NinjaOne vs PDQ Deploy & Inventory: Which is a better fit?

Alec: My name is Alec. I'm a team manager of a real estate coaching company with multiple locations in the US reviewing NinjaOne and I currently give it a four out of five stars. Currently, we partner with a managed service provider that is using NinjaOne. They said it was really good, so we did a trial, decided to proceed forward with it, and we're really liking it. We're moving away from that MSP, so we're needing to bring everything in-house and have some of the similar tools so we can assist all of our employees. We chose NinjaOne because it's a very simple program to use. It allows us to manage all of our workstations, both Windows and Mac, running scripts that we might need to, install any applications remotely that we might need to. And it also has the service desk component so that we are able to work through tickets, show upper management how many support issues that are coming through, how we're resolving them, and just further support our department and the needs that we have. Onboarding is pretty straightforward. You just install the agents. There's a little setup on the ticket side just to get it customized how we would like it, but overall, the setup for Ninja is pretty simple and straightforward. I would recommend that you look at NinjaOne and compare it to other options out there and make sure that it meets your current needs as well as your future needs. Being an internal tool, there's not much need that we have for it for managing out the clients and things like that, but it is geared more towards a managed service provider, so make sure it meets all your requirements for that.

Dan: My name is Dan. I am an application specialist at a company of over 1000 people, and I would give PDQ a five out of five. I use PDQ Inventory to monitor our applications and our computers and our production environment and testing environment. I use PDQ Deploy to deploy applications, deploy patches, uninstall applications, and do this either live on, demand, or to schedule deployments. My favorite things about PDQ is its intuitiveness. The moment you turn it on, you don't need a tutorial. You can start playing around with it and you can guess what the buttons are going to do, and that's pretty much what they're going to do. If you want to try more advanced features, even those are intuitive. Though if you want to add the scripting or more complex tasks, you have to look it up online. But their tutorial page is very well documented, and they have YouTube videos as well. Besides the intuitiveness and the documentation, their support staff is also very helpful. They're very technical and they don't waste your time. They go straight to problem and they offer solutions. If not, they investigate and they get back to you with solutions. One thing about PDQ Inventory and Deploy is that it's not a cloud solution, so it always requires VPN to be turned on by our remote computers. Although they do offer a different product, which is very similar to PDQ Deploy and Inventory, which is the cloud. I wish those functionalities would be integrated in PDQ Inventory and Deploy itself because I find that they're just redoing the same work for the cloud version, whereas the non-cloud version is already perfect. Adding the option to deploy from the cloud, I think would be a much better improvement to the main application itself.