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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    e-automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AECI Software Solutions offers e-automate, an ERP for office technology companies to automate business workflows and increase contract profitability.N/A

    Lansweeper

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ALansweeper helps organizations see, understand, and make confident decisions about their technology estate across IT, OT, IoT, and Cloud. Lansweeper automatically discovers and inventories every asset: hardware, software, and user—then connects that data to insights about usage, lifecycle, and risk. This is to create what the vendor describes as Technology Asset Intelligence (TAI): a trusted foundation of knowledge that turns raw inventory data into clear, actionable…

    $2,868

    per year (includes 2000 assets)

    Pricing
    e-automateLansweeper
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $239
    per month (billed annually) Includes 2,000 assets
    Pro
    $439
    per month (billed annually) Includes 2,000 assets
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Starts at 10,000 Assets
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    e-automateLansweeper
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
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    Community Pulse
    e-automateLansweeper
    Considered Both Products
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answer on this topic
    Lansweeper
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    e-automateLansweeper
    IT Asset Management
    Comparison of IT Asset Management features of e-automate and Lansweeper
    Feature
    e-automate
    -
    Ratings
    Lansweeper
    8.4
    17 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Software and hardware inventory tracking00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
    License management00 Ratings7.413 Ratings
    Asset lifecycle monitoring00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Asset relationship management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    KACE Systems Management Appliance
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    e-automateLansweeper
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (54 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    e-automateLansweeper
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ECI Software Solutions
    If you need a system to place and track sales quotes, sales orders, purchase orders, and service calls then E-Automate is perfect. However, if you want to be able to easily bulk upload customers and contracts or if you want to be able to quickly and easily track contract profitability, customer costs, etc, then you'll likely want/need a secondary or different system to do so.
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    Lansweeper
    Lansweeper I believe is well suited for any environment - its low cost and small footprint make it an easy addition to any organization, big or small, that is looking for an asset inventory solution that can either replace or supplement existing asset management systems. It may not be well suited for situations where a lot of customization is necessary, such as pulling in custom fields or details from equipment that don't reside in a registry.
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    Pros
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Sending Invoices out to customers via email or printing.
    • Keep track of ordering and inventory.
    • Sales Tax reporting.
    • Monitoring customer payment activity/setting up and removing credit holds.
    • Calculating payments to process each cycle.
    • Excellent aging reports.
    • I like the fact that when I am looking at one item, such as an invoice, I have the capability to switch to the customer menu rather than having to exit out of invoices and then enter into customers.
    • I love the flexibility of the search menus - being able to sort on several factors at once.
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    Lansweeper
    • Inventory - LANSweeper scans the network for devices - anything with an SNMP trap or using AD or local credentials. We can get an in-depth look at devices.
    • Reporting - LANSweeper can generate just about any report you can imagine. We can check RAM in groups and determine where upgrades are needed. We can find local printers (which aren't allowed on our network) and address that issue with the user. We can check CPU type to help determine end of life without our network.
    • Printers - It's nice to have a quick look at printer statuses. Toner levels, out of paper, and service errors are all reported via LANSweeper.
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    Cons
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Make sales invoices not require serial numbers, or be more flexible with it.
    • Make contract invoices have some sort of flexibility in terms of editing. Our end users complain that QuickBooks made it very easy to edit invoices, and in e-automate, for them, it is practically impossible. (I do personally understand why it has to be as it is myself, I'm just forwarding their observation.)
    • Make the API actually useful. I spent days looking at the functions and the functions available are not really useful.
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    Lansweeper
    • Can only scan what it sees. Doesn't show every item on the machine. Patches are also absent.
    • Software Recognition is OK with Microsoft. It is dire within our network of multiple products. Recognition is at about 35% with constant manual work needed to baseline for each manufacturer in each network
    • Datacenter compliance is a manual project. We used Excel extensively.
    • License optimization is limited to installations v surplus licenses. We need to know who's using what and how.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ECI Software Solutions
