# VMWare Horizon DaaS Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/desktop-as-a-service-daas) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About VMWare Horizon DaaS Use a single management console for provisioning and managing multiple workspaces, and for delivering Windows desktops, shared desktops and hosted applications from the cloud. ## VMWare Horizon DaaS Reviews ### 1. I recommend VMWare Horizon Daas **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Because it has seamless user experience and has centralized management **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It has initial set up complexities and limited customization options **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote workforce enablement, security and complience ### 2. User desktop disaster recovery with VMWare DAAS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando R. | SAP Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I am a final user of VMWare desktop as a service and I like that whenever I need new software, update, or permissions for an application or database the support team can assist me remotely from a native central console of all the user's desktops. All are saved in security logs for auditing. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** As an end-user working with sensitive data, it is always a concern of the superpower of the centralized administration of desktops as a service. It is necessary to develop an auditing strategy with machine learning to research all the interventions of the support team on the user's desktop. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Disaster recovery. When you have an error in a critical desktop application or a virus, the desktop as a service can do a recovery of the damaged application and keep the business continuity. ### 3. HRCM nightmare for DME **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abbi r. | Sr Supervisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I do enjoy the technology that this system has to offer. There are many add ons that do help to make our job much more streamlined and efficient for cash collections. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I do not like how this system "jumps" around. There needs to be a program update to allow mass actions with adjustment approvals, and the adjustment process. This could be improved on. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** This system is especially helpful when it comes to sending our secondary or tertiary claims. VMWare Horizon is smart enough to fill in the pertinent information to make our lives easier. ### 4. Remote work with ease **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Blake S. | Human Resources Generalist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I used VM Ware at my last job and it was great for remoting into computers at the office when employees were working from home. It is very secure for a company that values data security and audited for it quarterly. It was a life saver during the start of COVID. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I do not have have many dislikes of this software. It could be a little slow/lagging at times but I was not 100% if that was due to the computers being used or the software. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMWare was a great solution for remote employees during the start of Covid. It completely changed the way we looked at remote work and now still have plenty of employees working remotely because of it. ### 5. Moderate experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 077_Kanishk kumar G. | Software development engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It is very easy to implement and has improved my productivity at work by 20% as it is easy to integrate and use with other platforms that reduces my time and i can easily retrieve it back. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It is creating a lot of bugs maybe due to recent update that is leading to quite less efficiency and has created a lot of trouble to my team. It would be better if another stable version is rolled out. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides virtual infrastructure to me and has even benefited my organisation by providing easy solutions for my institutions. I would more likely use it rather than other competitors as it is quite cheaper compared to them. ### 6. Best solution for virtual desktop **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hillel G. | Information Technology System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** VMware horizon Daas is a reliable and effective way to offer Windows desktops and applications for the organization especially for remote working that became very popular due to the covid-19 **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Well there is nothing to dislike in this product, although the setup and the profile preparations sometimes take longer than expected and the troubleshooting may be a pain. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need of expensive hardware, there is no need for deployments and publishing of softwares or updates you just need to add changes to the master image and you're good to go. You can manage very quickly and easily all your organization's infrastructure ### 7. Its easy to use and operate with mobile device too **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parameshwaran M. | IT Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** for upside no need much time to setup a system we can use the golden image and setup the pc maximum 5-10 minutes of times so its plug and play model system and very much comfortable in this WFH envoirnment **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** some time it may get slow due to overloaded and internet issues which is causing the day to day activity and other then that everything is too smooth and user friendly.. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** espesically in the COVID situation we got big reliefe to allocating desktop to emplolyee that time its very useful to us to provising desktop to user in same joining day.. ### 8. Hybrid work seamlessly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** We use VMWare to enable us to have a hybrid work schedule. It is easy to set up and log in and there are no issues with lag or accessibility of our machines. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** There is an occasional glitch at log in, but this is normally due to our own physical machines than the DaaS. Any issues with them as easily resolved. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it easy to work remote as well as to access several virtual machines at once, as a desktop application or in the browser. ### 9. Love the simplicity for VMware Horizon Daas. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moses C. | ICT Trainer & Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I find that other related Daas platforms have a lot of complexities associated with a lot of troubleshooting. Hence, "simplicity" is what I like best. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Dislike is not precisely based on VMware Daas, although any VMware-related product training can be quite pricey and impossible to get through without appropriate training. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduced support service required by customers after issuance of a license. ### 10. beautiful, but sometimes annoying **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** the system can be accessed over the internet with or without a client, especially the use of dedicated machines for administrators is super practical, different operating systems can be used **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Difficult to handle antivirus software, patching the operating system is relatively cumbersome **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solution for data protection issues for everyone accessing the system, always the same environment, always access to the same data ### 11. VMWare Horizon DaaS is a boon for effective workspace management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** The best part about Daas is the persistent desktop feature. That gives the user to customise their respective environment and continue to work from the place where they worked in the last login . **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** There would have been an easy way to manage and map the active directory for all the workspace to maintain the domain space provided for particular set of users. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared resources like GPU management and providing the privilege and authorisation to hand picked users. Also the remote accessibility of workspace with no latency in the vpn is also appreciated ### 12. Useful tool for Windows VMs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** VMWare Horizon DaaS makes it easy to connect to Windows VMs, unlike other products. The user interface is clean, and the documentation is very straightforward. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** VMWare Horizon DaaS takes a lot of CPU power from my Mac laptop. It can be difficult to run it at the same time as other applications such as Chrome or other high CPU usage apps. