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    Atera

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAtera is presented as an Agentic AI platform for IT management, that offers a digital workforce of AI agents that proactively and autonomously support entire IT operations. Atera’s all-in-one IT management platform consolidates RMM, helpdesk, ticketing, and automation, so IT teams and MSPs can manage and protect infrastructure, automate tasks, and boost service quality by reducing downtime and improving SLAs. Atera has shifted focus from automation to AI-powered autonomy in IT. With…

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    NinjaOne

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AThe NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access. NinjaOne aims to give organizations' employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency.N/A

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    Pricing
    AteraNinjaOneXSIBackup
    Editions & Modules
    MSP - Pro
    $129
    per month (billed annually) per user
    IT Department - Professional
    $149
    per month (billed annually) per user
    MSP - Growth
    $179
    per month (billed annually) per user
    IT Department - Expert
    $189
    per month (billed annually) per user
    MSP - Power
    $209
    per month (billed annually) per user
    IT Department - Master
    $219
    per month (billed annually) per user
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    ©XSIBackup-Pro
    $95
    per month
    ©XSIBackup-DC
    $179
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AteraNinjaOneXSIBackup
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUnlimited devices.NinjaOne is a subscription typically billed annually and sold through channel partners. Monthly billing is nonstandard but billed on a case by case basis.
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Atera
    Chose Atera
    We removed Atera from our systems and converted to the competitor, NinjaOne.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    After trying out both Atera and NinjaOne, we found that Atera was generally easier to use, especially for non-tech people. Atera's learning curve has been much less steep than NinjaOne's and the team had a better response to using it. Atera's price point has also been more …
    Incentivized
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    Atera is very similar to Syncro in feature set and pricing, but we liked Atera just a bit better. (We switched from Atera to Syncro and then back to Atera, and have stuck with Atera for several years now.) Kaseya gave us bad vibes from their sales department and we ultimately …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    NinjaOne is a great tool for Remote management and patch management. However, Atera is more polished and gives better functionality for the end user side through things like work from home, and the support portal knowledge base. Also, when using NinjaOne, I don't remember there …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera's pay-per-technician pricing just made sense for us. They don't nickel-and-dime either. NinjaOne, by contrast, was over twice as expensive to start out, but they wanted to charge extra just for a ticketing system and many other things.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    NinjaOne is a great platform but is simple overall versus Atera. Atera is so feature rich that it can be overwhelming at times but is worth the learning curve. Take time to go through the onboarding, reading the help articles, and even reaching out to support directly through …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    We looked at NinjaOne and ConnectWise Automate which are both fantastic tools. Those options definitely have their strengths over Atera, but Atera was the one we chose in the end. The thing that drew us to Atera was the lack of complicated contracts and simple tech based …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    I did like NinjaOne user interface but the price was a lot and the implementation of how it does Windows Updates was not ideal. Pricing would have gotten way up there for the number of endpoints I needed to load up initially. N-able was good with the Apple computer integrations …
    Incentivized
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    Atera is outstanding and intuitive with excellent dashboards and automations.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    In terms of age Atera is a bit more mature than these younger competitors and it shows with its wider array of features. Pricing might be a bit higher depending on which features you want or deem to be most necessary but in our experience Atera was the cheapest one on the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    I think Atera is the leader here. The aggressive pricing along with feature set is unparalleled in my opinion. They seem to be headed in the right direction and keep pushing the envelope in what the tool can do. The one thing lacking for me is the Apple integration into …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Overall, the basic agent cost is better for a partially functional product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera Billing of per technician is a great way to save
    Atera has 24/7 support that response in a matter of seconds
    The Copilot that they have added recently is a game changer and will make anyone wants to associate themselves with Atera
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    In my experience, Atera lured us in with the pricing per technician to try and save us money. They then proceeded to take features away and lock them behind higher-tiers. In addition, in my opinion, their customer support is atrocious. I think if you enjoy long times between …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera was the clear winner for us. The interface and tools were very easy to learn and setup. Atera's licensing incorporates good feature sets and value levels.

