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DevExpress Universal Reviews

5 Reviews

DevExpress Universal a comprehensive UI suite

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • Control performance can be improved, specially for .Net
  • Reporting controls can have ML algorithms inbuild into them

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
Vetted Review
DevExpress Universal
5 years of experience

A comprehensive library that offers pretty much everything needed

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using DevExpress Universal to address our needs both in thick clients and web interfaces.
Originally, we developed our own set of components, but while this gave us finer control over what is doable with them, it was too much of a hassle to maintain.
Also, end users are used to a level of functionality that we could not achieve unless we invested heavily.

Hence the reason to use a renowned library like DevExpresss Universal

Pros

  • The grid components
  • The spreadsheet
  • Flow panels

Cons

  • Better integration within the Angular CDK
  • Less bloat when deploying
  • Better granularity in the compiled package

Likelihood to Recommend

When you want to display spreadsheet based reports, it's really convenient as it has everything out of the box.
If you have very basic components like combo boxes or lists, there is hardly a point in using such a large component set.
In the end, it's a matter of finding a good balance between functionality and complexity.
Vetted Review
DevExpress Universal
3 years of experience

Create any data-driven enterprise-level web app with data-ready components and responsive and capable support

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DevExpress to collect and analyze construction data in the infrastructure industry. We cover the whole construction cycle from pre-construction, construction, and post-construction. In a nutshell, we use the data grids and pivotgrids to create cost estimating, project bidding management, and scheduling (integration with dhtmlx Gantt)

Pros

  • Handle large and complex datasets using its table widget (DataGrid)
  • Handle large and complex hierarchical datasets using its tree table widget (TreeList)
  • Customize widget to fulfill advanced requirements such as adding a complex grid inside a grid cell

Cons

  • No access to support tickets from within the documentation pages. Many topics are covered comprehensively on the support area and are not available on the documentation area
  • Hard to find tickets on the support repository. I use Google to find the support tickets. Support search needs improvement
  • Data layer and data workflow not documented logically as a unified process.

Likelihood to Recommend

DevExpress can help you create the big web app of your dreams. DevExpress works great with data-centered enterprise-level applications that require the use of enterprise-grade data grids, pivottables, and integrate them with all the widgets like buttons, popups, forms, etc. I would not recommend DevExpress for small apps that require only basic widgets like radio/select boxes, buttons, text boxes, etc. You can get those widgets for free or even make your own.

DevExpress Universal Tool for .NET Applications

Rating: 6 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had been using this tool for two years. We used this tool to develop an asp.net application and analytical tools for other departments within the organization. DevExpress [Universal] goes into low light when the client requested to build an application in angular and react.

Pros

  • Provides rapid development of apps
  • Predefined template that is easy to integrate and use
  • Quick support for your queries

Cons

  • Stick with only .NET development not supported other framework like angular, react vue, etc.
  • Control elements were not properly documented on the websites
  • Price is higher than expected

Likelihood to Recommend

  • Suited for Web development for .net applications. and it's better if your client sticks with only .net applications
  • Not suited for Other applications like react, angular vue, etc.
Vetted Review
DevExpress Universal
1 year of experience

DevExpress, a powerful Visual Studio add-on

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DevExpress here in the IT Department to fill in some of the development gaps we have. We originally purchased it as an addendum to our ERP software that used the reporting package, but now we have used it to build several tools that the business has come to rely upon for business analysis.

Pros

  • Quick Development
  • Powerful pre-built templates
  • Wide array of datasets supported

Cons

  • Documentation could be improved
  • Better examples of code in languages other than C
  • Better wizards for building applications

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for analytical tools, can make pretty quick and powerful apps. Not as easy to use to make mobile applications, or applications that tie into existing databases. The latter is possible, but it is not as easy as creating a database from scratch. Also, their quick build tool is a little inflexible. Support is very good and quick to respond to queries.