Vinyl Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

The software is already robust and extremely functional and continues to get better with each release. The Zudy development team is constantly making features bigger, faster and easier to use. The capabilities of Vinyl seem to be endless.

I think setting up pages to look more modern is a little bit of a challenge. However, with a little help from HTML and CSS tutorials this can be done.

Vinyl offers many features to help solve a wide variety of business problems. It allows you to collect and show data across many different systems and provides you an easy way to show that data on a page. It also allows for easy API's setup with the ability to incorporate those endpoints into any action in Vinyl.

VINYL sits in our network on a very small environment, and it doesn't require a lot of infrastructure. Almost everything it needs sits on its own server, and it just works. It talks to all our other systems and brings their data into one place, where we can do almost anything we want with it.

VINYL has an awkward initial interface. Once you've learned it, it's pretty easy, but guessing what some of the terms in the IDE mean can be really hard.

We're combining a bunch of different systems to cross-reference the data in them, and provide a single view to our users. We've also been able to start storing entirely new data in the system as well. Vinyl provides a key "glue" to connect other commercial systems that are customized for a particular type of users, but are required for another type of user.

Coming from a background with no Computer Science, programing language or database experience I was blown away at how quickly I have been able to learn VINYL to make applications from scratch.

I wish that there was an option to view table joins visually with the lines drawn between tables. But, once I was able to learn the correct time/place for each join the need for this feature has kind of gone away.

I have used VINYL to build and improve applications in multiple industries including: Men's custom suits, automotive recall, medical recall and insurance.

The ability to quickly deploy applications whenever a business need arises.

UI/UX could be improved to look more modern.

I built an application to support retail employees better assist their customers. Associates can view pictures and details of all items a customer has purchased and kept. Visual purchase history allows the associate to provide tailored recommendations that complement items a customer already owns.

VINYL is able to connect with what seems like an endless amount of data sources. The speed to get a feature developed or even an entire app is like nothing else I have ever worked with.

Most complaints have been small things, that have been addressed with new updates that come out frequently.

VINYL is extremely flexible and we have been able to come up with a solution for almost any problem. Apps have ranged from HR and Finance to even Call Center Management.

The best part about Vinyl is the simplicity and limited redundancy in development work. Once you write your logic it flows throughout the platform, from making application pages to API endpoints. Very similar to the security model, set it at one level and the platform allows you to easily enable security models down to the record.

The lack of flexibility with the UI is hard for a traditional developer, you will have to be more creative. However, the Vinyl development team is quick to respond to necessary changes.

We are solving many business problems with Vinyl from Workforce management, Customer Outreach, POS/Sales Reporting, Order Processing and Store Tracking. It enables us to be quick and efficient.

I went from an application concept to a fully functional app in only a week. And I didn't have to write a single line of code.

When you're coming from a world of heavy computer programming and writing thousands of lines of code to achieve the same results as you can in Vinyl, it's hard to say that there are any downsides.

We created an application to modernize our user interface, improve the user experience, provide measurable reporting, and streamline our business process.

User interface, flexibility to attack business problems across a variety of functions

System is very flexible from a developer perspective, but limited on end user perspective.

Currently I have built/helped build applications focused on reporting (financial reporting system, management dashboards), but I have also developed an app to streamline commissions calculations. The benefits realized are time saved (countless hours saved from pulling reports from various systems and manipulating data in excel to generate reports), and reduction of human error when generating these reports.

Vinyl provides the ability to turn business problems into business solutions in a matter of days

I haven't encountered anything that the Developers wouldn't correct quickly or add in as a feature.

It solves complicated business problems, while adding in the value of data visibility, reporting, process workflow, and charting.

Light integration, speed of development, ability to customize but still have a consistent UEX. Vinyl doesn't replace your existing systems, it makes them 10 times better while allow you to build your own apps and create a competitive advantage.

There are a handful of UI features I'd like that to have. These reflect UEX features I've seen on consumer apps. But with a new release of Vinyl every 6 weeks, I'm sure those items will come quick!

We solve many business needs with Vinyl. Vinyl let's us define how we want to run our business then use Vinyl to enforce that business process. We are also able to deliver a consistent user experience to our end users. We tackled a number of challenges: CRM, HR, BI reporting, event and workforce management.

Vinyl's ability to easily connect to other data sources

The process of adding CSS to an app's elements

I have used Vinyl to automate reporting, organize business to customer relationships, and pull data from APIs to enrich the user's experience. The benefit of this is that is can be done much quicker than if I were to hand write all the code and build the environment.

It is easy to make changes to Vinyl which makes the application development process iterative and agile. We used Vinyl to assist with a business process that hand not been formally defined. We made several iterations to the original application as we defined the business process it was automating.

I have no major dislikes of the platform. We were able to create a solution in a timely manner and implement.

We used Vinyl to create an inventory management system for our live events business.

