Case Study: Direct Network Services achieves 90% application-publishing cost savings with Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS)

Direct Network Services BV Saved 90% of Application Publishing Costs with Parallels RAS

Direct Network Services BV is a Netherlands-based managed service provider supporting 40+ SMEs across BENELUX and France, including major retail client Phone House (200 stores). The company needed a flexible, easy-to-deploy virtualization solution to centrally host and remotely publish customized MS Office, legacy POS and other business applications from its data centers to hundreds of remote users across multiple countries while keeping costs and complexity low.

They implemented Parallels Remote Application Server to publish applications from MS 2008/2012 servers using Microsoft RDS (120 concurrent / ~300 total users), avoiding VDI. The centralized Parallels RAS deployment simplified management and monitoring, enabled Phone House to consolidate operations into 50 shopping-centre sites, delivered reliable service, and produced substantial savings — up to around 80–90% versus competing solutions such as Citrix — while providing fast deployment and strong vendor support.

Direct Network Services

Peter Spithoff

Owner