Citrix DaaS vs. Omnissa Horizon

Citrix DaaS

157 Reviews and Ratings

Omnissa Horizon

162 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Citrix DaaS	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization solution from Citrix.	$375
Omnissa Horizon	Score5.5 out of 10	N/A	A VDI solution used for the secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud. It is used to deploy, manage, monitor and scale desktops and apps across private, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure using a cloud-based console and SaaS management services.	$4.67 per month per user

Pricing

Citrix DaaS

Omnissa Horizon

Virtual Apps: $375

Horizon Apps Standard: $4.67
per month per user
Horizon Standard Plus: $5.79
per month per user
Horizon Apps Universal: $6.00
per month per user
Horizon Enterprise Plus: $10.71
per month per user
Horizon Universal: $12.50
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Citrix DaaS	Omnissa Horizon
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Citrix DaaS	Omnissa Horizon
Considered Both Products	Citrix Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops was our pick because of the low infrastructure requirements. With Vmware, you need compatible hardware to run ESXi and then a machine to run the vCenter Server and free other machines to run horizon view, app, policies, etc which can get … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) allows for the use of any hypervisor or cloud platform which ensures flexibility in decisions that are made across a IT organization while others are typically tied to a single or highly controlled cloud selection. Additionally the … Incentivized Helpful? Mick Verbunt System Engineer in Customer Service at ACA IT-Solutions BV (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Citrix DaaS Our company is focused and trained for the use of Citrix. We're still in the process of exploring the other options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS Other products were more cost efficient, offered a better support contract, were much simpler to configure, and had better documentation. We chose Citrix over the alternatives, because one of our customers required the use of Citrix for the connection of third-party vendors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS We needed our application vendor to support our solution and Citrix was their main choice. The other choice was Microsoft RDS/RDP but we wanted the higher management functionality that Citrix brought. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS XenDesktop is the best because Citrix says so! But really it depends on a lot of factors that vary from one organization to the next that require detailed analysis with a trusted consulting partner or an in-house EUC architect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS XenDesktop is much faster to provision and to update machines. XenDesktop also has a much more robust suite of profile management and user controls. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Tusa SR Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CSG International (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Citrix DaaS XenDesktop is a much more mature product. Better suite of products to support various workflows. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS We briefly looked at VMware Horizon View and its integration into our current VMware environment, but experience with XenDesktop and common usage overcame any potential savings with Horizon View. Incentivized Helpful? Jay Mody Vice President in Information Technology at Jefferies LLC (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Citrix DaaS Lot of functionality of features are missing in VMware Horizon View. They are still in catch up mode when it comes to improving the user experience. Incentivized Helpful? Preston Gallwas Solutions Architect – Virtualization in Information Technology at Right! Systems, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Citrix DaaS XenDesktop includes features above and beyond the competition, and you really do get what you pay for. Provisioning Services makes single image management an absolute dream. Anyone who has ever had to recompose 100+ desktops in View knows the pain of waiting for composer to do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Citrix DaaS Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is platform agnostic (we can use any underlying hypervisor technology) and really flexible for any use case. Using a golden image and provisioning it (with Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services) is powerful and really straightforward, … Incentivized Helpful?	Omnissa Josh Justic President, Engineering Architect for Virtualization and Computing Systems. in Information Technology at NTCG, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Far more cost effective. Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Krahn System Engineer in Information Technology at T-Systems (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon At least in our company, Citrix only worked allied with a physical authentication token, which was a Smart Card written and provided by the company. The software randomly froze and came back as nothing ever happened and the Citrix support couldn't care less about this. We grew … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Omnissa Horizon Citrix vid setup was very difficult and initially hard to set up. I believe this has changed somewhat now, but there are still multiple servers that need to be set up before it can be used. Vmware VDI was fairly easy to set up and was immediately working and up and running, … Incentivized Helpful? Stefan Semo Director of IT Infrastructure, Security & Compliance and Customer Service in Information Technology at Success Academy Charter Schools (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Some of the platforms are designed for smaller or standalone environments and do not allow for large-scale centrally controlled deployments. in the case of Citrix, there was better Chrome OS support but the lack of PCoIP UDP optimizations made is slower and less desirable by … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Reynolds Director of IT in Information Technology at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon I suppose I'm prejudiced but I don't think either of those products is in the same league. I know XenDesktop has made some strides I just think VMware has the superior product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Omnissa Horizon When we were considering a VDI solution, I reviewed Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop as alternative solutions to Horizon View. It seemed like Horizon View was a more mature solution and had the best integration to our existing Vmware vSphere environment. The systems … Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Ferguson Lead Desktop Analyst in Information Technology at Fidelity & Guaranty Life (Insurance, 201-500 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Citrix XenDesktop is another big player in the VDI market, but the product simply isn't as mature or powerful as Horizon. Xen still struggles with Windows 10, whereas Horizon has accomodated every OS we throw at it with ease. XenDesktop is a great product overall, performance … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Borecki Junior System Analyst in Information Technology at Guelph Hydro Electric Systems Inc. (Utilities, 51-200 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Did not do a full evaluation on Citrix XenDesktop as VMware Horizon View integrates nicely with the VMware vSphere environment that we had currently set up. We were using PanoLogic for about 6 months before we scrapped it and moved onto VMware Horizon View. Horizon View gave us … Incentivized Helpful? Kristofer French Manager, Managed Information Systems in Information Technology at Summit Broadband (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon We did not deploy in-house testing, though we did review another company's deployment. At the time we liked what we saw in Horizon, though I have no doubts that XenDesktop could deliver just as well and still does for the other company that presented it to us. What tipped the … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Stockton Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Virginia Community College System (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon XenDesktop is a good product and has its advantages. It comes down to where you want the processing to take place (the server in the data center or the client endpoint). Regarding cost, the infrastructure needed to deploy the Citrix solution is more expensive than VMware's … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Citrix DaaS	Omnissa Horizon
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (55 ratings)	4.3 (37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (7 ratings)	5.0 (5 ratings)
Availability	8.4 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.4 (4 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	7.9 (8 ratings)	1.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.4 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	2.4 (4 ratings)	8.7 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.2 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)