Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) vs. ISL Light vs. pcAnywhere (Discontinued)

We use WebEx Support Center in the IT department to support users as well as work with vendors remotely. This applies to physical desktops, laptops, and Virtual Desktops. We have around 200 employees. Most employees work in one of our offices, but we do have at least 5-10 users who are more frequently remote than they are in the office. It helps us remotely access machines we wouldn't otherwise have access to, due to lack of physical access. It's excellent for troubleshooting access problems from users' personal machines, as well.

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ISL light is suitable for anyone who plans to provide remote assistance services on a medium to large scale. Due to the high entry price, it is less suitable for consultants with a smaller number of clients or remote stations that need management. Their smallest package in which minutes are rented does not seem suitable for most cases.

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Synmantec pcAnywhere is excellent when you require a secure remote connection, and you have enough computational power and internet bandwidth.

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• Simple Remote Access - WebEx Support Center works with either a permanent install or temporary executable, so you don't have to worry about users being particularly comfortable or knowledgeable about software installation. It also doesn't matter if the user is on an account without admin rights, you can still connect and see what's going on using the temporary executable.
• Robust Access Options - You can take see the user's screen, take control of their screen, send files, and retrieve files. It's a great tool for troubleshooting issues that users might be experiencing and doesn't depend on them being able to find the files that you need to properly troubleshoot their issues.
• Great performance - Even when users don't have a particularly great internet connection, you can still typically get good results and help them quickly. You're not going to do it over dial-up (if that even still exists for anyone), but it works acceptably well even over very modest DSL or satellite internet connections.

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• Prikaz strani na kateri se nahaja uporabnik
• Prikaz kontaktov uporabnikov
• Zgodovina pogovorov s strankami
• Možnost spreminjanja statusa dosegljivosti
• Nalaganje datotek, zajemov slik,..
• Klepetalnik, ki je enostaven za uporabo
• Nas obvesti, da smo dobili sporočilo, tudi če smo izven klepetalnika
• Display the page the user is on
• Displaying user contacts
• Customer conversation history
• Ability to change availability status
• Uploading files, capturing images, etc.
• An easy-to-use chatbot
• Notifies us that we have received a message, even if we are outside the chat room

• Multiple connections
• Cross-platform
• Decent UX

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• During initial setups it can be a little confusing.
• The look and feel is a little rigid. It feels like it is in need of a smoother UI update.
• When a new user is introduced to webex and they are asked to share their desktop, it maybe a little difficult for the user to navigate to the correct buttons.

• Need a control toggle at least on AlwaysOn. User moves the mouse and you lose all control instantly.
• Clipboard features are a bit wonky still, and your clipboard seems to get emptied a lot. So if you're trying to copy and paste you might lose something
• Passwords for the systems are saved per machine, so if you work from multiple devices it can be tricky if you have complex passwords

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• Sometimes it is too slow
• Consumes too much bandwidth

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The Enterprise package we purchased (Event Center, Remote Support, Meeting Center, and Training Center) for 100 users is the same annual price as GoToMeeting for 25 users. We will renew as it is a package deal. If it were just WebEx Remote Support, we would not renew at all.

We are renew the license for 10 years now and we do not see why would change that. It just gets better with every new version.

Honestly, there are people available. But none of them will help you with your issues. They just keep assigning new service engineers who are often clueless.

Everything works well and quickly, and that's all we need. ISL Light always works, and we've never had a situation where the server was inaccessible or the website was down. It simply gives us a 100% guarantee that we can always log in to our customers' systems. We can install the ISL Light client at our customers' sites without any problems, even though security is high.

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During the entere time of use, I have never come across any availability issues.

High performance!

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As a user of Cisco Webex Support, I have never had to contact Cisco for technical support as it is a very easy to use tool.

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We had issues with mouse skipping on mobile devices. Support is immediatly availabe, they examined our case and in one of the new versions of the app this problem was gone.

It was so easy!

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I would say that Cisco Webex Support stacks up pretty evenly in capability, but in some regards (video clarity, toll-free access, etc.) they were even better. Where they did provide a better solution for toll-free access on audio bridges, their audio quality was worse for those that wanted to use VoIP for the audio conference bridge.

The main reason was price initially, after TeamViewer jacked up the price 3 fold come covid in start of 2020, told them to get stuffed and went elsewhere, back then they had a good reliable product, then after I switched to another provider, the came crawling back and offer me the same price I was paying before the COVID tax (3 times increase in price) like I said, told them to get stuffed, ISL on the other hand didn’t increase their price when covid started, so have been with them ever since.

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[We chose Synamtec pcAnywhere because] its embedded both-direction encryption exceeds the industry requirements.

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tot perfecte

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Easy to deploy onto new devices. Ability to group devices so they can managed remotely efficiently.

No professional services used

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• WebEx Support Center works pretty excellently for us as we are a small shop. We are experienced and have pretty good skill sets. WebEx Support Center is an excellent product for our use cases with our users and client to troubleshoot issues.
• WebEx Support Center is more expensive than our previous product MXIE or Logmein. It has a more user-friendly UI, and overall performance is better and reliable.

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• It allows you to hold meetings with clients from other cities.
• Ease of training staff from large groups
• Resolving problems in a short time, which is an optimal strategy for improving delivery times
• permite realizar reuniones con clientes de otras ciudades
• Facilidad de capacitar personal de grupos numerosos
• Resolucion de problemas en tiempo corto, lo cual es una estrategia optima para mejorar los tiempos de entrega

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• It allows us to comply with the latest safe browsing requirements.

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