We performed a comparison between Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The installation and maintenance are good."
"Stable product with straightforward setup."
"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."
"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."
"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 provides the flexibility of being used on any device which makes the employee experience better, in terms of ease of use."
"The user experience when using the solution's technology remotely is definitely superior to our VPN and/or Windows Remote Desktop. It's a much better user experience for those folks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the desktop virtualization, which allows me to connect from anywhere."
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"The solution's customer service is good."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"The features are good."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"The product works well."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"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."
"They need to adapt more quickly to the latest additions to the Microsoft operating system. If Windows 10 comes out with a new version, there are compatibility issues and it takes them a lot of time to release an update."
"There have been many issues with stability."
"Citrix's functionality depends on you having access to Microsoft Azure. Microsoft offers a broad range of features and solutions. Overall, it may make sense for some users to move all their services to Microsoft services."
"The solution's technical support is not so good."
"I have to re-enter my user password when I am not using the tool for some time around ten minutes. I want to also improve the need to download other Citrix apps."
"Templating the deployment process could use improvement. When you start, there are a large number of details that are quite client-specific, although they do share common themes. To get somebody up and running in a day is very difficult to do. They should streamline by use case."
"Dependency on server virtualization after v7.x is an issue which I encountered in small environments."
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"Its price could be better."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"The support can be improved."
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 92 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with Amazon Appstream, VMware Horizon View, Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix Workspace and Apache Guacamole, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. VMware Workstation report.
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