Atera--everything you need in a single, stable, cost-effective platform.
April 15, 2021
Atera--everything you need in a single, stable, cost-effective platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Atera
Remote access during the COVID pandemic has been a problem. Atera helped us solve that problem.
- Remote Access--Splashtop provides direct access so we can see what users see and help them with current issues
- Sound Troubleshooting--Splashtop is phenomenal in pulling sound from the machine and helping with remote sound troubleshooting
- Remote Background Access
- Patch Management--While we have other solutions for mass patch management, whenever we run into a machine being stubborn, I just turn to Atera and target that machine directly to install the annoying patches. Seems to work beautifully. I rarely get an error on install.
- CMD/Powershell Access--The ability to remote CMD and remote Powershell is key to solving lots of remote issues. This access is better than most other platforms and once setup is easier than actual Powershell remoting. A real plus.
- Patch management en masse needs a little work. If there was a better way to handle patch management for large numbers of machines, this would be better.
- Software installation has a few kinks and needs to be a little smoother. This might be more related to Chocolatey than Atera, but regardless, it needs a bit of work. The selection of automatically installable software is a little less than what we need. For what it does, though, it works.
- The lack of cost per unit is a great asset. Our team consists of two members who really use the product, and the cost being per member means we can have hundreds of machines and still only pay for two users.
So far, Pulseway was nice, but Atera was better--ease of access and ease of use being the two main things. The automatic alerting right off the bat was very helpful. Pulseway had a similar app for tracking information on the phone, but it didn't have the same cost per technician rather than per machine.
I'm still working out the automation. The realtime alerts are great, and Atera's update functions have worked when others have failed. Overall the system works very well, and while I need to get some of the automation set up still, the entire setup just works right out of the gate.
The fixed price regardless of growth has been great. It doesn't matter how many systems we add on, as long as we only have two technicians, we are being charged the same amount. Billing and reporting aren't really of use to me yet, but perhaps in the future, I'll get that set up and we can work on that too.