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Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Calamp Products are Fabulous

PROS

Usually, all Calamp products are nice. I have been using live tracking devices, fleet management, TTU hardware, BMW products.Products are easy to use and very much inclined to all safety measures. Report theft and maintain of it. Engine value check as well

CONS

Performance can be better in terms of lots of users and devices.

Faris

Restaurants, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

We use this software on a daily bases ensuring operations run smoothly

Overall our experience is very good. It's rare that the software would go down and customer service reps are super helpful and informative.

PROS

GPS and route tracking are accurate at all times.

CONS

When it comes to geo-graphing/geo-fencing, there aren't very clear instructions on how to use those features and reasons for use/benefits.

Reason for choosing CalAmp

More cost effective and reliable software with many hidden features that video trailers should be released showing clear instructions and proper use of the features provided.

Mark

Individual & Family Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed December 2022

Business owner

Sucks I should dump your service and get on the works!

PROS

The ability to intargrate with our software system so we have everything on one screen. We can see when cars arrive and leave each Job.

CONS

Your support and sales department (if you have one)

Reason for choosing CalAmp

At the time 5+ years ago (the company that you bought out) could upload stops to Garmin units giving our drivers turn by turn directions. Also connected out our Customer Service sofware.

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Jean

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2022

Best GPS tracker management platform

PROS

The ability to update firmwares and config using batch updates and having realtime information about update progress is great!

CONS

Migration from PULS is cumbersome. It should have been transparent to the user, you should have made it a drop-in replacement process.

Reason for choosing CalAmp

CANBus extensive supportPEG enginePULS management platform

Kirk

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

CalAmp - There is no better product on the market for pure GPS Tracking

If you need efficient and reliable GPS, there is no other. The ability for custom scripting, while time consuming to master, gives you absolute control of your units and allows you to weigh power management vs live communicating, reboot frequency, messages sent, etc.

PROS

The ability of scripting and allowing you to control all aspects of the software from Sleeping to Tracking Intervals allows you to create a near perfect product.

CONS

With the ability of scripting comes complexity. There was a very large ramp up time of many months for us to learn everything. Even something as straightforward as communicating with the unit via Terminal took a long time to get the basics of (basically, you either have EVERYTHING correct in your setup with wires, ports, etc or you get no response back).

Reason for choosing CalAmp

CalAmp would be well worth investing in a short "dummies" YouTube guide starting from the very beginning as it's quite intimidating to go through the literal 1,000+ pages of documentation just to get a basic example going. The 32-bit devices are easier than the 8-bit, but still very very complex. You have HEX-compressed UDP messages (with Lat/Long compressed requiring some serious know-how) that make it a much steeper learning curve vs competitors that allow you to send via TCP and send in standard ASCII often in a easy-to-interpret JSON format.

Stephen

Industrial Automation, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2022

Good product with poor support

Vehicle tracking and remote data collection

PROS

The devices work well and seem to be robust. The PEG interface is good in that it allows some local processing, but limited in what you can do.

CONS

it would be good to be able to write custom local software on the device, to reduce the volume of data sent over the air. It appears that there is a trend to go along tha direction with thier products, but it is still limited to thier peg, or peg2 interface. The change from PULS to DM-CTC has not been good. The DM-CTC platform obviosly is still not fully developed and misses some of the basic functionality that PULS had. Customer support in australia is poor, with questions first going to a local distributor and then passed to a support center in the usa. responses can take days, and are often just left unanswered. Direct contact to calamp for support does reduce the not normaly provide better results.

Reason for choosing CalAmp

pricing

Greg

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Calamp - PULS I believe is the best option!

I feel they are needing in some improvement, but are still the best option. In the end, no matter the cost, these device and this software (PULS) combination from Calamp are still number one in my opinion!

PROS

The PULS software allows us to control and monitor devices better than any other devices and it is critical for the best customer service across the board.

CONS

We really need, bulk scripting, a big fix on pg2 control and loading of those pg2 scripts. We need to have bulk loading and pulling scripts.The timer on CRC or 'sign script' needs to be reduced.

Stormy

Public Relations and Communications, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Great Product

Great

PROS

I enjoy the ease of running reports regarding tracking

CONS

Sometimes the mileage is off by a few miles.

Reasons for switching to CalAmp

Company made the switch

Lisa

Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed November 2022

Review of new CTC

Overall I think CTC is an improvement from PULS, but a lot of work needs to be done to make it as easy to use.

PROS

Overall the CTC is a better look and a more comprehensive feel than PULS, but needs work

CONS

jobs need to be assigned for everythingyou can't copy/paste a large amount of devices at once to configure/update firmware, you have to search manually for each devicei have to click "load more" to see simple facts on each device like phone numbers or ICCID numbers

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Fleet Management - All in One Software Management Tool

PROS

I've used CalAmp Software - PULS, for now closed to 4 years, and throughout that time I can honestly say that they have made it easy for us to manage all Firmware/Builds/Version easily for all of our Hardware Products, all in an all-in-one software management tool!

CONS

The complexity to make 'bulk' changes to all devices/hardwares.

