Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs LogMeIn Rescue comparison

Citrix and GoTo are both solutions in the Remote Access category. Citrix is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.2, while GoTo is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.0. Citrix holds a 4.3% mindshare in VUS, compared to GoTo’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Citrix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of GoTo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 7, 2024

Citrix DaaS and LogMeIn Rescue compete in desktop virtualization and remote support. Citrix DaaS holds the upper hand in robust features and enterprise-level flexibility, while LogMeIn Rescue excels in ease of deployment and customer service.

Features: Citrix DaaS offers scalability, integration with cloud platforms, and robust security. LogMeIn Rescue provides quick remote support capabilities, comprehensive diagnostics tools, and immediate assistance suitability.

Room for Improvement: Citrix DaaS could improve its initial setup complexity, reduce performance lags, and lower the learning curve. LogMeIn Rescue could enhance compatibility with varied devices, improve session stability, and address technical limitations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LogMeIn Rescue is known for straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Citrix DaaS requires advanced technical knowledge for deployment and has mixed customer service reviews.

Pricing and ROI: Citrix DaaS users find the initial setup cost justified by high ROI due to its comprehensive capabilities. LogMeIn Rescue users value its cost-effectiveness for remote support, providing a good ROI for small to medium-sized enterprises.

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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. LogMeIn Rescue

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Microsoft Intune

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Remote Access category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 9.4%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is 4.3%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LogMeIn Rescue is 2.0%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Joseph Merusi

Collaborations engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Everything has worked better since we started using it

Sometimes the syncing is inconsistent. I'm confident that the devices are checking in every eight hours, but sometimes the devices aren't picking up the settings as quickly as I would expect. Some features haven't been updated in a while, and Microsoft doesn't seem interested in developing them. Unless you talk to an engineer, you don't know whether there will be an update. There are communication issues, so you might start working with a feature without knowing if it will be deprecated six months from now. Some reporting areas still need development. For example, I noticed that the reporting for driver updates is still confusing.

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Mohd Abdul Aziz Shah Sulaiman

Assistant General Manager Endpoint Application at Telekom Malaysia

Delivers secure and unified access to apps, desktops, and content for enhanced productivity

Citrix Workforce is good, but it needs improvement in diagnosing network issues. When errors occur, it is difficult to determine if they're due to network issues, Workspace issues, or environment issues. The error messages are too vague, just stating "connection error" without specifying if it's an IP address issue, connectivity problem, or something else related to the network. This lack of detail makes troubleshooting difficult. We often have to reinstall everything in Workspace, without knowing the root cause. Even after engaging with Citrix and sending logs, the feedback is often unsatisfactory, not meeting my expectations. This trial-and-error approach isn't effective problem-solving. While these issues aren't everyday occurrences, when they do happen, they can be catastrophic for our operations team.

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Aditya Chhibber

Regional Partner Manager - India at To be determined Company

Easy setup and effective support

I am with the company that sells LogMeIn Rescue. So, we engage with end customers, enterprise customers, manufacturing customers, BFSI customers, and healthcare customers. We try to find their use cases and provision our solution accordingly. For instance, if someone is in manufacturing and wants…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The best part of Intune is application deployment. We can deploy an application to several users with a single click. We can use conditional access, granting access to users based on certain conditions, such as location, platform, etc."

"Intune has significantly benefited our organization by providing comprehensive visibility into our device ecosystem."

"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."

"Intune has automated the deployment of patches and applications, which is more efficient and easier. It allows us to deploy applications, packages, Windows updates, and security updates like BitLocker encryption more efficiently and easily."

"We like Intune's Autopilot functionality, which enables one-touch deployment. Dynamic grouping is another feature we find valuable working in academia. We have people in buckets based on their roles in the university, such as faculty, staff, alum, or grad. Sometimes, they will fit into multiple places, and dynamic grouping helps with that."

"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."

"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."

"The initial setup is not complex."

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"It has improved delivering applications to remote locations with its lower bandwidth utilization."

"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."

"The feature that I like is that it is fast."

"ICA/HDX optimization policies."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the convenience and the ease of setup the tool provides."

"Citrix has had the top remote display for the last 20 years, and there is a huge technological gap between Citrix and its competitors."

"The product is simple to set up, and its deep integration with Microsoft is also a valuable feature."

"I recommend Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) for companies distributed across the world because it facilitates easy configuration and deployment without extensive infrastructure."

