What is Omnissa and what does it offer?

Omnissa is an enterprise software company that sells a platform for governing and securing digital work — desktops, apps, endpoints, and the AI tools employees use — under the banner of what it calls the "autonomous workspace." Its two best-known product lines are Horizon (virtual desktops and apps) and Workspace ONE (unified endpoint and workspace management), both delivered through the Omnissa Platform. It is relevant if you are an IT team looking to consolidate endpoint management, virtual desktop delivery, and visibility into unsanctioned AI use under one vendor.

The positioning: govern digital work for people and AI

Omnissa describes its platform as a way to "govern digital work for people and AI," and frames its pitch around secure, cost-effective digital transformation and flexible work. The homepage messaging leans heavily on AI governance — the claim that IT should be governing AI rather than merely watching it, and that "you can't govern what you can't fully see." That visibility-and-control framing is the thread connecting the product lines below.

Core products

Two details worth noting when mapping these to your environment: Horizon is offered in both an on-premises edition (Horizon 8) and a cloud edition (Horizon Cloud), so the choice depends on where you need to run workloads. Workspace ONE is similarly split between core UEM and a separate experience-management component, which matters if digital employee experience is the capability you're actually shopping for.

Solution areas

Omnissa groups its offerings into four solution categories:

• Digital employee experience — personalized, productivity-focused work experiences
• Unified endpoint management — managing and securing all endpoints from a single platform
• Virtual desktops & apps — delivery across cloud and on-premises
• Security & compliance — data protection and compliance with industry standards

The company also organizes content by industry and by use case, which is the more useful entry point if you're evaluating fit rather than browsing a product list.

Where to start

If you want to see the products in context, the site offers a "View solutions" path and a "See all products" listing; pricing is referenced through an "Explore pricing" link rather than published figures, so cost has to be obtained through that route or a sales conversation. For hands-on evaluation, Omnissa maintains separate sites for documentation, a knowledge base, community, learning, and a tech zone — those are where the technical detail lives, not the marketing pages.