    Some of the other products were difficult to setup and lacked good flow between tools. The value proposition was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera was more cost effective, easy to deploy and had all the features and tools we needed. It's still a little rough around the edges but we can work around those considering its a fraction of the cost compared to others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    This Year I started an IT company and was in need of monitoring and PSA software. In the past I've worked with Datto, Datto RMM and Ncentral so one of these would be a logical choice for me to choose. However their pricing is from a different world. For a starting company, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera competes well with other RMM competitors, lacking primarily in patch management. I was constantly fighting to get my Windows updates out there, and had a couple of troublesome systems where I had to manually install patches from Microsoft Catalog due to WU being brain …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Any RMM that supports licensing around agents / technicians rather than devices is always a win in my mind. Primarily Atera was chosen due to the specific features it provides (we didn't need a lot of bells and whistles) and did what it needed to do, well. Remote access, patch …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera has many of the same features as the other products we've tested. The selling point for us was the pricing model for Atera. Most other providers charged a fee per endpoint which could quickly add up. With Atera's pricing model, we have a fixed annual cost which is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Easier to understand and use, more affordable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera is a lightweight cloud application that handles most every need of small and large IT Firms alike. It closely resembles Ninja, N-Able, and Syncro in performance and scale. The biggest difference is the pricing models as Atera and Syncro charge per user as opposed by …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Costs per technician not # of units monitored, scaleabilty, support, features, remote access tools
    intuitive endpoint management software to managed service providers (MSPs) and IT professionals with an exceptional user experience and all the support you need to deliver fast …
    Incentivized
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    LabTech is a more comprehensive remote monitoring and management tool but costs considerably more. We switched to Atera from LabTech for a number of reasons. First and foremost, cost. Atera's per user licensing structure is much better suited for startups than LabTech. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atera
    Atera has the right balance of power, flexibility, and ease of use.
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    NinjaOne
    Chose NinjaOne
    We found NinjaOne far more user friendly and less resource heavy than VSA. Our overall experience was greatly improved from VSA as we experienced many recurring issues with the agents. Additionally, NinjaOne was far more cost effective per endpoint and provided similar, or …
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    Chose NinjaOne
    Atera uses a pay by technician model but can't do half as much as Ninja. We still employ one Atera user to monitor some of our old clients that don't pay for monitoring. The UI of Atera is also amazing. Other RMMs could learn from them. We will stick with Ninja for the …
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    I honestly cannot say enough good words about this system. I would never run an IT department again without NinjaOne, supposing I had to pay for it out of my own pocket. If you are considering any RMM to run your IT operations then I can guarantee you that you will not find …
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    Prior to NinjaOne, our IT management was a blank slate. We knew we needed something, and we wanted to ensure we were making the best decision for our organization. We attended demos and talked with sales reps, sales engineers, etc. At the end of the day, it was the relationship …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    98%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    78 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AteraNinjaOneXSIBackup
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Atera and NinjaOne and XSIBackup
    Feature
    Atera
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    NinjaOne
    -
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    Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery8.09 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Atera and NinjaOne and XSIBackup
    Feature
    Atera
    8.9
    126 Ratings
    23% above category average
    NinjaOne
    -
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    Remote monitoring8.6125 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.7111 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Activity Monitoring8.110 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Atera and NinjaOne and XSIBackup
    Feature
    Atera
    8.8
    125 Ratings
    26% above category average
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    Patch Management7.8124 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation7.7110 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of Atera and NinjaOne and XSIBackup
    Feature
    Atera
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
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    -
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    Attended device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unattended device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile device access1.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple-display support7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
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    9.3
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    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
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    10.0
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    Usability
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    9.3
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    -
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    8.0
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    Performance
    -
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    1.0
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    -
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    In-Person Training
    -
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    10.0
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    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
    6.4
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    1.0
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    Configurability
    -
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    1.0
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    1.0
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    AteraNinjaOneXSIBackup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atera
    Actually, it depends on the size of the organization. Atera is not well suited for large organizations in my point of view, and also it is not well suited where policies are very strict. But I would recommend it because of the lower cost and the rich features it has. The biggest benefit of Atera is it is cloud hosted and the cost does not depend on the number of devices you register with Atera. The cost depends on the number of licenses you have purchased.
    Incentivized
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    NinjaOne
    Well suited for support and management of a large fleet of endpoints, particularly across multiple regions and locations. Its well suited for MSPs for this reason. Its also effective for managing patching and updates for server infrastructure, where some other products are unable to manage. Its useful being able to access these features across multiple networks and domains. There is an option to monitor network equipment such as switches, but it didn't provide any information that wasn't already provided in the switches cloud portal.
    Incentivized
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    33HOPS
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    Pros
    Atera
    • Atera is doing good in the monitoring part as it is monitoring our complete infrastructure from the network to servers and also the end user devices.
    • Atera is good in the patching part as it is patching our Windows and Linux servers, end-user Windows systems, and third-party applications.
