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 like that it records the remote sessions. If a technician is logged into a user remotely to fix any problem, it records the decision."
"This is a very secure product."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution concerns our company's main use case, which is for connection to our remote clients."
"I like Remote Support's ability to connect to a system without end-user interaction. A support engineer can log in to the system if a user is stuck and doesn't know where to go. This is helpful when conference room computers get locked down and the user can't access the guest OS."
"The integrated chat service with quick elevation to a full control support session has increased our service desk efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of BeyondTrust Remote Support is the ability to control screens remotely."
"We have not encountered any issues with stability. Updates leave us with less than 30 minutes of downtime."
"ConnectWise Connect is very convenient as we can remote to a PC even when it is not within our LAN."
"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."
"Valuable features include the responsiveness, ability to tune up and tune down the connection, and video."
"The product's two-factor authentication means we are not worried like before about the state of our security."
"I do love the monitoring page. If you are using ConnectWise Control, which is the on-prem version, when you are logged into the admin panel, there is a status page that checks network connectivity, the status of the license, and so on."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"The unattended access functionality is a valuable feature, because I can go in at any time that I want, deploy fixes, or do maintenance."
"The flexibility to manage bandwidth and organize connections, and the price, make ConnectWise a really good choice."
"Although the learning curve is steep, the product is well-documented."
"There were a few employee devices that failed during the initial deployment, which required a second deployment."
"The chat needs to improve. We need to enable set hours for chat support which are separate from the remote support assistance."
"Lacks some kind of voice communication option."
"I would like to see more integration with iOS devices along with better connectivity and communication with these devices."
"There are not enough product partners in Turkey, making it difficult for me to get assistance."
"We sometimes have trouble accessing servers because of credentialing and multifactor authentication issues with PAM."
"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."
"I would like to see more overlap, meaning, I would like to be able to see what processes are running on a computer, for example, or what services are running."
"Mobile interface."
"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)."
"For my company, just installing the software and using it is very easy. But if I need to give one of my customers access to their machines, the process that you have to go through is some 15 to 20 steps. You have to create a group, and then you have to assign a policy. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to set up someone for remote access to their own machine."
"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."
"There can be some complexities when running patches or when building up all the profiles, making them areas where improvements are required."
"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."
"Speed is a major factor in Automate, and the control panel is horribly slow."
BeyondTrust Remote Support is ranked 7th 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 BMC Helix ITSM, 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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