    Its really the only option for the industry that does enough of what we need for it to function . I'm not sure if there were better options out there if we would have to renew our subscription. With the addition of AI, hopefully something will be able to become more useful.
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    Lansweeper
    Superb tool
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    Usability
    ECI Software Solutions
    The user interface may be slightly outdated, but it is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Once you have learned one module within the system it is very easy to apply that knowledge to any other module. It makes using the system much easier, and it makes training another person on the system quick and efficient.
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    Lansweeper
    The tool is a web gui, and is mostly easy to navigate, but certain areas are more unclear than others. Identifying what im filtering for, or what menu option has what impact can be less straightforward than I'd like. Overall though, this tool will provide me with information other tools in my box just don't.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ECI Software Solutions
    Mostly available, sometimes down for issues but usually there when we need it
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    ECI Software Solutions
    Reports are the struggle the most with the information being extracted in a way that you need to copy and paste it into a new document so some of the information is not covered
    Incentivized
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ECI Software Solutions
    Sometimes when you need answers quickly, a voice on the phone is far better than having to wait for email support or a callback. I have found this to have delays and feel ECI e-automate should invest more in its support infrastructure.
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    Lansweeper
    Lots of info online there are tons of SQL Reports you can copy from the web as Lansweeper and users post many of them. They also send out alerts that pop up on Lansweeper, letting you know of an update that you need for certain software and provide an SQL report so you can scan your system to see what PCs need this update.
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    Implementation Rating
    ECI Software Solutions
    I did not participate in implementation
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    ECI Software Solutions
    E-automate is much better at understanding the needs of the office equipment industry and provide the necessary tools. SAP Business One has limited features specific to the office equipment industry and includes things that are not useful. E-automate is also priced much better and provides the best value for your investment.
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    Lansweeper
    In short it has more features and its a more robust solution and it works well with those solutions. I am sure it will keep track with Ai and action recommendations in the future as I didnt see any of it on the platform (at least the one we use) I thin that is the only thing that is missing in the current product
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    ECI Software Solutions
    Every department we have does use e-automate to some degree with most being successful.
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Lansweeper
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ECI Software Solutions
    • The e-automate will stop working if we stop paying each year. We chose not to go to the cloud and buy the software. QuickBooks and other software are a one-time fee.
    • E-automate has very few outside vendors for add-on modules.
    • The vendors that do have modules are costly.
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    Lansweeper
    • It had a positive impact on solutions expense cause several teams we're using different solutions with different costs that used several servers and DB resources. Now, we've been able to simply that a lot with Lansweeper.
    • With my previous point, people had to train and learn about each of their solutions. Now we can put a team in charge and so the other teams can focus on other tasks.
    • Last year Lansweeper changed their licencing prices a lot so it slashed our budget.
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    ScreenShots

    e-automate Screenshots

    Screenshot of an item search, in e-automate

    Lansweeper Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Lansweeper BI Dashboard, where users can refine data using advanced filters, and stay informed with email alerts for key metrics, and dive deep into analytics with included exploration tools. Data can also be exported.Screenshot of the Inventory, which is the centralized hub for all discovered assets in an environment. Here, users can navigate through assets, perform actions like rescanning, editing, or deleting assets, and manage relationships between them. Default groups, sorting options, and tailored views can be used to locate and organize specific assets of interest.Screenshot of Lansweeper’s Risk insights for vulnerability data tied to assets. This helps to create visibility into assets with known vulnerabilities to assess severity levels and enhance triage and incident response efforts.Screenshot of Lansweeper’s diagrams, used to explore interconnected views of a network and virtual topologies, powered by inventory data within Lansweeper Site. The visual representations can be exported and shared to enhance cross-team understanding and collaboration.Screenshot of Lansweeper’s Scanning, which provides comprehensive infrastructure discovery. This can be used to discover every IT, OT, IoT, cloud, and mobile asset in an environment along with details that include hardware, software, users, and configuration.