My ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) Review
February 19, 2019

My ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) Review

Gawain Stern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect)

We use ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) to remotely control our customers' computers. It allows us to resolve issues remotely without having to go on site. This saves us massive travel costs, and allows us to respond far more quickly. We love it, and so do our customers. It is fast, reliable, flexible, and versatile.
  • It connects quickly.
  • It's reliable - it works when you need it.
  • It's powerful, you can log off, log on, switch users, reboot, run admin level operations, and much, much more.
  • It has smartly arranged controls.
  • It has a few issues dealing with screen scaling. The remote screen itself looks fine, but then menus can get really large.
  • ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) has easily paid for itself simply with travel costs eliminated.
  • ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) increases profits because its time-to-connect is near-instantaneous. This lets us start work sooner, complete work sooner, and do more work per hour.
  • Customers love how fast and easy ScreenConnect is. They like being able to see that their machines are under remote control. They like how easy it is to pass mouse control back and forth.
ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) is faster, renders screens better, is more reliable, runs smaller, scales better, and is more dependable than the competition.
ConnectWise Automate (formerly LabTech), IT Glue, Slack
ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) is well suited to any situation where you need remote control. The only situation I can picture where it might be less than ideal is where you need to connect to numerous different endpoints, at a free level. The free version has a limit on how many different machines you can connect to.

ConnectWise ScreenConnect Feature Ratings

Screen sharing
10
File transfer
9
Instant message
9
Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication
Not Rated
Access to sleeping/powered-off computers
8
Over-the-Internet remote session
10
Initiate remote control from mobile
9
Remote management of servers & workstations
10
Remote Active Directory® management
10
Centralized management dashboard
8
Session record
Not Rated
Annotations
Not Rated
Monitoring and Alerts
Not Rated
Multi-platform remote control
9