Nexthink Reviews

The primary use case of Nexthink is for IT service management and ticket time reduction. We use it to get real-time data, as Nexthink provides data in real-time with a maximum delay of five minutes.

Nexthink is valuable for showing real-time data. We also appreciate the smooth UI and dashboard. The platform is beneficial as it provides data in real time, whereas alternatives may provide up to twenty-four-hour-old data.

Deployment and user interface need improvement. The UI is hierarchical, which makes navigation complex and isn't user-friendly for those unfamiliar with it.

I have been using Nexthink for a total of five years - four years on-premises and the last year in the cloud.

The solution is stable. I rate it ten out of ten.

Technical support sometimes has delays, similar to SysTrack, and I rate it nine out of ten.

Before using Nexthink, I started my journey with it and then moved to SysTrack. I've also used MDM and TechUnit but primarily Nexthink and SysTrack.

We have two dedicated resources for the implementation and administration of Nexthink.

Both Nexthink and SysTrack offer comparable functionality, including automation and dashboards.

Nexthink is about 10% more expensive than SysTrack, however, it is effective, justifying the additional cost.

Overall, I would recommend Nexthink as a first priority and rate it ten out of ten.

We use the solution for compliance and experience scoring.

The experience centre is one of the most valuable features; the other is the benchmarking. It gives you an easy way to use it. I have some one-page overviews; you can drill down the effect per element. You can use it to start improving your services.

It assists in making decisions regarding device replacements for non-compliant or malfunctioning devices that cannot support Windows 11. Additionally, it helps configure startup sequences to enhance efficiency during working hours.

Nexthink has evolved from its previous versions, shifting its focus towards security. While they do not position themselves solely as a security tool, they offer valuable information. It's beneficial that they continue providing discount information as they have before without introducing additional vulnerabilities. Nexthink's strength lies in providing a comprehensive overview, including application vulnerability assessments.

Nexthink is actively developing artificial intelligence capabilities.

I have been using Nexthink as a service provider for ten years. We are using the infinity version of the solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

We have a large service centre working with Nexthink for different-cost customers. We have about ten customers using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

Technical support is good.

Positive

The initial setup is easy and takes a week to complete.

I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The product has a fixed monthly price and service cost, which varies based on the features.

I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

If you want to integrate with ServiceNow, for instance, it'll be more work.

Nexthink can support home use and promote its advantages, even on local networks. This enables us to gain insights into Wi-Fi or home network setups, allowing us to assist phone users in improving their setups.

I recommend the solution as it enables using Nexthink across various services, preventing the concentration of knowledge in one person or small team. This spreads the benefits of Nexthink throughout the entire company.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I have not developed a practical use case because my experience with Nexthink was limited to certification training. I worked with some features during my training, but it was planned education rather than practical application.

Nexthink is a complete package where you can dive deep into how applications and IT infrastructure are working. The visual presentation is better than other products I have explored, so I really appreciated using Nexthink.

When I reflect on my experience, I remember that it was more intuitive to work with Nexthink compared to other solutions.

I am unable to provide recommendations on how Nexthink can be improved because I did not engage in any actual practical work with the platform. My experience was limited to certification training.

I used Nexthink approximately two and a half years ago, though it has been about two years since I had any experience with the platform.

I am unable to assess whether Nexthink is stable based on my experience during certification or training.

I cannot recall information about Nexthink's scalability from what I learned during certification or training.

I do not recall how Nexthink's customer support operates based on my training or any experience I may have had interacting with them.

Negative

I have worked with several solutions including AppDynamics, though this experience was also limited to certification training.

I did not receive any insights into pricing, setup cost, and licensing during my certification or training.

I did not have an implementation team involved in my experience with Nexthink.

I have not seen a return on investment from Nexthink, as I cannot share any relevant metrics from my training or certification experience.

I did not receive any insights into pricing, setup cost, and licensing during my certification or training.

Nexthink was the only platform evaluated as part of my training, with no other options considered.

Main use cases have been campaigns and remote executions, either scheduled or manual, and Nexthink Query Language.

The best features Nexthink offers are the DEX scores and the ability to walk through an application that is on a browser.

The DEX scores help because they give an overview of how well an organization is doing across the industry compared to other organizations.

It helps to see what users are experiencing before they call the service desk.

