We performed a comparison between GoToAssist and TeamViewer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The ability to change the way that the client works to a service so that we can get a little bit deeper into the operating system, as opposed to just an app running is the most valuable aspect. We also like the unattended sessions. Those are probably the two most important things to us. It's important because we can't do certain things when it is just an application running."
"TeamViewer has been one of the easiest, right off the bat products, that we have employed at the college. We have had no issues. It's been one of the easiest solutions to pick up."
"Getting started with TeamViewer was easy, with a very straightforward usage"
"TeamViewer is useful for accessing data and systems remotely. Using this application, I can access other computers using an ID number that I provide to the users whose laptop I would like to access."
"The solution is scalable."
"It saves trips to customer sites, which saves time. I am able to get in there remotely and fix things."
"I have been satisfied with TeamViewer overall."
"The most valuable features of TeamViewer are the ability for administrators to lock the remote systems, simple connections, and easy login access."
"The most valuable feature is you do not need to know the Windows username and password to connect and see the staff screen."
"If they included some sort of monitoring system for managed services so we can have it all in one package, that would be helpful. There are managed services solutions that allow us to remote into the computers, but a lot of them have too much overhead. Usually, the remote connection is not as simple and as fast and cannot be run as a service."
"They could give more information about using certain kinds of applications for secure transactions, such as secure file transfers."
"I didn't like the fact that you had to install a client for remote support. If you didn't install the client, you were very limited in terms of what you could do. For a whole enterprise, it is just not an easy task to install a client on everything. Even if you're using SCCM, it is an undertaking. For transient clients that you don't necessarily support a hundred percent of the time, it would be nice to be able to connect to them and support their issues without having to install something on their machines. In my previous company, we were looking at this solution as being a collaborative tool for the enterprise in terms of video conferencing, calling, and scheduling. They were working on bringing a bunch of products together to make their suite a little more integrated, but it really wasn't at the point where we wanted it to be in terms of integration. We looked at it, reviewed it, and tested it out a bit. We then decided to go with Microsoft Teams. It has the clunkiness of having separate modules that aren't totally integrated. There are different methods for doing different things, which makes it a little bit more complicated. There should be the same way whether you are doing remote support or just calls."
"TeamViewer could improve by having support for other operating systems, such as Linux."
"We'd like to be able to work from mobile to desktop and vice versa. We'd like more mobility."
"The installation and the update agent could improve."
"We have a consultant that helps us do the virtual aspects of TeamViewer."
"On occasion, when remote connection process can't connect to a machine, the error messages aren't always helpful to tell you why you can't connect, as the message doesn't help troubleshoot whether it is too slow, too much interference, etc. I usually have to run to another computer and figure out what is going on, then restart it. The diagnostics could be improved."
"The stability of TeamViewer is good, but it could be better."
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GoToAssist is ranked 25th in Remote Access while TeamViewer is ranked 1st in Remote Access with 85 reviews. GoToAssist is rated 9.0, while TeamViewer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GoToAssist writes "Has the ability to change the way that the client works to a service so that we can get a little bit deeper into the operating system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamViewer writes "Solid cross-platform remote control, but with kludgy central management and some serious feature issues on macOS". GoToAssist is most compared with LogMeIn Rescue, GoToMyPC, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, LogMeIn Pro and Splashtop Remote Support, whereas TeamViewer is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Access and ISL Online.
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