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ConnectWise Automate vs Nexthink comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

ConnectWise Automate
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (8th)
Nexthink
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

ConnectWise Automate and Nexthink aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ConnectWise Automate is designed for Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) and holds a mindshare of 8.4%, down 11.0% compared to last year.
Nexthink, on the other hand, focuses on Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), holds 35.8% mindshare, down 38.6% since last year.
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Sean Saeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 30, 2022
Responsive, integrates well with other applications, and the technical support is helpful
There is always room for improvement. I haven't had any problems, and they're doing a great job, in my opinion. They're doing quite well. In most cases, when we discover an issue, we report it to their engineers, who then schedule a fix. Normally, when we request something, I can see it happening within three to four months. 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. There is a lot of integration with other applications through Automate, and I believe they are working with all of the industry leaders to get the integration going. I am very pleased to be working with them.
Ronny Sonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2024
Assists in making decisions regarding device replacements for non-compliant or malfunctioning devices that cannot support Windows 11
We use the solution for compliance and experience scoring The experience centre is one of the most valuable features; the other is the benchmarking. It gives you an easy way to use it. I have some one-page overviews; you can drill down the effect per element. You can use it to start improving…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"A good automated scripts feature."
"The database is great. It's a nicely ordered database."
"It's definitely improved the help-desk servicing, et cetera."
"The most value we get from this solution is that everything is on a patch cycle."
"This product saves us a lot of time and increases our efficiency."
"It allows us to manage all client requests, jobs and invoicing."
"It is very scalable."
"The implementation is nice and easy."
"We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."
"Performance-wise, Nexthink is very good, and with each version, it is improved."
"Nexthink saves a lot of time for the technicians who work on the troubleshooting side...Nexthink provides its users with a very good point of overview and presentation."
"The auto building capability has been most valuable. It keeps on checking the system in terms of various factors like battery, memory usage and application usage."
"In the past two years, the biggest benefit is that we have been able to identify 57,000-plus defects. These are possible tickets that we are preventing by using Nexthink."
"The solution’s visualizations are very good. It's very easy to use them... We can give our senior managers, our directors, and our partners a dashboard at a very high level. They can very easily start to drill down by clicking through the dashboard and find stuff that doesn't look right. And our technical teams can use the same thing to identify problems in specific locations."
"All the features of Nexthink are really useful when it comes to providing visibility into the endpoints and the services that we are monitoring, but the most interesting and useful features are the campaign and remote actions."
"Number of service incidents dropped by more than 20%."
 

Cons

"The wait time for a support ticket to be addressed needs to be reduced. They take a couple of days to get back. It is a little frustrating when we have to wait for a couple of days. A lot of times, the issue is critical for us. If we're reaching out to their support team and submitting a ticket, it is because we need it handled quickly."
"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."
"Their support needs to be better."
"The project management needs improvement and there's a section of the product called configuration that also needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"They could use some automated alerts particularly when we're talking about an MSP that might shoot over."
"There could be a streamlined NQL and SQL query functionality, as it can be complex. An easier way to modify queries would be beneficial for the product."
"We would like better connectivity with SCCM for on-premises infrastructure and autopilot for cloud deployment."
"They were having some limitations on the number of alerts that you can generate. This definitely needs to be increased."
"Nexthink could have better integration with ITSM tools - at the moment, they only integrate with ServiceNow, so adding other tools, like HP SMAX, would be very useful."
"We need some guidance from the Nexthink team on some of the new features they are releasing and how best to use them."
"The tool should improve its pricing and performance. It also have nothing related to patch management."
"The solution could use better automation and less coding. Since I am part of the administrative background, I'm not completely into the development side. I'm not well versed in coding."
"In our company, we can't deploy anything from Nexthink the way we can deploy from any other endpoint solutions. It is not possible to create any dashboard in Nexthink...One should be able to schedule monitoring in Nexthink."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe Automate is available for around $2."
"I pay $85 a month per user for a ConnectWise package that contains multiple solutions."
"Pricing and licensing are reasonable."
"From what I've overheard, it is pretty comparable to other solutions in terms of price."
"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases. The tool can do so much that to purely compare the price in a static way to other tools in your arsenal would be a mistake. If you do a more dynamic comparison that’s based on the overall functionality and use cases possible then it comes out cheaper. You need to consider it a relative measurement against potential use cases, size of the organization, maturity of organization, etc."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
"I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and it provided background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings."
"There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services."
"With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
53%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Media Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Nexthink?
Nexthink saves a lot of time for the technicians who work on the troubleshooting side...Nexthink provides its users with a very good point of overview and presentation.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?
The product has a fixed monthly price and service cost, which varies based on the features. I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with Nexthink?
There could be a streamlined NQL and SQL query functionality, as it can be complex. An easier way to modify queries would be beneficial for the product.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

LabTech for IT Service Providers, ConnectWise Automate for Corporate IT Departments, ConnectWise Automate for IT Service Providers
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Sample Customers

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