We performed a comparison between ConnectWise ScreenConnect and N-able Take Control 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."Valuable features include the responsiveness, ability to tune up and tune down the connection, and video."
"We like the fact that on our website we can have the ConnectWise bit embedded, and it has instructions for the end-user about what they need to do. Previously, on LogMeIn, we used to have to almost talk them through everything... ConnectWise has step-by-step instructions, depending on the browser."
"Setup was very straightforward. All I had to do was write a GPO on my domain controller and it automatically installed the agent that I downloaded from the software. I literally had to do nothing."
"Better than TeamViewer and useful for fixing problems remotely."
"The ConnectWise ScreenConnect tool is very good for remote access."
"Control lets us do remote management of machines without having to be on the VPN. It's super simple and super easy."
"You can bring up a command prompt remotely and execute commands without having to disturb the user."
"Remote connect via webpage. I use it to support employees when I am not in the office or when they are at a remote location."
"Take Control enables you to collaborate with end users. It's for supporting a workstation where you want the person on the other side to see you moving their mouse, and you can work with them."
"The most valuable part of N-able Take Control is being able to remotely access your customer's site. You are able to view their network. Once you have it set up, it's always available. N-able Take Control can be used even when other remote access controls have been made."
"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."
"The solution should add the ability to video chat with the user on the other end."
"There needs to be a way to run the agent without installing, like GoToAssist."
"What we need this product to do is to be able to control Windows Updates. LogMeIn Central allowed us remote access but also allowed to push and install Windows Updates, and third-party updates... When we made the switch to ConnectWise we lost the ability to do patching. That forced us, for our larger clients, to move to WSUS. We had to set up a VM on those larger clients to push Windows Updates and patches into the network."
"Reporting could definitely use improvement. With LogMeIn Rescue, I used to be able to, for instance, at the end of the month, pull off a report of every session. It was very simple... I could see the name that was typed in, the IP address to the computer that it was connected to, if it was running Windows... It just doesn't seem - there might be but I haven't found it - to be a way of pulling that information out of ConnectWise."
"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)."
"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."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
"The dashboards I do not use because there are issues. The solution monitors your antivirus and other programs but it does not seem to work well."
"We've seen some latency problems in AWS environments. Aside from that, it's a pretty solid service."
ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 8th in Remote Access with 37 reviews while N-able Take Control is ranked 19th in Remote Access with 2 reviews. ConnectWise ScreenConnect is rated 8.4, while N-able Take Control is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of ConnectWise ScreenConnect writes "Multifeatured remote access software which offers security, stability, and easy scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of N-able Take Control writes "Valuable remote access feature, highly stable, and scalable". ConnectWise ScreenConnect is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Check Point Remote Access VPN, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Pro and BeyondTrust Remote Support, whereas N-able Take Control is most compared with TeamViewer, Dameware Remote Support, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Check Point Remote Access VPN. See our ConnectWise ScreenConnect vs. N-able Take Control report.
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