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At this time, we are not doing other flairs. You will be asked to verify your email address with the mods. Source: I work for LT, but not in Sales. At 100 agents, you'd be looking at subscription pricing for hosted LT over 1-3 years + an implementation fee (spread over the 1st few months). Maintenance is included, but you'd never 'own' your agents.
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LabTech is an online clinical laboratory reporting software which helps in creating smart online reports of patients. It is highly user friendly, reliable and easily configurable according to needs of clinic. Pulseway's remote monitoring software pricing. Price plans that scale with your business needs.
An agent is an agent, so servers are priced the same as a workstation. Agentless stuff (i.e. Network monitoring) is free, but. You get what you pay for. Endpoint stuff you license / pay for separately:. Third party patching.
Security (e.g. ESET/Webroot/etc.). Backup (e.g. StorageCraft/Datto/etc.).
Network monitoring that's worth paying for (i.e. Auvik). MDM (i.e. MobileFirst Protect / MaaS 360) All that said, since I don't work in Sales, I can't give you an all-in number.
But what I can say is. You might be better off using something else (maybe ScreenConnect?) until your base grows enough to justify a new hire. A lot of 1-man shops want to implement a robust RMM ASAP, but I recommend against it. If you enjoy geeking out, a robust RMM can be a time suck. You'll spend hours making things run as efficiently as possible, but at the expense of growing your business.
My recommendation is a great remote control tool or low cost RMM, so you don't get distracted with tech & can instead, focus on growth (e.g. Writing out some procedures & guidelines). Because once you start to grow, it'll be the repeatable processes & cya guidelines your people follow that save your bacon. Not your RMM. Thanks for the advice.
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It's definitely helpful! I definitely like the idea of pulling together clear policies and procedures! I'm already using ScreenConnect, and it's great. I'm at the point where I'm needing to automate some things to keep growing. I've reached the limit of work that I can do personally, but I'm not large enough to make a hire.
I also feel like my offerings are suffering because I'm having to do everything manually on the target machine. So things like patching, backups and the like are eating into my time dedicated to growth. Likewise, I'm spending an inordinate amount of time managing tickets and billing, so I was planning on the LabTech/ConnectWise combo, with the thought that I'd be able to automate some of the tedious stuff and focus resources elsewhere. Mainly speed/performance issues with both Cloud versions of their apps. People constantly complaining about intolerable slowness and support just saying it's normal. I guess that's what you get when you host stuff in a public cloud like AWS. In the end we just wanted to control our own destiny so to speak.
To be honest, we've heard about performance issues with on-prem as well, but you can usually get past that by throwing enough hardware at it and tweaking a few things. Of course all this comes with a big YMMV disclaimer. I came from from a shop running Labtech (about 1800 nodes when I left) before starting my own firm.
I'm using AEM now (your size AEM should be around $2). It is not as full featured as LabTech but they are making very good progress. You have to setup more monitors yourself, but you don't get hammered with noise either.
Might be worth your time to check them out as well. As a side note, when I started on my own I had planned to do ConnectWise/Labtech, but for a solo shop Autotask/AEM was significantly less expensive.