Atera

Atera is the clear winner in the IT management space

Comments: Atera has been great to use here at our company. It used to be a challenge to support the environment and relied on outside consulting support. We have been able to bring things fully in-house and realize faster response times as well as 6 figure plus cost savings in the IT budget.

Pros:

Atera was extremely easy to get setup and running in our environment. It provides easy visibility and management capability for all IT devices and issues.

Cons:

Atera has a couple of areas where a few tweaks could be made to either the interface or some of the features to make them really polished. Full functionality is available in the product however, and they listen to user suggestions and requests. They have a strong community where users can suggest new features, provide feedback for issues they discover, and learn about upcoming enhancements.

Alternatives Considered: N-sight, Kaseya VSA and NinjaOne

Reasons for Switching to Atera: Atera was the clear winner. It had the best feature set, most intuitive interface, and best value offering in licensing the product. The ongoing support and feature development promises continued enhancements to the product.

Mid-level RMM and PSA solution

Comments: The combination of the helpdesk and RMM/PSA features means we don't use multiple systems to achieve our support objectives. The product is maturing and in active development, while not without a few issues. They are usually resolved fairly easily by Atera's support team.

Pros:

The cost is per technician created in the system, and it doesn't matter whether you have 5 or 5000 endpoints in your customer base. Pricing is predictable and stable. Atera has a features board where subscribers can see what features are recently added, approved for development, being considered or have just been requested, and of course can submit requests as well after checking through existing requests to avoid duplication.

Cons:

The helpdesk does not allow the technician to truncate the message trail when replying, so it often happens that the messages being sent between technician and customer get very long. Periodically, it would be helpful to truncate a reply so that only the last few messages are trailing the active reply. Reporting is an improving feature but there are not enough options to get reports just the way you might want them.

Alternatives Considered: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and Autotask PSA

Reasons for Choosing Atera: LogMeIn was charged per endpoint and Freshdesk didn't have alerts because there was no RMM or PSA component. We were using the free product at the time. We were looking for a unified package with easy costing and integration between RMM/PSA and helpdesk systems.

Switched From: Freshdesk and GoTo Meeting

Reasons for Switching to Atera: The low cost was more appealing and the feature set looked like it was worth pursuing.

Streamlined IT Management with Top-Notch Security Features

Comments: I found Atera easy to use and really slick to deploy, and it is available for a wide range of users. The extensive feature set and ability to seamlessly integrate with the rest of our toolset significantly surpassed our expectations. Atera has thus become a comprehensive solution that brings efficiency to all our IT operations and amplifies our security stance in a great way. Generally, Atera is an investment for organizations that need an integrated IT management and security posture.

Pros:

What makes Atera stand out from the rest is collation of some of the most important IT functions under a single, intuitive interface that is easy to implement. The impressive RMM/PSA integration is giving me a great visualization and control of the IT environment. Patch automation, proactive endpoint monitoring, and robust remote access streamlined operation and reaction times.

Cons:

The reporting and analytics module needs a bit of more flexibility and customization. A nice add-on would be to provide the ability to schedule reports for executive analysis of certain security metrics.

If you don’t need a mobile app or decent support it’s OK

Comments: It’s an ok platform if you don’t want the fundamentals. Support is lacking, and they are obsessed with ai integration without fixing or implementing the basics first

Pros:

The interface is clean and easy to navigate

Cons:

Support and mobile app are lacking massively. Updates are infrequent and roadmap although now public is not kept to schedule.

Alternatives Considered: Syncro

Reasons for Choosing Atera: Wanted to have a platform that included RMM and PSA

Switched From: Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Switching to Atera: Cost per endpoint vs cost per user was a big factor

Perfect All in One Remote Support Solution

Comments: Very pleased with the pricing, support and offered features and implementations.

Pros:

Perfect for remotely administrating a variety of different operating systems and systems. We are a fully cloud, remote camps with StarLink and work-from-home-based company and Atera helps our IT team tremendously to keep an overview of all running systems and clients. We use a variety of functionality from patch management, over remote monitoring to the general support help desk. And if something doesn't work as expected Atera's support is just a chat away to investigate and support. Implements well with various 3rd party solutions, from Cyber Security to Backup, etc. including a steep discount on these services compared to the regular pricing.

Cons:

A lot of additional features have been moved from a free tier to a paid tier now including the very helpful new AI features. However, since the base pricing is already pretty low it is not a massive concern to have these packages added to our service.

Alternatives Considered: Datto RMM, ConnectWise ScreenConnect and NinjaOne

Reasons for Switching to Atera: Pricing and features offered. Pricing per technician is a game changer and allows to us better forecast the spending.