The primary use case of Parallels is to offer it to customers as a hosted service. I help them to migrate from other solutions like VMware to Parallels RAS. I recommend it to companies that prefer cost-effective, easy-to-setup solutions for remote workforce or branch office setups.
We use the solution to access remote desktop applications. It helps us to have all our business applications in one place. We can also deploy as many desktops as required within hours.
My primary use case of this solution is to publish and make available applications for customers. I'm a customer of Parallels and a data center engineer and freelancer.
Learn what your peers think about Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
IT Director at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jul 30, 2018
It's our financial software. From the server side, we got it set up and, for the most part, it has been working. I haven't really changed the configuration in some three years.
IT Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Jun 3, 2018
We publish applications and our users are scattered across different geographical locations. So we install the client on the end-user's laptop and then we publish their applications.
ApplicationServer delivers applications, data and virtual desktops from a central location, providing continuous availability, resource-based load-balancing and complete network transparency.
The primary use case of Parallels is to offer it to customers as a hosted service. I help them to migrate from other solutions like VMware to Parallels RAS. I recommend it to companies that prefer cost-effective, easy-to-setup solutions for remote workforce or branch office setups.
The solution can be used for remote applications and remote desktop.
We use the solution to access remote desktop applications. It helps us to have all our business applications in one place. We can also deploy as many desktops as required within hours.
My main use is for remote control for enterprise applications.
We are using it through the ProLiant ERP solution.
My primary use case of this solution is to publish and make available applications for customers. I'm a customer of Parallels and a data center engineer and freelancer.
Providing load balancing to our RDS infrastructure, publishing RDS applications and desktops.
It's our financial software. From the server side, we got it set up and, for the most part, it has been working. I haven't really changed the configuration in some three years.
We use it for remote application installation in Terminal Servers.
It provides flexible access to Windows applications from many types of devices.
Cloud-hosted desktop.
We publish applications and our users are scattered across different geographical locations. So we install the client on the end-user's laptop and then we publish their applications.
We needed to access multiple programs, for multiple users, and it's like a virtual session that does that.
To provide applications to Macs and standalone Windows machines, also Linux and Android devices from appsanywhere.
We use it for remote access to applications.
Remote app.
Alternative to Windows RDS (terminal services) supporting internal staff and remote access.