DevExpress Universal a comprehensive UI suite
August 30, 2023

DevExpress Universal a comprehensive UI suite

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with DevExpress Universal

Ours is an ERP product for small and enterprise users. Our product caters both offline and online solution with offline offering in .Net desktop and online in Angular. Due to massive size of input forms, reports and end user documents, providing a intuitive UI/UX with consistency across screens becomes a key feature.

Our complete frontend is build using DevExpress Universal controls, which we have customized to our needs to create our own library. These controls are being used to generate consistent user experience across all forms and reports. We are using DevExpress Universal document designed for enabling out end customer to generate their invoicing and other document formats.
  • Document designer is extremely powerful control
  • Controls ranging from form, report, document designer, charts, dashboards with consistent experience across multiple technology stacks
  • Documentation and extent of samples
  • Control performance can be improved, specially for .Net
  • Reporting controls can have ML algorithms inbuild into them
  • Support for multiple tech stacks
  • Report and document designer controls
  • Easy customization of DevExpress Universal controls to create your own library,
  • Release time for new UI Apps have dereased
  • Team can concentrate more on business functionality rather then specific UI functionality
  • Huge saving because of ready made functionality and available samples
DevExpress Universal controls are much simpler to use, implement and customized as compared to Kendo. Learning curve for telerik is high, though level of customization that can be achieved with telerik exceeds that of DevExpress Universal.

Found DevExpress Universal community support to be better then its competitors. License cost is also a wining bar here.

Do you think DevExpress Universal delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with DevExpress Universal's feature set?

Yes

Did DevExpress Universal live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of DevExpress Universal go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy DevExpress Universal again?

Yes

Specially helpful if you are building solutions which require big number of UI screens and want to achieve a consistency and clean UX.

Most of UI functionality is inbuild so all that developer needs to do is configure various controls and link them to models. In my opinion, sine usage of controls is similar across technology stack, you can offer both desktop, web and mobile specific solutions without much of learning curve.