Nexthink vs SysTrack comparison

Nexthink and Lakeside Software are both solutions in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category. Nexthink is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Lakeside Software is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.5. Nexthink holds a 16.0% mindshare in DEM, compared to Lakeside Software’s 8.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Nexthink users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Lakeside Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Nexthink and SysTrack are leaders in the digital employee experience and IT infrastructure monitoring markets. Nexthink appears to have an edge with its proactive resolution and insightful analytics, whereas SysTrack stands out with detailed device metrics and advanced troubleshooting capabilities.

Features: Nexthink's features include experience scoring, visualization dashboards for senior managers, and integration with PowerShell for automation. It provides valuable insights into hardware purchasing and excellent customer support services. SysTrack offers Black Box and Resolve for troubleshooting, a VM planner tool for virtualization, and unique real-time data. Its self-help features and extensive device performance metrics are highly valued.

Room for Improvement: Nexthink needs better integration with more ITSM tools, improved support for non-Windows platforms, and enhanced automation and training materials. Users seek better alerting and scheduling of actions. SysTrack requires enhanced AI capabilities for predictive analytics, better integration with third-party tools like Cisco, and improved dashboard customization. Centralized management and more flexible reporting are also desired enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nexthink offers both on-premises and cloud deployment options with strong technical support, though initial expertise sometimes falls short. SysTrack excels with knowledgeable support and multiple deployment environments, but initial support might need expertise improvements. Nexthink ensures smooth deployment with comprehensive assistance, while SysTrack's proactive support mitigates post-deployment issues.

Pricing and ROI: Nexthink offers a quick payback period with competitive pay-as-you-use pricing when valuable use cases are implemented. It is cost-efficient for organizations prioritizing functionality. SysTrack's per-device licensing can be costly but its comprehensive features justify the expense. Both provide substantial ROI, with Nexthink users reporting savings and reduced incidents, while SysTrack delivers detailed capabilities for larger organizations with complex needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Nexthink

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SysTrack

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 16.0%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SysTrack is 8.9%, down from 15.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nexthink	16.0%
SysTrack	8.9%
Other	75.1%

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Puneet-Singh

Assistant consultant at TCS

Proactive analytics have improved device performance and optimized disk space and support workflows

Nexthink offers many features, with the best being Flow, which encompasses almost everything. We have Nexthink Workspace and Spark, allowing integration with Teams so users can find solutions without going to the service desk, rectifying issues in chat. Nexthink Infinity has brought a lot of benefits to us. There has been a very good change from integration. Integrating ServiceNow with Nexthink automates problem ticket and incident generation, enabling the team to proactively know the kinds of problem statements we are receiving. For the integration with Teams, we have not completed it yet, but we are in the planning phase, and once done, we will observe the results. Nexthink has the capability of integrating with most third-party applications, which is a great feature. With the remediation actions we have in Nexthink, it has provided great self-heal capabilities along with proactiveness. By looking at the dashboards and identifying problem statements, we can share this information with the end-user computing teams to fix issues. Nexthink has significantly helped us enhance our DEX score from 74 to 80. When I talk about features that led to the improvement of our score from 74 to 80, there were earlier issues with device performance and reliability not being addressed. Noting these, we identified devices lacking free disk space and low RAM capacity contributing to high memory usage or excessive CPU usage. Disabling unnecessary startup applications brought us to a new DEX score of almost 80.

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SumitKumar18

Senior SME at Microland Limited

Real-time monitoring and dashboards with cost-saving licensing

SysTrack requires significant improvements. Sometimes clients experience broken links where the service doesn't run on the user's machine, causing outdated data to display. For instance, a machine's last reboot might be inaccurately shown as seven days ago instead of two days ago. Additionally, real-time data syncing issues lead to delays, requiring this to be addressed, as data might be several hours old.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."

"Nexthink is valuable because it's enabled us to reduce the time it takes to resolve any issues."

"We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."

"In the past two years, the biggest benefit is that we have been able to identify 57,000-plus defects. These are possible tickets that we are preventing by using Nexthink."

"Nexthink has positively impacted my organization significantly, as I experience considerable time-saving when interacting with users, and the billing is also very effective, making it useful for most of our team members."

"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases."

"I have seen a return on investment, as the time saved by automating processes is significant."

"Nexthink's best features are Engage and Act, which we use in combination for self-healing use cases."

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"It is a very powerful tool that will make your life easier."

"SysTrack provides unique, real-time data."

