Nexthink Reviews

It's useful in getting all the end-user device information in one console. In Nexthink, you receive everything in one single console.

We would like better connectivity with SCCM for on-premises infrastructure and autopilot for cloud deployment. That connectivity should be built inside Nexthink. This will allow us to have all information required in our console. This option may already exist, but it is not configured in our environment.

We have been using this solution for about three years.

It is a very stable product with regular security and feature updates. It is the best-in-class solution at the moment.

It is easy to scale up and down based on our licensing agreement. Globally, we have about 15,000 users. But in Ukraine, we have about 1,500 users.

The technical support is best-in-class because we have 24-7 hour support, and they are responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

The initial setup was a bit complex regarding a complete understanding of the product. So we deployed it using our partner who supported us. A consultant supported us during the project initiation and initial assessment.

Choosing, adding and removing features made the setup more complex because when you get more details about the solution, you analyze all functionality features.

I cannot provide any company details on pricing, but on average, Nexthink costs approximately 700 euros for 500 users per month, so about 1.50 euros per user per month.

It's a competitive price because it's a well-known industry standard that has proven reliable. All end users expect a lower price. If we purchase a big bulk of licenses, I rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with one being expensive and five being competitively priced. It's costly for small organizations but reliable for both medium and large organizations.

I rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Currently, we are using it very extensively. We use it for active use cases where we solve end-user problems. Without notifying them, many of them we are resolving, and we are using the tool for notifying some communication emails as per users.

The best thing is the remote actions that we can play on all the devices. 

The campaigns are great. When you want to notify the user, we can easily drive them and send them a notification for the environment or anything really critical. If we need to move very quickly, we can use them as well.

The solution is stable. 

The product detections could be better. It will wait for our confirmation to solve a one-time solution. However, it could be a multiple-time solution. For example, if my team's add-on is crashing, if Nexthink is doing one-time activation, its regular need is not monitored. The next day it'll come and recheck and fix the issue. 

We would like to have default drive details. 

We'd like Nexthink to handle auto-detection stuff.

The initial setup needs technical knowledge. 

I've been using the solution for four years. 

I started using from 6.23. That is an older version of on-prem. Then we moved to the cloud.

It is a stable product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

It is a product that can scale. 

We have about 100,000 people in our company that use the solution.

Technical support is fine. We are satisfied with their level of assistance. 

Positive

We chose the solution to understand the device performance in order to reduce the service disk volume.

The initial setup has a moderate amount of difficulty. There may be many requirements that need to be addressed. It will require some technical skills. If you are not technical, you will likely find it difficult. 

While the length of deployment depends on the environment, for us, it took 15 days for the cloud deployment.

We find the solution to be worth the price. 

I'm a partner of Nexthink.

Potential users need to consider their environment and think about the most impacted areas. It's best to work with the Nexthink team to see how they can best resolve your issues. You need to find out what the value is and if it will help before you agree to procure it. I'd also advise comparing it to other solutions, such as Assist Track, and seeing what's going on and what might be best.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. It is a good product however, a lot needs to be improved in its detection method and they need more AI technology. 

We mainly use Nexthink as a help desk tool for individuals, level one support, and responding to whoever complains from his PC. 

The search engine functionality that Nexthink has on the finder is terrific, you just search as you would be searching on Google and everything will show up for you.

Nexthink provides you with information and gives you an idea of what exactly is happening. You are able to identify if there is a wrong hard disk coming up plus lots of visibility on the endpoint wether it is a PC or a server.

The view of the agents on the PC side was showing more information than the one on the server side, there are some gaps that the server is not really covering up.

One of the issues we faced on the server side was false-positive findings for example. If I want to schedule a report to show the last time the servers were patched or updated, it was showing or reading the registry that Windows was showing.

Unfortunately, the agent was reading the registries instead of seeing the updates that were installed which caused false reports.

They were having some limitations on the number of alerts that you can generate. This definitely needs to be increased. Previously, it was fifty, if I am not mistaken, or one hundred. 

It would be nice to have detection and contain the endpoint. For example, if you have an application that is installed and you do not want the user to use it whenever you double click on it, then it should not open for you and give you a message that this application was blocked. 

When it comes to security, Nexthink should be automatically able to detect a bank card number that the user is trying to copy and is trying to do something with it. Let us say, for example, they shared it over an email. This is where Nexthink should capture this moment and send the information to the security department alerting them.

I have been using Nexthink for the past three or four years.

It is stable. We did not face any problem with it during the entire time that I was maintaining it. The only item that you will face, which is a normal issue where an endpoint outside of your domain, and when you connect it to the domain, you will discover that that agent is way too old because you are using an on-premises set-up instead of a cloud set-up.

