Category Archives: Case Study

How the Reykjavik City Council Got Its IT to Toe the Line

Halldór-Ingi H. Guðmundsson lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, and when he isn’t off fishing or cycling he looks after the town hall’s IT in his home town. Iceland’s capital and the island’s largest town, Reykjavik has an extensive infrastructure and offers numerous critical services for its citizens. If anything is out of order here, there are […]

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The IT Challenge: How to Manage Diverse Systems Consistently

Whoever is in charge of IT is always something of a flea circus keeper. They must have everything under control—all issues that might spring up on devices at any place in their organization. They are supposed to be enablers, bringing new areas of operation to bear, but without losing control. Examples include (unofficial) bring-your-own-device (BYOD) […]

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Haberdasher Aske ́s Federation: A Venerable Foundation Relies on Parallels Mac Management

“Thanks to Parallels Mac Management, the IT teams can always monitor our entire Mac hardware and software inventory, as well as the current user logins. We can attach existing and new Mac devices to the network using a fully automated procedure.” Ian North, System Administrator at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Federation In this blog post, we will explain […]

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Reykjavik city administration manages Mac with Microsoft SCCM

In this blog post, we will talk about how Iceland’s capital Reykjavik city administration manages Mac with Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM. “The expense of the comparatively small Mac flotilla in our organization sometimes made me break out in a sweat… Thanks to Parallels Mac Management, this nightmare is now over. If I don’t […]

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Tabor College Simplifies IT

“Parallels Remote Application Server is a good solution. It has simplified IT management and significantly reduced admin tasks. Now admins get less work.” Raymond Van Den Berg – Head Systems Administrator Tabor College chose Parallels Remote Application Server to effectively publish Windows applications on remote Mac devices while easily managing the infrastructure from a centralized location. […]

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Case Study: Parallels Desktop is Vital for Cross-Platform Development

“I would recommend other developers take a good look at the new Pro Edition. With its integrated productivity and network tools and support for cloud services, it is practically the only option for programmers and app developers in my opinion.” ~ Rafael Regh, Student Developer Award-winning student-developer Rafael Regh needed to simultaneously develop professional apps […]

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Case Study: Parallels Desktop is Like a Swiss Army Knife

“With Parallels Desktop, we found a solution which offers the perfect combination of high performance, ease of use, and reliability at a very attractive price.” ~ Roman Rabitsch, founder and CEO of Angelbird Angelbird Technologies sought a solution to minimize equipment. Their developers, graphics team, and web designers were all looking for, and would benefit […]

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How W.S. Badcock Corp. Delivers Applications to 1,000 Users—Across 8 States

“High-quality cross-platform support is the #1 benefit of the switch from Citrix to Parallels Remote Application Server. Now, with the efforts of W.S. Badcock network engineers like Michael Buckley, we are able to efficiently deliver desktops and applications to Linux, Macintosh, and Windows devices with ease.” ~ Todd Zacharias, Manager, IT Network Systems Badcock chose Parallels Remote […]

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Case Study: Lush Handmade Cosmetics

“With Parallels Remote Application Server, licensing costs have significantly reduced. We are able to easily create a stable network environment that is easy to deploy and manage.” ~ Dale Hobbs, Manager, Network and Security Systems Lush Handmade Cosmetics chose Parallels Remote Application Server over Citrix to overcome licensing issues related to it (Citrix). This move resulted in […]

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Case Study: Direct Network Services BV Saved 90% of Application Publishing Costs with Parallels RAS

“We like Parallels Remote Application Server because it’s flexible and cost-effective. When compared against Citrix, we were able to save over 85% of costs for one of our customers. The support is also very good.” ~ Peter Spithoff  & Victor Esselman, Owners Direct Network Services BV chose Parallels Remote Application Server to centrally host customized applications of […]

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