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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ConnectWise Automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AConnectWise Automate, formerly LabTech, is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. It provides powerful automation to discover and manage devices, monitor for problems, and scripts repetitive action.

    $700

    LogMeIn Rescue

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALogMeIn Rescue is an enterprise remote support solution that provides IT helpdesks and customer support organizations with the ability to remotely access, diagnose, and resolve issues across endpoint devices. The platform includes in-session diagnostic tools, security controls, and workflow configuration features. The solution is utilized by IT help desks, global enterprises, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). It is designed to support…

    $149

    per month

    Pricing
    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Editions & Modules
    Agents
    $1.00-$6.00
    per month/per agent
    Implementation Fee
    $700
    Remote Device Support
    $149
    per month per seat
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    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing. Contact sales for Enterprise pricing.
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    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Considered Both Products
    ConnectWise
    Chose ConnectWise Automate
    Its simplicity, cost, and reliability to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose ConnectWise Automate
    The larger RMMs compare side by side fairly well -- a more compelling argument for deciding on an RMM has to do with your PSA (and integrating with it) and other tools (AV, backups, etc.) -- and integrating with those. CWA integrates well with the tools we use - so it's an …
    Incentivized
    Chose ConnectWise Automate
    Before LabTech, we used Kaseya 6, which was terrible. Currently with LabTech, we use ConnectWise for our ticketing, PRTG and Auvik for network monitoring. We selected LabTech, because it met our price point and they are a local company, that we can easily work with to meet our …
    Incentivized
    Chose ConnectWise Automate
    LabTech is a more flexible platform if you are wanting to do scripting etc., but Kaseya is much more intuitive and reliable.
    Incentivized
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    ConnectWise is just terrible in many, many ways.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    147 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    121 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    154 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    73%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    108 Answers
    Features
    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    7.4
    22 Ratings
    4% above category average
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Activity Monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    7.8
    22 Ratings
    15% above category average
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Attended device access10.01 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Unattended device access8.01 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Mobile device access5.01 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Virtual device access8.01 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Multiple-display support9.01 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions8.01 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    -
    Ratings
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    -
    Ratings
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    211 Ratings
    1% below category average
    File transfer00 Ratings8.6190 Ratings
    Instant message00 Ratings8.0129 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers00 Ratings9.364 Ratings
    Session record00 Ratings8.6146 Ratings
    Annotations00 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of ConnectWise Automate and LogMeIn Rescue
    Feature
    ConnectWise Automate
    -
    Ratings
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
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    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
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    BeyondTrust Remote Support
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (59 ratings)
    7.9
    (231 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.3
    (84 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (39 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConnectWise AutomateLogMeIn Rescue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ConnectWise
    I recommend it to all IT colleagues; regardless of the size of the PCs with which you work most of the time, the application allows connection stability between computers that make it possible to continue working or taking care of the infrastructure from afar.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    LogMeIn is extremely appopriate when you have to perform something remotely or mutltask and perform work from your location. It gives you the ability to almost be at the site and perform work. While LogMeIn is an excellent toolkit. It can not always save the day. Sometimes it is more efficient to be on site to perform hardware upgrades, multiple software upgrades, technology refresehes and or have someone send you their hardware for rescue and repair as it is too messed up to fix and or perform the tasks remotely. However if you win 60 percent of the time - it's still a great benefit
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    ConnectWise
    • Desktop sharing / view with chat to the operator, file sharing and pass-through for keyboard strokes
    • Computer/server monitoring with thresholds and warning
    • Search - tracking down computers when you have many by name, logged in user, IP
    • End user ticket raising is built into the tray icon which make access really easy
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • To be able to connect through email or through the website.
    • To be able to remotely control our client's computers.
    • To be able to see what is on our clients' screens after a remote session has been established.
    • To be able to chat with our clients through both the web and the desktop app versions in case we get disconnected.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ConnectWise
    • They have conflicting scheduling paradigms. When scheduling patching for clients, the 1st Friday is interpreted as the very first Friday of the month, even if this is the 1st of the month. For scripting, the 1st Friday of the month is interpreted as the 1st Friday of the 1st FULL WEEK of the month. This makes no sense to have two different interpretations, and makes it unreliable to schedule recurring scripts to fall when recurring maintenance does. The scripts need to be done manually because of this.
    • There is no way to dictate reboot orders for patch policies. This tied directly in with my first point. We have some clients that require reboot orders. This is not possible without having different patch policies for each server and specifying a time this way. But, there aren't small enough increments of time to make this reliable, plus patching duration might vary. Excluding reboots with patching and scheduling reboot scripts fixes this. However, this can't be done once on a recurring schedule due to the different scheduling paradigms already discussed. We have to schedule these manually each month.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • By default it would be good to have clipboard sync enabled - disabled instead. So difficult when copying from my computer doesn’t work because of an agent sharing the connection and it will not let us copy information into the client’s computer.
    • Copying into excel is difficult. It will deselect things that you have highlighted when copying.
    • Would be nice to make the hierarchy easier when sharing files between clients and us.
