We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The team has full visibility of the users that connect allowing them to keep control of who is in the network and what data they are allowing to come in and out."
"It is a scalable solution...The technical support team of the solution is very good."
"Organizations that already use the Check Point NGFW Solution do not require any additional hardware, which makes the implementation straightforward and reduces the time to go live."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN enables us to access on-premise applications while working from remote locations."
"The initial set up is not complex."
"The solution has been solid for me for over five years."
"A single login based on a second authentication factor is giving us the possibility of integrating third-party services for authentication based on a security scheme."
"To maintain the authorization of the connected user, Check Point provides multi-factor authentication for an RA VPN client to make sure legitimate users have access to resources."
"The Provisioning Services are the most valuable feature. We have Premium licensing, so Provisioning Services is huge for us, along with the Virtual Apps and Desktops part. It allows us to have a vDisk for every region, one that can easily be copied between them if we need to, to limit the amount of updates we have to do."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it supports team clients."
"XenApp is a fast, secure and reliable solution for remote connections that is completely different than and superior to older Windows solutions."
"For our company's customers, I feel that the product is stable."
"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."
"Citrix is used by many organizations to make it possible to streamline the way different developers work together from different locations."
"Instead of pointing to any single feature, I would say the most valuable aspect of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is the overall product itself. Virtualized apps and desktops, in theory and in practice, are very helpful to users."
"The product is stable."
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"For Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. For the users that utilize Linux, there needs to be an equivalent."
"There needs to be a way to create a VPN client specific to our environment so that we can easily lock down who can connect."
"The interface itself needs improvement. When you need to create something, you have to go through a lot of steps. It needs to be simplified."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier."
"Sometimes the application slows down the computing device, and this affects workflows."
"We'd like to integrate Check Point into the Remote Access VPN solution and have the ability to integrate multiple devices as access points through the solution."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN handles up to a hundred megabytes for clients, but I want it to be able to handle up to one gigabyte."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN's current configuration has some limitations and issues. One major drawback is the inability to configure multiple gateways from the same management server for VPN access."
"There is room for improvement because it has a lot of dependency on Active Directory and other things. If they could come up with something similar and native, a complete solution portfolio would help."
"The product’s customization feature needs improvement."
"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."
"Dependency on server virtualization after v7.x is an issue which I encountered in small environments."
"We would like to be able to provide VDI, a full desktop, to each of our users."
"Pricing and technical support needs improvement."
"There have been many issues with stability."
"If anything could be improved, it might be some of the Director functionality, and some of the dashboard customization, or the overall Director customization."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 62 reviews while Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 3rd in Remote Access with 92 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) writes "Flexible Deployment, reliable performance, and fast transmission speeds". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas 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. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) report.
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