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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

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What is Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition?

Syncfusion’s Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is a suite of 1,800+ software components and frameworks for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications. Its UI controls are designed to be flexible and are optimized for high performance. According to Syncfusion, the suite…

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March 25, 2024
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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $395 per month Team of up to 5 members.
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Product Details

What is Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition?

Syncfusion’s Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is a suite of 1,800+ software components and frameworks for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications.

Its UI controls are designed to be flexible and are optimized for high performance. According to Syncfusion, the suite has users among 80% of the Fortune 500. Syncfusion enables users to speed the creation of modern user interfaces and read and write common file formats. Syncfusion states they have supplied components to 1 million+ developers across more than 30,000 organizations around the world, and offers continuous support to customers.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Features

  • Supported: 1,600+ web, desktop and mobile controls. Components & frameworks for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC, Core), UWP, WinUI (Preview), Xamarin, JavaScript, Angular, Blazor, Vue, and React.
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: File Formats (Excel, PDF, Word and PowerPoint)
  • Supported: Report Viewer SDK
  • Supported: Quarterly product releases
  • Supported: Support within 24 hours on all business days
  • Supported: Live chat support on all business days

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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition starts at $395.

Progress Telerik, DevExpress Universal, and ComponentOne are common alternatives for Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Extensive API documentation: Several users have praised the extensive API documentation provided by the framework, which has allowed for easy integration and the ability to add specific functionality as needed.

Responsive controls for web development: Reviewers have consistently mentioned that the controls for web development are responsive out of the box. This has made it easy to create interactive and user-friendly applications.

Wide range of functionality: Many users appreciate that the framework's controls include a lot of functionality, such as presenting database information in logical formats and providing user interactive informational views. This allows for a consistent user experience across pages and applications.

Difficult learning curve: Some users have found that certain components of the software have a difficult learning curve, which can be attributed to the complexity of the control. This steep learning curve may require users to invest more time and effort into understanding and using these components effectively.

Breaking changes with version updates: Several reviewers have encountered breaking changes when updating to minor versions, such as licensing errors. These unexpected changes can disrupt workflows and cause frustration among users who rely on stable and consistent functionality. It is important for developers to carefully consider the impact of these changes before releasing new versions.

Limited theming options: Users have expressed frustration over the inability to theme components using CSS variables, which requires a fully custom solution. This limitation means that users cannot easily apply consistent visual styles across their applications or adapt to different design requirements. Offering more flexible theming options would enhance customization capabilities and improve user experience.

Users recommend exploring Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition in depth to understand its design concept. They suggest taking advantage of the community license and trying the trial version. Users highly recommend Syncfusion for any development needs as it reduces development time and offers a broad set of capabilities. Additionally, users mention that Syncfusion has the best set of tools available in the market and suggest contacting the sales team for great offers. However, users caution about potential performance problems and bugs in the Blazor tools. Overall, users recommend Syncfusion for implementing fast applications with visual and usability capabilities, and they appreciate the comprehensive support provided by Syncfusion for mobile, desktop, or web-based applications.

