We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and SonicWall SMA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Universal Access Gateways solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"For our use case, it was scalable. There were at least 25 end users using this solution from remote locations. And once the connection was established, there weren't any complaints."
"Provides good performance and speed."
"The stability of the solution is perfect."
"The product enables us to collect logs from the systems."
"The product is straightforward."
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"We can maintain our systems using the solution."
"Just creating that gateway to the storefront for Citrix is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"It is faster than other security options when using remote connections."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is they have IT consultants that know SonicWall."
"The management and the dashboard are the solution's most valuable features."
"Secure Mobile Access (SMA) is easy to configure and the deployment is straightforward. However, this is mostly because of the AWS setup."
"SonicWall SMA allows us to provide CML-based access to any user."
"I am very satisfied with the technical support."
"I think they ask for a fair price."
"I like the load balancing capability."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"The load balancing could be improved."
"As Citrix Gateway is a third party solution, we wish to have one which is more integrated and involves less administration."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"I would like to see better configuration of repairs and downloading certification."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"As an organization, our initiative is to move to the cloud, Citrix Gateway needs to improve its cloud capabilities and make the cloud solution more robust."
"Their VAS product should be more productive because right now, we are using other VAS solutions but not using this one."
"The only thing that they could try to improve is the support for enterprise customers. Normally enterprises and SMBs can create a ticket, but for enterprises, SonicWall SMA needs to provide a global view, and this is what's currently missing. It's not even a question of timing. It's a question of the global vision because currently, it's lacking. They concentrate on the topic, but not on the means and not on the global picture. In most cases, there's something wrong with the integration of SonicWall SMA with other products, so that could also be improved."
"This is an expensive solution and I think that the price could be improved."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
"The timed synchronization between the network appliance needs improvement."
"Enhancing live tracking capabilities could improve the product, particularly in monitoring user activity and request statuses in real-time on the web interface."
"The overall menu is not very user-friendly and it could be easier."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"I'd like to see the product maybe polish keyboards in Bookmark."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 1st in Universal Access Gateways with 34 reviews while SonicWall SMA is ranked 2nd in Universal Access Gateways with 14 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while SonicWall SMA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall SMA writes "It allows us to provide CML-based access to any user, but the reporting could be better". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas SonicWall SMA is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco SD-WAN, SonicWall Netextender, Ivanti Connect Secure and SonicWall Connect Tunnel. See our Citrix Gateway vs. SonicWall SMA report.
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