LogMeIn Rescue - great for rescuing customers in a pinch.
November 16, 2017

LogMeIn Rescue - great for rescuing customers in a pinch.

Aaron West, CTS | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LogMeIn Rescue

LogMeIn Rescue is a great tool that our organization uses to support our various customers all over the world. It allows us to remotely access their computer and provide them with A+ support by showing them and walking them through issues, training, and more. In addition, because our software requires multiple screens, LMI Rescue gives us the ability to see all of their screens (individually or all at the same time). Finally, LMI Rescue gives us the ability to gather information about the user's computer as well as setup times to access it when no one is available to allow us in. It works great.

Pros

  • Sharing sessions between team members.
  • Allowing direct URL links to be pre-programmed for common issues that you can just send the user to on their browser.
  • Supporting multiple screen outputs for troubleshooting issues.

Cons

  • LMI's customer support is not as good as some other companies.
  • The price is one of the highest in the industry for the features.
  • The end-users process of connecting takes multiple steps and dialog windows which can delay getting connected or frustrate the end-user.
  • LMI has allowed our Customer Support Team to be more clear and efficient when helping customers.
  • LMI has also allowed us to remotely access shared company computers when working remotely.
LogMein Rescue and TeamViewer are very similar. LMR is more expensive, but is more feature-filled and is focused on the Customer Support side. TeamViewer is better priced and easier for end-users to connect with our Customer Support Team, but doesn't have all the bells and whistles that many companies probably don't need.
LMI is great for almost all scenarios. It is a useful tool for helping customers or even accessing your own computers remotely. The multi-screen support is one of the biggest things for us and it can provide us great information and feedback as we are working with the user. However, if you have a less-than-technical user, getting connected can sometimes be a chore (share the number, download the file, run the file, click on multiple prompts, click again, now I can control your computer).

LogMeIn Rescue Feature Ratings

Screen sharing
9
File transfer
8
Instant message
8
Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication
Not Rated
Access to sleeping/powered-off computers
Not Rated
Over-the-Internet remote session
8
Initiate remote control from mobile
Not Rated
Remote management of servers & workstations
Not Rated
Remote Active Directory® management
Not Rated
Centralized management dashboard
7
Session record
7
Annotations
7
Monitoring and Alerts
Not Rated
Multi-platform remote control
8

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