Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) vs. Goverlan Reach

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Goverlan Reach
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The Goverlan Remote Administration Suite from Goverlan is remote administration software for IT management.
$648
per year
Pricing
Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)Goverlan Reach
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$648
per year
Professional
$1,428
per year
Enterprise
$2,772
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Webex SupportGoverlan Reach
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details* Each operator license allows the remote management and support of an unlimited number of INTERNAL endpoints * Each license includes between 10 to 20 manageable EXTERNAL endpoints (based on edition). Additional external endpoint licence is $5 per node per year (volume discount available) * Operator licenses can be purchased on a perpetual or subscription basis
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Remote Administration
Comparison of Remote Administration features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)
6.8
Ratings
18% below category average
Goverlan Reach
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Screen sharing8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
File transfer8.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Instant message7.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to sleeping/powered-off computers6.00 Ratings3.10 Ratings
Over-the-Internet remote session8.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Initiate remote control from mobile1.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Remote management of servers & workstations2.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Remote Active Directory® management7.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Centralized management dashboard8.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Session record8.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Annotations7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and Alerts8.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Multi-platform remote control1.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)Goverlan Reach
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)Goverlan Reach
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Inexpensive but full featured solution for IT Operations teams that need good tools.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Good configurable dashboard that can be personalized per audience
  • Built in packages for monitoring standard applications that can be personalized easily
  • Simple, easy to use update deployment configuration.
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Cons
  • [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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  • Machines must be online for actions to be performed, scopes allow you to rerun them against failed objects only but really a much better option would be for client agent to check in at power on for open jobs.
  • Newest version of Reach is glitchy on Windows 10 requiring the occasional restart of the application.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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
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
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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Goverlan was a better overall value providing licensing flexibility, more features and consistent quality for a lower price point. There are many products that provide remote capabilities but this product goes well above and beyond most of them allowing remote installs and reporting features.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • With a product like this it is entirely possible that you will see large increase in Help Desk efficiency for those who are willing to take the time to fully explore its possibilities.
  • Much more robust that any other remote support product I have used while still extremely cheap compared to competing products. This can bring enterprise level support options to those that may normally not be able to afford it.
  • Reporting features are invaluable to anyone wanting to truly know what is happening on their network.
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ScreenShots

Goverlan Reach Screenshots

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