Nexthink is definitely scalable. I was able to do that with no problem at all. 

I needed to contact technical support two or three times and I requested help from the vendor, or actually from the people who implemented the solution in the first place. To be honest, I would rate them a ten because they were so good. The service technicians were polite. They tried to help me, and if they could not assist me, they would follow up with me about the issue.

Positive

It was easy. In the beginning, there were people who did the implementation and when we decided to expand the scope to include the servers, I did it by myself, and it was very straightforward. For the server itself, it was two to three days until it was up and running and pitching all the information syncing with the other search engines. 

Handling multiple endpoints can be very difficult. I would say if you have a big organization Nexthink will be a big asset for them.

I would rate Nexthink an eight out of ten.

We use Nexthink to give us information on events on end-user laptops. We turn that into several use cases, such as more intelligent hardware refresh purchasing, and we have established a proactive support model. 

But really, it's about understanding the digital experience by creating a digital experience score and using that score to create a happier and more productive employee base. We're still quite young in that respect, but we're in the process right now of creating a customer experience analytics team, whose job it will be to measure and enhance the digital experience score.

We deploy it on-premises. We have a number of virtual machines within our environment that host the Nexthink engines. The laptops have a collector, a small agent that's very lightweight, that sends information up to the engines.

Within IT support we have a very reactive organization, but with the Nexthink tool, we're able to start building proactive support. We are also enabling our security teams, our IT service desk, and our testing teams to be more effective through the use of Personas. We haven't developed Personas yet, but that's something we're about to do.

In the UK, we used one of the dashboards in the solution to identify a problem at one of our Scottish offices. It turned out that the network infrastructure in that office wasn't up to requirements for a particular application that we're using. The initial thought was that the application was at fault. But when we looked across the country, using dashboards, we found, "Well actually, in most places the application is fine. It looks good. However, we can see that in this particular Scottish office we're receiving lots of red scores and poor performance." We worked with the network team to figure out that it was actually the infrastructure. The dashboards are very useful and the solution is very good.

One fantastic use case for us was when we were due to purchase 95,000 laptops globally with 512GB SSDs, we used Nexthink data to view disk utilisation and discovered that 98% of users would not need more than 256GB. This works out to saving of around $5.4M per annum. This use case illustrates an aspect of the power of the Nexthink tool. It’s also a very simple investigation to create and one that organisations can execute almost immediately following deployment of collectors to their environment.

The most important factor is the data collection, and that's the simplest part of it. But what we do with that data, what is most useful, are things like experience scoring, hardware purchasing, and enhancing support services.

The solution’s visualizations are very good. It's very easy to use them. We're currently developing a three-tiered training model for different levels of consumer. The most basic version of that is purely dashboard. We can give our senior managers, our directors, and our partners a dashboard at a very high level. They can very easily start to drill down by clicking through the dashboard and find stuff that doesn't look right. And our technical teams can use the same thing to identify problems in specific locations.

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.

There are a few other types of technical improvements that we've requested. There is really good learning material in the Nexthink Academy. However, turning that into real action is something that needs to be worked on.

We've been using Nexthink for close to three years.

We very rarely have issues with the solution's stability. We had a situation where our portal went down one time, but I can count on one hand how many times we've had major issues with the tool in the last two to three years.

It is scalable. If you've got the on-prem environment, it's usually a case of adding more engines, but if you're in the cloud environment it's highly scalable, and that is all managed on their side.

We've got 27,000 endpoints in the UK. We are planning on increasing our usage. We haven't decided on this, but we've looked at the server, having collected deployed servers, and we've also talked with Nexthink about potentially moving to mobile in a year or two. Nexthink haven't got a fully developed solution for mobiles yet, so we're talking about it to see what opportunities there may be, rather than having actually decided what we're going to do in that regard.

I would rate their tech support during deployment and post-deployment, both, very highly. We've logged a couple of incidents with their tech support and they've been really good, really on the ball. The support contact they gave us was exceptional, very good, very knowledgeable.

We did not have a previous solution.

We found it quite straightforward to stand up our virtual machines to host the engines. And if we need to expand to them, it's quite straightforward to do that as well. Most companies will be purchasing in the cloud environment, and the deployment of the cloud environment is obviously much easier.

I didn't do the deployment. It was somebody else in our area. But we implemented several engines across several virtual machines and we rolled out. We packaged up the collector and then we rolled that out to every single laptop in our environment.

In terms of infrastructure maintenance for the solution, we have one person who is responsible. There is no other maintenance involved.

We had a project manager run the deployment internally, but we also worked with a Nexthink technical specialist.

