--- title: HCL Domino Reviews meta\_title: 'HCL Domino Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 170 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how HCL Domino works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 170 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Rapid Application Development (RAD) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/rapid-application-development-rad --- # HCL Domino Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by HCL Domino but has limited features. Are you part of the HCL Domino team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [HCL Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/hcl-technologies) Discussions [HCL Domino Community](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Sharon Chin Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 18 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Mendix](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mendix") Mendix 4.4/5(416) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mendix/reviews) [ ![OutSystems](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "OutSystems") OutSystems 4.5/5(1,801) ](https://www.g2.com/products/outsystems/reviews) [ ![Kissflow](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kissflow") Kissflow 4.3/5(591) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kissflow/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 170 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") IE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/18/2023 "HCL Domino, a software suite that stands as a notable player in the field of computer science." 3.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? The best things about it are versatility, security features, integration capabilities and custom development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Cost, Complexity, resource intensive and limited support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? Email and collaboration, Custom Applicaiton developmet and security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") CH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/18/2023 "ICT management, corporate IT Planning and professional Service Delivery for large-scale and complex" 4.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? t’s a collaborative app development platform as well as mobile and web-ready Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Price is high - needs mego projects to be cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? Integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kensuke H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kensuke H.") KH Kensuke H. System Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/24/2020 "Easy server maintenance." 4.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? Even a self-taught person like me can manage servers and maintain clients, and can reduce SE costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Once you understand the convenience, you will be stuck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering HCL Domino: With a little learning, you can create an application. It will surely be useful as an agile development tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? With the benefits of low code development, even small and medium enterprises like ours can develop and utilize our own applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/22/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Helmut S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Helmut S.") HS Helmut S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/22/2023 "Can do a lot of things, but to many parts of it are old and need to be updated" 3.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? perfect for small to medium companies....covers a lot of things in one product, is pretty reliable and runs on different platforms...including containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Parts of it are pretty old like for instance the web services interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? we run a custom made CRM solution, a service desks and several other applications on it, use it as a mail server and linked it to our IBM FileNet ECM System Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite HS Hans S. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/30/2022 "I have been working with Domino since Version 2" 4.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? Domino is very powerful email client as development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? It needs some time to get used to the client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? Email as well as application development, also using it for website hosting. Setup is not complex and straight forward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/31/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/5/2023 "HCL Domino - Powerful Client Server tool" 5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? UI/UX Customer support Easy to integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Sometimes SLAs get breached in responding back Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? Low code no code solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RT renato t. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/23/2023 "Domino admin since 1993" 5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? The most integrated, easiest to use collab solution. Absolute portability, clustering, security, low code development in one integrated solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? Wrong marketing for at least a decade made Domino unapealing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? All applications we use in company were developed in Domino. Including accounting, document workflow, collaboration, crm, etc. Integrated with our BI system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![António C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "António C.") AC António C. IT Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/22/2023 "From CRM to BigData it solved most of our business challenges" 5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? It is a wonderful tool to share information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? The form based user interface is not appropriate to build sophisticated user interfaces. For example lists with undefined length with functions like insert and delete lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? It works as CRM and to tool to analyze business information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/23/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Elvis H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Elvis H.") EH Elvis H. Operations and Services Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/31/2022 "HCL Domino (on-Premise) - Security -focused Mail / Calendar and more solution" 3.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? The Security features with a lot of granularity, including support for several Server Operating Systems, a great support team and a very vibrant and active community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? GUI for the fully installed client is still a little outdated (not modernized). Some musts that need to exist in every Mailing / Calendaring / Collaboration solution are missing and evaluated under an Enhancement Request site (as most software development companies do). Still, some are hardly rejected or not even considered for not having enough votes (despite of being clear MUSTs). So, it's a little disappointing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? A basic and advanced mail tracking system with detailed ACL management and excellent usage control capabilities. Internal applications rely on it, and is also the source of authentication for other applications, providing mobility for a secure on-premise mail system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/16/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite OK Oleksandr K. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/5/2022 "HCL Domino, even after decades, remains the best platform for business process automation." 4.5/5 What do you like best about HCL Domino? A very flexible, functional and relatively fast platform for application development. The available technologies for application development allow, having an accumulated base, to create new applications very quickly on their basis. Design inheritance technology makes it easy to maintain and evolve existing applications. Very high and flexible possibilities for the development of various kinds of applications. Easy and fast access to application data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about HCL Domino? A very, very outdated development environment. Debugging tools also require significant modernization. Not everywhere in the development environment there are tips on the methods and parameters of custom classes. Not all design elements support inheritance. Not all design elements allow labels to be defined via @Forlula, which makes it difficult to localize the application. Work with the user's calendar is not fully disclosed and implemented. Handling some events on form elements is possible only in JavaScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is HCL Domino solving and how is that benefiting you? Recently, HCL has done a lot to develop the platform: 1) many restrictions on data storage volumes have been removed, 2) increased platform performance, 3) implemented many different integrations with other platforms and systems, 4) the ability to use previously developed applications for a thick client in a WEB browser is implemented without the need for any development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/6/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about HCL Domino? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about HCL Domino ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/discussions/new) CH Charaf Hanafi • Last activity about 1 year ago How can i download HCL DOMINO? How Can we Collaborate with HCL businnes as Business partener? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/23931-how-can-i-download-hcl-domino-how-can-we-collaborate-with-hcl-businnes-as-business-partener) ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G2 Verified User • Last activity over 6 years ago Why is support for CentOS important? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/domino-and-centos) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 18 months ### Average Discount 12% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/pricing) HCL Domino Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_69054bc7d40597b06fc3905720ccc914/microsoft-outlook.png "Product Avatar Image") Outlook 4.5/5(3,520) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/hcl-domino-vs-microsoft-outlook) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_57726f9b265b8987147c7609c8c56f3d/ical.jpeg "Product Avatar Image") iCal 4.1/5(196) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/hcl-domino-vs-ical) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_148d4e88c759e4a7a984a0f3f056fd39/zimbra-collaboration-enterprise-collaboration.png "Product Avatar Image") Zimbra Collaboration... 3.6/5(140) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/hcl-domino-vs-zimbra-collaboration-enterprise-collaboration) ##### ##### HCL Domino Features Application Design Application Templates Configurable Workflow Data Control Data Migration Data Synchronization Data Security Publishing Application Deployment Platform Compatability Lifecycle Management Functionality Ease of Use File Management Multi-Language Support [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Low-Code Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/low-code-development-platforms)[Application Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-development-platforms) ##### Explore More [Which social media listening tools do teams actually keep using six months after buying them rather than going back to manual searches?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-social-media-listening-tools-do-teams-actually-keep-using-six-months-after-buying-them-rather-than-going-back-to-manual-searches)[What is the most reliable engineering document management software for a small design firm that needs proper revision control without paying for a system built for a 5,000-person manufacturer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-reliable-engineering-document-management-software-for-a-small-design-firm-that-needs-proper-revision-control-without-paying-for-a-system-built-for-a-5-000-person-manufacturer)[FACTS Financial Aid Management vs Ellucian Student: which financial aid software is better for managing digital applications and verifying family income documents?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/facts-financial-aid-management-vs-ellucian-student-which-financial-aid-software-is-better-for-managing-digital-applications-and-verifying-family-income-documents) [Best AI tools for due diligence in M&A](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-ai-tools-for-due-deligence-in-m-a)[Leading MDR services for financial services firms](https://www.g2.com/discussions/leading-mdr-services-for-financial-services-firms)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/hcl-domino/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)