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"Ability to save a permanent remote connection, hold, and/or transfer."

"The tech support person I spoke to was very knowledgeable about the product, and was straightforward with me about its capabilities. There was no fluff about the product. They basically said this is not available now and we're hoping to have it available in the third or fourth quarter. It was nice to talk to someone who was straightforward and knew about the product."

"Being able to reboot computers into safe mode, when needed. That has come in handy in regards to IT troubleshooting."

"The most valuable feature is the ability for people to use LogMeIn's app that we install with our software, to bring us online with one click, so we can view their computer screens. It's easy and a lot of folks like it."

"They've thought of everything in terms of features. It's got all the little drill-down details and capabilities to apply patches and other stuff like that. I don't use everything they offer but you can go wherever you want to take this tool. It's been around for a really long time. We try as much as possible to train our staff to take care of their own systems and train our customer staff to take care of their own systems. There's a little laser pointer feature that you can pull up on the screen and say, "No, over here, click on this." That's very educational. It's a simple thing but when you're trying to get people to take responsibility and learn to take care of their own infrastructure, being able to just point at something while you're viewing their screen, as well as, take over their screen, is very valuable."

"The time it takes to troubleshoot one of our users is cut significantly."

"The ability to run it as a console when I log in. It thinks I'm there. It allows me to do file transfers. It allows me to see event logs through the utility, as opposed to having to open them on the client machine, so I can help troubleshoot unobtrusively."

"It allows us to rapidly solve issues for our customers on a remote basis, regardless of the location of the customer."

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Cons

"In terms of the admin experience, it is straightforward, but the Windows enrollment experience could be improved. Sometimes, for enrollment, we have to reset devices and re-enroll them. Just configuring Windows, Azure, or Active Directory doesn't enroll the devices. We need easy enrollment for Windows."

"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."

"A more incisive reporting tool with automated progress updates and graphical representation would be beneficial, as the current manual method lacks efficiency and visual clarity."

"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."

"Intune needs to incorporate more tools to reduce the number of third-party applications we rely on."

"I, as such, do not have any specific inputs or needs. However, there is always room for improvement when it comes to scalability."

"I would like to see Intune improve its handling of hybrid domain joins."

"There is room for improvement in the reporting capabilities, specifically app reporting. It is challenging to report which apps are installed on which device."

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"Integration with other vendors could be improved."

"We're running into all kinds of speed issues and reliability issues. There are frequent disconnects, and we're not sure whether that's a problem with the product, with the way the product has been deployed, or with server capacity or bandwidth. Our IT department pays attention to that, but we are feeling the impact of that."

"Citrix should consolidate the multiple tools currently required into a single platform."

"When there are technical issues, sometimes we can't get on the cloud."

"The visibility the solution provides across SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, for user and application traffic, is also limited if you do not enable all the services and is based on which services you are utilising. Citrix provides end-to-end visibility based on their services you are utilising."

"We encounter compatibility issues related to hardware, scanners, and other devices."

"Latency is also a major problem when adopting Citrix for video editing software or 3D editing software, especially editing 4K video or large file size. The Citrix virtualized solution becomes too slow, so we cannot use the VDI."

"There are a lot of shortfalls with supporting printing over XenApp."

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"I wish this product was tied to a Help Desk package so I could manage tickets and have an infrastructure, with this being the primary tool to troubleshoot."

"They need to improve their technical support."

"Network browsing and connecting on the LAN, because if you can't see the computers on your network, what good is the product?"

"I would like to see a mobile client that would work on an iPad, so I do not always have to be on a PC or a full-blown Mac operating system."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

"Secondly, the product needs improvement on mobile interfaces because on mobile devices it doesn't perform very well. On computers, it is good, with desktops, laptops, it is good. Sometimes iPad is good, but going with other devices, like Android or Windows on smart phones, it's always a problem."

"You should be able to remote on an iPhone like you remote on an Android. It is not the same experience. Unless you are very savvy on iOS, you are pretty much lost."

"They need to combine computer and mobile end-user support to be a more streamlined experience."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Intune is included with our F3 and E5 licenses."

"On a scale of one to ten with one being the cheapest, the cost of Microsoft Intune is a five."

"It's a bit expensive from a licensing perspective, especially as we look to have organizations with tenants across the globe."

"We use Defender ATP and E5 licenses."

