Congrats! I've seen the problem of group password management over and over again at so many companies. I hope your team's happy with the outcome and that you get to keep working on making this solution even better.
Watch out, Meldium, LogMeIn likes to completely change it's game plan on its customers (LogMeIn mobile App drama) with zero sympathy. I wonder how they'll treat an acquisition.
We're nervous too. This is 2 apps we're dependent on getting acquired and potentially completely mangled. The first amazingly shut off all support for the UK (We're UK-based) immediately. Better for customers? Ha!
Are you referring to the retirement of LogMeIn Free and the "I've been using it for years with 100s of customers (in violation of half of your EULA), how could you do this to me??!" wailing and theatrics that followed?
That was an absolutely brilliant move on their part. They basically gifted all their over-entitled and obnoxious freeloaders to TeamViewer :) If anything, I'd be happy to get acquired by a company that got their shit together.
I'm referring to the LogMeIn Ignition drama, the mobile app, not their free subscription.
LogMeIn had a $29 or $39 (I forget) application called LogMeIn Ignition that was sold as a method to connect to your computers. The expectation, rightfully so, was that this extremely expensive (for a mobile app) app was all the user needed to access X amount of computers using LogMeIn Free. There was never, back then, any mention that you needed to ALSO pay a subscription fee to access devices.
Then out of the blue the users were told that they had to pay for a LogMeIn subscription to access their computers.
That is scummy as hell and plenty of corporate customers (myself included) have migrated away from them and now use paid services at TeamViewer, etc.
Some users, like myself, bought LogMeIn Ignition for emergencies. I don't think I ever even used it. I bought it specifically to remote in to my mediaPC and my desktop at home in the event I needed to retrieve a file or fix my Plex server.
I'm totally on their side about making MSPs and IT consultants who used it as a jumping point to their clients computers pay. They should have done that a long time ago - the difference is they didn't pay for an app at all. I paid more than I've paid for any mobile app for Ignition.
I am an Ignition user and at first I got 6 months free Pro license and then they sent a "clarification" saying that Pro wasn't required to continue using Ignition after these 6 months. Ignition basically remained as it was - free (though they did butcher the communication about that).
You're a newer user, I believe. They gave 6 months after the Ignition users flipped out about having SEVEN days to upgrade their accounts. I've had Ignition for 3+ years.
It's been awhile, I could be misremembering things a bit.
Meldium is an amazing tool. We use it at Screenhero and it's been indispensable. The acquisition makes perfect sense, since Meldium truly does "LogMeIn"! Congrats to the amazing team behind Meldium!
"The actual implementation continually blows my mind. You're basically using a man-in-the-middle attack for good, if I don't betray my poor understanding of the concept. A less malignant analogy would be to liken it to the way telephone companies operated switchboards before individual telephone numbers connected people directly. You had to call the central and ask the operator (i.e. Meldium) to talk to your friend Frank McFakeperson in Ipsum, South Dakota (i.e. MailChimp) and the operator would patch you through to them seamlessly."
Is there any way to integrate internal-only cloud hosted applications with Meldium? It looks awesome, in a similar space to OneLogin which is incredibly clunky by comparison, but for our usage, it needs to work with our internal apps too.
Thanks Brian! We have some big ambitions to extend our SSO / password vault to way more apps and devices, and we think LogMeIn is an awesome partner to help us kill off passwords completely.
