Rencore Code (SPCAF) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

Rencore has become a go-to solution for organizations in the Office 365 and SharePoint ecosystem, providing valuable insights into code quality and compliance development standards. By utilizing Rencore, customers can ensure that their SharePoint Online environments are being used according to company guidelines. Many consultants, development houses, and customers involved in SharePoint development highly recommend the Rencore product stack for its ability to improve software quality and address long-standing performance and quality issues. The SPCAF and SPTransformator platforms have received praise from customers for consistently delivering outstanding results in assessments.

Moreover, Rencore assists professionals in the Enterprise Information Management arena by offering guidance on governance, patterns, practices, and compliance development standards. For developers working with legacy codebases, Rencore enables a seamless transition to the new world of client-side programming. It also plays a crucial role in solving the problem of custom solutions not functioning correctly, thus improving adoption rates and assisting developers in writing better code for SharePoint.

Organizations migrating to Office 365 and Azure benefit from Rencore's tools as they assist in rebuilding or migrating existing applications to the cloud. The App Governance tools help audit code written by both in-house and third-party developers, ensuring quality across the board. Additionally, with its App Security tools, Rencore helps check for security flaws in customer environments.

Overall, Rencore is valued as a trusted solution provider for Office 365 development and governance. Its flexible training options enhance knowledge gained from support calls and enable DevOps teams to effectively develop solutions. By using Rencore's tools, organizations can secure their customizations in the cloud while maintaining software quality and ensuring smooth deployment to the Microsoft Azure environment. The widespread adoption of SPCAF throughout organizations further attests to its effectiveness in achieving better code quality.

Reviews

11 Reviews

A must-have for your SPFx project!

Rating: 10 out of 10

January 31, 2020

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>

Pros

Support - It is very quick relative to other vendors in this space and also very thorough.
Product Features - It appears to be the only product in the market that has ALL the pieces for a baseline SPFx project versus no tools or manual activities.

Cons

Documentation online could be more current and though this is a challenge for all vendors, it should be a major goal.
More examples beyond the core templates would be nice.

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.

Ralph Rivas

Principal Consultant in Professional Services at Magenic Technologies (501-1000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Better quality SharePoint customizations

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SPCAF across the organization for better code quality.

Pros

Faster review.
Enforce adherence to Industry best practices.
Integration with the DevOps process.

Cons

Make it a little more intuitive.
Better integration with DevOps tools like Jenkins.

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

As a SharePoint software vendor, you have to use Rencore

Rating: 10 out of 10

February 9, 2019

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.

Pros

The software development audit process is very good
With SharePoint Customization Analysis Framework, you see how good your code quality is
The Rencore certificate helps us to communicate our software quality to our customers

Cons

Cloud Analytics for small customers

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.

Christian Groß

Chief Executive Officer in Corporate at Solutions2Share UG (11-50 employees)

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6 years of experience

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Rencore makes us better!

Rating: 10 out of 10

October 1, 2018

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!

Pros

Static analysis of code
Help transforming SharePoint solutions
Connecting with the community

Cons

More integrations with SPFx
Rencore as a service would be awesome using VSTS

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Sébastien Levert

Product Evangelist & Partner Manager at Valo Intranet in Information Technology at Sininen Meteoriitti (51-200 employees)

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4 years of experience

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Trustworthy automation of security and quality checks with the Rencore App platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 28, 2018

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.

Pros

The Rencore products make our lives easier. They provide automated quality and security checks that would otherwise require a lot of manual labour.
The Rencore products provide added value to our sales propositions.

Cons

Perhaps one portal to rule them all, would be great!

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.

Maarten Eekels

CTO / Managing Partner in Information Technology at Portiva (51-200 employees)

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Reseller

3 years of experience

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A Gem for anyone working with SharePoint: Rencore is great!

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 24, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros

Excellent support
Forward-thinking services
Easily reachable

Cons

SPCAF might be challenging for business users to start using.

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.

