proactively verify the legitimacy of quarantined emails before release, it adds an extra layer of security to their communication workflow.

Multiple Email Filtering Options: Users appreciate the ability to filter emails in various ways, including by domain, email address, or text. This versatile filtering functionality enables users to easily sort and prioritize their incoming messages based on specific criteria. Whether they need to focus on certain senders or search for specific content within their inbox, this feature allows for efficient email management and quick access to relevant information.

Effective Link Protection: Users highly praise the inclusion of link protection as one of the newest options in AppRiver's services. With increasing concerns about phishing attacks and malicious links, this feature provides peace of mind by safeguarding users against potential threats. By scanning and analyzing URLs embedded in emails, it actively prevents users from accessing harmful websites that could compromise their security or privacy. This additional layer of protection is considered invaluable by reviewers who rely on AppRiver's services for secure communication.

Difficult Mail Rule Setup: Setting up mail rules in the software has been challenging for users due to the absence of operators to filter emails based on multiple criteria. Some users have expressed a need for the ability to filter emails based on both subject and header information.

Inconvenient Billing Process: The billing process is found to be inconvenient by several users as it is not integrated into their PSA tool, ConnectWise. They suggest that integrating billing into the PSA tool would make it easier to manage and track billing for Office 365 clients.

Complicated Microsoft 365 Tenant Setup: Users have mentioned that the setup of a Microsoft 365 Tenant in an automated manner lacks streamlining and room for improvement. They suggest that making the user interface more user-friendly would simplify the process.

Based on the user reviews, there are three common recommendations for the product:

  1. Consider AppRiver for simplicity and ease of use. Users highly recommend AppRiver for its user-friendly interface and straightforward implementation process. It is praised for offering an easy-to-use solution for antispam and antimalware needs.

  2. Look elsewhere as the product is just okay. Some users express that the product is average and suggest exploring alternative options. The product's performance might not meet the expectations of these users, prompting them to seek alternatives.

  3. Explore more expensive options with additional features. Some users mention that there are pricier alternatives available that offer a wider range of features. These users believe that investing in a more feature-rich solution could provide better protection against malicious actors.

Overall, while many users highly recommend AppRiver for its simplicity and ease of use, there are also suggestions to look elsewhere due to average performance or consider more advanced options.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Kelly M Bennett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All employees at the company are using AppRiver, and a previous employee suggested it to us. Email threat prevention, secure file sharing, email encryption, and email archiving are all included in our subscription. On the compliance front, the addition of an alternate channel of business communication to the archiving contract has been huge assistance.
Dr. Lorne Lavine | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We have been using AppRiver for Hosted Exchange as well as secure email for over a decade. We have 7 users who all use AppRiver remotely from their home and we have dozens of clients who are also using AppRiver for encrypted email and hosted exchange services. We recommend it to all our clients.
July 30, 2021

Customer Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zix is being used across the whole organization and was recommended to us for use by a former employee. We are currently subscribed to email threat protection, secure file share, email encryption and archiving. We are in the process of adding an alternative method of business communication to the archiving contract which is very helpful and puts us at ease on the compliance front.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppRiver to support all employee user email accounts. I am the admin and manage all accounts through AppRiver. I typically use it weekly to add new users, remove users, update licenses, and most recently, to add a new line of business so we added another server/domain within our existing appriver package. The support team was extremely thorough and helpful - from step by step on appriver to Office 365. They walked me through the process and helped me implement new users in our new company as well as for distribution groups, members on lists, adding secondary email accounts to current profiles for my teams.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use AppRiver across our whole company as well as a dozen other brands we own and operate. We use it primarily for Office365 (Now Microsoft365) with our domains for hosted email, MS Teams, etc. Using AppRiver as our Microsoft365 provider has dramatically simplified management and love that fact that they offer support for all users. This has helped us to offload the amount of basic user support we have to offer to users of the applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppRiver is the business we use to utilize Office365. They are who we purchase our license from and they also provide our email virus and spam protection. It is used across the whole organization, which consists of 2 manufacturing plants-- one in Memphis TN and one in Olive Branch MS. AppRiver is intuitive and will add the appropriate licenses for Microsoft products that are assigned to our users, while at the same time removing a license if I unassign one. This makes license management a lot easier and ensures that we aren't paying for licenses that aren't being used.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use their SecureTide product to scan inbound and outbound email for SPAM email for all of our employees. The product works great and keeps SPAM (suspected and actual) from even reaching our facility. Customer support is top-notch. My Account Rep there really seems to understand my needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Previously, we were using on-prem Windows SBS 2011. It was time to upgrade and we needed to move to a cloud-based solution that wouldn't break the bank. After talking to other AppRiver users and extensive research we decided to use AppRiver across all four locations in the Gulf South.
August 11, 2020

