When it comes to Augmentt Discover, we believe in flexibility and power.
Augmentt Discover can collect SaaS usage data using both an Agent and Agentless model.
Here is a quick FAQ to help you differentiate the two options:
Agent
- What is it?
- A lightweight agent that resides on the local machine and captures all browser-based SaaS usage.
- Ideal use case
- RMM agent is already deployed to allow easy scripted deployment of the Augmentt agent in order to collect SaaS usage data from each employee’s individual machine.
- Best use for
- Drilling into employee specific SaaS usage data.
- Deployment
- Deployed via GPO or RMM.
- How it works
- Maps each individual user’s browser history to the Augmentt master list of SaaS applications and provides our default category, as well as productivity and risk scores.
- Pros
- Easy to deploy via RMM or GPO.
- Provides granular user-based SaaS usage data.
- Cons
- Today’s version only works on Windows-based systems*
- Will only look at browser-based traffic, not applications installed locally which access the internet.
- Summary
- Best to use the Augmentt Agent if you are looking for individual user’s SaaS data.
- Easiest to deploy via RMM scripting and only slightly more effort via GPO.
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