The blog post highlights ControlUp's comprehensive library of interactive, self-guided demos, designed to allow IT professionals to explore the platform's full capabilities for managing and optimizing digital employee experience across diverse IT environments without requiring a login or sales interaction.
- The demos cover ControlUp's core functionalities, including real-time monitoring and control for physical and cloud desktops (Windows 365, Amazon WorkSpaces), VDI (Citrix, VMware Horizon), Digital Employee Experience (DEX), and compliance.
- Key features showcased include live remote management, troubleshooting and remediation action scripts, employee sentiment analysis, synthetic monitoring, DaaS cost optimization, and integrations with platforms like ServiceNow and Microsoft Intune.
- These self-service demonstrations offer a practical preview of the ControlUp DEX platform's unified capabilities, enabling informed decision-making before committing to a trial or consultation.
If you’re evaluating ControlUp and want to see the platform in action before scheduling a call or starting a trial, you’re in luck. ControlUp publishes a growing library of interactive, self-guided demos with no login required, no sales rep needed. You can click through real product workflows at your own pace and get a feel for how each capability works.
This guide organizes every available demo by product area so you can jump straight to what matters most for your environment.
ControlUp for Desktops
ControlUp for Desktops gives IT teams real-time visibility and control over physical endpoints, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and Amazon WorkSpaces. These demos walk through the platform’s core capabilities for managing and troubleshooting desktop environments.
ControlUp for Desktops Overview A high-level walkthrough of ControlUp for Desktops, covering the main dashboard, endpoint visibility, and the experience monitoring capabilities that underpin the product.
Live Remote Management An overview of live management capabilities, showing how IT can monitor active sessions and take immediate action on endpoints without waiting for a helpdesk ticket. (17,698 views)
Support for Windows 365 See how ControlUp extends its monitoring and management capabilities to Windows 365 Cloud PCs, giving IT the same depth of visibility on cloud-hosted desktops as on physical machines.
Support for Amazon WorkSpaces Explore how ControlUp integrates with Amazon WorkSpaces environments, providing IT administrators with real-time session data and troubleshooting tools for WorkSpaces users.
Remote Assistant Deep Dive A detailed look at the Remote Assistant feature, which enables IT to provide hands-on support to end users without requiring separate remote-control tools.
ServiceNow Integration This demo shows how ControlUp connects with ServiceNow, allowing IT teams to tie endpoint telemetry and incident data directly into their existing ITSM workflows.
Remote Control A focused look at ControlUp’s remote control capabilities, demonstrating how IT can take control of a session or desktop to diagnose and resolve issues in real time.
Troubleshooting and Remediation Action Scripts See how ControlUp’s scripted Actions work, enabling IT teams to run remediation steps, gather data, or automate responses directly from the console.
Digital Employee Experience
These demos focus on the employee-facing side of Digital Employee Experience (DEX) what end users see and how IT can leverage sentiment data and self-service tools.
Employee Sentiment Overview Explore ControlUp’s employee sentiment capabilities, which surface how employees feel about their digital workspace experience and help IT prioritize issues that have the greatest human impact.
Employee View – Troubleshooting DEX Issues This demo walks through the employee-facing experience, showing how users can report issues and how IT receives that context alongside endpoint telemetry to speed up troubleshooting.
ControlUp for VDI
ControlUp for VDI is purpose-built for virtual desktop infrastructure environments including Citrix, VMware Horizon, and similar platforms. These demos cover the core monitoring and troubleshooting workflows for VDI administrators.
ControlUp for VDI Overview A broad introduction to ControlUp’s VDI monitoring capabilities, including session visibility, host performance, and the real-time console that VDI admins rely on.
Identify VDI Performance Issues Walk through how ControlUp surfaces performance degradation in a VDI environment, correlating session, machine, and infrastructure metrics to pinpoint root cause.
Shadowing VDI Sessions See how IT can shadow live VDI sessions for troubleshooting or support purposes, without disrupting the user’s active session.
Troubleshoot Remote Workers A scenario-based demo focused on diagnosing performance and connectivity issues for remote workers connecting through VDI infrastructure.
ControlUp for Compliance
ControlUp for Compliance provides IT teams with continuous endpoint compliance monitoring, patch visibility, and the ability to define and track custom compliance issues across the endpoint estate.
ControlUp for Compliance Overview An introduction to the compliance monitoring capabilities within ControlUp, covering how the platform tracks policy adherence across managed endpoints.
Patching This demo focuses on patch visibility and management, showing how IT can assess patch status across the environment and act on gaps directly from the ControlUp console.
Remediating Custom Compliance Issues Explore how organizations can define their own compliance checks and track custom issues specific to their environment, policies, or regulatory requirements.
ControlUp DEX Platform
ControlUp DEX Platform Overview A top-level view of the ControlUp DEX platform, connecting the dots across endpoint monitoring, employee experience, and autonomous management to show how the platform operates as a unified whole.
Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic monitoring helps IT proactively test application availability and performance from the end-user perspective before issues affect real users.
Synthetic Monitoring Overview See how ControlUp’s Synthetic Monitoring simulates user workflows to continuously validate application health and surface degradation before it becomes an incident.
Device Health and Rightsizing Dashboard
Device Health and Rightsizing Dashboard This demo walks through the Device Health and Rightsizing Dashboard, which helps IT identify underperforming or over-resourced endpoints and make data-driven decisions about hardware refresh and cloud PC sizing.
DaaS IQ
DaaS IQ provides cloud cost visibility and optimization intelligence for Desktop-as-a-Service environments, helping organizations align spending with actual usage.
DaaS IQ Overview Learn how DaaS IQ surfaces cloud desktop cost and usage data so IT and finance teams can manage DaaS spending more effectively.
Windows 365 Migration
ControlUp Migrate for Windows 365 Explore how ControlUp Migrate streamlines the process of moving users from traditional VDI or physical desktops to Windows 365, including readiness assessment, migration execution, and post-migration monitoring.
Unified Communications
Unified Comms – Live Caller Dashboard See how ControlUp monitors unified communications platforms in real time, with a live caller dashboard that gives IT visibility into call quality and session health as it happens.
ControlUp Enrich
ControlUp Enrich – Microsoft Intune This demo covers ControlUp Enrich integration with Microsoft Intune, showing how IT can combine ControlUp’s real-time telemetry with Intune’s management data for richer endpoint context and faster issue resolution.
Where to Go from Here
These interactive demos provide a realistic preview of each product area without requiring a sandbox environment or live installation. If a demo interests you, visit controlup.com to learn more or contact the team to discuss your specific environment.
