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12/18 features
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For support teams.
Advanced support toolkit.
Concurrent user licensing.
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Normalized composite performance scores
Head-to-head decision matrix based on your business workflow
Dimension scorecard
Tied for overall winner with a composite score of 95%.
Offers a Paid model, starting higher than the winner.
Tied with a solid set of 12 features.
Strong usability with a user rating of 4.9/5 stars.
Reliable support with a user rating of 4.9/5 stars.
Dimension scorecard
Tied for overall winner with a composite score of 95%.
Tied for pricing value with Paid.
Tied with a solid set of 12 features.
Strong usability with a user rating of 4.9/5 stars.
Reliable support with a user rating of 4.9/5 stars.
ConnectWise Control and Parallels RAS are virtually identical across all key dimensions. The right choice depends entirely on your team's specific workflow needs and integration requirements.
Composite Score Breakdown
Community-voted helpful feedback from verified users
After testing multiple competing tools, directing clients to our custom branded web portal with our logo built instant trust and eliminated customer hesitation, giving our team total confidence in daily use.
For our primary team operations, automatic session recording provided our IT team with complete audit trails for our annual SOC 2 compliance review, saving our team valuable preparation time.
Deploying this across our entire corporate fleet confirmed that our MSP configured role-based permissions so tier 1 technicians could only access desktop PCs while tier 3 managed servers, simplifying daily maintenance.
In our daily production workflow, ConnectWise Control's ScreenConnect engine connected in under two seconds with buttery-smooth 60fps screen responsiveness, which resolved our previous operational bottlenecks.
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