Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
2 Ratings
Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition
14 Ratings

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

2 Ratings
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Score 7 out of 100

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

14 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 100

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Attribute Ratings

  • Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

1.0

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

10%
1 Rating
8.5

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

85%
4 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

I do not think I can recommend Appcelerator at this point due to the issues with Appcelerator studio, lack of good debugging support, lack of thorough documentation and forums and the additional cost overhead of licenses. The pros are just that it allows for cross-platform development. However, Cordova does a much better job of it and excels at places where Appcelerator currently struggles

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Suited for:
  • Window form, vb.net, and web applications like Asp.net MVC, Asp.net core.
  • drag-drop features.

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Pros

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

  • Adds structure to your code through Alloy framework.
  • Easy to integrate with iOS SDK and to build and run iOS apps.

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

  • Unique component not easily found in other vendors like Diagram or Pivot Grid
  • Very good support when we need help
  • Easy royalty free licensing
  • Many platforms available
  • Always on the edge of new platforms

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Cons

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

  • It is very hard to debug your code. Breakpoints never worked for us even with the latest Appcelerator Studio and we had to rely on log statements to debug.
  • There is a need to purchase licenses from Appcelerator to run the code on a device or for creating iOS distribution builds. This is an additional cost when you have already paid for Apple developer program for precisely these things.
  • If things are broken due to lack to support between Appcelerator and a new iOS version, you pretty much have to rely on a new version release from Appcelerator for the issue to be fixed.
  • It is difficult to create enterprise distribution builds where the distribution certificate is owned by your organization's team and you only have a development certificate for the same.
  • The forums on developer.appcelerator.com are seldom helpful. It is hard to find solutions for issues even on other forums like stack overflow.
  • Documentation needs to be improved.

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

  • The documentation. It lacks detail and real-world examples.
  • The theme support. It really could use some improvement in the easiness of customization
  • As always, there's room for improvement. Maybe allowing for a better experience in terms of mix and match data points on the graphs

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Pricing Details

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Alternatives Considered

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

Appcelerator makes you write a structured code whereas Cordova just packages your code and you are free to structure it. Appcelerator bridges your javascript code with native code and that would make it run faster than javascript code in Cordova apps. However, with recent mobile browsers, you would hardly notice any performance deterioration with Cordova apps. Appcelerator struggles with issues related to its IDE, debugging, documentation and forums and additional costs. Cordova makes it much more simpler to develop cross-platform apps with better developer support, debugging support, documentation and forums minus the additional costs.

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Currently using it but we will do more research on D3

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Return on Investment

Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)

  • We were able to build and deploy a mobile app with Appcelerator. However, the platform still has issues and does not cover our needs as much as some of its competitor like cordova does.

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

  • Totally positive impact improving our product
  • First impression in a demo is always important

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