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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jamf School

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AJamf 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

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AParallels 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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    Jamf SchoolParallels Device Management
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Jamf SchoolParallels Device Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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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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    Parallels
    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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    Parallels
    • 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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    Parallels
    • 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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    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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    Parallels
    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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    Parallels
    • 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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