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HCL Domino Overview

What is HCL Domino?

HCL Domino is a rapid application platform that has been essential to business and IT developers alike for decades — to help build solutions with embedded workflow that can automate their business quickly and effectively. Domino powers businesses around the world — from banks, insurance and communications companies — for use in offices, ships, helicopters, and even oil rigs. Domino has always been a leader in application development, business transformation, and automation. Domino delivers powerful no-code app creation software that’s easy to learn and use for citizen developers. Domino has helped savvy business leaders to achieve critical outcomes for years. Domino has always been a secure, rock-solid, and proven platform.

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HCL Domino is a platform for hosting business-focused collaboration applications. With Domino, you reduce IT infrastructure and associated administration costs by increasing automation and decreasing hardware resources. Automation, monitoring, tuning and diagnostic features can improve productivity, boost operational efficiency and enhance administrative decision-making and system availability.

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Domino is unbeatable for application development.


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Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Twitter
@hcltech
445,038 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
244,701 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NSE - National Stock Exchange of India
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$706,760
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HCLSoftware, a division of HCLTech, develops, markets, sells, and supports software for AI and Automation, Data, Analytics and Insights, Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Security. HCLSoftware is the cloud-native solution factory for enterprise software and powers millions of apps at more than 20,000 organizations, including more than half of the Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies. HCLSoftware's mission is to drive ultimate customer success through relentless product innovation.


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5.0 out of 5
"From CRM to BigData it solved most of our business challenges"
It is a wonderful tool to share information
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4.5 out of 5
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Management Consulting
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Domino is the most solid platform that we've ever used. It has built-in security features that enable us to maintain our ISO27001 compliance with ease. Domino pretty much does everything for our enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

Not many people are familiar with Domino - mostly because IBM allowed it to languish for a decade. HCL has reinvigorated things, so we're looking forward to seeing what's next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

Domino is the server-side platform that enables us to run all of our enterprise ERP systems in Notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Inbuilt layered security that is fully integrated with the Domino Directory, along with many security enhancements added to version 14.

Installation of HCL Domino, after intial planning, is simple and fast. Migrating an existing HCL Domino deployment from one cloud provider to another is also a breeze. It only requires one to create a zip file of the Domino Data directory in the old VPS, copy and unzip it in the new VPS.

HCL Domino Leap low-code development can be used to develop enterprise-grade applications that incorporate the security of Domino platform.

Ease of integration and good customer support are other positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

An ecosystem for HCL Domino Leap low-code developers is required for leveraging the Domino Leap platform in non-IT organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Secure email with inbuilt (not third-party) digital signatures and encryption mechanism, accessible through the web (Domino Verse).

2. Team collaboration and documents sharing using the inbuilt teamroom.nsf application, accessible through the web using the inbuilt web server.

3. Developing and deploying Domino Leap low-code applications for rapidly automating some of the technical and administrative functions, accessible through the web.

4. Easily managing SSL/TLS certificates using the inbuilt CertMgr.nsf application.

5. Exploring other capabilities like TOTP & passkey authentication (in version 14), Active Directory integration, user security through client certificates etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

We like application development integrated with mail, very stable server software, very rich set of control over a mailing system. Very easy application development, workflow , document management is easy to implement , CRM as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

Development of new HCL Domono versions was too slow over the last years, application development is shifting to a web and our old Domino application is not easy to convert . HCL Domino do not have a free plan for a small companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have benefit from custom applications:

- CRM

- Offer system

- Document management

- Quality management

- Resource allocation system

- Many more applications are still in use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MR
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

That it is easy to use. Easy to update. Versatile to use. Adaptable to its needs through its own programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

That it always tries to deliver the mail to different mail domains even if it goes to the wrong person which often leads to problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

Daily communication with customers, suppliers by mail.

The management of our meeting rooms.

Our own applications enable us to manage our daily tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Mail, applications, modern interfaces, developer friendly, browser, Notes clients, backwards compatable, it does everything in a single or multiple servers. Short development cycles. Supports all modern protocols. Runs on Linux servers and Window (along with various IBM mid range servers . The adapability of the server is fantastic. It can integrate with multiple platforms. It is the swiss amry knife of platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

Only that the media have hated on it for decades when they appear to have no idea about how it works and what is does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my insurance industry it runs our entire claims system. Low cost, easy updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpit G.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

The best in class feature which I like the most is the flexibility and simplicity of the Domino Server which makes it stand out from its competitors. It is actually more flexible when it comes to features, we can easily configure the system as per our needs as per as the other people requirements. Additionally many new integration features are comming after every update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

The implementation and customer support of the system can be improved. The connectivity implementation can be advanced so that it must not be in a situation of a deadlock and lag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helpful in making the enviroment paperless and is useful for managing the workflows. It is helpful in advancing through all the processes of a Management Information System(MIS). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Backwards compatibility, fast development, security, all-in-one application server.

Developers with different skill levels can easiily use and implement the software.

Good support, possibilities of integration with different systems via a variety of standards.

We use Domino for our company on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

The fact many (younger) people don't know Domino and what it can do for you.

HCL should really put more effort in making Domino available to young developers.

Free licenses for students for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

Domino makes it possible for us to support and manage many applications with just a small team of technicians. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

It works well and It gives you more "freedom" to set up than Google or Office 365 or Exchange.

It's convenient to use for "security through obscurity" policies. A small % of companies use more Domino, so nobody develop virus for that platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

Is more complicated to set up than Google or Office 365 or Exchange.

A lot of ERP/CRM/ect... doesn't offer integration with Domnio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Domino only for email and shared calendar. It confortable to use client (Notes) - Web (Verse) and mobile (Traveler) at the same time, with everything syncronized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CB
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Stability, Security, Support, Interoperability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

So much market share loss over IBM's tenure with product make it feel like a slippery slope to hope the product will endure in a Microsoft dominated space.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stable and secure email, calendaring, mobile access to mail, automated data transmissions and workflow using agent driven mailin databases, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham B.
SB
Associate Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HCL Domino?

Highly secure and scalable. We can sacle it anytime as per application requirements. It is highly secure so that easy to protect highly sensitive data. It provides support for authentication and encryption. It also supports replication because of which we can improve availability of application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCL Domino?

Legacy solution because of which it little difficult to integrate with other modern solutions. also it is difficult to migrate.

Sometimes application may face performance issue if it is not configured properly. Lot of things to learn before using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us with application hosting and automation of some workflow as it support automation of various processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.