Likelihood to Recommend An environment where visibility of general performance metrics isn't currently done or is done with a system that is difficult to use (which was our case). An environment where resource allocation decisions need to be made (e.g. how much RAM and CPU to allocate to VM pools). An environment where a troubleshooting tool is needed (e.g. to answer the question, "Why is this person experiencing poor performance right now?")
Read full review I've been managing desktops for 20+ years and Nexthink was the missing tool out of my toolbox. Just to give some perspective, if you were building and maintaining a house, Nexthink would be comparable to switching up from a hammer and nails and to full blown using a nailgun. Nexthink is a solution accelerator and a well thought out toolset to give you the customer experience at a glance. It allows for so much more visibility just with the default set of data points the Collector (agent) gathers, which is A LOT, and grants you the ability to gather even more data with remote actions. All of this evidence cuts how the "it could possibly be this" and "maybe it's that" discussions when you're troubleshooting an issue. It may not provide the exact answer all the time, but it gives you a "compass point" on where you need to start looking to resolve the issue. Also the service monitoring, activity monitoring, and critical event thresholds really empower the teams to know when a problem is happening and they can get ahead of it before the first call even reaches the Help Desk. Nexthink is a cornerstone tool in our environment for end user experience and I'm excited to see where the go next.
Henry Jennings Principal Engineer - Global Desktop Infrastructure Services
Read full review Pros The triggers are very flexible and can be configured to alert on things from events in sessions to hardware failures. Script actions are what they sound like. They are scripts that can be created and run on demand or tied to a trigger. One example is that if a hard drive is low on space we have a script to clean up certain things on the drive. Script actions are supported by the ControlUp community. Community members can submit scripts that are reviewed by ControlUp and approved. This means more script are added over time. ControlUp support and sales support has been great. Our sales engineer is always willing to jump on and help us with configuration issues and standard support is quick to respond and are good at resolving issues. Read full review It allows for an IT department to be proactive with finding/solving issues before they happen It allows for a company to have a great tool for engaging with end users using campaigns/surveys It shows the full overall picture of a device/network connections when troubleshooting user issues. Read full review Cons It seems that there is a gradual transition occurring from one interface (a local program) to another (Web). This creates confusion at times. ScoutBees module has a problem with our version of Horizon, so we can't do a login test The local program for ControlUp uses a lot of resources The training session focus on very large environments, which we aren't. Might be good to offer SMB sessions separately. Read full review The on-premise solution can be slow at times and resource-demanding even on newer laptops. (This isn't the case with the cloud offering.) Some useful features are only available to cloud customers. Library pack configuration could be made easier, often these packs require some customization and it's not always clear how to get them up and running after importing. Read full review Alternatives Considered I feel all these products are good and have their strengths but for me it came down to two categories. How easy is it to find issues and cost. It seemed to me that the easiest to use is ControlUp and eG. Price broke down to ControlUp and
SysTrack being lower than Goliath and eG.
Read full review Nexthink had better integration and a better user interface. 1E did not have the engagement capability which is so critical to many of the actions we complete using Nexthink. Nexthink had better trending data capabilities. 1E did not capture and hold data the way Nexthink does so all data assumes you are able to pull information from all systems at any time. with remote systems it is unlikely you will capture all systems at the same time so it makes any actions less effective. this review was performed 4 years ago so 1E may have addressed some of these limitations but Nexthink has also grown and continues to add and improve on their industry-leading capabilities.
Read full review Return on Investment its licensing cost is a bit on high Read full review SCCM proactive remediation: Automatically resolving hundreds of SCCM issues per month Hardware: Identification of over $5m cost avoidance by seeing a lack of usage for 128GB SSDs - no need to upgrade to 256GB... coupled with OneDrive migration packs in the Nexthink library this is valuable. Read full review ScreenShots