AppRiver Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our IT suggested we migrate our emails to Microsoft, so we started utilizing AppRiver when we migrated the whole company. We have had so much negative feedback regarding Microsoft Outlook that we've created another domain and moved 80% of the staff to the new domain email system. Only a select few are with the original domain until we have time to figure out how to migrate them out. But this is a Microsoft issue, not an AppRiver issue. AppRiver is easy to use and the staff very helpful.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppRiver to filter email for our entire organization. The idea is for it to block spam and other less desirable emails from reaching our users' inboxes. In our situation, we have it filter mail outside of our network (using their cloud service), and then it's passed along to our Office 365 instance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppRiver as our first stop for Microsoft/email/cloud base services. We find that when we use cloud services we want to have a reseller involved as a first point of contact. We are a small organization and using a reseller that supports thousands of customers gives us the benefit of their collective experience across all their customers. We vastly prefer calling a reseller that is engaged and wants to keep our business to having to call the actual service provider themselves.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppRiver as our company email and Office 365 host and service provider. All management users at our company who have a corporate email address use AppRiver. AppRiver also provides unified and easy-to-administer email services for our company, such as Outlook, spam and malware filtering, and user administration functions.
July 28, 2020

Recommended overall

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the platform to remain HIPAA-compliant in our email correspondence with patients and other providers in the community regarding patient care. All staff, both clinical and administrative, utilize the secure email platform.
July 24, 2020

Best support

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppRiver has been our Microsoft 365 provider for over three years now. They provide our email, cloud file sharing, and application solutions. AppRiver provides the best support of any similar provider I have used -- very accessible, polite, professional, and available 24/7. I appreciate the human contact. AppRiver feels like part of our team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppRiver as our Office 365 supplier. This service includes the full Office suite, email services, Sharepoint, Microsoft Teams, Visio, and everything else O365 has to offer. With the explosion in remote work, we were even able to add on the conferencing option to our Microsoft Teams deployment to give our remote users a dedicated conference line. These services are being used company-wide. They even offer additional email security protection on top of the Microsoft filtering giving us additional controls and safety.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using AppRiver across our organization for Office365 and Exchange. We especially appreciate the SPAM support and security AppRiver provides. Administration or both Office365 and Exchange has been straight forward and efficient. Product support has been responsive when needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppRiver is my focal point for most of my Windows applications, mainly Exchange and the associated licenses. Any issues that I encounter using Microsoft products, they address (even though they mainly handle my email account management). We use their services across the entire company and they have provided me with a better sense of direction when it comes to planning or upgrading users.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We are an outsourced IT company and we are currently using AppRiver as the Office365 provider for a couple of our clients. Here are a few of the reasons we prefer AppRiver over other O365 providers:
  • Great Support!!
  • I always get through to support very quickly (within a few mins).
  • English speaking techs that are easy to understand.
  • Knowledgeable techs that can answer or assist me with my issues or can quickly escalate to someone who can.
  • My end users can call them directly, meaning faster resolutions for them, and fewer support calls to me.
  • Always have the right number of Licenses! If configured, when licenses are unassigned, AppRiver automatically removes them so that you're not paying for licenses you're not using.
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