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Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)

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22 Reviews and Ratings

What is Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued)?

Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials was a tool to deliver Windows applications and shared hosted desktops from Microsoft Azure to any user on any device. It is discontinued.

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What users are saying about Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials (discontinued).
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Think about your target customer when evaluating a VDI software

Incentivized
SANJAY KUMAR
Data Architect in Information Technology at Healthchoice of Arizona (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ease of access from any desktop
  • Easy for helpdesk to support
  • Easy to push new software and updates to all user group through a single push
  • Security in healthcare is very critical and addresses that very strongly

Cons

  • Network Fileshare mapping where I have encountered some issues.

Most Important Features

  • Recently we integrated our cloud app with the Citirx Virtual Apps Essentials and am very satisfied.

Return on Investment

  • Quicker time to value for sure
  • Customer Satisfaction

Alternatives Considered

V2 Cloud and Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI)

Citrix Essentials was implemented speedily with technical requirements that met our organization's objectives

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • We found that our IT group had problems connecting Citrix to Firefox and Internet Explorer, Chrome was preferred. Not sure if this was Citrix or just our IT group's knowledge.
  • Our procedure manual would have been helped by easy screen instructions for the Citrix Essentials part of the implementation.
  • Not sure if this applies to Citrix, but online or virtual training would have helped for on-boarding its use.

Return on Investment

  • Our department just saw internal costs which made the ROI positive.
  • Finance as well as IT did not have to hire consultants which additional saved us money and time.
  • Citrix seems quite upgradeable which meets our IT objectives.

Alternatives Considered

Google Analytics and Microsoft 365 Business

Other Software Used

PeopleSoft Financials, Kyriba, Workday Human Capital Management

Citrix Essentials is okay, but not for us.

Incentivized
Verified User
Program Manager in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • User interface
  • Support
  • Integration

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • Client delivery
  • Relationship management
  • Visualization

Other Software Used

Workday Business Process Framework, PeopleFluent Mirror Suite for Talent Management, ADP Resource