Help Lightning vs. RealVNC Connect
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Help Lightning | Score10 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | Help Lightning in Birmingham aims to reimagine how businesses, customers and employees are able to give and receive help using Virtual Expertise. The vendor states their merged reality adds missing visual cues, gestures, and non-verbal communication methods to any session. While providing remote assitance, users simply simply reach into a device's field of view and a colleague will see the user's hand merged into their field of view. Users can telestrate, freeze images, use hand gestures,… | $75,000 per year |
RealVNC Connect | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | RealVNC® Connect is a secure remote access solution from RealVNC. It can be used to connect to a remote device anywhere in the world to view its desktop in real-time and take control as though sitting in front of it. | $99 per year (one concurrent session) |
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| Additional Details | Solutions are available as an annual subscription and the pricing is based on the number of licenses. The price per license will vary based on the number of experts providing help and the number of technicians or engineers needing help. | Plans work on a Per Concurrent Session basis. Each plan gives access to a bundled number of devices, but limits apply to the amount of devices that can be connected at any given time. The Premium plan includes On-Demand Assist, a useful tool for providing just-in-time remote support to end-users without them needing RealVNC Connect installed on their device. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 11 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 10 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Happy with the feature set 11 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 7 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 11 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | LogMeIn Rescue Score8.2 out of 10 | N-able Take Control Score7.2 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | BeyondTrust Remote Support Score8.6 out of 10 | Remote Desktop Manager Score9.6 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | TeamViewer Score8.6 out of 10 | BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access Score9.1 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 9.7 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | - | 8.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 8.0 |
| Online Training | - | 7.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 |
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