    • Atera is good in the automation process, and we can plan the execution of any task and schedule it. We have a lot of options here from CMD to PowerShell.
    • The Inventory part is also good, as we can see and download the Software and Hardware inventory from Atera. It will provide the details of all hardware and software, from OS details to applications.
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    NinjaOne
    • Remote connections: the NinjaRemote client is spectacular and very easy to use and navigate. It quickly connects to customer systems so my engineers are able to work. As a bonus, they also offer a really good mobile app to connect to client systems.
    • Antivirus: Bitdefender Endpoint Protection is built directly into the NinjaOne portal. This makes deploying and maintaining AV very easy.
    • OS Patching: NinjaOne makes it very easy to handle patching across multiple clients and locations. It is very easy to use and doesn't take long to set up.
    • Support: NinjaOne support is always very prompt and helpful.
    • Documentation: the NinjaOne Dojo is a one-stop shop for all of your FAQs, guides, and forum needs. You can find almost anything here to help you deploy and maintain NinjaOne.
    • Automation Library: NinjaOne comes preloaded with a large number of ready-to-go automations. They also provide you with a scripting module to create your own.
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    Cons
    Atera
    • Atera is well-designed but still has some issues. In the patching part, the devices having low disk space in the C drive, will not download and install the patches. It should give room to clean the space and then patch the system.
    • It has a limited number of third-party applications that can be installed through it.
    • In some cases, Atera failed to update or remove those applications that were not installed through Atera itself. Only 10% we can say.
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    NinjaOne
    • NinjaOne does support Mac, however I would like to have more options for automation and scheduled task on Mac devices.
    • I would like it if NinjaOne also provided an MDM solution.
    • It would be nice is NinjaOne could integrate a PAM solution as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atera
    As of right now, we have found nothing that can offer as many features as Atera does along with the affordability. They are doing monthly releases each month and not just making small changes (shared scripting library, chocolatey support, Install packages, Splashtop SOS support, Scheduled tickets to name a few). The uptimes are great and accessibility to the dashboard has yet to be limited. We are a happy customer and bordering on fanboy status now
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    NinjaOne
    We already did. After evaluating many platforms, we found the cybersecurity of the company, its development direction, and the performance of the platform to be far superior at its price point.
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    33HOPS
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    Usability
    Atera
    Atera's remote monitoring feature is one of it's best features. The laptops and servers we used it on responded quickly to our administrative task requests and made our work light. We were able to increase the resources, manage patches, windows updates and quite a few other tasks remotely and that too 24×7.
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    NinjaOne
    NinjaOne is easy to use, intuitive, and provides great value for our organization specifically with inventory tracking and patch management. There is also a wealth of control from an RMM perspective that we have over our fleet of hardware as well as customer websites. The communications with our account representative is outstanding as well. I'd highly recommend for organizations to engage with NinjaOne, and this is from a user who's used other RMM's and related software offerings at different MSP's. Go NinjaOne!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atera
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    NinjaOne
    Availability is very good
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    Performance
    Atera
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    NinjaOne
    The software loads quickly for the most part
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    Support Rating
    Atera
    Atera support provides answers to my questions lightning fast. They have never left me feeling like I'm out there on my own. I can ask questions by email, or by chat, or by opening a ticket with them and they are always on it quickly. They also have a forum where other Atera users can help you if you need it, and you can also add feature requests via the forum.
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    NinjaOne
    Ninja support has always been top notch. They have always been responsive and efficient both in troubleshooting issues or talking to me at a high-level about on-going improvements or needed changes. Both sales and Technical support has been good and I've been very pleased with the Customer service we have received from Ninja
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    In-Person Training
    Atera
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    NinjaOne
    Easy to learn and all of the functions and features were easy to learn. Once I started learning all of the features and functions, it made my everyday tasks much easier and more productive. The user interface is very easy to use. If I did have any questions, the Ninja Dojo was a big help.
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    Online Training
    Atera
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    It was nice and self paced learning. The sections were easy to understand and the functionality was very worthwhile. The online training was very easy to learn and intuitive. I did not feel the need to ask for any clarification or assistance with any of the sections. I am still learning a lot of the functions but fined it very easy to use.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atera
    The implementation was performed by the system administrator so I don't have much insight into this
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    NinjaOne
    Use of Organizations and locations
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atera
    Because Atera is a much more effective and efficient solution to manage all our IT operations, it automates each of our business processes. It offers us the best support to respond to any problem that may arise. I think Atera is much more cost-effective and reliable; its value is justified with each function and satisfies all our business needs and requirements.
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    NinjaOne
    NinjaOne has the most rounded set of features however I believe all of the programs have there own plus and minus points. We use a mixture of programs however NinjaOne is the most heavily used.
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    Scalability
    Atera
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    NinjaOne
    Overall the software is very reliable
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    Return on Investment
    Atera
    • The intuitive user interface has enabled both users and support technicians to familiarize themselves quickly with the functionality, and the learning curve is less.
    • Some features need to be accessed through documentation; they're not available directly on the dashboard.
    • Sometimes, internet access plays a significant role, whereas low connectivity is a hindrance.
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    NinjaOne
    • Allowed us to use our full IT staff in remote offices to troubleshoot
    • The quick site response times helps reduce the time spent trying to find, connect, and fix systems
    • The ease of use creates confidence from our users that we can quickly fix their problems from anywhere in the world.
    Incentivized
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    33HOPS
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    ScreenShots

    Atera Screenshots

    Screenshot of Atera’s AI-powered solution.Screenshot of Atera's process automation.Screenshot of Atera's real-time monitoring, which gives visibility and control of the IT environment.Screenshot of Atera's ticketing, where users can deliver end-user support and issue resolution at scale.

    NinjaOne Screenshots

    Screenshot of the NinjaOne dashboardScreenshot of the NinjaOne mobile appScreenshot of NinjaOne automationScreenshot of NinjaOne device detailsScreenshot of NinjaOne network monitoring - NetFlowScreenshot of NinjaOne virtual machine monitoring