Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops : an ideal virtual desktop and application experience
July 26, 2022

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops : an ideal virtual desktop and application experience

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

I'm working for a Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor (CSA) and Citrix Service Provider (CSP). We have used and resold Citrix Solutions for a long time (20 years+) and have deployed it within many customers' infrastructures. Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is used to publish and secure virtual desktop or server-based sessions to local and remote users, with advanced functionality like rich graphics and audio, and great user environment personalization.
  • Best performance on low bandwith or big latency.
  • Great user experience
  • Use it on any device, anywhere
  • Easy management
  • Secure platform
  • Licensing is complex, no more option to buy license (only subscriptions).
  • Citrix should stop renaming every product and suites regularly.
  • More fair pricing (solutions can be very expensive).
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Ease of use for end users
  • Simple management consoles and tools
  • Citrix products really helped during Covid lockdowns for discontinued access to company resources.
  • By enabling the use of thin clients, we have reduced the cost needed for maintaining complex platforms for managing user devices.
  • With Citrix, we can use the same product to publish apps, desktops, and sessions, and customize them.
Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is platform agnostic (we can use any underlying hypervisor technology) and really flexible for any use case. Using a golden image and provisioning it (with Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services) is powerful and really straightforward, compared to the complexity in Microsoft RDS of maintaining a coherent farm, or the limitation of VMware Horizon to run on VMware Products.

Do you think Citrix DaaS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Citrix DaaS's feature set?

Yes

Did Citrix DaaS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Citrix DaaS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Citrix DaaS again?

Yes

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is best in class for offering a great user experience in VDI, server-based sessions, or published apps. Using additional GPU allows uses like rich video, 3D apps, and great modern uses (MS Teams, Office 365, Zoom, etc.). Citrix products are very well integrated (Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops used with Citrix ADC is the best way to secure access and monitor everything).