We performed a comparison between GoToAssist and TeamViewer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The ability to change the way that the client works to a service so that we can get a little bit deeper into the operating system, as opposed to just an app running is the most valuable aspect. We also like the unattended sessions. Those are probably the two most important things to us. It's important because we can't do certain things when it is just an application running."
"We also use it a lot for remote site assistance. We've set up our internal authentication for unattended access to our remote sites. That makes it very easy and convenient to remotely connect with our users and our client machines whenever we need to. It's set as a direct, secure connection. As long as the station has internet access, we can see it and it makes remote support very simple."
"It saves trips to customer sites, which saves time. I am able to get in there remotely and fix things."
"The document control is quite good."
"I have found the solution to be user-friendly even for beginners. It is not that sophisticated. There are different types of security features available, such as encryption and random machine ID."
"TeamViewer has a good interface."
"It's a user-friendly product."
"There have been a couple of times with the handy remote access feature, where I have been asked for something at eight o'clock on a Thursday evening and it is on my desk machine, but I am driving back to my office. With TeamViewer, I can just stay at my home machine, connect to my work machine, and get the data needed without having to drive back across town."
"It's very beneficial and time effective on how we are able to provide quick support. We've quadrupled our effectiveness as an IT support because we have cut down all that unnecessary travel time, even between floors."
"If they included some sort of monitoring system for managed services so we can have it all in one package, that would be helpful. There are managed services solutions that allow us to remote into the computers, but a lot of them have too much overhead. Usually, the remote connection is not as simple and as fast and cannot be run as a service."
"I would like to see TeamViewer support multiple platforms."
"You can't configure multiple, unattended control passwords on the Mac. On the Mac, there's only one. On Windows, there are multiple unattended control passwords. I have people in different departments. My infrastructure people need to control a server and my developers may need to go into that same server. But I don't want them to have the same password... on the Mac, it can be done but it's extremely clunky and problematic."
"TeamViewer could improve by adding support for other operating systems, such as Linux and CAKE."
"The solution could have better scalability."
"The security could improve in TeamViewer."
"Sometimes, the app can be a little cumbersome when accessing certain aspects of the program."
"If were to I put myself in the seat of a small business owner, I would prefer TeamViewer to be more of a pay-once-and-own-it solution, rather than paying via a subscription model (although I am using the free version). Only annual subscriptions are available. It makes paying for it the first time seem a little daunting."
"The solution could be improved by enhancing the use of the mobile version to be used on phones."
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GoToAssist is ranked 25th in Remote Access while TeamViewer is ranked 1st in Remote Access with 84 reviews. GoToAssist is rated 9.0, while TeamViewer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GoToAssist writes "Has the ability to change the way that the client works to a service so that we can get a little bit deeper into the operating system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamViewer writes "Solid cross-platform remote control, but with kludgy central management and some serious feature issues on macOS". GoToAssist is most compared with LogMeIn Rescue, GoToMyPC, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, LogMeIn Pro and Splashtop Remote Support, whereas TeamViewer is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Access, ISL Online and BeyondTrust Remote Support.
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