Mimecast Threat Intelligence vs. AppRiver from OpenText

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mimecast Threat Intelligence
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Mimecast offers a threat intelligence service, including the company's Threat Intelligence Dashboard, threat remediation, and the Mimecast Threat Feed for integration threat intelligence into compatible SIEM or SOAR platforms.N/A
AppRiver from OpenText
Score 4.5 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
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Mimecast Threat Intelligence
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Ratings
AppRiver from OpenText
8.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Anti-malware00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Threat Detection00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Sandboxing00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management Tools00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
User Ratings
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8.0
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
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10.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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8.4
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Online Training
9.0
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User Testimonials
Mimecast Threat IntelligenceAppRiver from OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect for any company looking to enhance its security. Great for adding protection for on-premise servers as Mimecast removes the requirement for external parties to directly communicate with the client's server. We would recommend the solution is implemented in company’s with at least 25 staff as otherwise the overhead and pricing would make it prohibitive.
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I would highly recommend AppRiver for inbound email filtering. We have been very pleased with the performance and the ease of use. The occasional email does get through, but I have had that happen on any email filtering we have used in the past. Great product and great support as well
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Pros
  • Because all incoming and outgoing (with journaling setup for internal email) go through Mimecast it is a one-stop-shop for searching out emails from past months or years. It is light years better than using local archives such as .pst files.
  • Since they touch all incoming email Mimecast is excellent our filtering out spam, malware and virus emails before it even gets to your server whether on-premise or in the cloud.
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  • Ease of management for a MSP. Even though there is no integration w/ PSA tools currently, I don't see this as a negative. The management is multi-tenant and simple to navigate.
  • Support via chat is fast and very competent. Only downside is they are just available during extended business hours, not 24x7 on the chat.
  • Reselling Office 365 is very simple and gives us an advantage over our competitors. Includes pre sales support and post sale support.
  • Encrypted email services act much like others, it works very well and includes and Outlook Plug in to make it obvious you intend to send messaged encrypted.
  • Email continuity. Email queuing is included, so if your onsite server goes down, mail queues at the spam filter until service is restored. You can step it up w/ their email continuity service which give you access to your mail at the spam filter in cases where your mail server is down for an extended period of time.
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Cons
  • The interface for the threat intel dashboard could use some updating
  • Slowness in the console persists occassionally
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  • We had an issue with bills coming to us instead of going directly to the client that took a little longer to fix than we would have preferred.
  • It would be nice if the bills included the domain name. When I was receiving my client's bill, it was difficult to tell which domains the bill was for.
  • Cost a little more than from Microsoft directly.
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Likelihood to Renew
It works perfectly and is really easy to manage when you understand the menu and how it works. It really is 'set and forget' with minor changes needed from time to time to blacklist and whitelist senders and domains. It makes our life really easy and gives us a lot of data to understand how or business and users operate.
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Usability
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AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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Support Rating
Mimecast has a 24 hours phone hotline available to assist you with issues as they arise. This is the typical help desk situation where you reach level one and go to level two if this issue is extensive however I have found their level one techs to more than capable of dealing with most issues I have called about. The only negative I would mention is that their email support is less hardy when it comes to response time so I have grown to realize that calling is the only way to get timely support.
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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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Online Training
I was shown the areas we would need to use and understand, along with the settings. It was perfect as it didn't go too deep.
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Alternatives Considered
When we decided to take the plunge on a SaaS offering like Mimecast we reviewed one other company that offers similar protection and archiving capabilities. Proofpoint seems to be a capable competitor and I guess one if one goes with them they will see similar savings and results however we saw no tangible reason to risk by going with the competitor when pricing was so reasonable on the known services we would get with Mimecast.
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AppRiver takes Microsoft 365 and simplifies the billing, provisioning, and support, to the point that we no longer have to deal with Microsoft directly, are able to simply focus on the product, rather than all the settings, setup, and all the other headaches typically associated with setting up a Microsoft365 Tenant.
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Return on Investment
  • Saves time and manpower as the console can easily be managed by 1 person
  • Using the continuity feature could potentially save an email outage from preventing an organization from conducting business.
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  • We were able to drop our email scanning software that was taking hours to clear the cache of emails daily. The reduction in delays on email scanning improved our efficiency as emails take seconds to minutes to get to where they are going not hours.
  • Encrypted email service (Cypher-Post) is difficult to use as well as our recipients do not like how difficult it is to use. The stub emails that contain links often get deleted because people are trained not to click on links in emails. This has caused substantial delays in people getting emails from us.
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