With the case I mentioned earlier about the hard drives, we've avoided costs that would have been more than the tool costs. It's not extra money in the bank, but it's money we haven't spent. It wasn't guaranteed that the hard drive upgrade proposal was going to go through, so it's not generally considered, internally, as true ROI, but it's a great example of where we potentially avoided a lot of cost.

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.

We investigated a few. Lakeside Software was one of them. We also looked at HappySignals, but it doesn't do the same thing, and we looked at HP TechPulse, as well as a few others. The biggest contender was Lakeside Software, but Nexthink was much more preferable.

The main difference for us was actually the people at Nexthink, the way we found they engage with their customers. Nexthink's approach is very much, "Understand what your objective is for your organization, and then make sure the entire approach is tailored towards helping you achieve what you want to achieve." It doesn't feel like a typical vendor relationship. It feels very much like you're part of the same team, and that's really what set them apart because that's how we work. We like to work in teams. We don't want to just be on the phone with a vendor. We want to be on the phone with someone who cares about helping us achieve what we want to achieve.

Overall, it has helped save us time. You have to make a time investment to get the skills within your organization to make best use of the tool. My recommendation is that if organizations want to take digital experience management seriously, they need to have people in place whose job it is to do that. You do have to make that type of time and financial investment. But we have saved time using Nexthink.

We're actually in the process right now of building the team, those dedicated people, around it. We spent the last two to three years doing it as more of a side-of-desk activity. We've managed to achieve what we've achieved just with that. By putting people in place to do it, we're going to be able to achieve much more, and actually tie some process around it to make sure that we're measuring the value by time and money.

If you are implementing Nexthink, make sure that you've got people who are able to take ownership of the tool internally, who will be its internal ambassadors, and spend the time to learn the tool to make sure that you do it right. Don't look at the tool as a siloed operation. Don't only look at it from the point of view of improving your security or your end-user computing team, or your service desk. Look at the bigger picture. There are tons of use cases for Nexthink. It often comes down to only being limited by the ideas you can generate. There's a lot in there. The people who are going to use the tool on a day to day basis should go through the Nexthink Academy and learn as much as they can there. They should also pay attention to the Nexthink Library, to understand what out-of-the-box packs are available there.

For us, the lessons we've learned are less about Nexthink and more about experience management. Nexthink is one of the major tools we're using in our experience management strategy. The mistake we've made from the experience management perspective is not having a senior owner of experience, like a chief experience officer. That's really been a mistake because we have had no unity across IT, or enabling functions. As a result of that, we've had lots of different people doing lots of different things. You need a senior-level owner and you need a strategy. Those are really our two lessons learned. At the moment, we've got a strategy, and we have people at the senior level who want us to do great things with it, but we still don't have a senior owner of experience, which is where Nexthink does its best work.

We use it across Windows and Mac machines. The Windows collector can do a lot more than the Mac. However, each new version that Nexthink releases brings Mac closer to parity with Windows. We don't use it on mobile and we have limited use across different types of applications. For example, we're not really using it to its max potential for SaaS products right now. But if we move to the cloud product, which we would like to do, then we'll make better use of it, at that point, for SaaS solutions.

Nexthink provides you with real-time and actionable insights into the IT experience of all employees, but you need to make sure you've got people with the requisite skills to interpret that. There are the two types of data: the hard data and the soft data. You have the events coming from the machine, and then you've got more of the sentiment-type stuff where you're engaging with your customer base to hear what they have to say. Nexthink comes with a digital experience score out-of-the-box, but we have found that we are having to optimize that for our environment to get a score that actually represents what the user is experiencing.

It provides analytics for detailed event data to help you pinpoint issues and find the root cause. However, the basic analytics won't necessarily tell you the solution. They will tell you what's going on, but you still need to find a solution. Nexthink do have playbooks in their repertoire that give you recommendations for what the solution may be, but we're not using those right now.

We do have some involvement with the solution's AI-driven insights, but we haven't really achieved many great successes with it just yet. That's an area that we're still exploring. We're looking a lot at the AI-driven, proactive and predictive support elements.

I struggle to say 10 out of 10, because that seems almost impossible for any company. But, yes, I would say it's a 10. They've got the people and the culture within the company. They are growing and are ambitious and they're very focused on product enhancements. They listen to the customer, and they will develop the tool, generally speaking, in the way that the customer wants. They are adaptable to our operating model. The tool itself does tons of stuff.

We offer this solution as part of our service from Atos. It is part of our digital workplace offering and is bundled with other digital workplace solutions. Nexthink is primarily used to target customers who want to get the performance of their device's endpoint. It can be applications, laptops, desktops, and software assessments.

It helps us provide more business to service providers and improve user experience.

The most valuable feature is the application experience because it monitors SaaS web-based applications.

