Administration & Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 9, 2025
Our use case for HCL Notes is that we use it for critical production databases and a lot of administration databases. We use it for email and calendars extensively.
HCL Notes has features similar to what we can get on other products such as Outlook, with everything in one place. We find that Microsoft is more efficient compared to HCL Notes. We have seen some database issues where the mail takes a lot of time to send and receive. Managing and streamlining all the mailing section, calendars, teams, chats, and everything has been challenging.
I am a technician and software developer with a unique product called NotesTracker, a software product for users of HCL Notes and Domino. I started my company, Asia Pacific Computer Services, to do consulting, focusing on software development.
Military Officer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Nov 12, 2024
I only use HCL Notes for email services. When dealing with businesses, particularly professional entities such as ministries or other companies that provide military-related items, using HCL Notes ensures smooth communication without reservations. If I contact them using my Gmail account, I might not receive a reply or be asked to switch to my company's HCL Notes-based email.
HCL Notes is a document-oriented database application you can use for things like workflow, information sharing, etc. It's not a business application that does accounting or something like that. You use it on the knowledge side of the organization. People used to think of Lotus Notes and IBM Notes as just email products, but it's far more than that. I have a software development kit I developed called Notes Tracker. If people purchase a license for Notes Tracker, they can then use it and merge it with their applications. For example, they can see who's contributing, using, or deleting information. It's a general-purpose tool. So I deal with a lot of people who are modifying their applications.
We are an insurance broker and use HCL Domino for our customer relationship management. My team is responsible for using it to write applications for use in our company. One of the applications that we created is used to calculate our holidays, as well as other HR-related tasks. These applications handle all of our processes. The only product we have that is provided by another vendor is our accounting system.
Administration & Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jan 5, 2022
We've got several key production databases within Notes. We are a chicken hatchery. We produce chickens for eating meat. We produce 10 million a week, and every single egg is traced on a Notes database. Every single delivery note is printed out from a Notes database, and many reports come off it. We're all on-premises. We've got two data centers, one in the north and one in the south, and they, in effect, are private clouds because people log onto them from everywhere around the country. Most users are on version 11, but our servers are on version 12. We've got probably 50% of our head office onto the desktop version 12. We've been waiting to upgrade it till they release 12.01, which they did yesterday, so we'll be upgrading everybody to 12.01 in the new year.
Sr. Analyst at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 14, 2020
We have an on-premise deployment. After all, it is an email client. The way you use Microsoft Outlook or any other email client it makes sense to be deployed on-premise. They do have a SaaS version. The way it works when we are working on an enterprise laptop — the laptops that the company has provided us — it is installed on our systems. Other than that, the particular tool or email client can also be accessed via web login. We often use that when we are using it from a smartphone or any other non-company device. Our primary use case is just what it is: an email client. It is my stable solution and the only email client that I use. Web meetings are also a part of what we use it for. They have a solution — their adjacent solution is called IBM Sametime or HCL Sametime — which is the chat functionality. But our primary use case is as the email client.
HCL Notes is known for its robust security, quick application development, and excellent integration capabilities, supporting CRM and email tasks.HCL Notes offers a comprehensive platform for professionals focusing on secure communication, efficient data management, and streamlined application development. Despite a non-intuitive interface and challenges with modern integrations, it supports mobile access and real-time updates, ensuring a versatile use across multiple devices. The platform's...
We use HCL Notes as an email system. We currently only use it as an email application, though in the past we used it for additional applications.
Our use case for HCL Notes is that we use it for critical production databases and a lot of administration databases. We use it for email and calendars extensively.
HCL Notes has features similar to what we can get on other products such as Outlook, with everything in one place. We find that Microsoft is more efficient compared to HCL Notes. We have seen some database issues where the mail takes a lot of time to send and receive. Managing and streamlining all the mailing section, calendars, teams, chats, and everything has been challenging.
I am a technician and software developer with a unique product called NotesTracker, a software product for users of HCL Notes and Domino. I started my company, Asia Pacific Computer Services, to do consulting, focusing on software development.
I only use HCL Notes for email services. When dealing with businesses, particularly professional entities such as ministries or other companies that provide military-related items, using HCL Notes ensures smooth communication without reservations. If I contact them using my Gmail account, I might not receive a reply or be asked to switch to my company's HCL Notes-based email.
We use HCL Notes / Domino for application development, plus the usual office functions like email, personal and group calendaring, to-do and so on.
We use the solution for mail implementation, app development or business processes.
HCL Notes is a document-oriented database application you can use for things like workflow, information sharing, etc. It's not a business application that does accounting or something like that. You use it on the knowledge side of the organization. People used to think of Lotus Notes and IBM Notes as just email products, but it's far more than that. I have a software development kit I developed called Notes Tracker. If people purchase a license for Notes Tracker, they can then use it and merge it with their applications. For example, they can see who's contributing, using, or deleting information. It's a general-purpose tool. So I deal with a lot of people who are modifying their applications.
I mainly use HCL notes for email communication purposes.
We are an insurance broker and use HCL Domino for our customer relationship management. My team is responsible for using it to write applications for use in our company. One of the applications that we created is used to calculate our holidays, as well as other HR-related tasks. These applications handle all of our processes. The only product we have that is provided by another vendor is our accounting system.
We've got several key production databases within Notes. We are a chicken hatchery. We produce chickens for eating meat. We produce 10 million a week, and every single egg is traced on a Notes database. Every single delivery note is printed out from a Notes database, and many reports come off it. We're all on-premises. We've got two data centers, one in the north and one in the south, and they, in effect, are private clouds because people log onto them from everywhere around the country. Most users are on version 11, but our servers are on version 12. We've got probably 50% of our head office onto the desktop version 12. We've been waiting to upgrade it till they release 12.01, which they did yesterday, so we'll be upgrading everybody to 12.01 in the new year.
We are using this solution in our company.
We primarily use this solution as a CRM. We are customers of HCL Notes.
We have an on-premise deployment. After all, it is an email client. The way you use Microsoft Outlook or any other email client it makes sense to be deployed on-premise. They do have a SaaS version. The way it works when we are working on an enterprise laptop — the laptops that the company has provided us — it is installed on our systems. Other than that, the particular tool or email client can also be accessed via web login. We often use that when we are using it from a smartphone or any other non-company device. Our primary use case is just what it is: an email client. It is my stable solution and the only email client that I use. Web meetings are also a part of what we use it for. They have a solution — their adjacent solution is called IBM Sametime or HCL Sametime — which is the chat functionality. But our primary use case is as the email client.