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMWare Horizon DaaS helped me connect to virtual machines in remote data centers in order to perform specific maintenance tasks. It made it easy for me to complete these tasks. ### 13. Great Virtual Desktop Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** VMware Horizon is a really great tool for accessing virtual desktops and apps on-premise from the cloud. I used this to bounce back and forth between my Mac desktop and windows desktop seamlessly. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I didn't find anything that I disliked about Horizon. The tool worked extremely well for my use case and I ran into no issues. For some the user experience might be new to adjust to so any way to make that smooth is a plus. But really no issues. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing windows desktop tools on a Mac device. ### 14. VMware DaaS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** K C. | Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** The simplest way to configure and implement the DaaS and start providing services to your clients or employees. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** PRicing is on the higher side compared to their competitors. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to provide secured access to the data and codes. This was one of its kind to provide accessibility. ### 15. One of the best DaaS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rama Kumar N. | IT&D Enterprise Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Its rich features of integration with other apps **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Its very costly and not affordable for small organizations **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy integration and virtual desktop ### 16. great software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** This software stacks up against the competition. I would recommend it to any who need it. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Nothing this is a great software, I would recommend to all. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It converges cloud networking and network security for my network which saves me time and is very flexible. ### 17. Best vitrual desktop app used so far **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Best thing about this app is it can personalize remote work from anywhere at any time, which is a most useful feature I am mostly using **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** UX could have been better it seems like a copy from others and boring due to the color contrast **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** especially for remote workers, it connects me with the employees anywhere they work ### 18. One of the top virtual desktop infrastructure tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It's easy to configure and deploy. Great tool for desktop management. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It's quite expensive tool. System interface looks a bit complex. Reporting and settings could have been improved. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to access desktop remotely and manage work efficiently. ### 19. Great app VMware Horizon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** How it helps working remotely and the smooth streaming and access of the desktop on any system we are working on. Makes work life very easy and convenient. Nothing compared to other apps **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Face some issues with logging in with the language issue. But it still helps overall while working across two desktops and having your personal and official system accessed on one system. **Recommendations to others considering VMWare Horizon DaaS:** This is the most apt software to be used by anyone working remotely from any location. Makes communication and smooth work at ease and easy access to all your personal and official docs at one place. Would highly recommend this software to every working individual **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I face few issues with logging in but it's just a bug and I'm sure it would get fixed soon with the new updates. Rest is easy access and convenient at any place time ### 20. Very easy to maintain and migrate **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Can move the machines without any issues Floating pools, dedicated pools and cloud pod arrangements are less problematic. Easy to troubleshoot with VmAdministrator console **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Page refresh setting each and every time we have to manually refresh the page after doing a alteration or update. It would be better if it's updated automatically after a task initiation. **Recommendations to others considering VMWare Horizon DaaS:** Yes it's a good call since it was very easy when it comes to migrations and maintenances **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protocol issue , multiple console feature And licensing cost. We can drastically reduce the licensing cost with using floating pool arrangements for workers who comes on shift work. Can utilise the resources ### 21. DaaS for B2B Solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel M. | C, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** The modular desing that's facilitates maintenance tasks without disrupting operations **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Hard to update, incompatibility with some legacy OS **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are offering Horizon DaaS as our solution for b2b costumers that requiere, it's a great solutions to deploy on HCi infraestructures ### 22. Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Delivering desktop experience as cloud service with streamline and centralized management **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** We need not find any such kind of cons during our usage till now **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** • Single platform for every workspace model – full VDI desktop user session (RDS) desktops, and apps • Lowest cost of delivery – open source based technology eliminates MS licensing fees from the cost of hosting desktops, no third party software to manage ### 23. Great experience and outcome of installing and configuring 7.11 VMware Horzon 7.11 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Najm U. | C, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Less infrastructure required, easy management and provision of resources. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Expensive solution for developing countries. **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide users access to VMs and personal desktops for users having no PCs ### 24. Best ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumud J. | Windows Systems Engineer & BigFix Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Infrastructure, security, availablity, accessibility and flexibility **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** Nothing as of now, seems everything is well in place **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a perfect solution for managing desktops in new way ### 25. VMware **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** RDSH Farms now support per VM maintenance by setting the User Login Mode which will route connections to other available VMs in the RDSH Farm. **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** After upgrade, settings for Unified Access Gateway (UAG) can be lost, preventing users from accessing desktops. After Failed Deployment - Manual Clean-Up Required **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Copying and Pasting Between Client System and VM With HTML Access ### 26. Easy way to deliver **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex D. | Communications Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2021 **What do you like best about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** I like how simple VMWare makes it to deliver desktops and workspaces. The CAPEX to OPEX is wonderful! **What do you dislike about VMWare Horizon DaaS?** It can be kind of pricey especially with licensing **What problems is VMWare Horizon DaaS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to make managing easier ## VMWare Horizon DaaS Discussions - [What is VMWare Horizon DaaS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vmware-horizon-daas-used-for) - [View VMWare Horizon DaaS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-horizon-daas/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+12%3A39%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c121a225-f35e-4ed4-a3f6-9962e047165b&secure%5Btoken%5D=7ba9634c76eb12628ebf4eb3236505b41f0850ada48f67ce411550d3284854bd&format=llm_user) ## VMWare Horizon DaaS Features **Functionality** - Desktop Virtualization - Backend Hosting - Hybrid Desktop Hosting **Management** - Admin Console - Solution Integration - OS Compatibility - Cloud Infrastructure Selection ## Top VMWare Horizon DaaS Alternatives - [Citrix DaaS](https://www.g2.com/products/citrix-citrix-daas/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (520 reviews) - [Azure Virtual Desktop](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-azure-virtual-desktop/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (27 reviews) - [BlackBerry UEM](https://www.g2.com/products/blackberry-uem/reviews) - 3.8/5.0 (363 reviews)