Item: Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
Rating: 10
Author: Nitin Phansalkar

Overall Satisfaction with Syncfusion® Essential Studio®

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I need ready-made web controls to shrink my development life cycle. I work in various technologies and these controls should be available in those technologies. Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is just great at this.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Integrates well into Microsoft tech stack. i.e. ASP.NET, Blazor etc. So it acts as a plug-n-play, which is great!
Shrinks the development cycle without adding too much of its own ecosystem overhead.
Provides different UI skins so the controls don't appear as "stitched".

Cons

"Help" should have tech-stack specific code samples. e.g. ASP.NET Core 5+ with Razor Pages has examples in MVC pattern. This is not helpful.
A complete Solution having all controls in a specific tech stack should be provided so that developers just download it and look for things they need to implement. Something like HTML Website Templates using a specific CSS and JavaScript.
Sales/Marketing material should be backed with real code samples. Finally, "Developers" are your real clients!

Return on Investment

20% gain in time required for development in a project.
Boilerplate Code reduces developer fatigue increasing the productivity.
Increased code reusability across projects has at least 15% positive impact on the overall productivity.

Usability

Plug-n-play nature, less integration overheads

Alternatives Considered

Progress Telerik

While both are great, Syncfusion® Essential Studio® offers Community License rather than a limited period Evaluation/Trial license.

Key Insights

Do you think Syncfusion® Essential Studio® delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Syncfusion® Essential Studio®'s feature set?

Yes

Did Syncfusion® Essential Studio® live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Syncfusion® Essential Studio® go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Syncfusion® Essential Studio® again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Progress Telerik, SAP Crystal

Likelihood to Recommend

Firstly, the idea of Community License is GREAT! It's much better than a limited period Trial license.
Also, the "Ecosystem Overheads" are very less. You just have to plug-n-play.
That said, for bigger organizations, who don't want to dependent on a single vendor, buying an entire Suite becomes difficult. So, it will be great if a single control or a smaller group of controls is available for buying.

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