BeyondTrust Remote Support Reviews

The most valuable features are:

• The ease of deployment
• Performance
• Pre and post-sales support 
• The vast majority of the localization they have done
• The solution provider that they support. 

Bomgar brand, or now BeyondTrust's brand reputation is great. It is very strong, it's an undisputed global leader. You just can't argue about it.

You can't compete with TeamViewer or any other similar products. It's completely in a class of its own.

The most important aspect is the amount of compression the Bomgar team has done. They compress so much compared to other products. It really makes it stand out from its peers. If you have more sessions concurrently working, if the client does not compress enough, it would just basically chew up all the bandwidth. This is their DNA. It is just the best in compression.

It's just a trade-off, not a complaint, that they could never put voice into it. It lacks voice integration like the other products because they need the compression to support that large amount of concurrent sessions. We've had to sacrifice voice. It's no big deal. You have more sessions, you don't really need the voice part of it. It's just a convenience.

Other than that, it is a de-facto standard whether you like it or not.

It should have more integration with CyberArk. Of course, that's an open-ended statement. The reason being is because Bomgar, or now BeyondTrust, also sells something similar to CyberArk. CyberArkk has the largest market share. It doesn't seem that BeyondTrust will provide any knowledge base or integration for customers to integrate BeyondTrust with CyberArk. 

But from a partner concern, oftentimes we have customers using CyberArk. They ask us to provide professional services to integrate both. Then we have to work on our own without vendor support.

I have been using Bomgar for over five years. 

It is absolutely stable.   

Absolutely the most scalable product. They ship the Virtual Appliance plus two or three different models of their hardware appliances. You can scale up to a very, very large implementation which, to my understanding, we have many huge customers.

This also highlights the value-differentiator. The hardware appliance has Atlas; that's fault tolerance and has load balancing built-in. Our competitors don't even have syncable features. Bomgar has had those features in its plan since day one.

Unlike other products, Bomgar is licensed per support representative. The guys actually provide support to customers. 

Instability and performance have never been a problem compared to cloud-based because it's on-premise.  It is secure, it's fast, it's easy to deploy.

We use it almost daily. We are into the technical support business and we rely on this tool 7x24x365. 

Their support team is outstanding, really the best in the industry. The support engineers are well-trained and they know the product very well. It makes our jobs a lot easier when we deploy or when we have problems. 

Bomgar acquired BeyondTrust but then they retained the BeyondTrust name. BeyondTrust support was terrible. But not the Bomgar team. Bomgar support was good. They merged as one team, the BeyondTrust team for the other products, for the PAM products. Bomgar Remote Support is still the best.

The initial setup is absolutely straightforward. It is really seamless to fire up the Virtual Appliance. It only requires one person for the setup.

It took all of two hours. To deploy it and set it up and configure it, it doesn't take more than two hours. The customization requires more time and expertise. 

From a reseller's point of view, this is great, because this creates huge service revenue, professional service for partners. But from an end-user, it's a lot of handshaking and a lot of time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks involved. It's not easy to integrate it with Service Now and Remedy because those are not simple systems to set up, not turnkey systems. There's a lot of aspects involved.

In a way it's good. But generally, you just want to set it up and get it to work, it doesn't require more than two hours.

Definitely take the 30-days trial and don't jump to any conclusions to integrate with their ITSM tool. Evaluate it first, sit down and study it a little bit further before making a commitment to do the integration with an ITSM tool because that involves a lot of investment and time.

Customers have a budget to pay for the integration, the amount of time involved, it's not the easiest to deploy the product. It's quite complex to integrate an ITSM tool with BeyondTrust Remote Access. The process is not as simple as a lot of people think. Don't underestimate it. It's quite complex to do an integration between an ITSM tool with BeyondTrust, or likewise with any other remote access control product.

BeyondTrust is a very powerful product, it has many features. Make sure that you have enough buffer. Don't underestimate the complexity. And then just get the Bomgar up and running, take advantage of it. Once your team gets to know the product, you're going to start thinking about doing the integration.

I would rate it a ten out of ten.  

