Parallels RAS Reviews

We use Parallels Remote Application Server to replace Citrix Servers and deliver a simple yet powerful tool to our end users for running published applications and accessing network resources from either mobile platforms or from other locations that are offsite. We found it simpler to get up and running and much less expensive than Citrix.

We have our software on a server and allow customers to connect via Parallels to access it remotely. This allows for an in house hosted solution across a variety of operating systems and hardware and cuts down the costs of our customers for local support and implementation and also facilitates software upgrades and updates.

Parallels RAS is being used for the deployment and access to our district's ERP system. In addition, we are publishing software for our School Psychologists requiring hardware dongles to non-compatible machines, and various home-grown solutions. Clients are using a mix of Mac & Windows devices, with speed that was not possible before when running fat clients on the machines.

We use Parallels Remote Application Server for a select few employees. We began by using it to replace Citrix for the cost. We leveraged it to provide windows only applications to our macintosh fleet as well as our offsite employees.

Our office environment is based on Dell Wyse thinclients which and laptops for remote users. With Parallels Remote Application Server, we have 24x7 secure access to our RDS environment which we use for managing and supporting our customers.
We also advise and implement at our customers for facilitating remote works in their IT environments.
And last but not least, we deliver a Managed Hosted Desktop service 'BusinessDesktop' from our data-center via Parallels RAS.

We use the RAS to make our software solutions available for customers all around the globe in an easy way and without further program installation than the Parallels Thin Client. This way we are in full control of the software and back-end modules and the customer launches the software as if it was running on their own PC.

We moved to a newer more modern domain and a new ERP system simultaneously. Our old ERP system was Windows dependent and resided on the old domain. In lieu of migrating the old ERP to use as a reference, we use Parallels RAS to allow users to access a machine on the old domain that grants access to the old ERP system.

We are using Parallels to improve the performance of terminal Services for our users in our office in the United Kingdom, where they connect back to our office here in Massachusetts. Because of the connection between our offices, using normal Remote Desktop proved to be fairly slow for the users. Once we were able to overlay Parallels, they found their performance improved greatly.

We use it to access the core applications for over 400 users at over 50 locations across the country. It is used by several departments across the organization. It solves the problem of (1) being able to manage centrally (2) being able to access the application remotely.

Parallels make delivering applications and desktop applications very easy and painless. With other offerings, the external connection is always cumbersome and expensive with gateway licenses. Parallels make the external publishing secure and easy to use. No net scalers that you need to spend days configuring and no ridiculous price points.

Parallels is used by the whole organization and by our outside clients that use our services. It solves the problem of already having a Windows application and not having the time or resources to make it into a completely web-based application. This would take us 3-5 years and millions of dollars to make this happen. Parallels Remote Application Server offers us the ability to make our Windows application look like a web application. We especially like the HTML5 portal that allows it to have no client download whatsoever, but this doesn't always help us because we really need an application that supports copy-and-paste between remote and local computers.

We use Parallels RAS across the organization to deploy applications and remote desktops to teleworkers and non-laptop users when out of office. RAS handles the creation of a secure gateway into network resources from non-domain managed computers and allows us to control that access by users and groups.

Parallels is used by the whole company, as well as to our resale customers.

Parallels Remote Application Server is used to deliver locally hosted applications for Facilities Management, Finance, Advancement, our Nurse, and even several historical applications to users remotely and while on campus. Using a single server we're able to host application environments for a lot of our key personnel. It's additionally used to allow some of our Mac users to access Windows only applications.

Parallels is being leveraged to provision applications internally and externally that do not perform well over low bandwidth links or through Microsoft Direct Access. We have a long history of utilizing Citrix and Citrix Access Gateway. We evaluated Parallels and found it was a viable solution to replace Citrix. Our user base is approx 120 users mostly in our Operational Water/Sewer teams.

Parallels Remote Application Server is the platform we use to host custom software across different industries. We host a server on AWS and use Parallels to host the custom app to the client. So each client uses RAS to access their hosted app on the server.

It's used by our whole organization. Parallels Remote Application Server allows our technicians to manage our services and our commercial agents to access our business systems.

We were looking for a solution to replace the standard way of using Terminal Services in Windows. We looked at and tested a few programs until we came across RAS. Parallels provides an easy way of providing security. Using RAS as an application server, the setup is extremely easy and deploying to users is as painless as possible.

Parallels RAS is used by all organizations. RAS has solved the deployment of client applications on local and remote end-users PCs and reduced the support requests on the IT department.

Parallels Remote Application Server is being used over the whole company to grant secure and central access to critical business applications for one of my clients. For them, this is the lowest TCO product to not only benefit from the local and remote access to their business applications from almost any device but also keep the user experience, performance and accessibility at the same high level for every user anywhere without being dependent on the state of their individual client device.

RAS is being used by about 6 remote users to access a remote application and remote desktops. It allows us to have a secure way, with multi-factor authentication, for users to get into our network and provide adequate logging for what's going on. Previously using RemoteApp, we had to put holes in our firewall and it lacked great logging.

It is used to provide all application access for about 2/3 of the users in our company, and also to provide remote application access to an additional set of users. We have deployed thin clients with a custom-developed OS which only connects to Parallels, allowing us to minimize the number of PCs which we have to deploy and manage, as well as giving us more control over application installation, configuration, and user experience.

The initial booting of a school VDI system stemmed from concerns raised by our finance department. Our accounts people were troubled by thoughts of what to do should adverse weather hamper the ability of staff to access local systems in the event of travel disruption. Following the successful implementation of limited application publishing for mainly admin staff, the new plan is to open the system up to our Chromebook user base and allow Windows apps to run on non-Windows based systems.

We use Parallels RAS to monitor and administer remotely our IT infrastructure. Information Technology uses the software. We are planning to extend its use along the whole organization. We are replacing Citrix Xen App with Parallels RAS. With this new tool, we are better managing around one hundred physical servers remotely, networking components, virtual machines, containers, in an heterogeneous mix of platforms, such as Citrix Xenserver, Proxmox Virtual Environment, Dell and SuperMicro servers, and switches and storage units (SANs and NASs).

In my organization, selected people who need a stable and fast way to operate internal applications use Parallels Remote Application Server.