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- $120 per year per user
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What is Parallels RAS?
Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) is a remote work solution that provides secure virtual access to business applications and desktops on any device or OS—from anywhere. The platform offers an agile, cloud-ready foundation and end-to-end security fueled by a centralized management console with granular policies. Companies can leverage on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud deployments and integrate with existing technology like Microsoft Azure and AWS. With Parallels RAS, organizations gain the flexibility, scalability, and IT agility to quickly adapt to changing business needs. Parallels RAS offers a single, full-featured licensing model that includes 24/7 support and access to free training. The vendor states its key benefits include:
- User experience—work from anywhere, on any device.
- Enhanced data security and compliance—centralized management console with granular policies.
- IT agility and business readiness—flexible hosting solutions to quickly scale and adapt.
- Total cost of ownership—supports BYOD and includes a simple licensing model.
- Always-on support—access to 24/7 support and free training.
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Parallels RAS Integrations
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Windows Server
- VMware ESXi
- Scale Computing Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Remote Desktop Services
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Nutanix AHV
- Microsoft (FSLogix) Profile Container
- Let's Encrypt
- MSIX App Attach
Parallels RAS Competitors
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Citrix Virtual Apps
- VMware Horizon
- Citrix Virtual Desktops
- Citrix DaaS
- VMware Horizon Cloud
Parallels RAS Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Windows Server 2008R2, 2012/R2, 2016, 2022, Windows 7, 8/8.1, 10, 11 |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web, iPadOS |
Supported Languages | English, German, Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean |
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Paralleling Productivity.
- Easy and secure access and management of data from different databases
- Robust Virtualization allowing us to access our work environment from whichever device.
- Data encryption and content zipping
- v have more advanced notice of maintenance before it happens, as this can disrupt their work
- I would love it if they gave us an advanced notice of maintenance before it happens as it sometimes disrupts our work.
- Drag n drop publish windows apps to any OS
- Digital work spaces
- Load balancing
- Remote App publishing
- Performance
- Security
- Ease of use
Progressive Platform for Remote Management.
- Practical data encryption, which increases safety.
- Speedy customer help, which brings progress and more satisfaction.
- The productivity of every employee, whether they work in any location through remote system access.
- Parallels Remote has an aggressive systems request and this calls for extra machines.
- Parallels Remote has a price challenge, which demands some businesses to invest heavily.
- Other features from Parallels Remote are perfect and useful.
Sustainable and Efficient Remote Enhancement Platform.
- Parallels Remote provides an extensive and resourceful user experience.
- Parallels Remote increases the support offered by the customer desk.
- The data support, compliance and consolidation are managed by Parallels Remote.
- Parallels Remote is quite stable, but it also calls for extra machines and systems.
- Parallels Remote is fruitful to different companies, but small enterprises are slightly ignored.
- However, Parallels Remote has perfected the remote access procedure or act.
Parallels Remote Application Server Review
- Very high speed and no data transfer lag
- Secure and safe platform
- It works with any device and all platforms
- Add an internal VPN to connect to networks other than the work environment wifi
- Building an easier application to connect clients
Substantial Virtual Support Program.
- Parallels Remote has absolute data compliance and security.
- Besides, Parallels Remote has virtual work system, which gives more collaboration.
- The tool is IT prepared, where credible integration is well enhanced.
- The price demands that Parallels Remote requires is hefty.
- The new users experience may take a while.
- However, Parallels Remote is quality in its performance and there is the free training.
Parallels RAS has more than delivered on our expectations
- Host applications in the cloud
- Allow access to applications regardless of platform (Windows/Mac/Linux)
- Excellent security & access filtering
- Difficult setup for single sign on
- IP filtering for customers using Parallels client has some issues (with workarounds)
Paralles and RAS a great team !
- Easy to use
- Fail-safe
- Customizable configuration interface
- Improved Linux client
Parallels Ras Review.
- Html5 gateway.
- Simplicity of installing/managing.
- Compatibility
- File transfers in the html5 interface.
- Clipboard transfers in the html5 interface.
Does what it needs to do.
- The printing driver is quite excellent, both in the Parallels Client and on the HTML5 client.
- Setup is incredibly easy; the default setup is very functional, and adding features is a breeze.
- Speed is very acceptable in general for end-users, the clients adapt quite well to the amount of bandwidth available, and features are available to adjust further.
- Automation through PowerShell is great.
- Support is usually quite fast and efficient.
- Lots of undocumented error codes, and documentation, in general, is often lacking and often very outdated for RAS specifically.
- Upgrades between versions are sometimes flaky; lots of testing is needed to ensure you have a functional gateway after an upgrade.
- The Parallels console is generally quite good, but some changes are applied instantly, but others are applied after confirmation with no real feedback to the administrator.
Parallels RAS simplifies SaaS application delivery.
- Remote access to the cloud service.