"Consider the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite rather than choosing specific sub-components, e.g. only Microsoft Intune."

"Based on the features that it gives, it is cost-efficient. It is not necessarily on the expensive side of the scale. It provides a hefty number of features that any organization would want. It is in a good price range."

"The solution is cost-efficient."

"Intune's pricing is reasonable considering its benefits and the high costs it helps avoid."

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"Citrix solutions cost a lot in comparison with competitors, like Azure Virtual Desktop or VMware Horizon. Those solutions cost around 50 to 60 percent less, per month per user, than Citrix."

"Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is an expensive solution."

"Citrix is expensive."

"They offer licensing per user. From time to time, they give discounts. Because it's a hybrid model, you can deploy some portion of it on cloud and some portion your on-prem."

"Citrix licensing is expensive."

"My company opts for the yearly subscription model to pay towards the licensing costs attached to the solution."

"Their licensing model used to be on a per-year basis, where you would negotiate the cost per user for a year. For instance, if you had 25,000 users, you could negotiate the cost accordingly. However, they are transitioning to a subscription-based model where the cost is incurred monthly."

"The tool is expensive."

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"Look at the different plans they have. Do not pay for a plan you do not need."

"The only downside is pricing. I think each technician license is somewhere around $100 or $120 a month now. So if you have a lot of technicians, it can get expensive, for a small business."

"While LogMeIn Rescue is a great product and a leader in the industry, it's way pricey. Price is the most negative thing about LogMeIn Rescue."

"The pricing is worth the value."

"I did look into a couple of other products, TeamViewer in particular, at one point. The price point of Rescue, compared to some of the other things that are in the marketplace right now, is high. But it's what I would call the "Cadillac" of the industry."

"The pricing is a little on the higher side, though."

"The rescue model is licensed by user."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

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Educational Organization

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Government

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops?

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops?

I have found that Citrix DaaS is still a complex product, especially on the desktop side, which affects scalability. ...

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What do you like most about LogMeIn Rescue?

LogMeIn is a remote tool that I use for remote solutions.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogMeIn Rescue?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with LogMeIn Rescue?

The solution’s pricing could be improved.

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

XenDesktop, XenApp (Citrix Virtual Apps), Citrix Workspace

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Overview

Microsoft Intune provides centralized management of mobile devices and applications, ensuring security, compliance, and productivity through integration with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Organizations use Intune for managing mobile devices and applications, enhancing security and compliance across platforms. With features like single sign-on, conditional access, and zero-touch deployment via Autopilot, it facilitates efficient operations. Intune's scalability, easy enrollment, and capabilities such as remote wipe support diverse device management, offering robust data protection and efficient operation. Despite its features, improvement areas include reporting, compatibility with non-Microsoft devices, and better support for macOS and Linux devices.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and System Center for streamlined management.
Conditional Access: Enhances security with policies that restrict access based on conditions.
Autopilot: Provides zero-touch deployment for setting up new devices efficiently.
Mobile Device Management: Enables control over both personal and corporate devices.
Application Deployment: Facilitates app delivery across a range of devices.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Centralized Management: Reduces complexity by managing devices and applications in one place.
Security Enhancement: Protects data with features like remote wipe and compliance monitoring.
Improved Productivity: Enhances efficiency with seamless integration and automation features.
Device Scalability: Supports diverse device management for growing business needs.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure secure and compliant device management. Companies leverage its capabilities to deploy security policies and manage both corporate-owned and BYOD environments, facilitating a unified approach to data protection and compliance.

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Enable secure, flexible work with the leader in virtual apps and desktops

Deliver desktop as a service (DaaS) from any cloud or datacenter

Get started with Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) in minutes to provide a familiar, high-performance digital workspace experience to your users. We’ll manage the infrastructure and security. You focus on your business.

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LogMeIn Rescue delivers unparalleled remote IT support technology that allows enterprises to better manage mobile remote support and remote desktop support helping users across PC, Mac, iOS, Android support and more. Features include remote computer access, mobile app support, and the exciting Rescue Lens interactive video support feature that allows support technicians to see exactly what the end user can see. LogMeIn Rescue is truly on the cutting edge of the remote technical support industry.

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Exelon, Aeronamic, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Alameda County Medical Center, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Aloysius Stichting, Amarchand Mangaldas, AmBev, Amnet Technology Solutions, Arval

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