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.
"For our company's customers, I feel that the product is stable."
"You can connect to any printer, and from anywhere you can print documents using a compressed channel. It is easy and the bandwidth is very low."
"It has very good performance in delivering 3D applications over WAN."
"Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is how secure the solution is."
"ICA/HDX optimization policies."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to connect to our on-premise applications, through the Workspace app and the Workspace experience. The user experience when using the solution's technology remotely is good. Our users are able to work and it's seamless. The performance is also good."
"For the most part, overall stability is what you would expect."
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"Citrix Workspace allows you to work in a remote environment and gives you data security."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity. The remote connection is the reason we are using this solution."
"Citrix Workspace can present desktop applications with ease, in an efficient and secure manner. The performance is good, it is a great piece of software."
"Ability to connect remotely."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless application edition with the low-level network bandwidth because we have between 10 and 15 sites in France with a low level of communication needs. We need to deploy our main application, the ERP system, and we needed an efficient solution to provide a solution to the remote sites, with very small links between the data center and the remote site."
"Its user-friendliness is most valuable. It was easy to log in and navigate. Some of such solutions are not very user-friendly, but this one was."
"It is stable, easy to scale, and provides secure remote access."
"The visibility the solution provides across SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, for user and application traffic, is also limited if you do not enable all the services and is based on which services you are utilising. Citrix provides end-to-end visibility based on their services you are utilising."
"For us, pricing is the most important feature to improve."
"Licensing service installation and configuration was the biggest challenge for all Citrix solutions, but now they have fixed a lot of issues."
"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."
"Our experience of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is good, but the environment can become complex and difficult to manage at times."
"The user profiles could use some improvement."
"Latency is also a major problem when adopting Citrix for video editing software or 3D editing software, especially editing 4K video or large file size. The Citrix virtualized solution becomes too slow, so we cannot use the VDI."
"Using the app layering feature can be quite difficult and cumbersome."
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"The application is now very complex. We started with Citrix on PCs. Now, to access the same application, we need to have a StoreFront Server, the Delivery Controller, and Citrix License Server. It's now very complex."
"Some customers find the price to be a significant factor. They have a hard time understanding the extra cost of the services"
"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 product's technical support services need improvement."
"It takes time to load."
"The product has some bugs, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We're running into all kinds of speed issues and reliability issues. There are frequent disconnects, and we're not sure whether that's a problem with the product, with the way the product has been deployed, or with server capacity or bandwidth. Our IT department pays attention to that, but we are feeling the impact of that."
"I have noticed that the current compatibility issue with the latest version of Windows 11 is a concern for me and my client. While the client has support for Windows 11, it appears that the Citrix Workspace is only compatible with Windows 10, which does not support the newest version. This is an area that I believe could be improved upon."
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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 26 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4. 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 Amazon Appstream, VMware Horizon View, Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Apache Guacamole, whereas Citrix Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS). See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. Citrix Workspace report.
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