It operates on a website, has the additional protection of their website, of the BeyondTrust portal, in addition to two-factor authentication.

In the next release, it should have a little bit more intrusion detection. Customers have to worry about how to protect the portal being attacked by would-be hackers or perpetrators.

I would say it's a perfect product, but it can't do everything in one. It would be nice to have something extra in there as an option. It would be nice. But it's already perfect. This is quite a mature product. 

We use Bomgar Remote Support to manage a fleet of more than 3000 computers across four campuses in two counties. This support extends to both hardware and software support in addition to assistance as needed for more than 1500 employees and an annual count of over 25,000 students. 

Bomgar has given us the ability to manage the majority of our calls from a remote location making response times quicker and more efficient. We also have the ability to knowingly offer support to students from their homes, which extends conveniences, such as password resets and assistance with class registration. 

I personally like the ability to share files with other machines. It gives me the ability to harvest the tools that I need for a job before handling them when I connect to that machine. I simply move that package over to the machine that I need to work on, then perform the needed work.

Bomgar is an inclusive software package. It has been improved upon several times already. 

Stability with Bomgar has been solid. We have no complaints.

There seems to be no scalability issues with Bomgar, regardless of the number of technicians we have using the system or the number of devices that we have in session at one time. 

We rarely need support for anything, but when we do, they are on it and always helpful.

We were using LogMeIn before deciding to go with Bomgar. While LogMeIn was a decent solution, Bomgar had several features that we liked. These features were not supported by LogMeIn.

As for setup, we had Bomgar come in and assist us with it. It was not difficult. The things that they needed to know about our domain were readily available. It was a smooth transition. 

Bomgar sent a team and they were fantastic. Adoption and deployment were quick and smooth. 

This is a hard one to factor in. Before Bomgar, we spent 80% of the time running from building to building and to the campus installing the software, also training employees. This has been turned upside down. We are much more efficient now than before. That allows us the ability to turn over tickets quicker and get people back to work faster. The ROI for this product is fairly quick. 

Ask a lot of questions. It is not the most cost effective solution on the market. We believe for the money, it is worth what you pay. 

We evaluated a few different options, like UltraVNC and TeamViewer as well as others. None seemed to compare to the proprietary nature of Bomgar and their ability to record each session.

Bomgar is used for connecting with our end users and helping them to resolve any issues that they have on their computer. We host the application in our data center. We find it is easier to maintain the control of the system this way.

Bomgar is an amazing tool which has greatly improved our service desk's ability to support end users. This has allowed us to quickly address the needs and issues of our end users. We are also able to be more effectively connected to computers and servers all over the world.  

I like how easy Bomgar makes it to connect to end users and endpoints. I am able to easily connect to hardware all over the world.

I would like to see more integration with iOS devices along with better connectivity and communication with these devices.

No issues.

No issues.

We used the Remote Desktop Connection application which is native to Windows. 

We had help from Bomgar getting the product configured. 

We used vendor teams to help us configure this hardware and software onsite. They were great at their jobs and were very knowledgeable.  

Better service for our end users. 

I would like to order more licenses. This would allow us to support more end users concurrently. 

I also would have picked an internal team member who was going to stay on the team for more time. Shortly after we went live, we had a change of staff and lost the main implementer.

Bomgar was recommended to us by Cherwell. Once this tool was explored, we bought it. 

I highly recommend using the tech team properly trained by Bomgar. This will help the tool be more useful. 

We have a full service support centre that uses Bomgar Remote Support to connect with client machines and assist with complex (and remedial) technological solutions.

This product has drastically improved the speed and ease at which we provide client support from our Solutions Centre (service desk). This product "just works" (without fail) and is dead-easy for clients to connect with.

The ease of connecting with a client. No silly applets or anything to install. It just run the executable, then it connects almost instantly.

This product has a lot of features that we do not currently use, so there may be some things that cause bloat and confusion. However, this is not a huge downside. 

I would also like more insight into completed sessions. This would be nice, such as a historical log into the technician client application.

