Rencore Code (SPCAF) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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:

<ul><li>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.</li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

This is for SharePoint development and, although it may work, not really for general development or a replacement for tools such as FXCop, etc.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SPCAF across the organization for better code quality.

Likelihood to Recommend

Rencore is great when you need a quality check for all the types of code that might be implemented.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

You will save a lot of time, money and frustration when you have a good application lifecycle management process. Rencore helps you because they have the most experienced and motivated people.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for Product development and ensuring that our code is always secure and performant.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Rencore really makes your life easier and makes you sleep at night when you manage an Office 365 environment. A big chunk of security and quality checks can be automated and are processed using intelligent automation tooling. A no-brainer if you are looking for a secure and high quality environment.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Likelihood to Recommend

SPCAF is very well suited for developers and architects needing to understand how their customization could be more secure, and if it follows the current guidance and set practices from Microsoft.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

For Microsoft shops that are doing custom development on the Microsoft cloud platform in Office 365 and Azure, the Rencore toolset is an absolute must, especially if you are involved in converting farm solutions to cloud, or just moving into cloud development for the first time.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as a tool in delivering consultancy.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited to organisations with a lot of legacy custom code. Less suitable in scenarios where there is no budget for re-writes etc.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a lot of managed code running on SharePoint, Rencore will provide you with a unique understanding of its potential problems like memory leaks, security holes or developers not following best practices. Customers are often amazed at how much information Rencore can gather without even having the source code available! The transformation tooling is often even more compelling: it not only offers guidance on how legacy server-side code can be migrated to newer client-side technologies, it also translates a lot of code for you - automatically.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 &amp; 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 &amp; Services)

Likelihood to Recommend

Support, knowledge, rapid product updates, and on the bleeding edge.