In the past, when there have been issues that were global, it was easier to tell all users what the impact was and advise them not to call the service desk while we were working on the issue remotely.

The biggest limitation in features is the limited amount of metrics collected to use for Nexthink queries and investigations.

Nexthink can be improved by allowing collection of more metrics. For example, if there is the Print Spooler remote action, it would be helpful if the metric for the print queue was available when doing an NQL query to decide whether or not to run a remote action on a regular basis. Some of the metrics being collected are good, but they seem limited and are not as useful when running queries to decide whether or not to run a remote action.

There is a lot of improvement that can be made on the documentation side, the licensing side, and some of the backend side, including collection of metrics, ease of use to set up workflows, and more documentation on how to build custom remote actions.

I have been using Nexthink for around three and a half years.

There are no stability issues.

There are no scalability issues.

There are no customer service issues.

Positive

When Nexthink is implemented in a company, it should not be sold as just an IT tool. The people who support the applications need to be involved more. The tool can be adopted quicker and brought more broadly if the support groups of the applications are involved when it is purchased.

One of the biggest pieces of advice would be to purchase all the licensing needed to get the full functionality of the product. I would rate this review as a nine.

I use Nexthink to monitor application crashes of processes or how the device works in our environment. We monitor more than 1,00,000 devices in our company with Nexthink. Our company also creates campaigns and helps create campaigns for some end users of Nexthink. If sometimes a user runs low on space, in our company, we send an automated notification with the help of the tool asking them to delete some files from their device, along with the ability to send some scripts as well. In our company, we can use Nexthink to monitor the performance of applications and send some PowerShell scripts to check whether the services are running. You can perform an investigation if sometimes something is not working fine. Without taking remote access, you can capture all the logs from a particular application in the back-end to see how it behaves and what applications. Sometimes, you can see what is wrong or enhanced with the solution's taskbar before collecting all the data from this tool.

Nexthink saves a lot of time for the technicians who work on the troubleshooting side since you don't have to wait for someone to connect remotely to help you troubleshoot the issues in several devices, as it will give you an overview if you want to check devices to see what is happening with them. You will get an overview of all the devices you want on the same screen and show you what is happening while also allowing you to export the details in an Excel file, which you can use to compare and check if some application is working on a particular system or not. If an application is not working on a particular system, you can find out why it is not working by grabbing the logs and checking the process, which can save a lot of your time. If I were to create a matrix to explain how the solution saves time, I would rate it an eight out of ten, meaning that the solution's ability to help save time is 80 percent.

Nexthink is just a monitoring tool. In our company, we can't deploy anything from Nexthink the way we can deploy from any other endpoint solutions. It is not possible to create any dashboard in Nexthink, but you can create your dashboard in Splunk. I am unsure whether Nexthink is a monitoring tool with built-in features since we don't have access to many of its features in our organization. If the solution sends alerts through the dashboard or automated emails, especially when things are not working fine, it can be a great improvement and add to the solution's features. Some other tool sends automated emails if things are not working fine in Nexthink. One should be able to schedule monitoring in Nexthink. The aforementioned areas can be considered for improvement in the product.

I have been using Nexthink for more than two years.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I have never contacted the solution's technical support.

BigFix was one of the solutions that I worked with in the past.

The solution is deployed on the cloud. Earlier, we had the solution on an on-premises server, but right now, we have it on a private cloud from Azure in our company.

There is a different team consisting of seven to eight people, a mix of engineers and administrators in my company, who maintain and upgrade the application.

I recommend the solution to those planning to use it. Nexthink provides its users with a very good point of overview and presentation.

There are many benefits of Nexthink since it allows a person to check in seconds which applications are running or if there are any crashes, thereby giving a good overview to the user that can be helpful during troubleshooting. Instead of connecting to a tool remotely, from Nexthink itself, you can see what works fine.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

The use cases are based on transformation projects. For example, if clients are trying to implement some new deployments in SCCM, they use this solution and we help them with the migration. We are currently helping with a Windows 10 migration. Clients use it for application and system crashes in order to maintain the compliance status for their business applications. 

