Jamf School vs. Parallels Device Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jamf School
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Jamf School is a purpose-built mobile device management solution (MDM) for schools that gives users the ability to deploy and manage Apple devices. Jamf School management system also pairs with three apps, Jamf School Teacher, Jamf School Parent and Jamf School Student.N/A
Parallels Device Management
Score 7.0 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
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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7.0
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Jamf SchoolParallels Device Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Jamf Software, LLC
Jamf school is amazing at device management as far as tracking devices, installing apps, removing apps, pushing out updates, and putting persons in specific groups or classes based on the needs of the student/teacher. There could be improvement in the instance where you send an iPad for repair and it returns with a new SN and you have to swap out the license from one SN to another.
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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
  • Concise management
  • Data tracking
  • Instructional tool
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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
  • Steep learning curve
  • Cannot track MacBook locations
  • Unassigning and Reassigning devices when changing SNs from repairs is complicated
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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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Usability
Jamf Software, LLC
For the most part, Jamf School does everything it is programmed to do. However, there are a few instances where we have run into snags. This is to be expected with any software though and working customer support has always been helpful. Customer support does their best to help with each scenario we've had issues with.
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Alludo
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Alternatives Considered
Jamf Software, LLC
We originally tried an MDM from Cisco and it did not deliver in useability or features like Jamf
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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
  • Significantly reduced the time of managing devices on the class or using configurator
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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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