"This is a powerful digital experience monitoring tool and it tracks everything."

"From a telemetry data standpoint, it's a perfect tool."

"I am impressed with the huge amount of information that you can get from the infrastructure."

"Cost-wise, SysTrack has a higher rate than other products, such as Nanoheal, but the features that SysTrack has aren't there in any other product available in the market."

"The visualizer feature provides end-to-end analysis on all the machines."

"SysTrack monitors user experience and represents it in the form of a composite score. The scores are placed on a timeline, so you can see how it has gotten better or worse compared to two weeks ago. It gives you a score at the personal, unit, and organizational levels. For example, the score for my entire organization in SysTrack is 77. It's also effective for monitoring user experience and resources in a VDI environment."

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Cons

"We have provided them feedback on a few changes we would like to see with how alerting can work. Rather than have somebody looking at the network, if network utilization goes above a certain point, it would be helpful if the solution issued an alert to the right people."

"Nexthink could have better integration with ITSM tools - at the moment, they only integrate with ServiceNow, so adding other tools, like HP SMAX, would be very useful."

"The next release could use some improvement in the tools that are provided."

"Nexthink can be improved by providing stronger proof and investigation data when investigating crashes, which would help identify the exact root cause and supply evidence."

"The NQL script and default templates for creating remote actions are quite complex and require time to adapt."

"We've had some issues integrating Nexthink with the cloud, so there are some delays in bandwidth, causing it to slow down a little. If they added better integration with the public cloud, I would be more likely to recommend it to customers."

"In our company, we can't deploy anything from Nexthink the way we can deploy from any other endpoint solutions. It is not possible to create any dashboard in Nexthink...One should be able to schedule monitoring in Nexthink."

"I would rate Nexthink an eight out of ten because it is truly helpful, and not higher because it needs some improvement in the integration with our products that would benefit me in my work."

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"A remote assistance tool is missing in SysTrack, and it could also be enhanced with the additional capabilities of creating customized self-healing sensors."

"When I create a dashboard for a computer-based GPO or user-based GPO, I get details of all the GPOs, but the feature that we found missing is that SysTrack doesn't state how many seconds were required to apply a GPO. It doesn't tell us how many nanoseconds, seconds, or minutes it is taking to process or apply a GPO on a machine. This feature is not there. When there are major issues, if we have the processing time in place, it will help us to identify whether it could be an issue with the domain controller or something else. It would give us a clear understanding to engage other teams for resolving the issue."

"The solution lacks AI in its analysis module."

"SysTrack isn't stable enough. There are too many upgrades, and not all versions are stable."

"The tool needs to improve the integration with third-party providers like Cisco products."

"The interface needs to be improved because it looks ancient. If you have been working in IT for a long time, over 20 years, you might remember products from the start of your career that look almost identical to the way SysTrack looks now. The user interface is not user-friendly. When you first see the solution, it overwhelms you with everything. It's not easy to use, and it's not that intuitive."

"Certain features haven't been tested sufficiently and don't work well."

"Their dashboard could be better. They did it custom, which is the main problem. They should have given an option to integrate it with some of the tools such as Power BI. Unfortunately, they are developing their own native dashboarding capabilities, which is killing them, in my view. The product is good, but dashboarding has been a pain area. I have to literally learn a new BI or dashboarding solution just for a system. We have 100 such kinds of solutions in our environment. If every solution has its custom solution for dashboarding, we can't survive. It is going to be crazy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."

"With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations."

"There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services."

"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases. The tool can do so much that to purely compare the price in a static way to other tools in your arsenal would be a mistake. If you do a more dynamic comparison that’s based on the overall functionality and use cases possible then it comes out cheaper. You need to consider it a relative measurement against potential use cases, size of the organization, maturity of organization, etc."

"I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and it provided background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings."

"It is on a per-device basis. It is not on a per-user basis. I was not much engaged in the licensing piece. I was only a part of the conversation about how we are going to scale up or down, but its price, for sure, is competitive."

"Cost-wise, SysTrack has a higher rate than other products, such as Nanoheal, but the features that SysTrack has aren't there in any other product available in the market."

"If you compare cloud solutions to SysTrack, which is on-premises, then SysTrack is cheaper. If you compare the cost of SysTrack with that of other similar solutions, the cost is similar. For each master server, there's a license. In terms of end user devices, the licenses are sold in multiplications of 10. That's one upfront cost. Once you procure the license, you can use the software for as long as you like. The maintenance is sold on an annual basis. Additional costs are related to hosting and include a SQL server license and Windows server licenses."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"It is somewhat expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Healthcare Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?

