SysTrack

Avantages

Systrack provides true visibility into the end user experience utilizing data collected from multiple end-points. The data can be utilized to answer core questions about an end-user experience and how to best improve it through service improvement initiatives or through transformation initiatives. The improvements can then be measured to ensure it improves the end -user experience. Utilization of the tool at a L1 support layer can help drive down TTR(Time to Resolve) and increase FCR(First Call Resolution) at the service desk.

Inconvénients

The amount of data collected is not always easily understood and does require some time to understand.

Avantages

It covers a lot of service experience metrics. It has excellent extensions for seeing what end users are doing when web browsing. The process level toolsets are clever and do allow you to look in a fine grained way at what is happening i.e. rewind the clock and see when resource usage changes. The dashboard mechanism is easy to use. The vendor is very responsive to support queries and really helpful. The professional services people in Lakeside are excellent.

Inconvénients

In the version we have the developers removed the capability to export a lot of the graph data. We grumbled because this ruins the toolset a lot. We got a bespoke dashboard from Lakeside which allows us to work around the issue and it's apparently being put back in the newest version. A pain though and a dumb decision. The health metrics are a bit...Opaque. We struggled to really connect many of them to an actual improvable change. Interesting but occasionally the health metrics can produce wasted effort. Use them to maybe set priorities but also use your own technical intuition really.

Avantages

• Trends & reporting (CPU, boot time, memory usage, apps, etc). Proper analysis of poor computer performance can be obtained to determine who to be replaced first on replacement programmes, for example. Trends/reporting is also a useful monitoring tool for troubleshooting devices with performance issues.
• Device reporting by models (amount on estate). Whilst its possible to do this via SCCM, Systrack can do this within a few clicks. It will however need a lookup table to convert Lenovo model numbers into readable model names although Systrack have worked with us to ensure these are converted.
• Web history logging for security purposes
• Dependencies – the ability to see the full chain of what the device is connected to & latencies to identify any performance/network issues with particular servers.
• Application discovery – to quickly identify applications installed on the device – similar function in SCCM but its nice to have this all in one place.
• Accurate last login for users on devices, as well as all devices they have logged into. This data is on SCCM but Systrack makes it much easier to pull this data all together.

Inconvénients

There's so much data available and sometimes it's difficult to get exactly what you're after without consulting systrack to assist you... but hands down they have been able to meet pretty much all of our requests to create custom dashboards.
Cost - understandably its an amazing tool but at quite a price tag.
It can be a very proactive tool but this won't suit if the organization if they are not able to make time for using the product.

Avantages

The quantity and quality of data that SysTrack collects has got to be the best I have seen without putting unnecessary strain on local resources. It's strength lies in the ability to turn this data into actionable and easy to read presentable views for users of all levels. The ability to prove the issues that users are facing are not always the fault of the OS or Applications but sit with underlying infrastructure.

Inconvénients

Feature requests are slow to be released.

Avantages

Having had previous hands on experience with SysTrack before joining Citrix, I was very pleased with the amount of data and thus insights that SysTrack gives customers.

In my role speaking to my customers who struggle to monitor their complex Citrix environments or are looking for a single tool to monitor Citrix as well as their physical desktop estate or are looking for a comprehensive tool for analysis and assessment, it's SysTrack that is always top of the list due to its rich set of features.

Inconvénients

It's been a while since I actually used it but it was a little complicated to tune and perhaps some more intuitive dashboards? These may have been addressed though... :-)