Matthew Paul is a senior software engineer at ecoDriver.
Can you give a brief description of your company?
At ecoDriver, we help organizations like the National Health Service and schools monitor their energy consumption so that they can decarbonize their estate, save money, and reduce energy consumption. We’ve been in business since 2007.
Challenges
What was the specific problem or pain point you were trying to solve before you found Syncfusion?
We had very specific requirements from management about how they wanted people to be able to interact with their data, to be able to select things to raise inquiries and annotate things—quite rich pieces of interaction that you might not have in your average UI component.
Solution
Which Syncfusion products did you implement in your project?
We’re using a range of charts and chart styles for Blazor, particularly time-series data, some bar and line charts, pie charts, accumulation charts, hierarchical dropdowns—that sort of stuff.
Results
How has Essential Studio® for Blazor helped the application you’re working on?
The quality of the UI is great when putting it in front of a customer—you want it to look professional, to look impressive. The breadth of the feature set isn’t available elsewhere, and it gives us that rich interactive experience that’s more than just looking at the data. It allows the customer to really drill in and engage.
Which features motivated you to choose Syncfusion?
Essential Studio for Blazor has a range of different charts, heat maps, multiple axes for comparing time series—seeing those things there, exactly as our project required, that’s what stood out.
In exploring the demos and the documentation, I think the depth of functionality and the things you can do were ticking all the boxes in terms of what we were envisaging building. Plus, it’s nice having a single suite of things that you can plug in that will work together rather than trying to mix and match. Productivity-wise, I’m flying along nicely with the Syncfusion controls.
What has your experience with Syncfusion support been like?
What’s really exceeded my expectations is the quality of support and the support response. I think the measure of a good organization is the quality of the feedback mechanism and support when you are kind of struggling, whether it’s guiding you through a way to do something or saying I actually can’t quite do that, or maybe it should work a different way. Also, being receptive to feedback, improving the product, and making changes.
Best quote
“Productivity-wise, I’m flying along nicely with the Syncfusion controls.” —Matthew Paul, Senior Software Engineer at ecoDriver
