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About Citrix DaaS
Citrix DaaS is a cloud-based and on-premise virtualization solution designed to help businesses enable secure and remote access to Windows, Linux and web applications and ensure desktop delivery from multiple devices over any network. Features include multi-factor authentication, real-time monitoring, session watermarking and password management.
The solution enables administrators to protect applications by setting up access permissions and policies based on location or device of employees. With the HDX technology, users can ensure timely delivery of multimedia and graphics-based applications over a slow or fast network, avoiding VDI lag times in the process. It also helps team members interact via audio, video and other collaboration tools.
Citrix DaaS offers integration with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft App-V, VMware vSphere and more. It is available on monthly subscriptions and support is provided via phone and documentation.
Citrix DaaS pricing
Citrix DaaS does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Citrix DaaS paid version starts at US$10.00/month.
Starting Price:
US$10.00/month
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Citrix DaaS Reviews for UK Users
Feature rating
5 reviews of 151
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Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Retail
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 11/06/2018
The department was installing a work productivity and document management solution.
Pros
We had a site license for the Cirtix Desktop and had purchased maintenance and upgrade protection sogoing to the XenDesktop solution was easy. We implemented a server based access to each of the new programs and all 20 users had the same experience of ease of access. The MS office programs integrated smoothly as well. The local resource demand was minimal so we were able to keep a local mirrored data file that only strengthened our data protection efforts.
Cons
The communication software for the enterprise is Apache. We invoked LDAP thinking it would uniformly connect. We were wrong, We tried several workarounds even going so far as to use the POP3 boxes from the MS Outlook readers. The final connections were a hodgepodge of Apache nataive e-mail containers, LDAP addresses and MS POP3 boxes on some of the PCs. Citrix support was able to isolate the problem with the main Apache program. We did identify a training need and in year three it was all working the way intended. Fortunately no one out of the department was aware of our very inelegant solution.
Frances
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4
4
Reviewed on 20/12/2017
Much better and faster compared to XenApp
Obviously ease of use with everyone being manageable on one platform. Security
Pros
Allows complete virtualization which lets our company/remote users use dummy workstations with all our data stored in a remote and secure location. Faster compared to its predecessor (XenApp) which opens up apps instead of a complete virtual desktop. The speed is also noticeably quicker on XenDesktop (At least 3x faster) compared to XenApp.
Cons
Citrix Director could be updated as there are still some features I find redundant/confusing. When remoting into a user's PC, it does not allow us that functionality on the sessions tab, you must type their name on the search bar to access that functionality, which is weird. Also some worries about the memory on these servers as Citrix is still known to have memory clocking issues, which means we would need to restart the server occasionally to run functionally.
Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
2
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
2
3
Reviewed on 22/10/2019
Companies are paying Citrix to debug their software
Fortunately my setup is not as complex so my issues are minimal but my peers in the industry have no shortage of horror stories for me to endure.
Pros
There’s not much to like about this software. It’s a nightmare to troubleshoot since there is no error handling. The product’s documentation is always behind. Citrix rebranded all of their products in hopes that perception would change. It’s just the same crap with a new name.
Cons
Insanely expensive (look at Ericom instead. Best bang for your buck and better designed product overall). Support is not so good. Everything Citrix tries to sell you, the NetScaler will be shoved down your throat.
Alexis
- Industry: Alternative Medicine
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
2
4
Reviewed on 04/04/2019
Dedicated VDI - Is a good idea?
Medium overall experience.
Pros
Citrix has the capability to host several applications on your particular account, along with a dedicated VDI (if applies). This allows you to not waste the performance of your computer, and navigate through the different applications using the dedicated resources that the vendor provides. This can be a good idea, or not, depending on how many resources are dedicated to your particular VDI.
Cons
Customer support for sure. If you are running in a rush, and you need to have your issue resolved ATM, forget about it. Citrix customer support (at least based on my experience) take a lot of time to fix something, and several times I had to google, or research about the issue, and fix it by myself. The fact is that, most of the troubleshooting needs to be done from the Citrix IT side, and this can take a while to happen.
Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4
5
Reviewed on 06/05/2021
Citrix Review
I have a total of 3 years of experience with Citrix Virtual Apps. and I love to use it because of the security the product is providing.
Pros
As we are working in the financial market and need to secure the finance/money of the customer who is using our application and we also have to deal with banks. So Client gives us the Citrix workspace/ virtual apps to connect their cloud/private servers to deploy the product and maintain them as well. Because Citrix provides us with a virtual private network to access the server and the only authorized person who has a password and multi-factor authentication code can use the server. Due to which the chance of hack is low.
Cons
Sometimes the plugins we are using to connect to the virtual network got crashed. Due to which we have to reinstall and configure the server configuration again.
