We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and VMware Workspace ONE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Citrix, SonicWall, Cisco and others in Universal Access Gateways."The initial setup is simple."
"The initial setup is simple. Normally with all setups, it's not very complicated. It really depends on the customer."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"It adds great security to your outfacing information."
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"Providing our organization the ability to work remotely was the most valuable feature of Citrix Gateway. I also enjoy that they are always adding features."
"We haven't received any complaints or performance issues so far."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it enables us to remotely manage the devices, which is its purpose, and to push applications to the mobile devices from the portal."
"It has all of the features that we need to use and that we want to use."
"You can put all your applications on a mobile device, be it a phone or tablet. It is secure and easy to use. Because it is centrally managed, you don't have to do any configuration on the phone. I just got the phone and connected to the central applications. I just downloaded one thing and everything got rolled out. Email, calendar, and other things were deployed centrally. If you don't have AirWatch, you have to configure your phone manually. For example, you need to deploy and configure your email manually and then synchronize everything. It is much simpler when a mobile device is centrally managed."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Workspace ONE is its reliability."
"The Identity component of this solution is its most valuable feature."
"No issues with scalability."
"The feature that we find most valuable is the corporate email pushing."
"We can do single sign-on and make use of the same user account to log into multiple applications."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"When it comes to the VDA environment, making it additionally stable is important."
"I would like to see better configuration of repairs and downloading certification."
"If the solution had a more advanced DNS, it would be an improvement."
"I'd like to see support for reverse proxy and more security features."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"Citrix Gateway could improve the speed of the VPN. I sometimes have to wait for 10 to 15 minutes to get connected and other times when I am connected I have to abort, and reconnect."
"The major issue is price. I would also like them to make other aspects more accessible."
"VMware Workspace ONE for the new users or the new clients that they try to procure and learn it, there can have difficulties. It does not have user-friendly portals. The portal seems to be more user-friendly in Microsoft solutions."
"I'd like to see more integration capabilities in future releases."
"The only downside to the solution is that the dashboard is very confusing."
"One of the things that I want them to improve on, if possible, is the management of Mac devices, MacBook Pro, for example. They do it, but they have scope for improvement, in my opinion. It's not that it's that bad, it just a small need."
"In terms of the inventory management side, as in the invoice management, the stock management and the entire inventory of an organization is lagging a bit in comparison to Blackberry or other EMM solutions."
"The portal is not user-friendly."
"Feature-wise, it is fine, but its pricing could be better, given that Microsoft is on a bundling spree. AirWatch would benefit from reducing the license pricing per user per month."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive to our requests."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 1st in Universal Access Gateways with 33 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 2nd in UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) with 82 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while VMware Workspace ONE 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 VMware Workspace ONE writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and offers single sign-on". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti Connect Secure and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl and ManageEngine Endpoint Central.
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