We performed a comparison between BeyondTrust Remote Support and ConnectWise ScreenConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have the ability to securely assist users remotely with a stable product, which allows for reporting capabilities, SAML authentication, and ServiceNow integration."
"This is a very secure product."
"Remote sessions are automatically recorded so there is a history of all coding and scripting."
"We are able to be more effectively connected to computers and servers all over the world."
"It has allowed us to quickly address the needs and issues of our end users."
"The solution has been very stable. We haven't had issues at all. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches either."
"Screen sharing, in general, is pretty important for a service desk. Another thing that I have found to be very helpful is that you can also do screen sharing on a cell phone. When people have an issue with their cell phone, it is ordinarily very difficult to troubleshoot the issue. With BeyondTrust Remote Support, you can share the cell phone screen, and somebody can take a look at it remotely. I am not sure if other competing solutions offer this feature. It is pretty user-friendly. It is also good performance-wise."
"Bomgar has allowed our service desk (based in India) and our other support personnel based in the US to seamlessly support our users worldwide."
"The unattended access functionality is a valuable feature, because I can go in at any time that I want, deploy fixes, or do maintenance."
"Being able to flip quickly between however many monitors that I have running, detune the video for black and white, or with fewer colors to make it faster, is amazing."
"The ConnectWise ScreenConnect tool is very good for remote access."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"It's very easy to use. Provides connections that are always on. It was nice to be able to see a list of end-points and see whether or not they were connected so I could troubleshoot any network issues I had."
"Unattended access is the most important feature."
"Session groups and triggers are the most valuable features, because they make a greater degree of organization possible. Greater degree of organization is valuable to my organization, because we have many sessions to handle."
"It's very easy to use, very easy to understand. It gives us remote access to the PC without any issues."
"Although the learning curve is steep, the product is well-documented."
"I would have picked an internal team member who was going to stay on the team for more time. Shortly after we went live, we had a change of staff and lost the main implementer."
"It lacks voice integration like the other products because they need the compression to support that large amount of concurrent sessions. We've had to sacrifice voice."
"They need to ensure that the remote support is compatible with the other cloud solution providers, like Huawei. Currently it is only compatible with Azure, AWS and KVM."
"The screen annotation tools could be expanded. I would like to see a text/typing annotation tool."
"This product has a lot of features that we do not currently use, so there may be some things that cause bloat and confusion."
"We sometimes have trouble accessing servers because of credentialing and multifactor authentication issues with PAM."
"It is pricey. It would be nice if it weren't so expensive because then you could afford more licenses and have more people involved, but I get it. They do have something that's unique compared to some of their competitors out on the market. It is a very robust and safe tool. If the price could come down, that'd be great."
"There could be improvement to the remote command line tools."
"We have had issues. We have had circumstances, for reasons we don't know, where the service will stop running, and when the service stops running that computer no longer becomes reachable. We haven't really seen that so much on desktops, but we have seen that happen quite frequently on server operating systems, Server 2008, Server 2012. You can install the product and then a week down the road it will just stop."
"I was not thrilled with their support. I do not have a lot of time to deal with the attention which is needed to fix issues."
"Something that I would like to see in the future is mobile video streaming. They do provide audio conferencing, but seeing the problem makes it easier to solve the problem. If they had video streaming, if a client had a physical problem with something and I couldn't get remote access, the client could use his mobile phone to show me the problem. In these cases, even if a client's systems were down, I could help, so long as I had a mobile phone environment."
"Support for PAC files on the guest's side and support for proxy on the host's side. Currently, there is no support for guest-side PAC files or for the host-side proxy (which uses authentication)."
"There is one back-end issue that I am running into at some of locations where I login to provide support, and sometimes port 443 is blocked. That is what it uses to connect. So, I am having to do workarounds to get a session started."
"There is an issue which is pretty rare, but I find it at least when connecting from my mobile device. I am forced to refresh the screen by changing the screen quality to get screen updates. This only happens sometimes."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
BeyondTrust Remote Support is ranked 9th in Remote Access with 32 reviews while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 8th in Remote Access with 37 reviews. BeyondTrust Remote Support is rated 9.0, while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BeyondTrust Remote Support writes "A robust, secure, and complete solution for quickly providing support and monitoring what's going on". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ConnectWise ScreenConnect writes "Multifeatured remote access software which offers security, stability, and easy scalability". BeyondTrust Remote Support is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, TeamViewer, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager, whereas ConnectWise ScreenConnect is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Check Point Remote Access VPN, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Pro and Splashtop Remote Support. See our BeyondTrust Remote Support vs. ConnectWise ScreenConnect report.
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