- Simplified implementation with detailed documentation.
- Parallels RAS technical support.
- Ease of access and installation to the end-users.
- Enable multi-device access, controlling the concurrent access by users.
- Enable users' access to their personal computer drives when accessing the cloud services through Parallels RAS.
- Limiting and controlling the access to server resources for the users.
- Need improvement in managing the resolution of service accessed via RAS Client (works well via RAS Browser, though).
- Improve access to personal and organizational print and scanning devices from the cloud service.
When the product speaks for itself!
- Support is Top Notch!
- Easy to configure policies
- Easy Sync with AD
- UI, could be better. Specially for HTML clients.
- Interaction with end-user file system is very combursome and does not allow easy access.
Very Happy with Parallels Remote Application Server
- Simplify access.
- Setup is easy compared to Citrix.
- Very stable and reliable.
- I honestly cannot think of any.
Simple to configure and use
- Published apps
- Local printers
- Support
- It just seems to work
- Active directory integration.
- detailed logging of incoming connections, so you can see what user account is trying to connect from which IP address at what time.
- Easy to setup, for example, the HTML5 environment was already created while configuring the basic steps of the farm.
- Announcement of maintenance beforehand.
- Remote control of the connected user computer, not the session.
- Parallels Remote Application Server Client 19 now is asking for an email address? This is weird.
A solid product for a good price, but support is mediocre
- Very easy to set up
- Works well with profile redirection
- Easy to switch servers in and out of service, for easy maintenance.
- In switching servers in and out of service, it would be nice if Parallels migrated the user session immediately to an available server. As it is, you need to wait for them to close their apps before they are out of the old server, or kick them out, which ends their session. (Note : I am still on version 16, so this may be a thing now)
- I've found that Parallels needs to be set up with the HTTPS cert directly on the app in order to host secure traffic for the HTML5 site. Would be nice if it allowed HTTPS traffic to be sent to it via the load balancer, so the cert can be managed there instead.
just work anywhere
- easy to implement
- seamless operation on local systems
- fast screen output
- security
- multi os
- better HTML5 only implementation
- browser based management
In our organization Parallels RAS allows users to access sensitive data with 2FA worldwide
Users are able to access the sensitive data from any point. Parallels's comprehensive server/feature management allows our IT department to be very flexible.
- Centralized servers status view (memory, disk, CPU)
- Flexible permissions (users, groups)
- Possibility to customize the corporate WWW portal view
- It would be great to have the option for temporary license. For example 10 licenses for 1 month, instead of yearly subscription.
Parallels Remote Application Server - it works every time!
- OS independent; work from various devices
- Does not need a plugin to work as it works in HTML5 just fine
- Redundancy model using HALB
- VDI out of the box without the need for additional software
- Ability to Shadow sessions
- Ability to better finger print client OS and version and deny access if client OS is obsolete. This worked in windows 7 but in windows 10 - it does not detect os level
- Ability to customize the GUI/frontend more than currently possible
Goodbye Citrix.... hello Parallels Remote Application Server
- Simple RDP / Application access
- Setup is a breeze compared to competitors
- Simple layout for management
- In constant development
- I feel it could give more options in the Parallels Remote Application Server client around connection settings
- Personally not a fan of the default settings applied to some settings
- Parallels Remote Application Server tenant broker could be better sign posted
Parallels Remote Application Server is our go-to Citrix replacement because of it's easy implementation and security options (SAML)
- SAML Integration
- Customization
- High Availability
- We had a bug present for many months before a fix was implemented
- Better integration with Azure functionality would be a plus
- It's versatile - can be accessed from almost any device.
- It's secure - it gives administrators the ability to only allow users remote access to applications they need.
- It allows for a flexible deployment model with redundancy .
- The initial design and setup takes some time to work out.
- The name recognition for users outside the IT field is limited; they are more familiar with competing products.
- Technical support is not always as responsive as they could be when there are issues.
Parallels - The Good and the Bad
- External Access
- Full Desktop Capabilities
- Default Policies
- Printing not always working
Parallels RAS saved our bacon
- Access from anywhere with an Internet connection.
- Easy to manage.
- Excellent price/performance.
- Managing non-standard printers (large format - KIP printers, HP plotters.
- Easier setup for MFA.
- Easier setup for non-standard display sizes.
Happy with Parallels Remote Application Server
- Parallels Remote Application Server provides access and published applications to specified users or groups via Active Directory user or group privileges
- Parallels Remote Application Server provides on the fly remote access via HTML5-Gateway
- Parallels Remote Application Server provides remote printing service to local printers
- Although better since v18 connecting to local resources (e.g., HDDs and similar) could be faster.
- As far as we know, HTML5 access cannot be limited to certain users or user groups. Anyone who knows how it works can use this access as long as they have user privileges for our system. It would be nice to be able to configure user privileges for the feature.