Item: Syncfusion Essential Studio
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Syncfusion help me with thier superb components for every possible .NET platform I'm currently using or I used in the past. I found very usefull packages like XlsIO to simplify work with Office documents and workbooks. Even for pre-released frameworks. I can mention early beta of Blazor components which helped us to prototype my new app even before it was officially released by Microsoft.

I appreciate their great support with very fast response times, detailed responses mostly contain working samples. In case a problem is confirmed, there are weekly builds as well as customer specific patches addressing the exact problem.

Pros and Cons

Pros

XlsIO - processing existing workbook in most historical formats, creating perfect application exports
WPF - enhanced components by very useful features, advanced components like Pivot table
Blazor - great for building web enterprise application

Cons

Documentation sometimes doesn't reflect latest version, lack of reference to used Nuget packages at all pages

Most Important Features

XlsIO
WPF and styling
Blazor components
Included support

Return on Investment

Renewing discounts
Not many breaking changes, so updating to the latest version is usually smooth
Weekly updates

Alternatives Considered

App Builder by Infragistics

Infragistics Ultimate UI - less versions, lack of Office document processing, few UI frameworks missing, worse ROI

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for enterprise applications, worse might be in cases where application size or really high performance requirements are concern. In such cases these components blown with many features might be overkill.

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Syncfusion Essential Studio review from a small team developing an enterprise app