Parallels announced its recognition as a Major Player in the inaugural 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide AI-Enabled Application Streaming and Enterprise Browsers (doc #US53004525, July 2025), marking the first report of its kind from IDC on this emerging category.
The report assesses vendors whose platforms enable secure, managed access to web and legacy desktop applications across distributed workforces, integrating directly with identity providers, device management systems, and security infrastructure to deliver contextual access controls and other critical features. The evaluation considers multiple Parallels workspace solutions, including:
- Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server): streaming of virtual Windows apps and desktops as a full virtual desktop infrastructure solution;
- Parallels DaaS (Desktop as a Service): streaming of virtual Windows apps and desktops as a cloud-native DaaS solution;
- Parallels Browser Isolation: isolation of internet traffic through remote browser isolation; and
- Parallels Desktop: on-device virtualization to run Windows apps and desktops on macOS.
“With a focus on simplicity and flexibility, Parallels provides a unified workspace experience that bridges traditional applications and modern web resources,” said Shannon Kalvar, Research Director for Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Client Platforms, Observability, and AIOps at IDC. “Parallels offers remarkable deployment versatility across diverse environments, supporting multiple hypervisors and cloud platforms including Azure and Amazon.”
IDC MarketScape is a premier vendor assessment tool, providing in-depth quantitative and qualitative market assessments of technology vendors for a wide range of markets. These comprehensive reports provide IT buyers with critical information on each vendor’s product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors.
“As organizations navigate disruption in the traditional virtual desktop vendor landscape, complex IT environments, IT skill shortages, and growing cybersecurity threats, Parallels offers them simple, flexible, and secure solutions with all-in-one licensing to support them wherever their workloads are,” said Michelle Chiantera, CRO at Parallels. “To be included in the first iteration of this IDC MarketScape and recognized there as a Major Player is both an honor and a testament to how we at Parallels are meeting our customers’ IT challenges head on.”
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