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Microsoft Exchange vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Exchange
Ranking in File Archiving
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
92
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (3rd), Wireless Email (1st)
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in File Archiving
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Email Archiving (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the File Archiving category, the mindshare of Microsoft Exchange is 10.2%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 24.3%, up from 20.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
File Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

Hesham Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
A good solution for large enterprises, but is expensive when compared to other solutions
Regarding the decision of increasing the number of users, it depends on the organization's choice, whether to opt for CapEx or OpEx. Both options involve expenses over the years. Building an in-house Exchange solution requires investing in hardware, storage, connectivity, and administrative resources. Office 365 shifts the budget solely to OpEx as a subscription service. Scalability is another factor. Starting a new company favors Office 365 due to cost efficiency. As the organization grows, the choice depends on available resources and technical expertise. An internal Exchange setup is feasible with skilled engineers, while Office 365 suits those lacking in-house resources.
Jayson Martin - PeerSpot reviewer
The data retrieval process is seamless
The permission structure plays a big role in the solution's setup process. The deployment process involves setting up all connectors between the Veritas Enterprise Vault, emails, and file servers. At our company, we found the permissions created a complicated situation often during the setup of Veritas Enterprise Vault. The deployment of the solution overall took around a week for our organization.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It ensures high availability and resilience, allowing seamless recovery from potential failures and making it a reliable option for business-critical operations."
"The functionality on the user side is quite good. Exchange provides an excellent platform for collaboration between users."
"It is a product that is simple to manage, and easy to use."
"Communication is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"This solution handles all of our primary functionality including email, message delivery, message archiving and calendars."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The technical support services are good."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"The stability is excellent."
"The integration capabilities are second to none."
"We use the solution to archive emails."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files."
"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
 

Cons

"Sometimes the client part generates some trouble. It can be very slow, though this might be related to our company's installation and configuration rather than the product itself."
"At the end of the day, the biggest area for improvement is having better and more knowledgeable support technicians."
"In terms of what should be improved, they should probably move to a cloud option like Office 365. We would like to get this functionality without the need to deploy complex hardware and software solutions. This should be the next thing, making Exchange more related to Office products, which are more cloud-oriented, less on-premise or desktop-oriented solutions, like the direction Google is strongly moving towards."
"Microsoft Exchange could improve the archiving of emails and the performance."
"For the next release, there are some features on the cloud-based Exchange that aren't included on-prem. It would be great if these features were made available in the next release. For instance, integration between Exchange and its on-prem calendar is not available for the on-prem solution."
"The main problem with Microsoft products is that we're constantly required to install patches and fixes."
"The calendar integration in Exchange is not that great. The email features are okay, but it doesn't integrate well with the calendar and appointments, especially Zoom appointments. It integrates fine with Microsoft Teams, but Zoom is a challenge."
"The solution is stable, but it could improve. It's crashing if there is a big mail database. The Zimbra solution is better in this area."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault should improve its indexing and customization options."
"The stability could be improved."
"The product is a very complicated solution. It is not easy to upgrade and get alerts of issues. You have to check it all the time to see if there is an internal error."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"Cost is high for Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The quality of support by Veritas has declined in the last year."
"I cannot perform application backup, and I am not able to repair the license."
"It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Since my company is on Microsoft Cloud, we pay for the licenses per user. Compared to volume licensing, I would say the present licensing cost is not expensive."
"The price of Microsoft Exchange is reasonable."
"There is an annual cost to use Microsoft Exchange, and the price could be less expensive."
"It is not expensive."
"The solution's pricing is fine...I do think the tool offers value for money."
"Microsoft Exchange is an inexpensive application."
"The price of Microsoft Exchange could improve. In Egypt, the price keeps increasing."
"We can get Exchange in the cloud along with the Microsoft 365 license."
"The pricing is very high."
"It's an affordable solution"
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
36%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Zimbra Collaboration compare with Microsoft Exchange?
Zimbra is a free, open source collaborative software suite. The features I like best are the ease of integration and the email, calendar, and collaboration server with web interface. In addition, I...
What do you like most about Microsoft Exchange?
The initial setup was straightforward and fast.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Exchange?
The licensing and pricing are quite costly, which can demotivate customers from opting for features and upgrades. However, the solution provides value for money if one is well-acquainted with Excha...
What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?
Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault. It's a little complex to understand compared to other products. Veritas Enterprise Vault doesn't support cus...
 

Also Known As

Exchange, MS Exchange
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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