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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    N-able N-central

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AMSPs and IT professionals use N-able™ N-central® to monitor and manage devices and complex networks remotely. N-central provides visibility and efficiency as the user's needs scale. N-central can help users: 1. Proactively monitor everything on a customer network—not just servers and workstations—and troubleshoot. 2. Stay on top of threats with features like MFA, antivirus, integrated endpoint detection and response, data backup, disk encryption, email protection,…N/A

    SpeedCurve by Embrace

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASpeedCurve measures the interplay between web design and web performance. They offer user experience monitoring tools that provide insight into what visitors are experiencing.

    $143

    per month

    Pricing
    N-able N-centralSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Editions & Modules
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    Small
    $143
    per month 500K RUM page views & 5K Synthetic checks
    Medium
    $1050
    per month 5M RUM page views & 25K Synthetic checks
    Large
    $2,100
    per month 10M RUM page views & 50K Synthetic checks
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    N-able N-centralSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual subscription.
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    Community Pulse
    N-able N-centralSpeedCurve by Embrace
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    N-able
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    Embrace
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    79%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    60%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    77%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Avast CloudCare
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    User Ratings
    N-able N-centralSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    1.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    N-able N-centralSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    N-able
    N-Able is perfect for an MSP environment. It gives all the standard functionality an IT professional needs out of the box and can be configured to show almost anything required. For example, we have configured a dashboard to show when our backups need attention for each customer. This is achieved by running a small script on repeat via N-Central everyday/evening, and the result gives us information on the dashboard to help us identify exactly what is working and what needs looking into.
    Incentivized
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    Embrace
    Website performance monitoring:
    • Setting performance targets and alerts
    • Investigating performance degradation (including data stored before the issue was detected)
    • Improving the team's performance awareness and knowledge
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    N-able
    • Remote tasks - entry-level techs can run basic tasks without physically touching a piece of equipment.
    • Remote support - remote controlling user devices is easy and saves a lot of time with having to initiate a remote session.
    • Management of devices, particularly patch management and anti-virus management - you can automatically approve and deploy patches and schedule automatic AV scans.
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    Embrace
    • Store performance checks
    • User interface is great to help analyse the data
    • Simple yet effective interface
    • Offer some insights and other tools to help make sense of the data
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    N-able
    • Customer support just points to online guides and I feel they aren't helpful.
    • During the trial they turn on a lot of features. In my experience, if you play around with the features, they charge you for them. Keep this in mind if you move forward with N-Able - they will charge for "trialed" services.
    • In my experience, some services that you're being charged for can't be disabled or monitored by you or your team. You only see them on the monthly invoice.
    • In my opinion, the "Scripting Automation" doesn't provide value. You're either going to be writing your own batch or Powershell to make scripting work.
    • In my opinion, monitoring software deployments is painful.
    • The default monitoring template can't be duplicated, edited, or referenced. You'll find that the default monitors in an unusual way and will throw needless recurring alerts into your ticketing system. To avoid this, you need to create a template from scratch which takes many hours to set up.
    • In my opinion, they're more concerned about a quick buck than customer service. "Buyer beware" company.
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    Embrace
    • The interface has some confusing points, for instance aggregation setting (percentiles, median) is misleading, and doesn't do anything in some cases
    • Some additional statistical tools would super charge the charts and alerts: moving average, some more useful trend lines
    • The performance charts are amazing to compare many values (from different pages, multiple metrics) and find correlations. But the charts are barely usable when many metrics are shown (one cannot tell a line from the other). A simple UI improvement there could supercharge this use case
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    N-able
    Overall we have liked our solar winds experience, however, as our company has grown to support larger enterprises, this product does not have the functionality that our teams need in order to fully support them. The lack of granularity with backups and lack of ability to support nutanix environments is slowly drawing us into the use of other tools.
    Incentivized
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    Embrace
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    N-able
    The user interface is fairly straight forward, with logic groupings for objects. I did not deploy this software, but am one of the daily administrators. Once you get the correct agent package (Which can be a challenge) the integration into AD is not bad. The UI could be more customized, but that may have been a design choice.
    Incentivized
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    Embrace
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    N-able
    Every time we have reached out to SolarWinds they are quick to respond, even offering support chat 24/7. Their support team is great and works with you to find solutions to issues. They have taken items we had issues with before and used those to create updates so that the issue is handled better in the future.
    Incentivized
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    Embrace
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    N-able
    Make sure if you your using a vm you follow the instructions for provisioning to the letter or it will be starting from square one
    Incentivized
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    Embrace
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    N-able
    Our version of SolarWinds was old and running on old hardware, but it was way easier to setup and do things with. It did not do everything N-able does such as patch management, or at least we didn't have a module to do so if one existed. However it definitely seemed easier to use and possibly more stable.
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    Embrace
    SpeedCurve actually uses many of those standard tests, and stores the information from test runs indefinitely. This is the game changer.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    N-able
    • We have lost hundreds of hours on the phone/emailing support with no resolution for any of our issues
    • We had to move all of our services away which was very painful
    • Staff satisfaction was low having to deal with this company
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    Embrace
    • Speedcurve facilitates and empowers performance improvements that lead the higher conversion rates, user engagement and ultimately GMV
    • Through it's interface and automation, Speed curve saves hundreds of hours in investigations around performance issues
    • By facilitating performance analysis and knowledge sharing, SpeedCurve allows our teams to be more performance-aware, preventing performance issues from even happening
    Incentivized
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