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Infragistics and ROI

Greetings,
My team and I would like to use Infragistics for both WinForm and
WebForm development. From a technical perspective we see the benefits. The
boss wants me to quantify ROI. The primary question I get is 'what does the
Infragistic grid give me that the ASP.NET grid does not?' I get similar
questions for the other Infragistic controls that are complements of
existing WinForms and WebForm controls. For me to answer this question I
would have to spend days perhaps weeks learning the API do to an effective
job of convincing (selling) the boss.

What I am looking for is for a successful project that used Infragistics
with either WinForms or WebForms and someone who could quantify the savings
both in development and maintenance. Confirmation from an independent 3rd
party should give my boss the reassurance he needs that selecting this
vendor is a good business decision as well as a good technological one.

Any help would be appreciated.

If anyone from Infragistics is listening this is something you should
arm your sales force with.

Thanks in advance.

Steve
Nov 18 '05 #1
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I can only speak for Web controls: I just finished REMOVING ALL Infragistics
controls from a non trivial ASP.NET Web application in favor of controls
from one of their competitors. You might want to take a good look at
competing products before trying to sell someone on Infragistics. I have
*actually implemented* controls from multiple vendors, and can tell you from
experience that Infragistics controls (1) do not function as advertised; (2)
are poorly documented; (3) are demonstrably buggy; and (4) their technical
support which is unfortunately REQUIRED for non trivial implementations is
marginal at best. Because of my recent experiences, I can tell you that you
will almost certainly NOT realize the benefits you desire to the extent you
wish if you go with Infragistics for Web controls. In comparison to the
controls that ship with VS.NET, you may do better - but it's not the
straight and wide path to success you seem to believe.

One quick case in point - for their Web Tree control, they advertise a full
client-side object model with drag-and-drop capability. When I went to
implement it, I found that when when drag-dropping a node that has child
nodes, the child nodes DISAPPEAR into the ether -never to be found again. I
contacted tech support and they sent me some UNSUPPORTED client-side
JavaScript that would recreate child nodes under the parent node that had
been moved. This is unbelieveable. Why would any developer want a tree but
when moving nodes loses (gone forever) all the child nodes by default - with
no easy way to have the child nodes move with their parent. If you would
like, I could send you (offline) my whole e-mail exchange with their
customer support group on this exact issue.

FWIW: I have been a long-time Infragistics subscription customer (still have
an active subscription)... have been implementing their controls for over 6
years (Windows COM controls) and continue to recommend their COM controls.
IMHO, they have fallen flat on their face with Web controls.

Also, for an independent verification of what I'm saying, just see for
yourself... go to their free news groups and take a look at the questions
and answers (or lack of helpful answers). It's astounding. It's a shame that
most of those questions even have to be asked.

Gook Luck

-G
"steve" <st***@lomicka.com> wrote in message
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Greetings,
My team and I would like to use Infragistics for both WinForm and
WebForm development. From a technical perspective we see the benefits. The boss wants me to quantify ROI. The primary question I get is 'what does the Infragistic grid give me that the ASP.NET grid does not?' I get similar
questions for the other Infragistic controls that are complements of
existing WinForms and WebForm controls. For me to answer this question I
would have to spend days perhaps weeks learning the API do to an effective
job of convincing (selling) the boss.

What I am looking for is for a successful project that used Infragistics with either WinForms or WebForms and someone who could quantify the savings both in development and maintenance. Confirmation from an independent 3rd
party should give my boss the reassurance he needs that selecting this
vendor is a good business decision as well as a good technological one.

Any help would be appreciated.

If anyone from Infragistics is listening this is something you should
arm your sales force with.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

Nov 18 '05 #2

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