Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs Microsoft App-V comparison

"The shadow feature is extraordinary and helps a lot when supporting remote users."

"Citrix has had the top remote display for the last 20 years, and there is a huge technological gap between Citrix and its competitors."

"We can provide tons of applications with different settings, behaviors, and operating systems. It is the same way for the user. Then, we are totally transparent for the user to use a lot of totally different applications, which is the most important part of Citrix today."

"Citrix is used by many organizations to make it possible to streamline the way different developers work together from different locations."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the desktop virtualization, which allows me to connect from anywhere."

"It has very good performance in delivering 3D applications over WAN."

"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."

"Relative to other solutions, Citrix has fewer conditions and fewer parameters. Citrix also provides some flexibility because it can be used on any device."

"It is very easy to use from an administration point of view."

"We can deploy applications incredibly fast."

"The most interesting and powerful feature for us is the fact that we can upgrade any kind of app instantly."

"The product advances really fast. For some customers, we need better backwards compatibility."

"Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is a complex solution."

"The Endpoint Management solution needs improvement when it comes to mobile device management. For example, they are still not supporting Windows 10 and this feature is required by many customers."

"If Citrix can develop something which can have more reach towards the backend infrastructure, other components of the Citrix environment, that would be ideal."

"Dependency on server virtualization after v7.x is an issue which I encountered in small environments."

"Compared with the Outlook mobile app, the Citrix mobile app shows some lag in authentication."

"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."

"The user profiles could use some improvement."

"The reporting features could be improved."

"If it were possible to integrate App-V with a cybersecurity solution then we could implement a documentation registry, which would be useful."

"The downside is that Microsoft bought this product and they are going to discontinue it in 2026. This is worrisome for us."

"Their licensing model used to be on a per-year basis, where you would negotiate the cost per user for a year. For instance, if you had 25,000 users, you could negotiate the cost accordingly. However, they are transitioning to a subscription-based model where the cost is incurred monthly."

"We recouped 60 to 70 percent of the hardware costs."

"Implementing Citrix DaaS with thin clients, rather than physical laptops, has resulted in savings of 27% to 29%. Additionally, moving 1,000 users from physical laptops to thin clients and VDI solutions can save around 40,000 kilograms of carbon emissions, benefiting both the environment and the company's economy, provided thin clients are used."

"Where Citrix really needs to improve is in their support and in the way that they manage their licenses. Everything else comes second because if I'm not in a position where I can get proper support or manage my own licenses in an easy way, then it is pointless. Today, I am at a point where I may not be able to use Citrix anymore because they want to take away some of the licenses that I bought, pretending they are not valid anymore. That is frankly unacceptable. If they don't solve this, everything comes second because I cannot use my product."

"Based not only on the cost of Citrix, but additional costs like firewalls, IPS, and other solutions, the total cost of switching users from using normal laptops with VPNs to connection via Citrix were so huge that the CEO of our company decided to postpone the deployment process."

"A perpetual enterprise license costs approximately $300 USD."

"It is an expensive solution. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."

"I don't quite remember the specifics of what we had. I believe we had a 25-user license, and I don't recall it being overly expensive."

"The pricing of this product is competitive."

"Clients do not pay licensing fees."