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."The flexibility to manage bandwidth and organize connections, and the price, make ConnectWise a really good choice."
"It's very easy to use, very easy to understand. It gives us remote access to the PC without any issues."
"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."
"Unattended access is the most important feature."
"It is super easy to use and relatively inexpensive."
"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."
"Valuable features include the responsiveness, ability to tune up and tune down the connection, and video."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Speed is a major factor in Automate, and the control panel is horribly slow."
"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 would like ConnectWise Control to be more transparent on the real costs to renew their license."
"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."
"They could provide a toolbox for the plan I'm on."
"We've seen some latency problems in AWS environments. Aside from that, it's a pretty solid service."
"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."
ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 9th 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 and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. See our ConnectWise ScreenConnect vs. N-able Take Control report.
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