AI Indexes
IT AI Index
Index › Products › Omnissa Horizon · October 2026 Edition
Omnissa · 1 category · Ranked

Omnissa Horizon

51Judge labels
0First choices
18Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Virtual desktops for mid-market buyers
Rank 58 of 81 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 39% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Omnissa Horizon →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In virtual desktops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Omnissa Horizon for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Virtual desktopsIT operations and endpoint0%58 of 8139%18criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Omnissa Horizon yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Omnissa Horizon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501102
GPT-6 Luna01012
Muse Glimmer 30B00112

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase9 labelsNone
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative51 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Omnissa Horizon Cloud / Horizon 8 if you need a strong VDI platform with hybrid or multi-cloud options” GPT-5.4 mini · Virtual desktops · direct prompt · alternative
“Omnissa Horizon is a heavy-duty platform known for its deep integration with the VMware vSphere ecosystem.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual desktops · comparative prompt · alternative
“Offers flexibility, but is more of an enterprise VDI platform than a "turn on a PC for each user" service.” GPT-6 Luna · Virtual desktops · comparative prompt · alternative
“For enterprise: Citrix DaaS or Omnissa Horizon Cloud for complex hybrid environments” MiniMax M2.5 · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“What to avoid for mid-size ... Citrix DaaS and Omnissa Horizon are heavyweight options.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“you must carefully audit your underlying hypervisor costs and expect some bureaucratic friction as the transition settles” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · soft negative
“This transition has caused uncertainty regarding product roadmaps, support, and continued development.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · soft negative
“They're usually more platform than a company seeking straightforward employee Cloud PCs needs.” GPT-6 Luna · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Omnissa Horizon, over the 51 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Omnissa Horizon was named but was not.
ShowHide
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Citrix DaaS47 of 512Not among the top eight
Amazon WorkSpaces40 of 510Not among the top eight
Azure Virtual Desktop28 of 517Not among the top eight
Windows 36527 of 519Not among the top eight
Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop19 of 5111Not among the top eight
Nerdio Manager14 of 510Not among the top eight
V2 Cloud8 of 511Not among the top eight
Microsoft Windows 3656 of 514Not among the top eight
VMware6 of 510Not among the top eight
Parallels RAS5 of 510Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Omnissa Horizon. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 51 of the 51 answers that named Omnissa Horizon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

venn.com37
getnerdio.com28
learn.microsoft.com20
apps4rent.com19
citrix.com18
apporto.com15
aws.amazon.com13
geekflare.com13
ironorbit.com13
techtarget.com11

187 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming Omnissa Horizon came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

omnissa.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Omnissa Horizon takes 0% of first choices and Azure Virtual Desktop takes 22%.
ShowHide

In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “virtual desktop platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “virtual desktop platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
2,400 a month (“omnissa horizon”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
309 a month
Its company's site
omnissa.com shared with Omnissa's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 45,805 a month
Searches its site ranks for
5,916 · 639 in the top three
Sites linking to it
4,740
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
9 ads · 8 text, 1 video · 4 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as Omnissa, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 5 in the year, 4 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 58 of 81 in virtual desktops
Segment leader
22%
Azure Virtual Desktop
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
51 answers
Its own site cited
in 51 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Omnissa Horizon

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Omnissa Horizon; a claim can dispute any of them.
Omnissa Horizon (formerly VMware Horizon) 3Omnissa Horizon Cloud 3VMware/Omnissa Horizon Cloud 2Omnissa (VMware) Horizon 1Omnissa Horizon (ex-VMware) 1Omnissa Horizon / Horizon Cloud 1Omnissa Horizon Cloud / Horizon 8 1VMware / Omnissa Horizon Cloud 1VMware/Omnissa Horizon 1

Follow Omnissa Horizon

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Omnissa is the company behind Omnissa Horizon.
ShowHide

On record

Company records

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Modernize scalable VDI with Omnissa Horizon—flexible virtual desktops and apps across on‑prem, hybrid, and multi‑cloud with simplified management.
Not stated on the pages read
Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Omnissa Horizon's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: omnissa.com/horizon-solution-brief, omnissa.com/horizon-solution-overview, omnissa.com/dex-horizon-solution-brief, omnissa.com/omnissa-horizon-saas-matrix, omnissa.com/omnissa-horizon-accelerator-datasheet. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Omnissa Horizon's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Omnissa Horizon, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Omnissa Horizon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Omnissa Horizon is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Omnissa Horizon, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at omnissa.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.