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Syncfusion® Essential Studio®

Score6.1 out of 10

87 Reviews and Ratings

What is Syncfusion® Essential Studio®?

Syncfusion Essential Studio is a suite of 1,900+ 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. 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 the company offers continuous support to customers.

Syncfusion - exceptional customer technical support

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Syncfusion for developing solution which requires a decent amount of data analysis and data visualization. In our case, having a modular structure, lightweight and UI centric development is crucial. We have already made the beta version and currently working towards the main solution. We are mainly using their asp.net core controls apart from some others.

Pros

  • Great documentation
  • Great support service
  • Good cross platform UI

Cons

  • Honestly nothing as such. When we use more functionalities, we may come across some.

Return on Investment

  • In general, using Syncfusion has sped up the development process at least by 20%.
  • The time saving by efficient support service is particularly impressive.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, SAP Ariba, SAP Enterprise Portal and Zoho Analytics

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Microsoft Visual Studio, DaVinci Resolve

Syncfusion® Essential Studio® Controls

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

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

Progress Telerik

Other Software Used

Progress Telerik, SAP Crystal

Comprehensive UI Suite that Accelerates Development

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Syncfusion® Essential Studio® primarily to accelerate the development of data-driven applications. Our business challenge was to present complex information from ERP and CRM systems in a clear and user-friendly way without investing excessive time in building custom UI components from scratch. Syncfusion’s ready-to-use grids, charts, and reporting tools allowed us to quickly deliver interactive dashboards, PDF/Excel exports, and responsive interfaces that our customers expect. The scope of our use case spans internal business applications, customer-facing portals, and reporting modules. By relying on Syncfusion, we reduce development effort, ensure a consistent user experience, and gain access to a rich set of components that cover everything from data visualization to document processing.

Pros

  • DataGrid: Extremely powerful for displaying, filtering, grouping, and editing large datasets with minimal implementation effort.
  • Document Processing: Reliable libraries for creating and converting PDF, Excel, and Word documents that integrate seamlessly into our business workflows.
  • Charts and Dashboards: Modern and interactive visualizations that make complex business data easy to understand and user-friendly.

Cons

  • all is working great :-)

Return on Investment

  • Reduced development time: By leveraging ready-made components, we cut UI development effort by approximately 30–40%, which translates directly into faster project delivery and cost savings.
  • Improved customer satisfaction: The professional look and responsive design of Syncfusion components helped us deliver user-friendly applications, resulting in higher adoption and positive client feedback.
  • Lower maintenance costs: Since Syncfusion provides ongoing updates and bug fixes, we spend significantly less time maintaining custom-built controls, allowing our developers to focus on business-specific features.

Usability

Syncfusion® Essential Studio® has an awesome WPFs pdf viewer and datagrid. Free community license until you make 1M revenue.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Syncfusion® Essential Studio® to build a WPF app. What I really like about Syncfusion® Essential Studio® WPF offering is the PDFViewer with annotation features. The Datagrid and other controls are good too. The PDF and Word creation file format features are good too.

Pros

  • WPF Pdf Viewer with annotation support
  • Document creation (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.)
  • WPF Datagrid
  • Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a jack-of-all-trade, master of none. You can get better PDF parsing and redaction elsewhere, but it's much much more cost effective, for simple needs.

Cons

  • In my opinion, WPF's spreadsheet isn't good (slow, buggy, etc.)
  • I think WPF's diagram could be better / more graph features

Return on Investment

  • A lot of examples

Usability

Best Word document editor on market

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Document Editor to display Word documents to users of our Portal. We are creating bookmarks in Word documents and there are some tasks related to these bookmarks stored in the database. Portal is used for Policy management. Document Editor helps users to review policies and steer workflow.

Pros

  • View a Word document.
  • Preserve styling of Word Document.
  • Editing Word Document.

Cons

  • Improve styling of Word document even more, so its 1 to 1 with MS Word

Return on Investment

  • Its very expensive.

Alternatives Considered

TinyMCE, Aspose.Total, GemBox.Document and E-iceblue Spire Suite

Other Software Used

.NET