On individual machines, we can see the performance and what is going wrong as well as what can be improved in order to enhance the performance of the machine. This is very useful when we get any queries from a VIP user or someone from our project's top management. So if they get into any trouble, then we are able to fix it as soon as possible. Because if an agent is unable to work for two hours or even for two days, that won't make much big of an impact. Whereas, if someone from higher management is unable to work on the system for about two hours, then they would lose a lot.

Initially, we were just looking at it in order to maintain compliances, and we were using it only for that. The guy managing this tool before me was more or less concentrated on device compliances. Later on, we started getting into the application and system crashes (when I started).

In our environment, we need to put a proxy server in place. Currently, devices are connected via the corporate network or the VPN. We don't have machines reporting from the open network. This is something that we are working on. Once that is in place, we will get all the machines reporting in our environment.

In the past two years, the biggest benefit is that we have been able to identify 57,000-plus defects. These are possible tickets that we are preventing by using Nexthink. 

On a weekly basis, we monitor the trend, then based on the trend and wherever we see a downfall on the performance grid, we just deep dive into it. We look into what is wrong, then proceed with remediation. We access the output weekly, not in real-time.

There have been some system crashes. We have a dashboard for the blue screen of that. On the dashboard, it is usually a wave type of graph, but I saw depth in it during the weekday. So, we investigated into this and got to know that DLP client was crashing. This was causing the BSODs on the machines. So, we were able to bring it into action within three days. Then, within seven days, the ones which had already crashed were all fixed. Nexthink also helped us in preventing the rest of the machines from using the same version of DLP client, since that version was crashing. The version was the cause for the BSODs. Therefore, the deployment teams went ahead and downgraded the version of the DLP client. When there was an upgrade available, they were upgraded. This helped us in avoiding 30,000-plus tickets or being contacted from end users.

It has helped us in proactive prevention. There was this investigation done for device login time, which was quite high and they were taking a lot of time when logging in. In total, 6,567 were affected by this and we were able to fix the problems for approximately 5,900-plus machines. Those machines do not need to be replaced now, since the performance is better. However, the rest need to be refreshed or replaced. Overall, this provides cost savings.

It is being used by our asset management team. We gave them access to the dashboards. We also created some custom dashboards for them where they could look at the performance of the machines. Based on that, they do a comparison with the list that they have available for the refresh. If they see there is a machine on their list for a refresh view, then they look at our data and the machine is performing quite well, it is best that they don't refresh that machine at that particular time. Instead they put it on another machine, which is in our list, but not on theirs. This way, it is helping both sides.

We use the API with PowerShell to automate some reports. This was something that we have used which has saved us a lot of time. This was a manual effort for approximately four hours twice a week (for a total of eight hours a week). We were able to bring that down to one hour just to manage the outputs that we get through the APIs.

Nexthink provides analytics for detailed event data, giving us the ability to really drill-down. We put dashboards in place to be able to find defects, so we need to be a little more proactive with it. We have created some dashboards, like site dashboards, that monitor the performance online. You can monitor it on an individual site, region, or country basis. Wherever you see a dip, then we look at the device performance score. There is a checklist that provides us the scores. Along with that, we now have Digital Experience Scores available. That also helps us in finding out the reasons due to which the performance could have been going down. 

The major difference that I see from the Digital Experience Score is when monitoring business applications. It enables us to monitor 17 business applications at the same time. Previously, we were only focusing on some fixed services, like Office 365 services. For one, we also manually added C2C application services. We weren't actively looking at other business applications other than that. Now we know what applications perform well and which ones need an upgrade. This helped the client to free some network bandwidth too. Since they upgraded the application version, this has also helped them to bring down the usage on the bandwidth part.

I don't think that I ever got stuck. If I am trying to look at something related to the device performance or system information, I have always gotten it.

I would like it if they could put in some patch deployments and compliances. I think it is there with Act, but I am not sure how deep it works.

They released a new module that would be monitoring the performance of applications specifically. That was missing, but I recently got to know that this is already in progress and they are doing it, which is good.

I have been managing this tool for my project for over two years.

It is quite stable. We don't have any trouble with it. It has never stopped us from finding anything nor impacted anything in the production. Even if it is down and we are working on something that needs to be rebooted, we don't lose anything because everything is being collected on the endpoints using Nexthink Collector. Therefore, it is collecting information continuously, even if we are making any changes on the servers. Once the servers are up, we get everything reported back into the systems. Thus, we never lose any data nor is there any impact on the information front.

