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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Reveal

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AReveal is a True SDK embedded analytics and business intelligence platform built for software teams shipping customer-facing dashboards, reporting, and AI insights inside their own applications. Unlike iFrame-based or bolt-on BI tools, Reveal embeds natively — with full control over UX, branding, and architecture, and no separate licensing or infrastructure overhead. End users get self-service analytics including drag-and-drop dashboard creation, conversational AI…

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    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

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    RevealVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    Embedded Analytics - Contact Us!
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    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RevealVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    RevealVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Infragistics
    Chose Reveal
    The infrastructure and licensing costs are much smaller when compared to others.
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    81%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    RevealVisual Studio
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Reveal and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Reveal
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Reveal and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Reveal
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    Drill-down analysis7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Reveal and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Reveal
    7.6
    8 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Reveal and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Reveal
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    Multi-User Support (named login)6.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.68 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)5.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Reveal and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Reveal
    6.0
    6 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
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    REST API2.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
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    RevealVisual Studio
    Small Businesses
    GoodData.AI
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    GoodData.AI
    Score8.8 out of 10
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    Score8 out of 10
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RevealVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    RevealVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Infragistics
    As a company responsible for people money we have to deal with following challenges every day: Clients who want to track the status of their transfers. Licensing agencies who need to ensure professional standards are met. Internal team managers who need to track client and staff progress to ensure company progression and success. Reveal does a good job as self-service tool enabling the accountable parties to have full access to important insights 24/7. The prebuilt dashboard themes save time and investment as we don’t need to hire a dedicated data analyst. The interactive dashboards give full transparency. The ability to easily create, analyze and report keeps clients, partners and stuff on the same page.
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    Infragistics
    • Ease of Use - Reveal is super intuitive when it comes to creating dashboards. You don't need to be a data expert, which is key for me.
    • Sharing - The ability to share across our teams, locations, and with clients is great. We create teams for our different clients and share dashboards there that also are connected to our company dashboards.
    • Support and Roadmap - Reveal support has been great. They care about the needs of their customers. They have released 3 updates in the last few months, and they are adding a lot of value.
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    Microsoft
    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    Infragistics
    • There are a limited number of templates, but this is something they say they are working on.
    • Cost is reasonable for individual personal use, but prohibitive to small companies looking to embed their services in their own App.
    • Responses to emails for support can be delayed, but what else is new?
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Infragistics
    As a developer of the project, I feel comfortable with this tool for its peculiarities: acceptable costs, simple configuration, creation and maintenance of simple reports, fairly complete account management, also, not least, I appreciate the work done by their technical support always timely intervention and, above all, resolutive.
    Furthermore, as far as end users are concerned, I found a good appreciation of the proposed reports
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    Infragistics
    Reveal has a great usability for any level of computer user. The only major thing I see that is not exactly user friendly, is the color scheme issue I stated earlier in my review. Although, I am coming from a graphic design background, I need a platform that every team member in our office can use.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Infragistics
    This assessment is due to the fact that I have not yet found Reveal not available for use. Apart from some problems of development crash, then fixed by the product assistance service, I have not found any particular problems or loss of time caused by the instrument.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Infragistics
    The pages load rather quickly even in the presence of several elevations in the same dashboard that insist on different data sources and with visualizations that insist on different types of graph. I can only be satisfied with these performances.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Infragistics
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Infragistics
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Infragistics
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Infragistics
    None in particular, however, would be welcome if improvements were made in the personalization of the prospects and in the connection between them (perhaps being able to transfer the selections present in one prospect to another recalled by the first).
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Infragistics
    Lacks ability to generate analytics as complex as Tableau and not as easy to embed and interface with other software and databases as Looker. But a very good option for those not needing the complexities found in other products.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Scalability
    Infragistics
    This evaluation is the result of the fact that I have not had the opportunity to deepen the Reveal interface with other tools and / or other software, so the evaluation that I am giving follows what I have been able to read regarding the characteristics of the product online.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Infragistics
    • We have the best platform for visualizing data for better understanding
    • The drag and drop features saves time
    • With data from multiple sources, we get the right intelligence to drive our business forward.
    • While it is expensive, the benefits outweighs the high cost
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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    ScreenShots

    Reveal Screenshots

    Screenshot of full control over deployment, user access, and the look, feel, and behavior of the embedded BI experience.Screenshot of self-service dashboard creation, allowing app users to view, edit, and build their own dashboards within the application, reducing support requests to development teams.Screenshot of Reveal's flat-rate pricing model, offering robust analytics capabilities without hidden costs or usage-based price increases.Screenshot of Reveal's true embedded SDK architecture, which eliminates the need for iFrames and provides full client- and server-side API support for a secure, in-context analytics experience.Screenshot of full theming and branding control, allowing the analytics experience to match the host application's brand.Screenshot of the analytics interface supporting both read-only dashboards and full self-service BI in a single, visually rich experience.