Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Desktop as a Service

SoftwareReviews names Omnissa Horizon Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Amazon WorkSpaces as Desktop as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Desktop as a Service

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

42Reviews

VMware, Inc.

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

The VMware Horizon DaaS Platform is the only virtual desktop platform built from the ground up for cloud delivery. Now VMware enables service providers to offer Windows desktops a in a truly scalable cloud-based architecture.

8.2

Composite
Score

+90

Emotional
Footprint

91%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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46Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Azure Virtual Desktop

Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features.

7.9

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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42Reviews

Amazon

Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. Amazon WorkSpaces can provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. Amazon WorkSpaces helps eliminate the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which helps simplify your desktop delivery strategy.

7.9

Composite
Score

+90

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Breadth of Features

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Business Value Created

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Customization

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Data Integration

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of IT Administration

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Implementation

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Azure Virtual Desktop

Quality of Features

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Amazon WorkSpaces

Vendor Support

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Breadth of Features

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Business Value Created

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Customization

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Data Integration

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of IT Administration

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Ease of Implementation

Omnissa Horizon Cloud

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Azure Virtual Desktop

Quality of Features

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Amazon WorkSpaces

Vendor Support

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Other Evaluated Vendors

12Reviews

Cloudalize

Cloudalize Cloud Workstation

Cloudalize’s GPU-powered virtual desktops bring instant flexibility, mobility, speed of execution and ease of use to engineers, designers, architects, gamers and other computing-heavy users thanks to its Desktop-as-a-Service Platform MyGDaaS. Cloudalize creates vast new markets and a valuable distribution channel for GPU-intensive applications by turning any browser-enabled and internet-connected device into a powerful graphics workstation.

7.5

Composite
Score

+85

Emotional
Footprint

89%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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37Reviews

Citrix

Citrix DaaS

Create the most empowering employee experience possible. Across every device. On any network. Employees get the same secure, virtual experience across operating systems. You manage it all in a single console.

7.2

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

84%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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20Reviews

Evolve IP

Evolve IP Desktop as a Service

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) frees businesses from the endless cycle of purchasing, supporting, upgrading and ultimately replacing local PCs by providing an untethered “virtual” workspace that can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, on nearly any device. Moreover, customers and end users can control their DaaS environment via a self-service web portal.

7.0

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.