Consolidate on the platform that delivers more value

If you’re using both Citrix and Omnissa Horizon, it’s likely not by choice. Mergers, failed migrations, or another situation may have led you to this point. Now, you’re duplicating licenses, infrastructure, and operational management — and you have a higher risk and cost profile than you’d like.

Citrix gives you more value because capabilities that Omnissa Horizon is lacking are already included in your Citrix license. Unlike Omnissa Horizon, Citrix comes with its own hypervisor, application delivery controller, thin-client endpoint OS and management, secure enterprise browser, and many more capabilities. Plus, your Citrix license includes services and support for no additional cost.*

Learn how Citrix can help you de-risk consolidation while keeping the migration cost low or even neutral

Key value considerations when comparing Citrix vs Omnissa Horizon

By consolidating your Omnissa Horizon workloads on Citrix, you’ll realize a lower TCO and so much more.

Citrix

Omnissa

Stable vendor relationship

Remains the VDI/DaaS industry leader* in its fourth year post-acquisition, offering predictable pricing and a defined roadmap

Operational changes after its recent acquisition have resulted in pricing and roadmap uncertainty

TCO reduction

Lower TCO with a single platform license that includes consulting services and support, plus such capabilities as an enterprise browser, an ADC with WAF, a hypervisor, endpoint management, and more

Higher TCO due to paying for multiple licenses to gain full platform functionality, plus paying additional for consulting services, support, and point solutions to augment lacking capabilities

Infrastructure cost reduction

Greater host density reduces compute costs and associated storage costs, and optimized bandwidth consumption reduces networking costs

Less mature architecture and multi-session support do not optimally reduce the resource footprint of each VM and the associated storage and networking costs

High performance

Industry-benchmark protocol for superior performance over challenging network conditions, a result of decades of focused investment

Capable protocol but lacks the maturity to perform in real-world, high-latency and low-bandwidth scenarios

Deployment flexibility

Compatible with every major public cloud and the most common on-premises hypervisors, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and its own Citrix XenServer

Compatible with the VMware vSphere ecosystem including the VMware ESXi hypervisor but not with all major public clouds and the most common hypervisors

Superior end-user experience

High-definition, customizable end-user experience enables productivity for a distributed workforce, even over unreliable network condition

Not ideal for deep customization of the end-user experience, a geographically dispersed workforce, or high performance over variable network conditions

ANALYST REPORT

Citrix leads the way with continual innovation

For the past three years, Citrix has ranked first in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Desktop as a Service for all use cases. We believe this is a testament to our ongoing investment in innovation and a strong commitment to building what you tell us you need right now — while also building what you will need in the future

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Migrate your Omnissa workloads to Citrix with our help

We can help you make the business case for migrating off Omnissa Horizon. And we’ll show our good faith by assisting with the migration and giving you a break on your licensing cost.*

For a custom TCO analysis and migration roadmap, talk to your Citrix representative today.

*Terms apply: Please contact your Citrix representative for more information

Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Desktop as a Service, By Sunil Kumar, Todd Larivee, Stuart Downes, 18 August 2025. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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