Parallels delivers on our remote access needs
April 24, 2025

Parallels delivers on our remote access needs

andrew knechel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS)

Remote access to legacy server based applications is a real challenge that we were able to securely address using Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS). The performance was great and our user base appreciates the ease of use. For the investment, Parallels has completely met our needs and we would enthusiastically recommend Parallels for any organization who needs to securely provide remote access to applications. We have also used Parallels Remote Applications Server (Parrallels RAS) to run Windows based apps on Apple laptops.

Pros

  • allows remote access to legacy applications
  • allows access to applications built for one operating system from a different operating system
  • Increases performance for applications which struggle to perform properly over network hops

Cons

  • Parallels Remote Application Servers (Parallels RAS) does what we need in the way we need it so we see no need for improvement.
  • Addressed the need to remotely access legacy systems without having to migrate to new systems
  • allowed or organization to access Windows based applications on Apple laptops removing the need to migrate to a new application
  • One of our internal applications experiences slow performance when the application had to traverse several network hops. We used Parallels to run the application directly on the sever, which addressed the issue and removed the need to migrate to a new application.
Parallels was easy to set up and has been no problem for our user base to use.
very quickly. We simply installed the application on the users computer, gave them a tutorial on how to use it, and the user was able to proceed from there with no problem.
We haven't evaluated it against anything else. It works well for us so there was no need to look elsewhere

Do you think Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) again?

Yes

Parallels excels at [providing remote access to legacy applications. We have not used it in any other way so I cannot comment as to areas it is not well suited for,

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