We directly purchased Nexthink from Nexthink itself, the Nexthink product team. We reached out to Nexthink and we procured Nexthink from Nexthink itself. I am not quite sure about the licensing par...

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What needs improvement with Nexthink?

Nexthink can be improved by providing stronger proof and investigation data when investigating crashes, which would help identify the exact root cause and supply evidence.I suggest a more flexible ...

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What is your primary use case for Nexthink?

My main use case for Nexthink is to manage the endpoint devices, run remote actions on the devices, and check the performance of the devices in our organization.Recently, our organization has been ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SysTrack?

SysTrack is considered an affordable solution. On a scale from one to ten, with ten being very cheap, I would rate it as an eight.

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What needs improvement with SysTrack?

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What is your primary use case for SysTrack?

SysTrack is a digital employee experience platform that we have deployed in our infrastructure without any customized requirements from the client side. Clients seek to reduce the number of service...

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Overview

Nexthink offers real-time digital experience management with features like live dashboards, remote actions, and AI-driven insights, aimed at improving user engagement and IT infrastructure management.

Nexthink caters to organizations seeking to enhance digital experiences by offering dynamic campaigns, comprehensive reporting, and seamless ServiceNow integration. Its AI Assistant, device monitoring, and automation features support efficient decision-making and rapid issue resolution. While offering real-time analytics and proactive troubleshooting, Nexthink users have identified areas for improvement, such as enhancing query language flexibility and third-party integrations. They seek better automation, customer support, and pricing strategies to optimize Nexthink's potential. Enhanced monitoring and integration capabilities are also desired to bolster IT productivity and infrastructure management.

What are the key features of Nexthink?

Live Dashboards: Provides real-time data visualization for quick insights.
Dynamic Campaigns: Enables personalized user engagement initiatives.
Remote Actions: Facilitates seamless IT issue troubleshooting and resolution.
Device View: Offers deep insight into endpoint device performance.
AI Assistant: Provides guided queries and problem-solving suggestions.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Proactive Issue Identification: Reduces downtime by anticipating potential disruptions.
Enhanced User Experience: Improves employee satisfaction and productivity.
Efficient IT Management: Streamlines operations and reduces resource expenditure.
Compliance and Security: Ensures adherence to industry standards.
Automation and Integration: Boosts performance with smooth, integrated workflows.

Organizations in sectors like IT services, finance, and healthcare leverage Nexthink for digital experience improvement, endpoint monitoring, and automated incident resolution. They employ its real-time analytics for compliance and security management and utilize its automation capabilities to ensure seamless IT service management and employee productivity enhancement.

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SysTrack offers comprehensive digital experience monitoring for IT environments like VDI and user devices. It provides valuable insights into performance, aiding service desk operations and improving efficiency through metrics tracking and data analysis.

Combining advanced tools for endpoint analysis and service optimization, SysTrack empowers organizations to enhance user experiences. Its features like Black Box, Resolve, and data capture improve performance insights, while virtual machine planning and incident mitigation streamline operations. Despite its robust toolkit, challenges exist in integration with third-party tools such as Dynatrace and Power BI. Users advocate for improved dashboards and centralized management consoles to optimize efficiency. Real-time data synchronization remains a focus area for future enhancements.

What are SysTrack's key features?

Black Box and Resolve: Provides critical insights to help diagnose performance issues.
GUI and Data Capture: Enhances endpoint analysis through detailed data collections.
Self-Help and Monitoring Dashboards: Assists service desk operations efficiently.
Virtual Machine Planning: Facilitates better infrastructure utilization and planning.
Automated Incident Mitigation: Streamlines the response to technical problems.
Infrastructure Insights: Aids in license management and cost-saving strategies.

What benefits and ROI should organizations expect?

Enhanced User Experience: Drives operational efficiency through better performance insights.
Reduced Service Desk Load: Enables fewer needed resources for support functions.
Cost Savings: Optimizes resources, reducing overall expenses.
Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Keeps operations smooth with continuous status updates.

SysTrack is widely adopted in industries needing to monitor digital employee experience within VDI environments. Organizations with large-scale deployments, such as those managing thousands of users, benefit significantly from its telemetry and infrastructure performance tracking capabilities. It supports reducing service-related challenges through its comprehensive analysis and proactive insights.

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HONDA, TATA, General Mills, Ford, Kellogg's, Air Canada

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