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Pros
"The product has been pretty stable so far.""It's a nice ticketing system.""We like the way that ConnectWise is completely integrated. So you when you identify an opportunity, you can save it, and ConnectWise pushes it through to the whole invoicing process.""The search function is really good. To have a single place where we have the account information stored is probably most valuable.""The most valuable feature is the management of projects from start to finish.""The initial setup isn't too difficult.""I also like ConnectWise's ability to set up queries. I can set up all these different queries that look for specific things and end up with a list of results, like feedback from the client or the ticket status.""All the features of ConnectWise Manage are valuable. However, ticketing, customer management, customer communication, technician efficiency, calendars, coding, billing, invoicing, and contract management are available. It's a complete solution. Additionally, the company is responsive with the ability to progress or make necessary changes happen."

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"The solution's most valuable features are that it adds each alert as a service, has good scheduling capabilities, and includes the ability to write logic based on texts.""It has scaled well for us.""PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature.""Alert deduplication and noise reduction for alerts are the major features that I found useful.""The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly.""The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls.""The most valuable features of PagerDuty are customization, access, policies, and different rules regarding the path of escalation. Additionally, it's easy to use and create overrides. For example, if you all are on a call for one week each, but somebody wants to go on PTO, the team needs to swap shifts in PagerDuty. This is easy to do by creating overrides to switch up the set schedules. It's very user-friendly in that aspect. It works well for monitoring and alerting.""A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."

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Cons
"If you've got 40 tickets that come in, that get generated, that don't get properly tagged with the company, you can't just check them all and reassign them to another company. You have to individually reassign each one of those tickets to a new company.""The tracking inventory or the way it tracks the products is not very good.""There should be some improvements to the interface. It is not completely intuitive. When you click in a blank area of a screen, you'll find some options.""ConnectWise PSA’s graphical interface is a little old.""The custom reporting needs to be improved.""Their reporting options aren't great. BrightGauge was something that we added on, and that enhanced the experience.""All other ticket systems can search previous tickets, whether they were homegrown in Oracle or something else. I'm talking about searching the actual contents of the discussions in the ticket. In ConnectWise, you can only search the summaries. It's ridiculous.""ConnectWise Manage can improve third-party integrations and the UI. The UI is good but it could improve in the graphics."

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"The solution does not code all alerts correctly so sometimes you get false positives or multiple alerts for the same issue.""PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration.""The product can be improved by including out-of-the-box integration with other standard tools used in our fields such as Confluence, and Jira.""The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that.""PagerDuty's webhooks need some improvement.""It’s quite hard to reach the support team.""Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave (or something), you can't just go in and reassign/take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in. You have to go into each of the rosters and take them out. There might be a roster for business hours, after hours rotation, and monitoring deployments. Each time we need to take an engineer out of the pool, e.g., if they're sick or on leave, then we have to go and touch all of those rosters, updating and replacing them. Whereas, if we could just take the person out and have it automatically fill in the rostering, then that would make life a lot easier for managing it.""I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There are some different add-ons and benefits that are optional and come at an additional cost."
  • "The cost can be the main barrier. It's not a solution for a three person company. It just isn't going to be cost effective. Because ConnectWise Manage does have everything there, the licensing is a little bit restrictive as far as how they want to granularly assign licenses rather than having more of an all-inclusive package."
  • "We're paying $940 a month for 14 users."
  • "The pricing of ConnectWise Manage is reasonable."
  • "I have one monthly license for all of the ConnectWise products I use, and it's $85 per user."
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  • "Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
  • "The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
  • "If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
  • "If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
  • "They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
  • "The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
  • "There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
  • "PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I have one monthly license for all of the ConnectWise products I use, and it's $85 per user. In addition to the standard license fee, I think there's a $1,500 implementation fee.
    Top Answer:ConnectWise PSA’s graphical interface is a little old. They could make it more refreshing.
    Top Answer:The product easily integrates with other solutions.
    Top Answer:The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
    Top Answer:It’s quite hard to reach the support team.
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    ConnectWise Manage
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    Overview

    ConnectWise PSA is an award-winning professional services automation solution that connects your entire organization. Save time throughout your entire business lifecycle with the powerful automation and standardization that ConnectWise PSA brings to the table. A single view of your business operations makes it possible to streamline your business even further.​

    Key features and benefits of ConnectWise PSA:

    Help desk

    Centralize your help desk with features that allow you to organize and standardize your service requests and streamline workflow automation to ensure your support operations are as efficient as possible. Keep your help desk responsive and productive no matter how challenging the issue is.

    Cloud billing

    Managing recurring billing can be a streamlined and straightforward process. You can standardize and simplify the way you manage customer contracts, including cloud. Easily manage, monitor, and bill for other public cloud services such as Microsoft 365 and Cisco Cloud Solutions.

