Jamf Now vs. Parallels Device Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jamf Now
Score 8.8 out of 10
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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 7.6 out of 10
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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
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo 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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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(4 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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.
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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
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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.
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Alludo
  • Central location for management via Webv
  • Existing ecosystem for our mac users
  • Trust and transparent set up from normal operations
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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.
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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
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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.
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Alludo
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Alternatives Considered
Jamf Software, LLC
Ease of use, price point, support, features - are all the reasons why we chose Jamf Now.
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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
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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.
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Alludo
  • Easy to deploy out to our fleet
  • quick turn around time to provision with parallels
  • ease of use from end user perspective
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