We performed a comparison between ConnectWise Automate and Kaseya VSA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The database is great. It's a nicely ordered database."
"It's a very good IT tool for a company that provides IT services. It is very helpful for technicians to work with the tool to see all of the customers in one place and then manage all of the computers in one place."
"A good automated scripts feature."
"The initial setup is easy and the deployment is quick."
"Scripting and patch management are really important for us. Patch Manager is something that we use a lot, and we would love to have it continually improved. It is one of the most useful features for us for controlling patches and other things for different clients."
"This product saves us a lot of time and increases our efficiency."
"It allows us to manage all client requests, jobs and invoicing."
"Maybe they could improve the capability to be multi-tenant."
"The most valuable features of Kaseya VSA are remote control, live connect, and automation."
"The remote support is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The product's support team is very quick to respond, especially because the tool's technical team operates in the same time zone where I am located."
"As a small IT shop, the weird feature that the VSA has that I have not found anywhere else is they have these little colored dots that tell you the status of the machine. Is it offline and powered up? Is it actively being used? Is it idle? A lot of our clients ask us to do things for them, but, of course, they don't really want us to be underfoot. So we always look for, "Hey, there's an idle machine. We can work on that one now." And to say it makes it easy, we can do that at a glance. In any other tool we've looked at, you have to go several layers deep to see if the machine is in use, and you could spend your entire day just trying to find a machine that was idle, whereas, with Kaseya VSA, you can tell at a glance."
"I like the Live Connect module provided by Kaseya. It is a powerful module. I also like the Agent Procedure module. We work with it most of the time."
"The remote management is quite good. Also, the patch management and service desk are great features of the solution."
"Patch management was very useful. Backdoor access to the clients was also very useful."
"Kesaya is highly configurable."
"I have a problem with the reports available on the solution. I don't understand how to work with the reporting functionality. For example, when I want to give a report for a specific machine, ConnectWise doesn't seem to have this as an option. I'm not sure if I'm missing something, or if the reporting functionality is just poorly conceived."
"This is a raw system. Of course, it has some flaws that could be improved. But, it's something that we will have to work with to get to the point where we need this, we request it and they do their best to make it happen."
"Patching and reporting need improvements, especially reporting. The reporting engine is quite outdated, so you end up having to use your own dashboard."
"There could be better linkages between ConnectWise Automate and Manage from a ticketing perspective. Automate and Manage each has its own ticketing system. We use the one in Manage, but it'd be nice if they were linked directly to the one in Automate."
"They always change the GUI to some dumb-down version of tiles which are more "user-friendly", but slows my team down in the end."
"Scheduling of automation could be improved and made more simple."
"In Patch Manager, there should be more reportability so that it is easier to see the updates that I have applied to a machine and when the next update will happen. A lot of times, it seems like all the information is kind of thrown all over the place, and you can't really see it all at the same time. There should be a simplified patch data view that allows us to quickly confirm that our various clients are getting patched as they should be."
"The project management needs improvement and there's a section of the product called configuration that also needs to be improved."
"The stability of the solution is good but it can be improved."
"The response to bugs is slow and software improvement comes slowly too. The lack of response to our feature requests made it feel like they were going into a black hole. Additionally, when we encountered bugs or issues with the VSA, they were slow to respond to those too."
"Our main concern is related to security. Kaseya had a ransomware attack a few months ago, and it was a big concern for us because Kaseya was the main RMM tool that we were using. We faced a lot of difficulties accessing our users and systems. So, security is our main concern."
"The predefined reports are not up to the mark and you have to do a lot of customization."
"We actually upgraded the solution due to the fact that we needed the support for Apple devices. We haven't had a chance to test that part of the product just yet, however, that was our biggest criticism of the product prior to this most recent update."
"The UI could be streamlined. The menu has 18 options, but we only use three. It has a lot of redundant stuff. Software management, software deployment, patch management, etc., all do the same thing, but they're different programs and licenses."
"The main difference would be the addition of audio transfer between the end-user and the remote connectivity software. That is the one critical piece that we are currently lacking."
"It never functioned as intended."
ConnectWise Automate is ranked 7th in Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) with 15 reviews while Kaseya VSA is ranked 2nd in Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) with 29 reviews. ConnectWise Automate is rated 7.4, while Kaseya VSA is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ConnectWise Automate writes "Responsive, integrates well with other applications, and the technical support is helpful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaseya VSA writes "Single portal management, cost-saving, with thorough technical support". ConnectWise Automate is most compared with ConnectWise RMM, NinjaOne, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Tanium and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Kaseya VSA is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, NinjaOne, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Datto Remote Monitoring and Management and N-able N-central. See our ConnectWise Automate vs. Kaseya VSA report.
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