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SharePoint Designer [EOL] vs Zend Studio comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

SharePoint Designer [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zend Studio
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Raphael Haroun  Ikyagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Letshego
Offers ability to directly share documents and highly stable
It's been stable for me. I haven't encountered any issues with the sites I've developed locally within the organization as long as the license remains valid. It's very stable. I haven't had any issues with outages or needing to republish content. It's always accessible to authorized users, so it's stable. The stability is almost a ten out of ten for me.
marketacumen - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Market Acumen, Inc.
It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects
* Stability is sometimes lacking in updates. * Search/replace across multiple files is not ideal. * The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects, as well as setting breakpoints, which often are ignored depending on your configuration. * The product requires a subscription to Zend Server Developer, which used to be free and now has an annual fee, but it is still worth the money.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Mainly, it is a very useful tool I can use for small to medium requirements."
"I have setup many simple and complex workflows, very useful for daily automation (invoices, travel, leave approval) and it is also useful to make small branding customizations."
"We used SharePoint Designer 2013 widely for data mining, exploring the content, and editing. Those are the main features that you would need to use SharePoint Designer for."
"SharePoint Designer is the best solution we have."
"SharePoint is great for content management of data."
"The most valuable feature is the capability of creating HTML pages, with CSS code."
"It saved me big time once! My car got broken into and they took my laptop with all my files. But I didn't have to worry because everything was backed up on SharePoint. It was a lifesaver!"
"You can give document access to people based on their email addresses. You will also get notifications whenever the document is ready for review."
"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."
"Generally, it has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
 

Cons

"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."
"I would like to be able to use SharePoint Designer without having to buy other third party programs."
"The new SharePoint Designer is very limited."
"The designer itself could be improved, as it isn't particularly intuitive."
"Adding guest users is a bit difficult on SharePoint."
"I want the tool to be more approachable to people. I would like to see AI integration with the tool's future versions."
"We would like to see an improvement in the stability and overall consistency of performance in this solution."
"The solution is not very flexible when trying to access the solution via a personal PC."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no licensing cost for Designer—it's free."
"This solution is free of charge."
"We are using an enterprise SharePoint Designer license."
"It is a free solution that does not require a license."
"The cost of the license is based on the size of the user base."
"The entire package is expensive. There is no extra cost in addition to the standard license."
"SharePoint Designer's pricing is okay."
"The cost of the solution is based on multiple factors such as the number of users, and any customization that may be required."
"Licensing is reasonable for this type of tool. Although, you can cobble together a solution which is zero cost."
"The product requires a subscription to Zend Server Developer, which used to be free and now has an annual fee, but it is still worth the money."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
19%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
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Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise21
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