Their release management processes could be improved to release the updates in a more confined and process-oriented way.

For future releases, it would be good to have a more controlled way to access their cloud environment rather than depend on logs gathered from the company. They should have read-only access to their admin environment to get certain logs.

We have been using Nexthink for ten years. We are working with the SaaS version, on-premises and on cloud, but it will be mostly SaaS in the future. We are using the latest version.

It is a reliable solution. Performance-wise, Nexthink is very good, and with each version, it is improved and stable.

It is a scalable solution, and the cloud version is easy to scale.

The technical support is good. We have a director for professional support with Nexthink.

The initial setup was complex because there were issues with the infrastructure, and we had to build it. We needed about 20% help from the vendor for deployment, and it took us two months to complete the deployment.

There are application owners who manage the maintenance, such as updates or performance issues. We have about 50 people using Nexthink.

The return on investment is great.

Direct cost varies between $10 to $30, and MSP prices are different. There can be additional costs with additional modules, but that varies depending on how the contract is signed.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten. Compared to other solutions, CIS Track is more traditional, and Nexthink is more modern and well marketed.

We use this solution to carry out issue detection on user devices, before they are raised by the user, or become a bigger issue.

The ability this product gives to be more proactive with issue resolution has improved our users experience.

With this solution we are able to link issues to automatic actions that will solve the problem.

We are also able to link the actions to campaigns, which will message the users and link the actions to an FAQ. This can then be reported in a dashboard. All of this is done automatically so there is no manual intervention needed.

One other good thing about this platform, is that changes and improvements are made regularly, so it evolves continuously.

We would like to see the reporting in this solution improved. At present there are gaps in the data it reports.

There is no function to schedule actions to carry out larger fixes, or send campaign messages in the product, which would be useful to have.

We would also like the ability to monitor windows services, such as Teams calls.

We have been using this solution for nearly three years.

We have found this solution to be pretty reliable, in our experience.

This solution is very easy to scale up, whether adding devices or users.

The technical support for this product is very good. They reply quickly and are very helpful.

The initial setup of this solution is pretty straightforward. It's just an agent, an executable or MSI, and was very easy to configure for our administrator.

The hierarchy of the platform is the only thing that has to be configured during implementation, so the only required two people. The full process, from start to deployment, took one week.

The ability to be more proactive with issue resolution has reduced our maintenance costs and increased the life expectancy of our devices. This has also improved the overall performance of the system, which has improved the user experience.

The fact that everything runs automatically, also means that the cost of manually monitoring the network is reduced.

We recommend that organizations use the information that is presented from this solution, and learn from it's data on where issues are regularly occurring.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use this solution to reduce ticket volumes. We complete a proactive analysis of end user machines. Our users are able to raise a ticket to our service management team in the service desk. Once we pick up the same issues being reported, we complete a deep investigation and remediation process to avoid these type of tickets in future.

This solution supports 13,000 machines and we have seven to eight people supporting from offshore.

This is a proactive management tool and we make use of the metrics, dashboard creation and complete remote actions on end user machines. If the end user is experiencing issues with a hard disk, we know that capacity will be approximately 80%. We will then do rear triggering on the end user machines. 

We need some guidance from the Nexthink team on some of the new features they are releasing and how best to use them. 

Out of our 10,000 licenses, we would like a dashboard that shows which machines are active and which machines are un-active.

I have been using this solution for two years.

This is a very stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. 

When I reach out to the Nexthink support team, they are very friendly. They take at least two to three hours to reply to emails. 

Neutral

We use SysTrack as well as Nexthink and both tools are the same.

Our organization used a VM machine and the setup was easy. It took two to three hours. 

It was done by an in house team.

This solution is improved each time there is a version update. The 3.91 version has an improved GUI model that is very fast compared to the older version. It is a very user friendly tool. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

We have Nexthink for end-user devices. Nexthink is a client that monitors end-user devices for what's happening with them.

We are using its latest version. This is a subscription-based solution, and we upgrade it all the time.

It is useful for managing end-user devices. The insights and the data that you get from end-user devices are most valuable.

They can improve the Nexthink action module.

We've had Nexthink for at least three years, if not more.

It is a very stable and mature solution.

It is installed on all machines in the organization, but its number of users is very limited. Its users are basically admins. So, it is installed on every machine in the organization, but it is used by the IT. The end-user compute support team uses Nexthink mainly to manage end-users and communicate with their machines.

 I'm not aware of whether there was something similar to this.

It is not a difficult thing to set up Nexthink. There is nothing complicated about it.

It is a very good solution. We're satisfied with Nexthink. You just need to try it out. It works well. It has a couple of competitors, and you should just see which one suits you more.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.