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    Composer

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AComposer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A

    Morningstar Advisor Workstation

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMorningstar headquartered in Chicago offers the Morningstar Advisor Workstation, an investment portfolio management application.N/A
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    ComposerMorningstar Advisor Workstation
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    ComposerMorningstar Advisor Workstation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase.
    Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer.
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    Morningstar
    The ease of use and vast field of data available helps one make informed decisions on what to keep and what to replace. The historical views allows one to view the trend and help decide if the holding should be kept, replaced or closely monitored. Data all in one easy to read place!
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Controlling dependencies
    • Fast dependency resolver
    • Easy to use dependency injection
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    Morningstar
    • Amazing Comparisons
    • Easy to read charts
    • Diverse database
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
    • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
    • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
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    Morningstar
    • Pink sheet items
    • More sub-accounts for variable products
    • Automated comparisons
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    Morningstar
    Lack of AI
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
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    Morningstar
    In terms of diversity, Morningstar is the best on the market. The way they display data, and since many financial institutions use this software, it is easy to show clients how their money is doing outside of our institution. Also allows us to show portentously clients in-depth comparisons of different investment strategies.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
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    Morningstar
    • Keep good holdings
    • Unload the losers
    • View potential replacements
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