Jamf Now vs. Parallels Device Management

Parallels Device Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Jamf Now	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Jamf Now, formerly Bushel, is a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution for iPads, iPhones, and Macs in the workplace. According to the vendor, Jamf Now makes device management accessible and affordable for everyone, so businesses can support their users without help from IT. Jamf Now helps configure settings on all Apple devices quickly and consistently over the air and allows users to manage their devices by centrally deploying apps anytime from anywhere. Jamf Now can be…	N/A
Parallels Device Management	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Parallels Device Management enables users to centrally administer PCs, iPhones and iPads, including Mac management, with a simple plug-in. The vendor states the solution: Extends Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) for unified device administration. Improves IT performance, reducing duplicate work and incident resolution time. Is straightforward to deploy, requiring no additional infrastructure or training.	N/A

Pricing

Jamf Now

Parallels Device Management

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Jamf Now	Parallels Device Management
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

$2 per month per Mac or iOS device. First 3 devices are free. Price per month per device, billed monthly. No minimum. Cancel at any time; no questions asked. As your needs change, add or remove devices. We bill you based on current number of managed devices.

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	Jamf Now	Parallels Device Management

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User Ratings
	Jamf Now	Parallels Device Management
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (5 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Jamf Now	Parallels Device Management
Likelihood to Recommend	Jamf Software, LLC Anywhere with under 100 Apple devices, I would recommend this service. It was always so simple to add a device you recently purchased to your inventory and be able to check in on it anytime. If they had more than 100, I would recommend Jamf Pro, the enterprise version of this software. Incentivized Logan Wiser IT Director Read full review	Alludo We had a medium size fleet of macbook pros that we had deployed and had parallels already installed on them. We looked into a way to standardize and track these devices and started looking into Parallels as a solution to help us with this. Parallels was a good fit due to the fact that most of these machines already had the base system already installed Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Jamf Software, LLC Resetting passwords remotely.. Locking or wiping a device. Pushing new apps out to all or one iPad. Controlling what apps are installed on the iPads. Steven Nielsen Senior Project Manager Read full review	Alludo Central location for management via Webv Existing ecosystem for our mac users Trust and transparent set up from normal operations Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Jamf Software, LLC I would like to see some more advanced functions for the iOS supervised mode. Maybe pushing iOS updates? Right now we can only see if it requires an update, but can't schedule an update time, etc. I would like to see Jamf Now work with Apple to allow apps with in-app purchases that can be used with Jamf Now. Right now some apps don't have two versions available in the app store (a full version, and a free version with in-app purchases), so the single version free app with in-app purchases can't be used across our enterprise environment. :( They could do with a better lost device activation lock. Currently, you can only lock a device from being erased and re-setup if you associate an icloud account with it and turn it on to find the lost device. Incentivized Ricky Jordan Senior Computer Systems Admin Read full review	Alludo It can be a bit difficult with a large fleet of computers Can be a bit hard to troubleshoot if there are issues There are other tools that are cheaper that do the same thing albeit not as well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Jamf Software, LLC Working in an environment with just macOS devices, Jamf Now is a great option. With Jamf Now, you get details with configurations that get down to the fine details of each device. Without Jamf Now, it would be a much bigger headache managing our Apple devices. Overall, this application makes our jobs much easier. Incentivized Ryan Meza Systems Engineer Read full review	Alludo No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Jamf Software, LLC No body is perfect and occasionally, but rare, it take a little bit to get a reply on the chat, but overall as compared to other chat sessions it is pretty responsive and fairly quick. They allow you to upload a screen shot if that helps and to reply with solutions via email so I have it as a reference in writing for future problems. Steven Nielsen Senior Project Manager Read full review	Alludo No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Jamf Software, LLC Ease of use, price point, support, features - are all the reasons why we chose Jamf Now. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Alludo We looked at a product called virtual box to do something similar to what we saw from Parallels but it was much more manual for us to deploy out the tool and we would have had to do a lot more work to manage all the systems we have in the fleet Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Jamf Software, LLC Low Cost: 2-3 dollars a device for a month was cheaper than the time spent repairing the Mac server. Incentivized Logan Wiser IT Director Read full review	Alludo Easy to deploy out to our fleet quick turn around time to provision with parallels ease of use from end user perspective Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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