Citrix Profile Management (discontinued) vs. Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)

This allows remote workers great flexibility. You can setup working profiles that are tailored to the end users' needs to assist them in being more productive. This also allows you to view idle sessions to see how productive your remote end users are. You can set timers to only allow access during certain times of day. You can also set auto log off for sessions.

Incentivized

I would recommend citrix essentials to smaller companies or to anyone who does not need the most up to date, easiest client interface, or ability to have constant real time updates. In our market, the product is not our first choice, but it does suit the needs of other smaller, more managed shops.

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• Virtualization
• Start a remote desktop
• Manage a remote desktop screen inside Windows

Incentivized

• It is flexible to log in, once you know how to do it, and then add and subtract applications in Google Chrome as the browser connected to Citrix Essentials.
• We appreciate that we can have another complicated password plus the multi-factor authentication and this was relatively easy for IT to set up for us.
• The price point was very reasonable since our IT group is currently a user and quickly deployed it to our finance department.

Incentivized

• Disconnected session sometimes doesn't clear properly.

Incentivized

• Lack of capability for expansion
• Brand recognition
• Reputation in tech

Incentivized

Well, I really did not select it, but generally, as those products and solutions are very expensive and purchased on a corporative level, I used them as a user or a system IT manager... Citrix has almost no competitors that we can call like that really... it's the de-facto standard nowadays but I feel like that sense of supremacy and overall superiority threw Citrix company into a dark tunnel of blindness and missing opportunities conditions of leveraging the product to the next level and taking the opportunity to innovate and do more with less. Just take into consideration the MB heaviness of the Citrix Profile Management installer... it grows years after years... many MB and... the same solution and option... what a shame!

Incentivized

Frankly, there were limited alternative products besides Citrix Essentials, and maybe we just need to learn more. We did not have the time to process complex Request for Proposals, obtain RFP responses, do a short-list, reference checks and a final selection with oral presentations, so IT helped Finance with moving forward and we appreciated their technical advice, speed, and guidance.

Incentivized

• By far the best ROI for using UPM is that it's included with many Citrix offerings.
• The only negative ROI might be time spent setting up UPM then deciding to change solutions.

Incentivized

• Quicker time to value for sure
• Customer Satisfaction

Incentivized