I use Bomgar Remote Support as a help desk tool to assist our internal employees across multiple states address issues with their individual PCs, cell phones, and workstation issues. It is also used to remotely retrieve data from unmanned workstations in our remote offices.  

One of the largest values that we get from Bomgar Remote Support tool is the ability to assist our drivers with their mobile devices. We were unable to do this previously. 

The time savings that we experience from being able to get hands on with a device experiencing trouble, and the time to resolve an issue is substantial. It gives me the ability to work on projects and more important aspects of our company's technology.

Remote shell and file management are critical tools that I leverage regularly on the Bomgar Remote Support platform. Also, the remote reboot feature is particularly valuable for rebooting terminal servers that have power controls disabled.

The product is pretty well rounded, but there are a few things that could be improved. 

• Static notes for hosts: If I could enter notes on a Jump Client and have them appear every time I connect to that Client, it would be a huge benefit. 
• The screen annotation tools could be expanded. I would like to see a text/typing annotation tool.

The product is extremely stable.

No stability issues. Just buy another license/seat when you need it.

Support is very responsive and great to work with. It is not common to need support very often. The product does not really run into any issues.

I have used other tools in the past, but this was the first remote support tool that we have purchased.

The setup is complex. Purchase the remote implementation service and make them slow down and work with you.

In-house.

Our ROI is immeasurable, but we are well in the black.

In my experience, Bomgar is a superior product. Although the upfront cost is a bit overwhelming, the appliance will pay for itself in less than two years.

We evaluated LogMeIn, TeamViewer, WebEx and GoToMeeting.

We use Bomgar Remote Support at our approximately 100 employee firm to provide immediate support no matter the employee's current location.

The firm has greatly benefited from using Bomgar Remote. It is a lightweight, reliable solution that gives IT a direct visual of occurring issues. 

The file transfer feature allows IT to provide needed drivers and files without interfering with the employee's workflow. Also, it allows IT to "visit" and take over a session when assisting. 

During initial deployment of the Client on employee devices, there were just a few which failed. This required a second try at installation. We did not know which failed due to no reporting of Clients (that I could find) within the Bomgar Representative Console. 

We have had very little downtime, which was most likely user error. 

No issues with scalability. 

We have had to reach out only one time to Bomgar customer service. It had a pleasant, speedy resolution. 

We used LogMeIn and switched due to rising its cost. We also had prior experience with Bomgar. 

It has a straightforward setup. Bomgar has created a simple, lightweight deployment process.  

In-house implementation. 

Bomgar has a very fair pricing structure. 

No other options were evaluated. 

Provides secure remote support to clients using Mac, Windows, and mobile devices in a healthcare environment supporting 10,000 clients and 15,000 devices.

We have the ability to securely assist users remotely with a stable product, which allows for reporting capabilities, SAML authentication, and ServiceNow integration.

• SAML integration
• Reporting capabilities
• Integration with ServiceNow
• Multiple web portals
• Jump Clients
• Remote mobile support

The chat needs to improve. We need to enable set hours for chat support which are separate from the remote support assistance. We do this so we can provide remote support assistance 7 am to 6 pm, but we only enable the chat from 9 am to 5 pm.

Bomgar allows remote viewing and controlling of users internationally while on or off the network.

Bomgar has allowed our service desk (based in India) and our other support personnel based in the US to seamlessly support our users worldwide.

We have integrated Bomgar's chat with ServiceNow and provide its chat as a main method of communication between our support team and users. The seamless integration of chat, our ITSM management software, and remote viewing/control software makes for a valuable tool.

It needs better Linux support. We have had issues with Ubuntu specifically. I would also like to see better support of Apple devices while using a Windows remote support console. Screen casting is a nice workaround for now.

No issues.

No issues.

We used Windows Remote Assistance and Windows Remote Desktop. We still use these products, but rely on Bomgar for off the network support.

The setup was pretty straightforward. 

It is best to work with their integration team if you are integrating it with your ITSM solution.

We considered LogMeIn and LogMeIn Rescue. These other solutions did not have the same features that Bomgar had to offer.