We performed a comparison between SharePoint Designer and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Adobe, FourJs and others in .NET Development Services."I find the document management and search of SharePoint the most valuable features."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the user-friendly interface and easy workflow."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The scalability is excellent, and I rate it ten out of ten."
"The support on offer is helpful."
"The document filing system is the solution's most valuable feature. We have used SharePoint as an option for a document managed system, like Documentum and IBM Filenet."
"What I like most about this solution, is that we can use it as a secondary customization platform."
"I am a developer, and whatever is not possible with the SharePoint default feature, we make custom features available for our clients. Anything which is not possible using all the methods within the solution we can customize."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"It has the ability to jump to any file in your project with a few keystrokes, as well as the ability to command-click on any token in your code and have it jump to the token's definition."
"If you compare the workflow with other engines like Olympus and K2, it is very complicated to create a workflow."
"The search capabilities need to be improved."
"I would like to see SharePoint improve the integration with different systems. I also would like to see more customization."
"The solution is a bit complex. They should work to simplify it."
"We would like to see an improvement in the stability and overall consistency of performance in this solution."
"The solution is not scalable at all."
"I have heard of clients that have complained about the stability once a certain amount of data, over 200 gigs has been reached as well as the stability of SQL Databases."
"SharePoint Designer's integration with Microsoft tools could be improved."
"Most recent set of patches (2018) on Mac OS X caused the app to crash when you would cut more than 10 lines of code. Apparently, this was due to a bug in Eclipse, but regardless, it took several months for Zend to post a patch."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
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SharePoint Designer is ranked 2nd in .NET Development Services with 49 reviews while Zend Studio is ranked 8th in .NET Development Services. SharePoint Designer is rated 7.6, while Zend Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SharePoint Designer writes "Intuitive, customizable, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Studio writes "It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects". SharePoint Designer is most compared with Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET, whereas Zend Studio is most compared with .
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