Luiz

Automotive, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2022

CalAmp has to work a lot to really become a reliable SaaS company

The company has to respect the needs from customers. The company currently has no room to listen to the voice of the customer, we have faced several issues related to quality of the solution and to make things worse, the process of handling OTA operations with the devices isnot reliable. Also, Crashboxx is a great solution but it does not provide primitive API functions that every SaaS product.

PROS

- Despite the fact the APIs do not provide real-time feedback for collision, they are able to provide a minimum level of information about collisions.- OTA Operations used to work great

CONS

- OTA operations with the devices are not reliable.- Crashboxx solution has no APIs to support basic SaaS operations (billing, activating, deactivating, real-time feedback)- Crashboxx solution takes up to 7 days to confirm a collision (which is absurd in a real-time situation)- It is not possible to use Crashboxx with other features from the platform (such as motionlog)

Reason for choosing CalAmp

On the past, CalAmp used to be a high quality company and there was a special focus on listening to customers needs.

Brian

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2022

Software developed by somebody who is not in the industry

Support is lacking. Overall useability needs to be looked at to simplify user navigation in the website.

PROS

The new website has a clean new look. I feel that it is sometimes a maze to find what you are looking for.

CONS

The reports are flaky and don't match real world reporting. When running certain reports i need quarterly data. The reports alerts that i can only use 30 days at a time. When i schedule reports for end of the month, they sometimes come out, sometimes don't.GPS sometimes bounces from our area clear across the country completely throwing off the reports. There needs to be some sort of catch for erroneous GPS points.

Reason for choosing CalAmp

Price

Beatrice

Utilities, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2022

I Want to Understand

For the most part it has been very helpful and allows us to see where all out drivers are and what they have completed at any time of the work day. The biggest problem is many times the GPS goes off line and we only get old information which can make it very difficult to see what's happening with our entire fleet.

PROS

GPS is the most impactful feature for our division.

CONS

Although we have many features on our software its difficult to understand all that's there and how to utilize it.

Reasons for switching to CalAmp

Not sure but I believe it was the cost.

Agnes

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

CalAmp Review

PROS

One of the most impactful features is being able to see the tech's speed limit. This feature helps a lot because it helps us determine whether a technician is going over the speed limit when we receive calls about our drivers or if they get a ticket for speeding we are able to dispute if needed.

CONS

Not really anything that I can say about cons. I really like the app.

Maximiliano

Automotive, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed November 2022

Fleet management feedback

Unfortunately it has been really unsatisfactory until now

PROS

API good coverage, features are potentially quite a lot

CONS

Really difficult to understand and to receive support, mileage tracking is critical and it is often not reliable, especially the vehicle bus odometer

Reason for choosing CalAmp

It seemed good in terms of api and mileage tracking using vehicle bus

Kathleen

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Great devices for powered tracking operations!

PROS

Great devices (TTU2830) for powered equipment that give GPS location and calculated equipment hours to our customers.

CONS

Nothing we really don't like except the CalAmp TTU2830 is a powered device with back-up battery. Not always applicable for every customer application.

Ken

Government Administration, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

County Government Asset Management

I use this daily to track my Fleet and provide data to my customers in a timely manner.

PROS

This product has many easy to use functions. It has great reliability and support.

CONS

Sometimes there is a lag in response time when doing a search.I would like a longer time period range on reports.

Brian

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed November 2022

Customer service was not very good

It used to be a good service but customer service is hard to navigate and almost non existent. I will be leaving CalAmp in the near future because of it

PROS

The old software was better. Did not like

CONS

Too slow. And maintenance program is not very user friendly

Reasons for switching to CalAmp

Better software at the time

Josh

Automotive, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2022

Good product, could use better support

PROS

Wide compatibility, updated servicing website is multitudes better and makes fleet management of calamp devices easy.

CONS

Too many issues recently with odometer support on fairly normal vehicles. Need faster integration with new vehicles.

Boris

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2022

Inaccurate positioning and delays

Hard to trust .

PROS

web based vehicle location system for work

CONS

inaccurate (some vehicles stock in the ocean, some seat on the same spot for several month, some state "being tower with the speed of 87mi/h) Delays up to 45 minutes.

Steven

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Solid platform form an industry leader

PROS

You can trust the brand and they have a solid support staff that is always willing to help

CONS

It really isn't a Calamp issue necessarily but the lead time on units can be tough at times if you are caught off guard.

gonzalo

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

nice brand , good products

long therm duration, good quality, good variaty of products, sometimes seems to be they need more people to solve issues at least en latam.

PROS

easy to use, very complete, very flexible to configure

CONS

sometimes I found some bugs during using

Junior

Utilities, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Awesome

It has been awesome so far. Cal/Amp continues to update the web page with additional features.

PROS

Being able to overlay Cal/Amp with out Cityworks maps to aid it dispatching

CONS

Nothing at this time, all of the features work properly

Penny

Utilities, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Best GPS for companies tracking

I use it for tracking, alerts, maintenance and many more without any difficult, plus the customer support is the best!

PROS

Able to see where a vehicle is at all time, speed, directions.

CONS

Hard to learn at first until you get use to it.

David

Government Administration, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2022

Inspector Routes

I think it's a good product. It is helpful.

PROS

It gives me locations of my inspectors. I can see where they have been.

CONS

It doesn't show accurate placement at times. It doesn't update often.

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