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DeskDirector serves Managed Service Providers looking to centralize and streamline their services to customers in a customized, personalized way.
For someone who is familiar with most ticket systems this is one that I enjoy using the most. The ability to control multiple clients/departments, as well as being able to automate tickets is great.
Updates continue to break / loose our work rules and we continue to have to update/ reenter them. Can be very frustrating and time consuming.
We love how powerful of a help desk platform ConnectWise Manage is. It integrates well into our proprietary software, has a wonderful ticketing system, and has excellent customer support.
The biggest obstacle is the graphical interface which is not the most intuitive, since there are multiple hidden modules and for a novice user it can be difficult to manage the system.
Tracking customer assets and reminding you when renewals are due are awesome. The flexibility to run client and internal reports are very good.
Every user at our company complains about how much it lags. It doesn't matter where we are or which computer we are using.
We used a consultant to help us get going, which was a godsend. If you're looking at this product, get a consultant to help you through implementation.
Locked into an inferior product by a deceitful sales team.
The main benefit for us, is how easy the software is for our end users to use. They need to like using it, to encourage them to use it again.
Desk Director 5 is a pain for deployment. The fact that you are relying on EdgeView2 is the same mistake people made when relying on ActiveX.
If it linked to ScreenConnect and\or Labtech it would be an easy sell to my co-workers. Ability to let clients to manage their own companies tickets is very helpful.
Sometimes a user doesn't know which email address is connected to desk director so they get confused. Newer users have trouble with this too if they havent' logged in yet.
This is a way better customer portal that is more user friendly than the built in ConnectWise portal.
Building the service catalog is very difficult with how the forms are constructed.
The branding is great for us because it means we can provide each of our customers a personalised portal.
Extra costs for Power Automate, when I already have to pay microsoft for power automate.
Aleksandr: My name is Aleksandr, I'm the Chief Operations Officer at Made By WiFi, we are a company consisting of six employees, and I would rate ConnectWise a two out of five. So before starting Made By WiFi in 2017, I had worked for an IT firm that had used ConnectWise. We needed a program similar for our business, we realized that we know ConnectWise, so we just jumped in. We didn't really explore any other options, and because of the familiarity and the lack of onboarding required, that was the reason for our choice. So we chose ConnectWise because we needed a software where we can host our customer data, create tickets, track time, as well as integrate with Google Calendar. We were familiar with ConnectWise well enough to know that they did all of these relatively well. We knew that the onboarding was not going to take much time because of the familiarity in-house, and that was the main reasons driving our decision. ConnectWise was relatively easy for us to get started considering we had some experience beforehand, though I remember the first company I worked with where we used ConnectWise, it was a very difficult process. It required watching a lot of videos, learning whatever modules you had to learn within the program. I think it took several weeks, both of watching videos and working with their onboarding team to try to get the software set up specifically for the company and the way we'd like to use it. So if you're looking to explore ConnectWise, I would seriously look into what exactly you need for your company. ConnectWise is a very complex software, which can be bloated for some companies. Definitely consider your needs. Definitely look at what's a deal breaker and what's not. Consider the cost, the monthly cost of the services, as well as the length of time. I believe ConnectWise only does contracts, one year, two year, and you're not going to get out of those contracts if it doesn't work for you in a short period of time. So definitely consider all of your needs and exactly what you need for your company to function before selecting ConnectWise.
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