    • Logging into certain environments can be challenging and require customers to be fairly techy to be able to understand how to get logged into client’s computers.
    • Sometimes login is pretty unstable on certain internet connections even though they are fine when they use team viewer with their IT.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ConnectWise
    The primary reason for this rating is that ConnectWise Automate is currently so integral to our operations that moving away would involve more man hours than we would realistically have to invest. However, ConnectWise Automate is also completely capable of meeting all of our business needs and customizable to the point where if something is not meeting those needs out of the box, it can be modified to do what we want. From only installing software on machines if a different software package exists, to push a new version of that software is available, to check if credentials for user/machine have been updated to our new standards and then updating them if they have not, ConnectWise Automate is capable of doing everything we ask of it.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Since we have not had anything other than a couple minor hiccups with LogMeIn Rescue and due to the overwhelming success we have had in implementing as well as utilizing LogMeIn Rescue, I cannot see any reason why would consider looking elsewhere. Overall, we have been highly satisfied with LogMeIn Rescue and have no intentions of making a switch.
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    Usability
    ConnectWise
    Basic use of the product is fairly easy. Information about the machines you manage can be found in customizable dashboards, which can be unique for each user, and, therefore, properly suited to the users' needs/job function. This is not a 10 because some of the interfaces are very clunky (Patch Management), and some features are not intuitive and not well documented (reporting). Scripting and Patch Management have a fairly steep learning curve (For structure in patch management and syntax in scripting), but once learned, they work well.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Sometimes connecting with a PIN has a delay that confuses users. If there is a way to minimize the delay, that would be ideal. If the user's individual account does have administrator permissions, the user has to click on elevated prompts even if administrator credentials are on hand. Yes, except if the user's individual account does not have administrator permissions. I have never gotten the option to input the admin credentials and start as system server to work across hundreds of sessions. I absolutely dread using LogMeIn Rescue during this type of scenario and may even need to use an alternative temporarily. Frequently clashes with users' security software. Otherwise, I love the application.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Log me in has never failed me
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    ConnectWise
    It used to be great, but then they broke reporting, speed and responsiveness with version 11 and the new Patch Manager. It's really bad and their support people are way behind on fixing so many bugs. They have really gone downhill. If they don't get it together soon, we'll start looking around.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    no complaints
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    Support Rating
    ConnectWise
    ConnectWise Automate lets you manage more endpoints, with enhanced productivity and improved service, all without increasing expenses. It can manage patches and updates across thousands of computers. We also use it for customized monitoring and alerting on workstations and servers. Monitoring is really robust and granular. It does a great job of gathering a TON of data about the network, and that data is searchable. There are a bunch of different reports built in. Integrates with Manage, Control, and other applications. It does a ton of stuff out of the box, and has endless customization options.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    We have never had to access support because the software has always worked as expected. It is great to have a software vendor from whom we know we will have no issue with glitches or incompatibility. We do know, however, that if we did have an issue, we would have our issue resolved quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    ConnectWise
    The Online training has been re-done and needs a lot more work. When you look at training in different roles, it shows a lot of the same topics but no explanation to what is different about them. Several times that topics are the exact same, but they make you re-take the same information for a different topic, instead of marking that you have already completed that portion of training.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    ConnectWise
    Start small and learn the in's and out's before making policies and rolling things out company wide. Ask the questions of why if you don't agree with something or your company does things a different way. Usually they are done a certain way for a reason. Start simple with roll out and slowly enable or add on the functionality that is needed.
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Make sure you have your LogMeIn Rescue account sign-in details handy when installing on multiple support systems.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectWise
    I believe the monitoring and alerts in Continuum command is better, but [ConnectWise Automate (formerly LabTech)] does have stronger scripting, and perhaps a better interface. N-Central is inferior on all fronts to both. I did not make the purchasing decision. I would myself likely pick Continuum if I had to make a on the spot choice.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    I haven’t reviewed other platforms like LogMeIn Rescue because I am not aware of any alternative tools available to us for assisting clients and performing troubleshooting. Additionally, LogMeIn Rescue is the first tool I have used that allows me to view a client’s screen, which is why I am unable to compare it with others.
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    Scalability
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    it's perfect
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectWise
    • We found we were able to provide good monitoring of our customers sites which was an objective. However, that came at a significant time investment that never seemed to be finished.
    • We were able to negotiate a price that worked for us for an up-front purchase which was nice.
    • We found the pricing to be very competitive.
    • Bottom line for us was despite the pros of the product, we found other RMM solutions to be a better overall "value" due to not having to dedicate technicians to maintaining the product.
    Incentivized
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    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • For businesses with small to midsize IT staff, the ability to remotely control devices that are not on-site and occasionally out of state is extremely cost-effective.
    • The speedy response time of LogMeIn Rescue has been very helpful in resolving issues for IT staff.
    • The administrative process has been made more efficient by the ability to remotely log into servers.
    Incentivized
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    LogMeIn Rescue Screenshots

    Screenshot of Technician Group Configuration - Where users can create technician groups and subgroups with granular agent permissionsScreenshot of The console where repetitive tasks automated by running pre written scripts in the background, without disturbing end usersScreenshot of A smartphone camera being used to troubleshoot offline computers and hardwareScreenshot of Remote control of Macs, PCs and Linux/AndroidScreenshot of Reboot sessions and automationScreenshot of The central dashboard where common mobile device issues on iPhone and Android can be identified and addressed without the need to navigate the end user's device.