I manage Nexthink. My colleague helps me with the reporting part, but I do the investigations.

The scalability is huge.

We have approximately 700 users with access, and 150 who actively use it on a regular basis. They find it useful when fixing issues for end users.

It is the best support that I have received from any application vendor. I am the admin for three applications within the environment. If I compare all those with Nexthink support, Nexthink support is the best. If I forget what I'm facing, such as, what ticket I have logged, what is the issue, or what is the progress? They don't forget it. They come back with a solution, providing continuous follow ups and continuous improvements. I have never had to skip or cancel any tickets. I never had to raise any complaints to anybody. They are available whenever I want, even if somebody has to leave for the day. They make sure that I am being contacted at the right time, i.e., when I asked for it.

This was the first solution that we used for analytics.

The initial setup is a bit complex for our environment specifically, because we have 50,000-plus endpoints. One engine can only support 10,000 machines. So, we needed at least five engines. However, we were using seven engines, so we could hold more data, as well as one for the portal. These are the eight appliances that we are currently managing. Other than that, we have two appliances configured just for the UAT environment so we can test some solutions before putting them into production. Although the hardware part is a bit complex, the architecture is quite simple.

While I wasn't part of the initial deployment, I know that it didn't take more than seven days. It took approximately a week to configure the appliances and start the setup. However, the continuous improvements were there, and they have kept on making changes in the configuration.

We are using the analytics part along with the integration. With the help of the analysis, we are currently doing actions manually by involving the deployment teams and remote desktop support teams for manual limitation. Once the dashboard has been placed, it also helps us in bringing it into action very quickly. For example, if I investigate something today, then within two days, it will be there in action for the deployment teams.

There was one guy from my team and two people from the Nexthink side. Then, we needed help from two HCL people from their Unix team (one person) because we are managing virtual appliances. So, we needed support from the Unix team to provide the hardware and support to the vCenter for the configuration. Everything else was done by my colleague and the Nexthink support.

There have been over 57,000 reported issues, out of which 54,000s are fixed. The others are in progress. We use Nexthink to proactively identify the defects. No other medium is used to investigate these things. 

We had biweekly calls with the client. One week we would use it to identify the problem, then the next week we tried to fix the problem. After two weeks, we could then deliver a report, saying, "In the first week, we found these objects where we face issues. After the second week, we were able to remediate this many and have only this many left."

When we implemented this tool, the user experience index score was somewhere around 5.8. Currently, we are sitting at 7.3. Due to the COVID situation, there has been a little bit of fluctuation in the scores due to network parameters, but the lowest that we have touched has been 7.1 so far.

I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and provides background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings.

For the agents, it has been helping us in terms of reducing the resources required because we are able to automate things in terms of the reporting part. It is saving a lot of costs for us. 

With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations.

Compared to other tools in the markets, there are functionalities that only Nexthink delivers. I don't think other tools in the market can do everything that Nexthink can. For example, the level of depth into the device timeline view is as deep as you can go into device performance by looking at the timeline. I didn't see that with any of the other tools available.

Since I am a part of the HCL Technologies Tools team, I am being trained on other tools too. We haven't explored any options for our project. However, for the other project, there are some other solutions in place. It is based on the customer's needs, their budget, or liking. Whichever one they want to move forward with, they choose. Other solutions available include Lakeside SysTrack and Tachyon. 

Tachyon can't be compared to Nexthink. There are a lot of things that Nexthink has, which Tachyon doesn't, e.g., Nexthink has customizable dashboards that helps in tracking investigations and build trends.

Nexthink has the device timeline and gives you more data for investigations. It collects more data from the endpoint system than any other tool.

Whatever you investigate, don't keep it on Nexthink Finder. Only put it on a dashboard so it is always available whenever you want it. If you want to save time and reduce some effort for whatever you are investigating or whenever you create a tag/category, just put it on a dashboard so you can just fetch the data and run with it.

It is currently mandatory for our compliance management. If you don't manage the compliance, updating your compliance's baseline threshold, then you might lag behind. This might have an impact on production. After managing the applications, we knew that there was one application that needed to be upgraded. Once that was upgraded, it made some improvements in the bandwidth usage.

We are not using the Act or Engage modules yet. That is still in discussion with the client.