Jussi Roine

Chief Research Officer in Professional Services at Sulava Oy (51-200 employees)

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Reseller

4 years of experience

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Rencore cloud tools, worth a good look!

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 24, 2018

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.

Pros

Rencore is a company formed of people that have lived the Microsoft community, they have a deep understanding of the needs of businesses that aren't met by the standard Microsoft tools.
Rencore staff are heavily involved in the Microsoft ecosystem, with many of them spending personal time working on projects such as the Patterns and Practices foundation. This adds to their strength and knowledge of the Microsoft platform.
Their products are well known in the community and often used by Microsoft staff themselves. Their support of MVPs ensures that they receive feed back at all levels ensuring a stronger platform of products.

Cons

I'd like to see a cheaper subset of tools for the 'citizen developer' to try and enforce good practice at all levels.

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.

Paul Hunt

Business Productivity Practice Lead in Information Technology at Trustmarque (Part of Capita plc) (10,001+ employees)

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3 years of experience

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Powerful tool for management and remediation of SharePoint customisations.

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as a tool in delivering consultancy.

Pros

Save time by collecting information about customizations.
Prepare analysis report that can be presented to clients.
Make recommendations to assist in triage and proposal of problem remediation.

Cons

SharePoint development 'best practices' are very much dependent on context. I'd like to see some rules as advisory rather than mandatory by default, as the output of the tool can sometimes be alarmist when not understood in its technical context.

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.

Bill Ayers

SharePoint Architect / Consultant in Corporate at Flow Simulation Ltd. (1-10 employees)

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3 years of experience

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A unique position on the market when it comes to code quality, transformation and platform governance.

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 18, 2018

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.

Pros

Unique expert knowledge of their target platforms. Not many companies have such a unique position in their target market. Their employees have a deep understanding of SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure and also regularly advise Microsoft on these matters.
Community involvement and contribution to open source projects. Key employees at Rencore are considered thought leaders in their area of expertise and contribute to high profile Microsoft open source initiatives.
Rencore's unique position when it comes to code quality analysis in the SharePoint space sets it apart. There's really no alternative.
Platform governance is another Rencore strength. No other product provides the insights into your SharePoint Online environment with full auditing of not only configuration changes but also who changed which code where and when. Again no alternatives exist.

Cons

Rencore's product line is of course still a bit of a niche: SharePoint code quality is not something every organization on the planet is concerned with - although Rencore does much more than that.
We feel Rencore's marketing efforts are mainly targeted at technologists. There's a lot of other potential, especially for their platform governance product.

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.

Thomas Vochten

Solution architect Office 365 & SharePoint | Microsoft MVP in Information Technology at Xylos (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Rencore - why else?

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 18, 2018

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 & 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)

Pros

Support
Rapid agile product development
Knowledge share

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Andy Talbot

Office 365 Consultant in Information Technology at Selfridges (5001-10,000 employees)

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3 years of experience

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A unique position on the market when it comes to code quality, transformation and platform governance.

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Unique expert knowledge of their target platforms. Not many companies have such a unique position in their target market. Their employees have a deep understanding of SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure and also regularly advise Microsoft on these matters.
Community involvement and contribution to open source projects. Key employees at Rencore are considered thought leaders in their area of expertise and contribute to high profile Microsoft open source initiatives.
Rencore's unique position when it comes to code quality analysis in the SharePoint space sets it apart. There's really no alternative.
Platform governance is another Rencore strength. No other product provides the insights into your SharePoint Online environment with full auditing of not only configuration changes but also who changed which code where and when. Again no alternatives exist.

Cons

Rencore's product line is of course still a bit of a niche: SharePoint code quality is not something every organization on the planet is concerned with - although Rencore does much more than that.
We feel Rencore's marketing efforts are mainly targeted at technologists. There's a lot of other potential, especially for their platform governance product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Thomas Vochten

Solution architect Office 365 & SharePoint | Microsoft MVP in Information Technology at Xylos (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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