ConnectWise runs our business
March 17, 2017
ConnectWise runs our business
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ConnectWise
We are an IT consulting firm and ConnectWise is the core application that we provide service on. We use it to track tickets, Organization/User data, Assets, Quoting, and invoicing for 300+ clients in SE Wisconsin. We follow the ConnectWise mantra "If it's not in ConnectWise, it didn't happen"
- Ticket management is awesome and the Workflows are extremely powerful. Workflows help us enforce our procedures as part of using the application.
- Using ConnectWise with inegration to an RMM like LabTech or Kaseya allows some pretty awesome asset management. Throw in ITglue/BizDox and it's the best documentation platform I've ever worked with.
- The Email connectors and closed loop ticketing makes keeping clients up to date on their tickets is also very helpful!!
- Previously it was not very browser compatible and the mobile app was limited. They've made big progress on this, but it's still a work in progress.
- It's pretty resource intensive, so older systems have a chunk of lag.
- There is a Stream-lined IT feature that lets you resell client admin accounts so client IT staff can use the board like we do. This feature is great, but very difficult to setup and manage.
- There was a time when we didn't use ConnectWise very well and we had a lot of dropped issues and slow response times. As with any business critical app the more you put into it the better the ROI. After a careful redesign of our boards and workflows a few years ago, we've eliminated a ton of avoidable problems.
- We didn't use a project management program before using CW projects. Once we started using them, we were able to properly track P&L for projects vs normal service.
- Using agreements for recurring revenue is awesome. Setting up the agreement integration for Kaseya and Storagecraft has made billing a lot easier.
We've evaluated several options in the past, but none offered all the features, integration, and control that ConnectWise does. Autotask is the classic competitor that never quite stacked up, while Kaseya BMS is the newer rival that is also short on some features, as well as being a bit new to the market.