I have been working on it for quite a time now, so I know what scores are based on what thresholds, e.g., what parameters this particular score is being derived with. So, I quickly look at those parameters and the performance of those particular parameters only. We are doing this on a weekly basis and only have analytics. Therefore, we have a lot of missing due to the absence of Act or Engage. The drill-down is the thing that we have to do, which takes a lot of time.

With the help of Act and Engage, it is possible to send some surveys to users. You can create some parameters and put in conditions. For example, if a user reaches an overall device usage of more than 80 percent, you can push the survey to that particular end user asking, "Your device has reached 80 percent of its overall system usage. Would you like a system cleanup?" There, you can put in "Yes" or "No". If the user says, "Yes," then Nexthink can implement that action. If "No," then you can put in further questions asking, "Do you want us to give us to do it a little later?" or "Will you do it on your own?"

The analytics are as perfect as they can be. They keep on improving them with every version upgrade. They keep on adding new fields. If they want to retire something, then they do. I don't think the analytics need any improvement because they have improved a lot with the implementation of Act and Engage. Act and Engage puts it on the next level.

Our longer-term strategic vision for Nexthink is in sync with where our IT department is headed. Apart from me, the IT guys are using it on a daily basis. Our vision is that we wouldn't need anybody for tech support. We can reduce the strength of the OSs folks, who wouldn't have to worry about troubleshooting on the endpoint until it was a hardware problem. Everything on the software and system, we should be able to fix it remotely. So far, we have not been doing this because everybody is not there on the system due to the open networks problem. Once that has been fixed, anything related to software would come to us only. The OSs folks have a lot of other things to deal with, such as logistics, asset management, allocations, etc., but they should only deal with hardware problems, not software.

I would rate Nexthink as 10 out of 10.

This solution is for end users. If the end user is using a laptop and they face any issues on a daily basis such as their browser not working or Outlook running out of memory, this solution helps with the upgrading of capabilities. It has AI capabilities that automatically detect problems before the end user becomes aware of them. 

This product is suitable for small, medium and large companies because the way it is designed.

The auto building capability has been most valuable. It keeps on checking the system in terms of various factors like battery, memory usage and application usage. If it picks up any kind of challenges by using deployed script, it provides notification to the end user stating that there was an issue and that it has been fixed. 

There are many limitations. If I'm using a Windows 10 system and Windows has certain restrictions, Nexthink won't be able to penetrate into the Windows OS due to those restrictions. They are working on workarounds and finding a solution to address those issues.

We have been using this solution for one year. 

It is pretty much stable in Windows environments.

This is a scalable solution. 

The initial setup is straightforward. The way it is designed only requires us to carry out certain due diligence in a customers' environment, fix certain parameters, make the environment ready and then go ahead with the deployment. If I compare this particular tool with others it is very simple. It takes four to six weeks for the deployment to be completed. I would rate the setup process a four out of five. 

It requires very minimal maintenance, unless the original equipment manufacturer release some kind of update which requires manual intervention. However, to be on the safer side, we have deployed a couple of resources to take care of those things and of the customer communication.

I like the product, features and the support we are getting from the original equipment manufacturer, OEM. That is great, if I compare with the other products that I have seen. The turnaround time is much shorter. If I'm working on an issue today, within a couple of hours, I can expect a response from them. 

There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services. Based on the customer's requirement, we procure licenses mapped to one of these layers. 

In terms of cost, I would rate them an eight out of ten.

I would recommend carrying out due diligence in the environment where they're going to deploy the solution. This will provide them with key information about the product suitability. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

My main use case for Nexthink is access remote control. I use Nexthink for remote control in my day-to-day work by searching about the user ID, finding their desktop, and sending the request to remote their access.

Nexthink has impacted my organization very positively. It is faster to deal with tickets.

The best features Nexthink offers are archiving and fixing issues through remote control. The archiving feature helps because it has fixed the issue remotely.

Nexthink can be improved by offering more solutions. Everything appears to be there regarding the needed improvements.

I have been using Nexthink for around one year.

Nexthink is stable.

Nexthink's scalability is good.

The customer support is very good.

Negative

I did not previously use a different solution.

Before choosing Nexthink, I did not evaluate other options.

My advice for others looking into using Nexthink is that they should use it to make their work faster. Nexthink saves a lot of time. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.