
There are way more reasons than that to be honest - but those are a good start. Solarwinds just gives you the name/IP/Model and open portsįor Windows PCs, Lansweeper gathers far more information without using an agent than Solarwinds does - and again it has clickable actions - RDP to that machine/open c$/shutdown etc. It also has customisable actions - on an assets page I can click to ping that asset/open putty/open the asset's webpage etc. The first thing is probably the layout - Lansweeper puts more information straight in front of you and is way easier on the eyes - too much white space in Solarwinds.įunctionally, Lansweeper gives far more information - for example for a network switch it will list each port and have a hyper link to the device that is being detected as being connected to that port, allowing you to click through to that asset. The asset discovery in Lansweeper is faaaar superior in Lansweeper than Solarwinds - though for the actual helpdesk the reverse is true. This means the latest incarnation has overtaken Windows 8 in the popularity stakes but remains behind market share for Windows 7, despite that software going end of life in January 2020.I have experience of both - more Lansweeper than Solarwinds to be fair. Lansweeper shows adoption rates for the latest OS are improving, running on 1.44 percent of computers versus 0.52 percent in January. SHI and Lansweeper provide the visibility you need to streamline IT Asset Management and IT Service Management processes, optimize your environment, reduce costs, and avoid risk. Generally, enterprises wait for 18 months after an OS was released before they adopt it. SHI’s Lansweeper Professional Services are designed to provide both the technologies and expertise you need to find and identify every IT asset in use. IDC thinks that Windows 11 use will take off next year as corporates start to consider replacing aging systems. There is not a short supply of PC chips any more and it is a good time to upgrade with computer makers seeking out demand to attract customers. Altogether 71.5 percent of the PCs failed the RAM test and 14.66 percent the TPM test. Lansweeper said 42.76 percent of the estimated 27 million PCs it tested across 60,000 organizations failed the CPU test, which is better than the 57.26 percent in its last test a year ago. Nearly 43 percent of millions of devices studied by asset management provider Lansweeper are unable to upgrade and most of it is because they lack a TPM-equipped CPU. TPM 2.0 was released in October 2014 so any computer older than that is out of luck.
