Mikogo vs. Parallels Device Management

Given its narrow focus and inability to do that well, I cannot think of a scenario where Mikogo would be a fit. This software only provides 'attended' remote sessions whereby the person presenting their screen must also approve the connection of the user attempting to view or control their screen. While this has its place, it did not perform well in this limited scope.

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We had a medium size fleet of macbook pros that we had deployed and had parallels already installed on them. We looked into a way to standardize and track these devices and started looking into Parallels as a solution to help us with this. Parallels was a good fit due to the fact that most of these machines already had the base system already installed

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• Collaboration audio/video - Very strong features. It simple and it just works as you expect. Especially multi-user collaboration capability.
• File sharing - Again, nothing fancy but works as advertised.
• Inexpensive- A single license allows for up to 25 participants and 3 concurrent calls. Even the free version is extremely capable and a good go-to option.

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• Central location for management via Webv
• Existing ecosystem for our mac users
• Trust and transparent set up from normal operations

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• Customer Support. Blog based and slow to respond
• Free version is limited

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• It can be a bit difficult with a large fleet of computers
• Can be a bit hard to troubleshoot if there are issues
• There are other tools that are cheaper that do the same thing albeit not as well

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I have not had to use their support for anything other than setup.

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Mikogo has simple features and is easy to use. If you don't need lots of bells and whistles and just want to screen share or video conference on a small scale Mikogo works best. Join.me & TeamViewer are a bit confusing for the novice small business person. My experience with LogMeIn has been that it's sluggish. GoToMeeting works great but is pricey for the small firm that mainly does one-to-one support/training. I couldn't get Zoom to work right.

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We looked at a product called virtual box to do something similar to what we saw from Parallels but it was much more manual for us to deploy out the tool and we would have had to do a lot more work to manage all the systems we have in the fleet

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• Saves time and money in travel expenses to support remote locations for IT purposes.

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• Easy to deploy out to our fleet
• quick turn around time to provision with parallels
• ease of use from end user perspective

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