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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
As we began our quest to build a top-class school management system, we were always on the lookout for tools to streamline our processes while enhancing user experience. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition emerged as an ideal partner in our journey toward creating a top-class platform. From the moment we integrated Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition into our development pipeline, the transformation was remarkable. The comprehensive suite of tools provided by Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition empowered our team to craft intuitive interfaces, dynamic data visualizations, and seamless workflows effortlessly. One of the standout features of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is its ease of use. Even developers with varying levels of expertise found themselves navigating the platform with remarkable ease, thanks to its intuitive design and documentation. This allowed us to accelerate our development cycles without compromising on quality. Moreover, Syncfusion's extensive library of pre-built components proved to be a game-changer for us. Whether we needed interactive charts for analyzing academic performance or responsive grids for managing student records, Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition had us covered. The ability to customize these components to suit our specific requirements further makes our life that much simpler!
  • Data visualization - loved the choices that are available
  • Particularly liked the timetable module
  • As far as data visualization goes, the asks never end. I would like to see more options and flexibility around this.
It is very useful where moderate to complex workflows are involved especially when intended users are of different skill levels. In our case, the application that is being built would be used by people whose tech skills can vary from 0 to 10.
  • Too early to say
NA
5
Software developers
N/A
  • Developing user-friendly navigation
  • Top class visuals
Ease of use & value for money
No
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition's intuitive interface and documentation make it exceptionally easy for developers of all levels to navigate and utilize its wide array of tools and components, ensuring rapid adoption and seamless integration into development workflows.
Feedback from the team has been very positive.
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
It's early days - but support has been seamless thus far.
Don't need it so far.
No
It is very intuitive and easy to use with a very wide array of tools.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a UX Engineer, I am responsible for creating a Design System in coordination with our UX Designers. We bought Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition to help us get quick access to a great chunk of components. Some we still need to create ourselves of course. We created our own theme based on Material that is applied on top of the Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition components. Previously we had tried to create our own component library but we now appreciate the speed of using an existing component library. The documentation is mostly very helpful, sometimes some links don't work, but all in all, it's very easy to use and comprehensible. It is also very helpful to be able to view the source code which helps understand how some components work.
  • API Documentation
  • Demo Pages
  • Support
  • Sometimes links point to dead addresses in the documentation.
  • Some components have a difficult learning curve but that is usually due to the complexity of the control.
  • Minor version changes introduce breaking changes, for example updating from 20.1.x to 20.2.x gives us licensing errors, which in my opinion is a kind of breaking change as it requires all users to update their licenses.
  • Theming with CSS variables is not possible. Access to Theme Studio code is not possible. So a fully custom solution is needed to make Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition components themeable with CSS variables.
It's generally fantastic to work with. Of course, we create custom styles, so if anyone wants to use a component that wasn't styled yet, that requires a one-time effort by someone, but that's a problem on our side. The documentation is generally very self-explanatory and I rarely get calls with questions concerning the (API) documentation of the components. It is well suited in general for larger businesses that wants to quickly write software without having to worry about having to write all the components. For a smaller business, however, or even individual users, it would be quite expensive (however I don't really know the pricing structures so I might be wrong here too!).
  • The support/ticket system. We get quick answers to any issues we have.
  • It's hard to tell at this early stage but the development teams generally give good feedback as they no longer have to worry about creating components themselves.
  • The initial effort to get everyone to use Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is high, but it's slowly establishing itself as very useful within our organization.
We evaluated DevExpress and two other libraries, whose names I've currently forgotten. But in the end, it was a race between DevExpress and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition, as they both offer a great amount of components with rich documentation. In the end we chose Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition as it was much cheaper than DevExpress (about half the price), so even if it may offer slightly fewer components, the price-value relation is much better. But both libraries offered a great number of components, great support, and community experience, great documentation, so it basically just came down to pricing.
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I would say at least 10 people use it, but it is supposed to be used by every developer that does Frontend Web Development so it should expand to 20-40 people in the end, I guess. They are all developers, and then there are two UX Engineers that take care of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition in the scope of our own Design System, as writing styles, offering support to Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition users, and so on. Our Designers also use Syncfusion Demo pages to ensure that their designs also correlate with what Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition has to offer.
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There's me and one other UX Engineer who take care of supporting Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition in-house. Of course, if there is a team of developers, there may be further people within those teams who have built up knowledge on Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition over time and give "in-team" support, but officially it's only the UX Engineers that do in-house support. The skills required are a good knowledge of Frontend Web Development, and also a keen eye for design. Communication skills are required to talk with designers and developers, and also to explain how Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition works.
  • Quick implementation of new frontend pages or functionalities.
  • Less stress due to centralized provision of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition (and our own Component Library).
  • Saving money as all components from Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition doesn't have to be written in-house.
  • We were accidentally able to clone the Theme Studio and extend it according to our needs (CSS variables instead of SCSS variables, to enable theming).
  • Giving back, so we are also able to create Pull Requests on Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition's GitHub, maybe we will be able in the future to also give back to the community (but we have nothing planned so far (-; ).
It takes effort to include a new component library into existing software, especially in our case where we have 5 large applications that are written and maintained by about 100 developers. So changing such a core thing comes with a lot of effort. The other reason we will very likely renew our use of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is that it works really well and has helped us to speed up the development process.
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