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Emotional Footprint Awards 2024

Desktop as a Service


SoftwareReviews names Azure Virtual Desktop and VMware Horizon Cloud as Desktop as a Service Emotional Footprint Award Winners.


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Desktop as a Service

Emotional Footprint Awards

SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Awards evaluate and rank products based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals. Using our Emotional Footprint methodology, we aggregate emotional footprint scores across 26 dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.

Emotional Footprint Awards are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.

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Measuring Emotional Footprint

Emotional Footprint is scored using our “Net Emotional Footprint” Index. This index tracks responses across 26 dimensions of emotional footprint that span 5 categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution. Then, the following calculation is done across this index:

% of Positive Reviews - % of Negative Reviews

For clarity, the total percentage of positive, neutral, and negative ratings is shown for each vendor as well.

Emotional Footprint Leaders


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.

8.6

CX Score

CX
Score

+88

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

86

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

4% Negative 92% Positive
Badge Winner
42Reviews

VMware, Inc.

VMware Horizon Cloud

Delivers enterprise-class virtual desktops and applications from Microsoft Azure and adds incredible value above and beyond Azure Virtual Desktop.

8.4

CX Score

CX
Score

+89

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

89

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

2% Negative 91% Positive
Badge Winner
40Reviews

Other Evaluated Vendors


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

CX Score

CX
Score

+88

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

81

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

3% Negative 91% Positive
36Reviews

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.

7.9

CX Score

CX
Score

+87

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

86

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

3% Negative 90% Positive
12Reviews

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.

7.8

CX Score

CX
Score

+86

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

82

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

3% Negative 89% Positive
14Reviews

Citrix Systems

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.

7.4

CX Score

CX
Score

+82

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

82

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

3% Negative 85% Positive
35Reviews

V2 Cloud Solutions, Inc.

V2 Cloud

A fully customizable cloud desktop for businesses of all sizes.

7.2

CX Score

CX
Score

+75

Net Emotional Footprint

Net Emotional
Footprint

81

Value Index

VALUE INDEX

10% Negative 85% Positive
12Reviews

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