Avast Business Remote Control vs. Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avast Business Remote Control
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Avast Business Remote Control is a software solution designed to empower IT admins to quickly and securely connect to a user’s device, anytime, anywhere, to access files, manage applications, and troubleshoot issues.
$499.99
per year
Cisco Webex Support
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Webex Support was a remote access and support tool that has been discontinued and is no longer available.N/A
Pricing
Avast Business Remote ControlCisco Webex Support (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Premium Remote Control
$499.99
per year
Basic Remote Control
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avast Business Remote ControlCisco Webex Support
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Remote Administration
Comparison of Remote Administration features of Product A and Product B
Avast Business Remote Control
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)
6.8
Ratings
18% below category average
Screen sharing7.50 Ratings8.90 Ratings
File transfer8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Instant message8.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Access to sleeping/powered-off computers7.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Over-the-Internet remote session9.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Initiate remote control from mobile8.50 Ratings1.30 Ratings
Remote management of servers & workstations8.00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Remote Active Directory® management9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Centralized management dashboard9.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Session record8.50 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Annotations9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Monitoring and Alerts8.50 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Multi-platform remote control7.00 Ratings1.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
Avast Business Remote ControlCisco Webex Support (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It is suited for startups and big organisation equally. Startups can use this to have more secure connects while larger teams can use this to keep a secured focus on all the devices and connects happening in office. Majorly can be used by IT departments. Makes lives so easy for Managers.
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WebEx Support Center does what it is designed to do very well. If you need robust, efficient, and comprehensive remote support software, look no further. There are certainly other products that are simpler, and other products that are a bit "prettier" from a UI standpoint, but in terms of overall functionality, WebEx Support Center is hard to beat. If you're a company on a very tight budget, there are certainly cheaper options available, however.
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Pros
  • Best in class sharing
  • Secured from a named brand
  • Well utilized resources
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  • Webex has helped us increase and streamline support to our customers.
  • It allows us to enable forums or collaborative spaces to explain to clients and coworkers solution to certain problems
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Cons
  • Ability to install and use at any time
  • Remote access full control
  • Sharing all screens
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  • [In my experience], when there are issues, they sometimes ask for us to run tracelogs on the impacted participant's computer. Sometimes those participants use machines that are not managed by us and they are unwilling to get those logs. Ideally, [I feel] Webex can gather all the information from their side versus the participant side.
  • While I do appreciate the constant follow up, sometimes it is overwhelming. I know they are trying to clear their queues, but it seems like they email once a day if they have not heard back from you [in my experience].
  • Their support hours should coincide with my local hours of operation. Most of the support people I have worked with are located internationally and their hours of response are the opposite of my working hours.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Webex is well known by many other companies. It is easy to use and versatile. This familiarity builds a standard to conferencing and users are more comfortable using it. If you want to be safe with a choice of the many conferencing tools out there, Webex will be your best bet
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Usability
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Honestly, there are people available. But none of them will help you with your issues. They just keep assigning new service engineers who are often clueless.
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Support Rating
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The support team is highly incompetent. The only thing that they are able to do flawlessly is register an issue and open the case. But this case related to the issue is never resolved. They will forward the case or assign a new service engineer. But the case will never be resolved. At least not soon. They take weeks to resolve issues.
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Alternatives Considered
Much better control and use and features for screen sharing and remote access. The ability to show how to use, message and control cursor and full screen is beneficial for its purpose. Other programs have to have a specific screen shared which doesn’t allow for pop ups, 2nd windows, etc to be viewed and accessed.
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Logmein GoToAssist
    • Logmein-GoToAssist is the product we used previously and still to some degree use with WebEx Support Center. It was not always reliable and suffered with network congestion but worked quite well for us, we as a team feel that WebEx Support Center is a more reliable and a better overall product. This to me is due to the simplicity of the UI and ease of use as well as the quality of the network performance.
Kaseya with VNC Connect
  • We use within Kaseya for our internally servers and local office users due to cost and efficiency, but it is more intended as console-level access and has a bit more features then WebEx Support Center, however is not good for remote support for our users who travel as it is slow.
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Return on Investment
  • We’ve not paid for it but used it so it’s been beneficial
  • We would benefit with the remote access control monitored for many situations where problem solving would come into play
  • Any sharing app or program is beneficial if a user can access remotely
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  • Initially the ROI was very good. We tried to leave and use another platform (cost issues) and didn't have as much success so we came back to Cisco Webex Support.
  • It allowed us to provide support to employees and clients as we needed to be able to provide it.
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