Rencore Reviews

There are different Rencore products I have become used to or experienced over the years and this review is specifically on the latest SPCAF product used at a successful client project last year. The following main points underscore how I feel this is an essential tool for modern SharePoint or Office 365 development especially in a professional setting:

• Prompt, high-level support - We had a number of support calls mostly to fill in knowledge gaps rather than feature or system limitations or problems, and in all cases, they were handled quickly, professionally and, in all cases, imparting a lot of important knowledge sometimes kept close to the vest at similar vendors.
• Right-sized product for the requirement - The SPCAF tool gives an SPFx and SharePoint development shop exactly the pieces needed with flexibility via their free editing tool and easy to access "default" settings easily referenced from Azure DevOps. The Integration was on point and, once the knowledge gaps were filled (see the support above), very efficient and quick to implement as well as go over with new team members or other interested groups.
• Flexible Training offer provided - What was unexpected was an offer for about 10 hours of training geared towards DevOps and SPFx development from world-class MVPs for a reasonable price. I highly recommend others inquire into this as part of your package as it enhances in a more formal way what you may get from support calls over time.

We use SPCAF across the organization for better code quality.

I work as a consultant with a Microsoft Gold Partner, our focus is on helping organisations migrate from on-premises infrastructure into Office 365 and Azure. Where we work with organisations that need to rebuild or migrate existing applications to the cloud, we recommend the tools from Rencor to assist in this process.

In the Office 365 and SharePoint ecosystem, code quality, platform stability and governance are a pretty big deal. Especially in on-premises SharePoint installations, bad customizations have been the root cause of performance issues. But also in the new cloud era quality assurance is of the utmost importance.

We use Rencore to provide our customers insights into the code quality of the solutions they purchased or developed and to check if SharePoint Online environments are used according to the company's guidelines. We also use Rencore during our SharePoint health checks. More often than not, Rencore provides our customers valuable insights into long-standing performance and quality issues. In addition, Rencore enables our developers to transform exiting legacy codebases to the new world of client-side programming.

When I engage as a consultant with a consulting firm, development house or customer that does any SharePoint development I always recommend that they purchase the Rencore product stack. In fact, in my new role as Head of Cloud Services at Tangent Solutions, our development team will be adopting Rencore as their defacto SharePoint development analysis tool when building applications for SharePoint.
In the past 5 years, the customers that have adopted SPCAF and the later SPTransformator platforms have raved about the product. I've used the tooling myself to perform assessments and the results are outstanding.
I am able to advise my clients on the best governance, patterns and practices and compliance development standards which invariably adds credibility to what I do as a professional in the Enterprise Information Management arena.
For me, its not about making money off selling Rencore, its about how the product improves the usage of SharePoint from a development perspective. In my role as an architect, the biggest problem we face is adoption and this is severely negated when custom solutions do not work. Rencore solves that problem, and assists developers with writing better code for SharePoint.

We use Rencore to improve our software quality. Since we had the development and deployment audit from Rencore, we never have problems with the deployment of our software to our Microsoft Azure Environment.

We use their App Governance tools in our Managed Services department to audit the code both our own developers write and the code we receive from third-party developers. This gives us a quality check on the code, which we can then use to give back to the developers. Moreover, we use their App Security tools to check for security flaws in the environments of our customers.

Using Rencore to ensure code quality and security is a must. We love the toolset and our product benefits from using Rencore!

We use Rencore's products and offerings to help our customers secure their customizations in the cloud.

Used as a tool in delivering consultancy.

Rencore solutions are for me the platinum solution provider for Office 365 development and governance solutions. Not only are the products superior, but the product and management team work very closely with Microsoft to understand the 'as is' and 'to be' states of Office 365 & Azure. Some of their production team are also senior members of the Microsoft backed 'Patterns and Practices' programme, which you can find via developer.microsoft.com. Support is rapid, thorough and you can trust what you are told. Andy Talbot - Microsoft MVP (Office Apps & Services)