Barracuda RMM vs. Freshping (discontinued)

With a lot of fine-tuning, it works very well to keep the Tier 2 team aware of almost any variable of interest of notification from your servers. You can automate scripts to deploy based on these events. It's cut down the amount of time spent digging around for answers or sifting through logs. Software deployment could use a lot of work for simplicity. We opted for other apps to accomplish this. The helpdesk function may work for those needing something basic, but again, we opted for a full ITSM based on ITIL. It works well for Remote Desktop Support, even for support on the fly for those who don't have the Premium Desktop app installed.

Incentivized

Freshing is well suited for user-facing systems, the systems they directly use. It also serves as nice eye-candy for them to look at. It does not monitor internal IT systems as well as we had hoped, so we use other tools to monitor those systems.

Incentivized

• Very good reporting. We provide monthly reports to our customers on remote access, patching, etc.
• Multiple methods of remote access. This is helpful because different scenarios require different remote access methods.
• The site is easy to navigate/manage. There is not a big learning curve for new employees.

Incentivized

• The UI is neat. It's very easy to use, and with lots of information.
• It's very easy to set up.
• The "badge" feature is interesting for showing up on institutional website.

Incentivized

• Sometimes when using Premium Remote it says that the wrong password was entered but the password is auto-filled by the program, not the user.

Incentivized

• Better integration with Freshservice to generate tickets
• Monitor internal systems
• Better ability to customize

Incentivized

It's perfectly easy and straightforward to use. There's no need to read documentation, you just register and will surely be able to configure whatever monitor you want to set up. It's also very easy to use other features like the status page, reporting, alerts, etc.

Incentivized

We've tried many times to work with support to accomplish various tasks in the system with minimal responsiveness and success. Most of what we have accomplished has been without support and through trial/error.

Incentivized

To date we have had no need of support from Freshping, it has just been that easy to use. It is highly intuitive and self-explanatory.

Incentivized

AVG Managed Workplace has more tools and features. The pre-existing templates and alerts are working properly while Continuum does not even provide service like that. There are some specific tools to work with and they are super easy to complete the task, for example, you can show what was replaced for your client. You can do it with others and even with Excel, but with table grid view mode of AVG will help you to do it more easily.

Incentivized

We use Uptime Robot, and also some internal health checks, which report directly to our emails and chat applications. They all work "pretty fine," but unfortunately all of them have had some false positives or missed some minor downtime, so as for us, it doesn't add too much overhead, and we prefer to use several. I would say all the ones mentioned are good for the job.

Incentivized

• Saves time for employees which saves money for the company.
• Easy to sell something that gives peace of mind to a customer knowing someone is watching their stuff 24/7.

Incentivized

• Good visual for end users
• Adds another check to verify uptime/outages
• Cost for us was free, so we had nothing to lose by adding it

Incentivized