The adaptation of Vinyl to our environment has been quick and easy. The Zudy team has been very proactive and responsive in listening to our requirements and meeting our requests. Our old financial reporting process was very spread sheet heavy and labor intensive to produce. We were able to quickly attach Vinyl to various systems in our environment, apply business logic and significantly speed up and improve our financial reporting processes and delivery. We now have a commercial grade, real time, mobile ready professional looking financial reporting package for our business unit leaders. Our financial reporting team has been given the ability to spend more time performing financial analysis as opposed to pulling together massive and cumbersome spread sheets. the result has been a fresh look at the way we evaluate our financial performance leading us to ask more questions and dig deeper into additional information relationships across multiple systems.

The power of the Vinyl platform and the number of opportunities it provides has required us to be more thoughtful about the way we use and develop systems. In order for us to remain focused, we needed to develop and implement a more formal requesting and approval process for development.

We have drastically improved our ability to collect, report and distribute financial information. We look forward to using it in other ares of our business.

Vinyl has allowed our firm to easily access account information in a dynamic environment. I have been please with the level of support we have received from Zudy and their willingness to listen to our business needs to solve issues.

There are no issues or dislikes with the application

We are trying to solve for ease of information access. The software allows our users to review large amounts of data quickly.

After receiving some training, I am able to create my own custom reports without any specific programming knowledge. The more I use it and understand it, the more opportunities seem available.

Easier customization and more options on the app landing page would be helpful

We are able to combine data from multiple sources in order to accurately display our sales and costs by customer in real time. In situations where we did not have the information available in any system, Vinyl has been able to store it for us, allowing us to easily forecast our net margin over future months. As well, in many instances, we have caught user errors quickly by using Vinyl. In some cases when comparing the data Vinyl pulls in automatically to that provided by users, and in other cases we see quickly when the reports we have in Vinyl don't make sense, that there was an error made in someone's manual entry.

VINYL is easy to use because of its no code platform-- people without a "traditional" coding background can learn to use it. It's easily trainable and implemented.

Not a lot that I dislike about VINYL. I would recommend this product to businesses in any industry looking to improve their business processes.

Variety of issues including internal communication and HR related items.

Firstly, the speed at which I can go from the drawing board to a fully-working application is astounding. Vinyl handles OAuth and REST API almost by itself. New features get added all the time. Perhaps the thing I like best is how Vinyl retains a surprising amount of flexibility in how I want an application to function and look. That's quite unusual for a RAD platform.

Occasionally I think of a feature that would be useful, but hasn't been added by the development team yet. The entire dev cycle is something like 6 weeks, so I usually don't have to wait too long.

I've worked on a workforce management system, an inventorying system, an app that interfaces with representatives at a call center, and an app that is used by sales managers for a clothing company in dozens of stores around the country. I'm also using it in a personal project that interfaces with Facebook API. I plan on adding money transfer services such as Paypal/Venmo in the future, which with Vinyl, shouldn't be an issue.

I like the Vinyl platform especially for endorsements. I can see what's sold what's not and I can continue to move at a fast pace.

The beginning stages of getting on is a small challenge but over all great tool.

Branding and Awareness

I was amazed by Zudy's ability to rapidly deploy value-add applications and communicate with our preexisting ERP system in real-time. This type of application development is a total game changer when it comes to solving everyday business workflow needs.

So far, I only have positive things to say. One thing to keep in mind is that it forces you to really understand your business process before you build your application. Overall this is a good thing, but definitely takes some time in terms of understanding what your needs are.

Financial Reporting; CRM; Inventory Management; Fleet / Vehicle Management; Workforce Efficiency; Human Resource; Employee On-Boarding; (just to name a few)...

Vinyl connects to all our data sources. It allows us to build a multitude of applications that is scalable for any user base.

No ability to edit SQL code manually, there are some functionalities that would be nice, such as copy page.

We're now able to visualize our employee KPIs easily and enter data about employees seamlessly. We're empowering our management and administrative staff while providing transparency and information to decision-makers at all levels of the organization.

Vinyl is providing us with the ability to rapidly deploy tools, decision support systems, to front line personnel that allow them to elegantly focus on providing quality service to our patients and partners, rather than navigate complex systems searching through the multitude of rules and regulations foisted upon us by health insurers

For non-technical person I have struggled to learn the various system layers and design elements, however we have other non-technical personnel (our COO) more dedicated to it who are very rapidly making progress within the system.

Working to dramatically simplify the systems our front line personnel are working within as they try to make decisions on care delivery.

The speed to market is absolutely game changing. We delivered our first enterprise app to 5,500 employees in 3 weeks!

Our business users are still old school and need a shift in mindset to take full advantage of the platform.

Customer and employee engagement for retail stores. Retired 4 legacy systems and now have a single app for these functions.