    Sales and marketing

    The competitive landscape has made the window of opportunity for growing your business more challenging. Take control for generating leads with sales and marketing features that help you build a stronger, more predictable pipeline and improve communication with prospects to ensure high conversion rates.​

    Procurement

    Supplier operations can be hit and miss, making the procurement process far more challenging. Optimize internal purchasing and receiving workflows to keep your operations department and customers in the know.​

    Time tracking and billing

    Time tracking and billing reduces revenue loss and client skepticism. Your team can easily enter and track their billable time by the minute and by client, project, or task and include detailed notes to avoid client audits. With these efficiencies, your team will have more time to better serve your business and your customers.​

    Project management

    Don’t miss a beat. Project management gives you what your team needs to track the progress of multi-faceted projects and project milestones, so you can deliver what you promise to your clients on time and on budget.

    Reporting

    Knowledge and visibility are key components of a successful IT service provider. Leverage a reporting engine that give you the insights and metrics to help you make data-driven decision across all areas of your business.

    What can ConnectWise PSA do for you?

    Improve employee experience

    Give your teams a PSA that helps them perform more effectively and provide the best experience possible—for them and your customers. Keep everyone in the know, increasing management’s confidence in the ability to sustain and grow a happy customer base. ​

    Enhance the customer experience

    When your teams have what they need to do their job well the first time, your customer experience gets better and better. Provide amazing service delivery, timely and accurate invoices, and automate important reports to keep your customers happy (and in the know). Pair that with the end-user portal available, and your customer experience just got even better!​

    Give your team precious time back

    With coupling centralization and automation, your teams will function more efficiently than ever, giving everyone more time to focus on what’s important. You'll get more time to focus on growing your business!​

    Increase revenue and decrease costs

    When your systems are centralized and your operations more efficient, you can save time and reduce costs. In essence, you can improve revenue and decrease costs through all your gained efficiencies.

    The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the platform for mission-critical, time-critical operations work in the modern enterprise. Through the power of AI and automation, it detects and diagnoses disruptive events, mobilizes the right team members to respond, and streamlines infrastructure and workflows across your digital operations. The Operations Cloud is essential infrastructure for revolutionizing digital operations to compete and win as a modern digital business.

    PagerDuty Features

    PagerDuty has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • 650+ integrations
    • Alerting
    • Native apps with push notifications
    • On-call duty scheduling
    • Automatic escalation of alerts
    • Reliable, distributed architecture
    • Incident reporting
    • Real-time monitoring
    • Network analysis
    • Issue tracking
    • Access controls/permissions
    • Service Level Agreement (SLA) management

    PagerDuty Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing PagerDuty. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Ideal for developers: With the PagerDuty solution, developers can spend more time focused on code. The solution’s powerful automation and noise reduction capabilities minimize interruptions and mobilize the right team in seconds.
    • Security incident response: Because of its integration ecosystem, PagerDuty enables you to respond to threats faster, tighten up security vulnerabilities, and get better cross-team visibility.
    • Critical event management: The solution makes it possible for your organization to get your crisis management team up and running quickly, keep all your business leaders and stakeholders informed in critical moments, and limit any disruptions that could impact your reputation or core business.
    • Service ownership: PagerDuty’s service ownership allows you to give everyone more autonomy, boost accountability, and minimize the impact of issues by quickly pulling in the right responder every time.
    • CollabOps: With this solution, you can integrate with chat and video tools like Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Doing so makes it easier to contain incidents quickly, avoid manual errors, and streamline work across DevOps, CSOps, BizOps, and ITOps organizations.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the PagerDuty solution.

    Brandon J., Director of engineering at a wellness & fitness company, says, "The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."

    PeerSpot reviewer Pramodh M., DevSecOps Consultant at a tech services company, comments, “The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable. There is a flexible and easy way of integrating with monitoring tools. It allows us to configure the integration with APIs and plugins as well.”

    Syed Mohammad A., Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm, mentions, "PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."

    A Principal Architect at an energy/utilities company states, “The most important feature that is used is call scheduling. We are also able to actually call IT folks in the case of an emergency.”

    Sample Customers
    IT Connexx, High Standards Technology Inc, Solvere One, MyIT, ConnectWise, Simpatico Systems, Fred IT Group, ECS, OneStop, K2 Technologies, Clark Integrated Technologies, Jmark, Geek on Wheels
    40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company57%
    Non Profit14%
    Security Firm14%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Manufacturing Company5%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Printing Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Retailer7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business84%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise52%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%

    ConnectWise PSA is ranked 1st in Professional Services Automation (PSA) with 19 reviews while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 1st in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 35 reviews. ConnectWise PSA is rated 8.2, while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ConnectWise PSA writes "Its macros, shortcuts and custom queries are really helpful ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". ConnectWise PSA is most compared with ServiceNow, Datto Autotask Professional Services Automation, JIRA Service Management, Kaseya BMS and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, whereas PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Splunk On-Call and Everbridge IT Alerting.

    We monitor all Professional Services Automation (PSA) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.