We performed a comparison between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Workspace based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: PeerSpot users seem to feel that Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop is the more complete solution. The solution can work alone as an Application Developer in addition to performing outstandingly in the VDI space. The solution is very flexible, secure, robust, and can be used on any device.
"The most valuable feature has to be the non-persistent desktop. If one of my users messes something up and blows away their desktop, it goes back to what it was originally, before they had an issue."
"Citrix is used by many organizations to make it possible to streamline the way different developers work together from different locations."
"The most valuable feature is the watermark because most of the time our employees connect from a remote location. In case they photograph the DDA or some data, the watermark will show which user did so and from which IP they connected. That makes it more secure."
"It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Citrix DaaS’s most valuable feature is the virtualization of applications and desktops."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is the security and it is easy to work with."
"It has the best remote working features."
"XenApp is a fast, secure and reliable solution for remote connections that is completely different than and superior to older Windows solutions."
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"Citrix Workspace's standout feature is its flexibility."
"It is a good product. I don't have any complaints."
"It is a stable solution."
"It allows us to mute users who adhere to a policy of not allowing direct VPN access for security reasons. It is easy to use."
"Troubleshooting Citrix is pretty straightforward."
"The basic virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) feature is most valuable. We were lucky to have it in place when the pandemic hit. It is used very heavily now."
"The service dash and Workspace Environment Manager service are good features."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"There is room for improvement on the hypervisor side, providing better integration between the hypervisor and the product line. I suspect that they haven't put the work into that because of the move to the cloud. They want everything to be cloud-hosted. But for folks like us, who will always be a hybrid model, that's of some concern."
"The Endpoint Management solution needs improvement when it comes to mobile device management. For example, they are still not supporting Windows 10 and this feature is required by many customers."
"Pricing can be lower and roaming profiles need to be fixed to work consistently."
"Pricing and technical support needs improvement."
"It is not easy to set up."
"Where improvement could be driven is in terms of clarity as to the functionality of some of the solutions. If you go back to the older Citrix Xen products that we had, we understood those really well. As we've come into the new workstation premium suite, there is a lot of additional functionality that we perhaps have not yet fully exploited. It is not because we can't, but simply because we don't yet understand the depth of functionality that's offered."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I would like to see simplification in the management of the on-prem infrastructure component of Citrix DaaS, particularly in the studio tool used to manage the DaaS infrastructure."
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"I've recently tried to use Citrix on Ubuntu, and I don't know if this is an Ubuntu issue or a vendor issue, but you can't use Citrix right now on Ubuntu 20.04."
"They can simplify the process of printers. Printers were quite a difficult issue. It took us a long time to iron this issue out. We have the most simple use case where people connect from home to either a virtual machine or their physical desktop. We tried more complex solutions like Machine Creation Services, and they were more overhead than they were worth for us. I found them difficult to work with and confusing, and they were not worth the work for us."
"When there are technical issues, sometimes we can't get on the cloud."
"The product has some bugs, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"Performance could be better if there was a low latency improvement."
"The lag when using Skype or Screen Sharing with multiple users needs to improve, as it makes it difficult for us to continue when we have to restart the system."
"The initial setup is very complex."
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 5th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 90 reviews while Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 25 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while Citrix Workspace is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) writes "Flexible Deployment, reliable performance, and fast transmission speeds". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with VMware Horizon View, Amazon Appstream, Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), whereas Citrix Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Nerdio. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. Citrix Workspace report.
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