Jamf School vs. Parallels Device Management

Jamf is user-friendly and easy to set up. It allows Ipads to be managed in easy-to-understand groupings. It also allows teachers to take ownership of choosing and distributing apps. The safety features for students allow restricting of websites, apps, and even clearing some of the "clutter" of built-in IOS apps that you don't want on students screens such as news and measuring apps. I really enjoy using this product.

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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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• Concise management
• Data tracking
• Instructional tool

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• Central location for management via Webv
• Existing ecosystem for our mac users
• Trust and transparent set up from normal operations

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• Speed of pulling down apps from ASM
• Device Location Finding
• Jamf teacher

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• 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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We originally tried an MDM from Cisco and it did not deliver in useability or features like Jamf

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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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• Significantly reduced the time of managing devices on the class or using configurator

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• 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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