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Boost Business Mobility

Modernize your organization by supporting mobile working.

  • Enable employees to work from anywhere on devices of choice, including smartphones.
  • Secure and protect your corporate assets by centralizing and monitoring data.
  • Meet business demands with on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud deployments.

Improve business mobility with Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that enables the seamless delivery of applications and desktops to any device.

Business Mobility

Utilize virtual workspace technologies to increase employee satisfaction.

Bolster Employee Productivity

Productivity is maximized when employees have fewer disruptions and spend less time commuting. Businesses that enable remote working and flexible hours have higher employee satisfaction and greater talent retention.

Lower Overhead Costs

Enterprise mobility can reduce overhead significantly. By enabling employees to work remotely, an organization may greatly reduce rent and the cost of utilities for a large office space. The savings accrued can get channeled to other pressing business matters.

Simplify Business Continuity Planning

Every company faces the prospect of disruption from planned events like office relocation to unplanned catastrophes. If employees cannot access applications and files, business suffers. Business mobility technologies enable employees to access work data despite disruptions.

Intuitive user experience (UX)

Parallels RAS enhances business mobility with smooth and effortless access from any device.

No training required

Deliver applications and desktops with a local-like experience across all devices, reducing the learning curve to virtually zero.

Native gestures

Mobile device native gestures

Use iOS and Android gestures—such as swipe, drag, tap to click and zoom in—with any Windows application.

Multitasking

Multi-tasking

Easily switch between different applications to work simultaneously on several tasks.

Quick keypads

Quick keypads

Simplify complex and frequent actions, such as copy and paste, by creating customizable key shortcuts.

Fast application response time

Fast application response time

Experience real-time interaction when performing tasks in applications and desktops.

Display optimization

Display optimization

Diminish eye fatigue by providing applications that scale and resize to fit the entire screen on any device.

Effortless printing

Effortless printing

Utilize local printers to work seamlessly with published applications to print instantly without extra configurations.

24/7 Access

24/7 Access

Seamless UX on any device and any location to enable dynamic access anytime, keeping the business up and running.

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Henley High School
“Very simple and fast to setup and run. Parallels RAS achieves what we needed. Our staff can now access our apps and storage remotely using any mobile device, at any time of the day.”

Andrew Dodd

ICT Manager, Henley High School

Protect your Data

Ensure corporate data is safe and secure with remote working.

Remain compliant with laws and regulations

With an increase in job-jumping, third-party contractors, mobile workstations and cyberattacks, security and data management are a challenge.

By deploying digital workspaces, organizations can centralize data and monitor and restrict access, reducing the risks of noncompliance.

Reduce the Risk of Data Breaches

A data loss, leakage or breach can incur huge costs and damage to an organization’s reputation, even resulting in shutting down the business in the most severe cases.

Maintain data integrity by providing data access only to trusted sources, enforcing policies and restricting access based on geographic location, device, and MAC address.

Implement safeguards to your intellectual property (IP)

When work entails handling confidential product designs, source codes, and patents, the last thing your business needs are vulnerabilities caused by inadvertent leaks or malicious activity.

Restrict access to IP with encryption and preventing unauthorized sources filtered by geographical locations, MAC address, device and more.

Security and Monitoring

Parallels RAS has a wide range of tools to help organizations monitor and secure applications in multi-cloud environments

Multifactor authentication

Multifactor Authentication

A second-level authentication can be enabled to provide a high level of protection with different types of security tokens for multifactor authentication.

Smart Card Authentication

Smart Card Authentication

Utilize easy-to-use smart card authentication on a server-client connection, allowing organizations to authenticate users’ access to published applications and desktops.

Kiosk Mode

Kiosk Mode

Allow administrators to convert Windows devices running Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 into a secure Kiosk-like mode without replacing the operating system.

Encryption Protocols

Encryption Protocols

Parallels RAS Secure Client Gateway uses SSL or FIPS 140-2 protocol to encrypt connections, helping organizations adhere to data compliance policies.

Advanced Filtering

Advanced Filtering

Granular filtering rules are created to restrict user access. IT staff can define several filtering rules to decide who has authorization.

Data Segregation

Data Segregation

Allow the creation of an unlimited number of independent sites inside the same farm. No data can be shared between sites, ensuring data protection.

Clipboard Restriction

Clipboard Restriction

Avoid any unwanted data leakage from published applications by disabling paste and copy on the clipboard, reducing the risk that sensitive data can be stolen.

Client Policy

Client Policy

A client policy is a set of rules defined by the administrator to manage, control, and restrict the settings options available to users.

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Streamline IT Solutionsl
“Due to HIPAA and eHPI security requirements, Parallels RAS has been a solution we can offer our clients that both meets HIPAA and our management expectations as a MSP.”

Tracy Acord

Sr. Network Engineer, Streamline IT Solutions

Extend Business Agility

Increase productivity, respond to business challenges and react to market opportunities faster with virtual workspaces.

Improve productivity with VDI technology

Virtual workspaces increase employees’ well-being and productivity by enabling on-the-go data access, meaning they can work from any device locally or remotely in the same environment.

Parallels RAS enables organizations to meet market demands and support future growth by leveraging VDI capabilities—without high costs.

Innovate at speed with a multi-cloud environment

Flexible cloud deployment models allow organizations to leverage different technologies in multiple scenarios while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Create an agile infrastructure that is centrally managed from a single pane of glass and avoid vendor lock-in and dependence on a single provider.

Increase resources with simplified IT management

VDI environments help organizations respond faster to market demands by accommodating additional services while reducing the IT infrastructure cost and complexity.

Parallels RAS provides the tools and capabilities that IT administrators need to manage and monitor the infrastructure. Scale storage up or down based on an ongoing demand.

Flexibility and Scalability

Use Parallels RAS to quickly scale your IT infrastructure and achieve workload mobility within a multi-cloud environment

Effortless user management

Effortless user management

Dynamically on-board and off-board users to scale your workforce and meet business demands by providing hassle-free, ready-to-go applications and desktops.

Make any application mobile

Make any application mobile

Transform your line-of-business (LOB) applications into fully-fledged mobile apps with cutting-edge experience on iOS and Android platforms.

Versatile infrastructure

Versatile infrastructure

Create an agile infrastructure, mixing and matching RDSH, VDI, hypervisors, hyperconverged solutions, and clouds.

Infrastructure management

Infrastructure management

Allow creation, management, and removal of applications and desktops from different virtualization technologies, embracing extended flexibility when implementing a virtual workspace solution.

Process automation

Process automation

Simplify deployment and maintenance of your infrastructure by utilizing automation tools to efficiently manage the infrastructure, freeing IT administrators from lengthy and repetitive tasks.

Instant helpdesk

Instant helpdesk

Centrally troubleshoot any virtual workspace through the Parallels RAS Console, reducing ticket response times and improving user satisfaction.

Test template wizard

Test template wizard

Automate VM testing and deployment to ensure that custom-built templates work smoothly, reducing the administrator's manual tasks.

Dynamic storage space management

Dynamic storage space management

Admins can set a preconfigured number of VMs to be created based on a RAS template to make sure that enough VDI instances are available for users.

Read more about using VDI with Parallels RAS

CCL

CCL Design Chooses Parallels RAS to Publish ERPs for Manufacturing

“Parallels Remote Application server allows us to deploy our business applications at a global scale with minimal management required.”

Mick McCann

IT Technical Manager