Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued) vs. Omnissa Horizon

Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)

22 Reviews and Ratings

Omnissa Horizon

162 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials was a tool to deliver Windows applications and shared hosted desktops from Microsoft Azure to any user on any device. It is discontinued.	N/A
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 Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)

Omnissa Horizon

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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 Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)	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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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)	Omnissa Horizon
Considered Both Products	Discontinued Products No answer on this topic	Omnissa Josh kimball Universal agent in Customer Service at Orvis (Retail, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon VMware Horizon seems to be more powerful and adaptable to multiple operating systems than the Citrix products I have used. VMware has been simpler to use and has a lot more customization than other of the other similar products I have used. It has solved a lot of the issues I … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at AccruePartners (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Citrix did not have the level of Instaclone type feature that VMWare had in its offering. The application layering also was better in our opinion as well as overall support from our vendor. Security was a close call but we found VMWare to be a better fit for our company and its … Incentivized Helpful? Chris John Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Peterson Management LLC (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon Horizon View is probably my favorite to use. It isn't saying much as all of them have their ups and downs. VMware has fewer downs out of the bunch. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Daugherty Virtualization Network Engineer in Information Technology at OnRamp (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Omnissa Horizon VMware View provides a full suite of products which provide the functionality that many of the competing vendors have gaps in the you have to then use another third party application to get a working solution. With VMware View you have all the tools at your fingertips to be … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)	Omnissa Horizon
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (3 ratings)	4.3 (37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (5 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (11 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)