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    Kandji

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Kandji is an Apple device management software solution for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, from the company of the same name in San Diego.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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    KandjiParallels Device Management
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    Pricing Offerings
    KandjiParallels Device Management
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll plans billed annually.—
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    User Ratings
    KandjiParallels Device Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    KandjiParallels Device Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kandji
    Kandji is well-suited for the following: - Onboarding remote employees (we are a remote company). Kandji offers zero-touch deployment via Apple Business Manager, making it incredibly easy to configure our Macs. -Maintaining security and compliance for Apple devices -Managing a fleet of iOS devices in the field. Where it's less appropriate: -When there is a mixed OS environment -If you have a highly custom or script-heavy environment.
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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
    Kandji
    • Pushing custom scripts
    • New device deployment
    • App updates
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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
    Kandji
    • Problem after problem after problem with employees getting locked out of their laptops, (which was the whole reason we switched to Kandji - to prevent that from happening), employees ultimately having to factory reset their laptops to get back in, pop-ups that never go away, and continuous password sync issues.
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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
    Kandji
    I gave it an 8/10 because overall, it offers a spotless and intuitive interface that makes routine device management easy. Features such as onboarding, app deployment, and compliance enforcement are handy, thanks to the various blueprints we can set up. The only reason I didn't give it a 10 is that it lacks some advanced configurations, and the reporting aspect is not as customizable.
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    Parallels
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kandji
    With Intune, they aren’t friendly with Macs. We had to add each app individually and constantly update the packages for updates. Even when we do everything right, it still doesn’t work all the time
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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
    Kandji
    • They promised us we could add devices as needed. I even had that written in an email. However, they rescinded that promise and required us to add devices in buckets of 50. That means, since we had 55 users, we had to pay for 100 licenses.
    • Password issues were made much worse by using Kandji instead of our old MDM (Hexnode).
    • Overall, Kandji created major headaches with laptop instead of improving.
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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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    Screenshot of Zero-Touch DeploymentScreenshot of Automated patch managementScreenshot of One-Click Compliance TemplatesScreenshot of Streamlined User Interface