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 love the security, the flexibility and our end users especially enjoy the security and knowledge that when we are finished with their computer they can validate that the software was removed from their system. We like that we can customize the solution and we enjoy the screen sharing even on mobile phones.

Increased our FCR rates and the efficiency of the support desk

Linux support leaves quite a bit to be desired. Ubuntu systems have issues with connectivity.

Longer than I have been with the company, so at least 10 years.

None at a;;

We did, but nothing came close to Bomgar

We're using BeyondTrust Remote Support to create more support lines. One line of support for our employees, and the other for our clients at a bank. We're using this solution to fix problems for our clients and bank employees. I have branches in different cities, like the capital cities in Columbia.

It's very secure, and it works very well. I like their remote support feature. It can be used for our clients' desktops or anywhere where the client can be working. I'd have to say the product is very good. It's a strong solution for us.

It could be more compatible with other applications. We had trouble with compatibility when it came to Entrust. This is because we had issues with Windows machines when we installed Entrust. 

I have been using BeyondTrust Remote Support for two years.

We had local support and nothing more.

We pay every year for the box, and there are no additional costs. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give BeyondTrust Remote Support a nine.

The most valuable feature of BeyondTrust Remote Support is the ability to control screens remotely.

They currently don't have remote access control  to Chromebooks, and I think they should start doing that.

In the next release, I would like remote access control to Chrome included. 
You can see the screen but not control on Chromebooks 

I have been using BeyondTrust Remote Support for three years.

The stability is very good.

BeyondTrust Remote Support scales well.

We have not contacted technical support after the implementation was complete.

Positive

Previously, we did not use another solution.

The installation is straightforward.

I would rate BeyondTrust Remote Support a nine out of ten.

Screen sharing and remote in ability.

Has helped our Support Teams become 100% more productive and pleases our customer base internally and externally.

Mobile. Need more inroads into Apple devices.

5 years

None. Between our expertise and the installation pro from Bomgar on the phone, we had no issue whatsoever.

None.

None.

10 out of 10. They have great participation, knowledge, ownership and communication.

10 out of 10. Once again we have yet to stump them.

LogMeIn

It was straightforward AND complex. We replaced a web based solution (LogMeIn) with a device based solution. The complex part was fitting it into our environment.

In-house.

They sales people are great. Don't be afraid of asking for a specific price - they will be open and honest.

Yes:

• LogMeIn
• Remote USA
• Webex
• Screenshare

I'm an associate security engineer and we are partners with BeyondTrust.

I like the interface and it's helpful for me that when I'm taking a session it's totally in my control.

I'd like to see some kind of voice communication feature. During a session, communication is on chat. Although we can share a screen, there is sometimes a lag with the chat. 

I've worked with this solution for about a year up to a couple of months ago. 

I used the solution for my internal environment and it was stable and efficient when connecting with the customer. We share the link and they access it. I used it for sessions of up to 20 people and it was fine. 

There is good documentation available so if I'm missing anything the BeyondTrust site documentation has all the answers. 

The deployment is straightforward and quite mature. 

I would recommend trying this solution. Particularly during Covid times with people working from home, it's useful to have the help desk with the GM in the office. 

There can always be improvements so I rate this product eight out of 10. 

• You can access any device, running basically any type of operating system both on and off your corporate network to support users and their devices remotely.
• The solution works in a way that lets you control and repair a device as if it were sitting on your own desk.
• You can make your service desk work more efficiently with Bomgar Remote Support because you can integrate the tool into your existing ticketing system.
• Everything done during sessions is logged into session transcripts and video recordings, if you want. This helps during audits of remote access tools.
• The solution integrates with MS Active Director. That makes user authentication simpler and also safer compared to other local options.

We integrated Bomgar in our ITSM platform. Now our help desk engineers can start a remote session straight from a help desk ticket. All the logging and notes of that session are stored in our ITSM platform. They can help more employees faster without spending time copying, pasting, and administering help desk calls.

The configuration and permission options are extensive. However, we would appreciate having a search function in the settings.

We have used the solution for one year.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues. We use the virtual appliance option that lets us upgrade the hardware specs if needed.

For globally oriented customers, Bomgar also offers Atlas clustering with appliances that can span multiple data centers and locations around the world.

The technical support is excellent. Bomgar also offers a very rich, technical documents website online. Their support team is more than willing to help you out if you have implementation or configuration questions.

We have used other solutions, but Bomgar has a superior security architecture compared to the competition. It lets us control remote access in a granular manner.

The setup was very straightforward. Their concept is simple for everyone to understand. The technical documents help when you have doubts about anything while implementing.

Their manner of licensing is a little bit different, depending on your deployment option. They offer both on premise and cloud deployment that involves a perpetual license plus maintenance or a yearly subscription.

We didn't evaluate other options as we had previous experience with a different remote support tool.

Make an inventory of all the remote support tools your organization currently uses. Try to consolidate them by using Bomgar.

The most valuable feature would be remote support. We have over 4000 computers on campus and this is our go-to for remote support.

We used to have to constantly run from building to building and campus to campus. Now our technical staff can focus more on customer support than beforehand.

I wouldn’t mind seeing this product have the functionality of pushing small software bundles. I think they might be working on this currently but I'm not sure.

We have been using Bomgar here at the college for about four years.

Bomgar is one of the most stable platforms I have ever used in the IT world. It just always works.

Absolutely no issues with scalability at all.

Their technical support is top notch, although we have only used them a little. This product just works. I wish we had other products that are as reliable as Bomgar.

We used to use Ultra VNC. We switched over because we were not having much luck with Ultra, as far as performance is concerned.

The setup was straightforward and we had lots of help from Bomgar. They sent down a technical adviser to help with the setup, but honestly it was very easy to setup.

Talk to your sales rep. Ours was very helpful in getting us a great deal with the product.

The only other option we used was UltraVNC and as I said it just didn’t work well for us. We spoke with a lot of Dell KACE users and all of them highly recommended Bomgar. They work very well with each other.

Read the manual and do not be afraid to reach out to the Bomgar community. A lot of help is out there for any issues you may run into.