Boost Margin
Offer high-margin SaaS, DaaS and VDI services and increase revenue per user by delivering virtual applications and desktops with Parallels RAS.
Boost Your Business with the Parallels Service Provider (PSP) Program
Support your customers in the shift from on-premises to the cloud—while creating new revenue streams.
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Secure Data
Protect customers’ data from unauthorized access by centralizing, monitoring and restricting access to applications and desktops.
Incremental or Enhanced Services
Enable your customers to implement BYOD and CYOD policies, digital workspace and flexible working—while increasing productivity.
Become More Agile
Provide reliable business continuity and accessibility by leveraging on-premises, hybrid or public cloud deployments.
Join our next webinar to learn how the PSP Program allows you to deliver high-demand, profitable, managed application delivery.
- Add Software as a Service (SaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to your service offerings
- Create highly profitable monthly recurring revenue (MRR)
- Leverage monthly pay-per-use Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) licensing and automated billing
- Start with a simple program, with no costs or fees
- Implement and manage effortlessly without additional IT resources
Advantages of Partnering with Parallels
- A dedicated channel account manager
- Scalable solution that allows your business to grow as needed
- Simplified infrastructure deployment and management
- Increase margins by reducing overhead costs
- Provide customizable solutions on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid environments
- Usage-based SPLA license structure and simple customized usage and billing reports
- Pay-per-use licensing model and no upfront license fees
- Free online training and certification courses
Parallels RAS has a sustainable price and an intuitive user interface, making your services more affordable and competitive while increasing your profit margin. Contact us at psp@parallels.com for more information.
Why Businesses Are Shifting to the Cloud
Driven by the need for mobility, flexibility and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) reduction, business leaders are shifting from on-premises to managed application and desktop delivery services and the cloud. By leveraging a managed service model, businesses can focus on more critical initiatives.
Take Advantage of Cloud Adoption
As part of the PSP program, you’ll be able to help your clients quickly adopt a cloud strategy to access digital workspaces from anywhere at any time, seamlessly. Parallels RAS empowers SPs to offer native-like, full-featured desktops and applications to any device, operating system or platform.
Help Your Clients to Achieve Their Goals
Parallels RAS streamlines Remote Desktop Session Hosts (RDSH) and VDI management, reducing IT overheads and helping you to deliver more price-competitive services without sacrificing margins. Help your customers to implement bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and choose-your-own-device (CYOD) policies, digital workspace and flexible working. Enable clients to achieve their goal of reducing IT overhead and freeing up IT resources while increasing the quality of service and improving user productivity.
Features of Parallels RAS
Windows Virtual Desktop Integration
Your customers can extend Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities by integrating, configuring and unifying all virtual workloads and resources from a centralized console. Integrate Parallels RAS deployments with Windows Virtual Desktop, delivering a single solution to end users.
Simplified Access with Parallels HTML5 Client
Enable your customers to access applications and desktops from anywhere, at any time, from any HTML5 browser. The Parallels HTML5 Client is an OS-independent, web-based application that provides an alternative method for users to securely access resources without having to install the Parallels® Client on their personal devices.
Auto-Provisioning and Auto-Scaling
Maintain high and consistent performance for virtual applications and desktops by automatically monitoring and scaling on-demand computing resources based on templates. Parallels RAS can dynamically create, remove, release and load balance Windows-based OSs on pre-defined criteria, ensuring sudden load spikes are easily managed without any manual action required.
White Labeling (Customization)
Provide your customers with a unified and personalized “look and feel” for their applications by customizing Parallels® HTML5 Client Portal and Windows Client user interface, enabling the same working environment no matter the device or location.
Multi-Tenancy
Implement a cost-effective solution that can easily manage multiple isolated tenants in the same Parallels RAS infrastructure. Maximize resource usage by sharing the access layer, including gateways and load balancers, among independent Parallels RAS Farms or Sites representing tenants while keeping data segregated and secure.
REST API and PowerShell
Save time and costs while maximizing resources, by enabling the automation of common, complex and repetitive tasks using REST APIs and/or PowerShell cmdlets. Enable easier integration of third-party tools and technologies with scheduling and workflow applications into the Parallels RAS ecosystem.
FSLogix Profile Container Integration
Your customers can easily deploy, configure and manage FSLogix Profile Containers as the preferred integrated user profile management solution from the Parallels RAS Console or Management Portal.
Automated image optimizations
Built-in automated image optimization capabilities for RDSH, VDI or Windows Virtual Desktop workloads improve the user experience for your customers, reduces IT infrastructure costs and accelerates time-to-production.
UX Evaluator and Advanced Session Metrics
IT Administrators can improve service delivery by pinpointing issues faster and more accurately with the User Experience (UX) Evaluator metric, combined with a complete view of user session details.
SAML SSO Authentication
Provide instant customer onboarding and deliver better services by integrating Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication technology. Allow customers to use their corporate credentials to log in to your services. When using SAML SSO authentication, users are not required to re-enter their credentials to login and launch their applications or desktops, providing a smoother user experience.
Multifactor Authentication (MFA) and Smart Cards
Provide additional layers of security for your customer data by using multifactor authentication before granting access to published applications and desktops. Parallels RAS integrates with third-party security solutions using RADIUS or others such as Deepnet DualShield, Gemalto’s SafeNet and Azure MFA (NPS). Additionally, Smart cards are supported.
Ultra-Fast Log-in with Session Pre-launch
Enable users to login and access their applications or desktops faster, increasing productivity by leveraging AI-based session pre-launch technology. Through Parallels RAS machine learning capabilities, user login habits are analyzed and sessions are pre-launched in memory, significantly reducing login time while distributing the back-end workload to prevent log-on storms during peak hours.
Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Provide your customers with a flexible and agile approach to meet business requirements in shifting to the cloud by supporting on-premises, hybrid, multi and public cloud deployments. Leverage Windows Virtual Desktop to deploy all virtual resources from a central console. Utilize Microsoft Azure scalability capabilities along with Parallels RAS automation to deploy, manage and maintain RDSH and VDI infrastructures.
Superior Mobile Experience
Customers using a mobile device can access workspaces wherever they are while enjoying a consistent user experience, resulting in higher productivity across devices. Native gestures, multi-tasking and quick keypads, among other Parallels RAS proprietary mobile features, ensure an easy-to-use and local workspace-like experience for the user.
Printing Redirection
Ready out-of-the-box and easy-to-use, Parallels RAS Universal Printing enables your customers to instantly tap into local printers while accessing their digital workspace, without needing to download or configure drivers.
Single Pane of Glass Management
Free up time and cut costs by centrally managing administrative tasks, such as deploying servers, publishing applications, monitoring resources and providing helpdesk assistance from a single pane of glass—the Parallels RAS Console. The web-based Management Portal enhances mobility, enabling administrators to work on-the-go.
High Availability Load Balancer (HALB)
Reduce the possibility of your customers experiencing downtime by leveraging HALB, an included component that provides load balancing for Parallels RAS Secure Client Gateways, ensuring that loads are distributed among the gateways. Provide consistent user experience while mitigating downtime due to gateway failures.
Legacy Application Support and Containerization
Manage and deliver legacy and newer applications simultaneously by leveraging the support capabilities of Windows Server OS (2008/ R2, 2012/R2, 2016 & 2019). Parallels RAS offers multiple OS support in the same environment. In addition, Microsoft App-V and other application containerization solutions are supported within the Parallels RAS environment to mitigate application conflicts and compatibility issues.