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Adobe Flash vs SharePoint Designer comparison

Adobe and Microsoft are both solutions in the .NET Development Services category. Adobe is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9. Adobe holds a 17.4% mindshare in NDS, compared to Microsoft’s 13.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
Adobe Flash
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100% willing to recommend
SharePoint Designer
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82% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Adobe Flash and SharePoint Designer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Flash
Ranking in .NET Development Services
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint Designer
Ranking in .NET Development Services
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of Adobe Flash is 17.4%, up from 12.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint Designer is 13.0%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Arpit Raj Senapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with good functionality and adaptability.
I'm not sure how it could be better. It has everything I need for my work. It would be ideal if there was more research on the product available. We'd like it to have solutions within the product that can help us complete tasks a bit faster. It would be nice if the solution had some sort of bot or assistant within the solution to help us with work within the product. If we could deploy queries and get an answer faster, within 30 minutes, instead of within a day or two.
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Vivek Vaibhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Intuitive, customizable, and reliable
Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue. For example, let's say I want to deploy it in the client environment. Right now, this was based on our own company's environment and if I wanted to deploy that onto the client's environment. To do this, I will have to recreate everything from scratch, which takes a lot of time. There should be a way somewhere where I can download the custom designs I have made and upload them to the client servers so that we can configure them on their servers. Secondly, when you have uploaded data, for example, from an Excel spreadsheet, you download it in the form of a dot IQY file. This IQY file is a bit tough to work with as it's a server-side file. If there was any option where you could just download the flat files and work with them, that would have been great.
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Adobe Flash is simple and easy-to-use software. It is very familiar and compatible with other Adobe software, making it easier to use."
"The UI is really good."
"With the alliance with Microsoft, the product is perfectly integrated."
"I am impressed with the tool’s documentation."
"Without Adobe Flash player, I wouldn't be able to do my day-to-day functions."
"We appreciate the fact that this solution can provide us with an on-premises version, as due to our geographical location, we are not able to use cloud-based tools."
"SharePoint Designer is easy to deploy and it is one of the most valuable features. The whole process took a couple of days and it is easy to work on."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to directly access the SharePoint data structure."
"The Power App is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The management and monitoring features are good."
"What I like most about this solution, is that we can use it as a secondary customization platform."
"The scalability is excellent, and I rate it ten out of ten."
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Cons

"Adobe can focus on the gaming side mode."
"At times it can be slow, but other than that it is a great and helpful product."
"It would be nice to see Adobe Flash as a separate application instead of embedding it with other apps. I want the product to be a simple app. The product’s scalability is also one of its weak points."
"It would be ideal if there was more research on the product available."
"It would be nice to have more integration and faster integration."
"We'd like it if we got less frequent updates."
"Adding guest users is a bit difficult on SharePoint."
"SharePoint Designer could improve by making the searching feature better. It is not accurate in some cases, and there are some descriptions that are not clear."
"The system can become slow which should be improved."
"SharePoint Designer could improve most in analytics and reporting."
"Further development for SharePoint online would be ideal. However, I'm not sure if it's true that Microsoft will no longer develop SharePoint Designer in the future or not."
"Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue."
"I want the tool to be more approachable to people. I would like to see AI integration with the tool's future versions."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool’s pricing is fair."
"The price is okay so far."
"The entire package is expensive. There is no extra cost in addition to the standard license."
"SharePoint Designer is a free product. It's SharePoint that needs a license, not SharePoint Designer."
"SharePoint Online has a subscription-based model for payments and the price is based on user usage."
"The pricing is fair."
"Most of the time, our customer's license from Microsoft includes the cost of SharePoint. However, if you have to buy it then SharePoint is quite expensive."
"It is a free solution that does not require a license."
"I've never paid for SharePoint Designer. What I paid for, is the SharePoint license, the cava, and then the client accesses the line fee."
"The cost of the solution is based on multiple factors such as the number of users, and any customization that may be required."
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Top Industries

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Government
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Flash?
Adobe Flash is simple and easy-to-use software. It is very familiar and compatible with other Adobe software, making it easier to use.
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What needs improvement with Adobe Flash?
Adobe can focus on the gaming side mode. They can customize the product because gaming is booming nowadays, and people can use it more for gaming by including programmers and designers to manipulat...
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What is your primary use case for Adobe Flash?
We use the solution for training and making small animations on Animate CC.
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What do you like most about SharePoint Designer?
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!
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint Designer?
I've leased Microsoft SharePoint Designer for the enterprise, not System Center. It's for private work, web development specifically.
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What needs improvement with SharePoint Designer?
For me, it's flexible enough for most things. But maybe they could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus.
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Overview

The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading web design and development platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices and reach over 98% of Internet-connected desktop users. The Flash Platform consists of an integrated set of technologies - including client runtimes, tools, frameworks, services, and servers - that provide everything you need to deliver applications, content, and high-definition video to the widest possible audience.
Adobe
SharePoint Designer is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment.
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Sample Customers

France T_l_visions, Globaloria, Mixamo, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Pyrotek Inc., ICA, Deliver Australia, Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Aegon, ABB Switzerland, Ascent Yarns Private Limited, Bakewell Biscuits Pvt Ltd, Hitachi Consulting
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