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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

    $0

    (free for 1-5 Seats)

    Pricing
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Remote Device Support
    $149
    per month per seat
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    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Contact sales for Enterprise pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Out of the software that I have listed above, Spiceworks was selected over the others solely based on price. That does not mean that Spiceworks is less effective, it is just that the others have different features, but you pay for those features. Purely as asset management, …
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    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Well a lot of help desk systems include the same features but those costs thousands of dollars. Spiceworks is free! How can you beat that! And they have free support as well who are very responsive and helpful. Spiceworks also has its own community where fellow SpiceHeads help …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    9.4
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    209 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
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    Ratings
    File transfer8.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant message8.1128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers9.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session record8.6144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annotations8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
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    Attended device access8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unattended device access7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual device access9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple-display support8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings5.548 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings4.943 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.5
    53 Ratings
    17% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of LogMeIn Rescue and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (228 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (81 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (39 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LogMeIn RescueSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
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    Cons
    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.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
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    Usability
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
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    Reliability and Availability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Log me in has never failed me
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
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    Performance
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    no complaints
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
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    Scalability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    it's perfect
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
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    ScreenShots

    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.