All of it! This has been a true partnership in building the Zudy team was involved in every step and took real time to understand our needs and how the business works, 3rd party vendors do usually take full interest in the business side and have the one size fits all approach, with Zudy this has been very different, at this point they understand our business better than some of our own people do, which makes it much easier to implement changes. The fast deployment of updates and changes was the big surprise, usually any changes or upgrades are long and extensive, with Zudy we are able to move quickly on changes and enhancements.

Not much, the idea that we waited too long to adopt this solution.

With the new system we are solving what before was a long and extensive process in our retail stores with errors and inconsistencies, netting us profit that before we did not realize, this has been and immediate result.

Great tool for champions in business to build tools that magnify the workforce and provide return for the company. With Vinyl, I have built tools to reduce poor communication through email and integrate data to do much more than is possible on any of our stand-alone systems.

Working heavy in excel to manipulate data, an import tool to import data and automatically create a table based on the headers and inclusive of the data would be great.

We have coordinated between departments with valuable workflows that create requests with limited input and pull needed data from multiple systems to aid in the request, and build a valuable window of the complete problem with all of the details requested from We are integrating data from SAP, timeclock systems, and internal applications to accelerate business processes and improve accuracy by eliminating redundancy in communication.

Rapid development/turnaround from words to visual and results

To date, VINYL has met all of our demands.

Dash-boarding, transitioning legacy reports from paper to interactive presentations, creating applications quickly that support business functions, eliminating "one person only maintains the document/spreadsheet" syndrome.

Vinyl platform is super flexible and easy to configure. We were able to build out a tool in a matter of months to help solve a capability gap that we have had in the organization for years. Integration with salesforce and other home grown systems was no issue.

Have not encountered anything yes that I dislike about the platform.

We have built a tool that manages the inventory and approval process for our entire endorsements business. We now have a system of record in place that provides visibility into inventory, allows for clearing of category conflicts, and enables the entire sales organization to maximize revenue on endorsements.

What I love about Vinyl is how quick and easy it is to make decently sophisticated apps. The vision of this platform to code without coding, and the fact that I could go in and make some small changes to the app without having to go to a developer is awesome. I feel a lot more in control, and feel like if there is a crisis, I can get trained up and take over the development of the app if need be - I don't have to learn C++ or JavaScript to figure it out. Also like how the platform is constantly evolving and getting more and more nimble, offering great support throughout the process. Really excited about integrating it with Salesforce as I feel it's a lot more consumer friendly!

If anything, because there isn't any actual coding that goes around with it, there is slightly less flexibility than what coding would allow. But, that's more than made up for by what is offered when it comes to speed of development.

We are using for parallel development of apps that help support our emerging Events business. It has great inventory management applicability as well as process flow, allowing for a relatively quick win without putting a lot of stress on our IT team.

Ease of configuration - able to get a proof of concept up quickly and iterate on a working product. It is a great platform to take processes that are manual / spreadsheet based / have no home and create structure. Because it is flexible and can connect to multiple data sources with light integration, the Vinyl platform is like a blank piece of paper - each app can have a completely different look / feel / purpose. In addition, the Vinyl team is very responsive to suggestions regarding the product roadmap. As one of Vinyl's first customers, there were enhancements to the platform that we needed in order to drive adoption and they worked with us to deploy important features rapidly. A very nimble team and platform.

While improving, there is still some work do be done on UI customization - but as a young product that is to be expected.

The two apps that we have built in Vinyl have helped us to build process / transparency into very manual processes that span our enterprise. Business processes tracked in spreadsheets or google docs are now available in Vinyl, accessible to anyone in the enterprise through our SSO - so security is easy to manage and we have all of the underlying data in one place. We have been able to add a level of transparency that we didn't have, and increase the level of collaboration between teams in order to gain efficiency and provide better data for senior management to make decisions.

The platform is really a "no code" platform. Once you really begin working with it, you will see that Vinyl adopts many SQL based concepts. If you are familiar with working with SQL (regardless of what flavor of SQL), you will have a very easy time creating simple enterprise class apps. I also like that Vinyl can work with many different data sources, and the SQL abstraction works for non-SQL data sources, such as web services.

I've been very satisfied with the product and service we have received from Zudy, Overall, our team yet to find something to dislike and Zudy has been helpful to answer any questions we have posed.

Vinyl does a great job replacing homegrown MS Office databases and spreadsheets that various business units have created over the years. Getting this data out of *.docx and *.xlsx files and into applications that other departments can use and report on is a great use case.

Vinyl gives us the flexibility to connect disparate data sources across our enterprise. We can spin up applications in hours, and have them in the hands of our users in days. Previously it would take weeks, months or even years to deploy applications, but not anymore.

Some of our business processes complicate our deployment speed. We need to change our testing and infrastructure process so we can move as fast as our application development team can now move.

We are tapping into legacy applications, to allow our users to interact with the data in a more meaningful way. The way we built our legacy applications worked 10 years ago, but the business has changed. Vinyl allows us to change, while still retaining our historical data. It has completely revolutionized our business.