Vinyl Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

The speed in which someone can build practical business apps

No ability to copy pages across apps. This takes way too much time to manually copy them over

The speed is the biggest benefit

Vinyl allows you to spin up apps faster than you could ever imagine. The no-code platform is insanely powerful.

The speed of the application development is sometimes too fast, that the rest of the business can't keep up.

We have done things a simple as excel replacement to as complicated as reworking our entire business process around sales reporting.

The application will allow us to gather complicated information from our customers and portray it in an easy, user friendly manner, overall enhancing user experience.

The process to get the app off the ground has been slower than what I expected, but not as a result of Vinyl or Zudy (software provider has been slow to respond).

Creating a better user experience and streamlining our internal processes are first priorities. We believe that by using the platform internally when creating new accounts, the process should actually be easier for our staff to use than our current routing software.

It's pretty easy to use...gives lots of info about personalities outside your market and lets you know which markets that some of your local talent may be in.

I think the sorting of information can be streamlines a little better.

I am able to know the cost for outside endorsers as well as who they are reaching marketwise

No code platform development tools are easy to use.... better then competitors

Expanding breadth of functionality to keep pace with cutting edge business

Healthcare business, smooth working landscape

Not sure how other companies are implementing Vinyl bu we use it as a way to keep track of radio endorsement campaigns. By using Vinyl sales reps can see what each jock has for current endorsements and if they're client would be a good fit for them. This is a much better system to have in place than the one we had prior

So far, after using it to the extent that I have there doesn't seem to be any serious issues. At times it runs a little slow on our server but that more than likely is not Vinyl's fault.

It's providing us with much better organization when it comes to our endorsement campaigns. We can view what each of our jocks currently is doing for endorsements by a click of a button versus reaching out via email. Everything is recorded and on Vinyl.

The ability to bring up a web based application quickly that will work on multiple browsers and on multiple devices without having to create specific code for different combinations is a life saver! I can focus on creating the best content for the business process and not worry about if my user base is on a phone or a tablet or a desktop computer and if it is a Mac or a PC. The ability to bring together multiple data sources into one application and bring them all to one page as usable information has also proven to be a huge asset.

From a programmers perspective in which I am used to writing in code and able to do anything at all, it is a little challenging to understand the interface. But once immersed in the creation process it is just like learning a new language, and it becomes clear and easier to understand.

Many manual processes are being rolled into the application and as users see the ease of use and benefit more additional processes are being selected to be integrated into the application. This is creating a streamlining of workflow that was not in place prior to this.

The platform allows for automation that has assisted our business. It has a number of uses that allow it be the source for multiple reports and data sets, creating a more accessible tool with many functions.

It has some limitations to customizability, such as charts and email functionality.

It lets our business to track live economics based on API connected data, allowing us to make decisions and understand how the business is operating in a given period. It also stores thousands of datapoints for easy access.

Knowledge of SQL quickly translates to the ability to develop applications.

Low-code/No-code doesn't mean NO code. Still need a developer.

Report data from multiple external systems in one place.

It enables us to avoid Sage customization by creating processes outside of Sage

It does not automatically update the information from Sage, it needs 24 hours to update.

Enables us to create processes for accounting and logistics outside of Sage which makes some customer billing possible, otherwise it would have been almost impossible to handle.

Flexibility in creating attractive and intiuative dashboards, custom reports, and corporate applications.

Somewhat difficult to create new features, despite no-code / low-code intent. Support development is frequently required for siginficant improvements / new features.

Custom applications, KPI platform, data warehouse. Vinyl has become the internal "source-of-truth" at our company and has become a trusted resource for teammembers in all departments.

Easy to use platform. Solutions architects are great developers and help enhance our products.

The frequent major changes to the UI sometimes make it hard to know how to do things. The release process is a bit clunky and hard to figure out although it has been improved a lot recently.

Vinyl is allowing our business users to have more responsibility in how their products are organized and maintained. Allows a lot of flexibility in our business solutions.

Low code, great in-app reporting/dashboards, proprietary company CRM

Must use Zudy/vinyl team for development

better connection points for data, one-stop-shop for all things revenue

Great staff, creative solutions, timely turnaround on deliverables.

Honestly this has been my first using this type of vendor for a system build and its been a great experience.

Its solving our data problems / helping our business scale. It will allow me to perform my job better and a bit more easily. Currently our data is disorganized at times.

We have enjoyed working with the engineers. They have made it easy to implement our idea.

Nothing at this time. We are still implementing

Nothing yet

It helps us quickly develop dashboard displays to analyze network configuration data. It helps us quickly build a web application to demonstrate concept and feasibility to customers and leaders. You can achieve this without having to code much.

VINYL is a faily new platform, so there is not as much outside helps such as stackoverflow, but their knowledgebase and community forum occasionally make up for that.

We wanted to display a dashboard consisting of massive data set in a digestible manner. We can get the application in the hand of users quickly and gather further feedback to refine the product.

How fast the solution can be deliver and how easy to fix small things, like table or columns names.

The lack of documentation, and the search in the Forum.

Creating Application that have been put on the back burner for many years by the internal Dev team. The delivery was 10 x times faster that any quick estimate does by the internal Dev team.

Form/page design is very intuitive and easy to manage.

Some inconsistencies based on display resolution (some grid views will truncate columns rather than provide horizontal scroll bars). Additionally, it would be helpful to be able to create database views from within the IDE.

We've been able to build apps that fill in the gaps that aren't covered by our ERP system.

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The best part is that to integrate different system/source in a single page and have simple visualization to the business.

VINYL is good platform to work with. Nothing much to point out. If there is one for a feedback - If there is a provision to add 'AND' in the SQL query instead of creating whole new business object, that would be great.

Using VINYL we have integrated different systems to have collective information in a single page for inventory management and can view near by store's inventory and place the merchandise.

The object-oriented nature of Vinyl allows for very clean and fast queries on data. Also, the functionality is very complex and thorough, it'll do whatever you need it to as long as you know where to look.

Features and options can be hidden or not named intuitively. This adds to the learning curve, but once you understand the naming conventions, it becomes a breeze to learn new features.

Connecting to large data sets that are not the best in terms of proper db structure. Vinyl helps to significantly increase the accessibility to the data and create easy to use applications to view and modify the data. Being able to dynamically access data in a user friendly way helps others see the value in the data we collect and increase interest in moving away from an antiquated system.

The ability to build tables and do complex joins much faster than hard-coding them myself in SQL. A close second would be the Vinyl's ability to handle building the app's GUI more or less on its own; being able to focus on functionality and not have to worry (as much) about how it looks saves a great deal of time.

Inflexible at times ("no code" really means "no code," so if what you're trying to do isn't a built-in feature, you're more or less out of luck), UI customization limited so aesthetics often look similar from app to app. It also has a relatively steep learning curve -- hence my lower grade for "ease of use" -- so it takes a while to get used to all of its little quirks and idiosyncrasies.

We've used Vinyl to solve a wide array of business problems in myriad industries. Everything from talent management, to suit fitting, to internal communications and reporting apps have been built with Vinyl. As for the benefits I've realized, the biggest thing has to be extremely quick delivery. Everything from building a POC, to fixing a bug, to delivering an app to prod happens on a much faster schedule than usual.

It is easy to connect Vinyl to multiple data sources and make them available within an application using a configurable highly configurable UI.

Vinyl always has new features (major and minor) being added and it is hard to stay on top of all the new features.

Workflow management, advanced dashboards, business process management, multi-datasource integrations.

helps to keep my on air personalities endorsement opportunities safe

this is an extra tool in my very busy day

all requests can be added, deleted and managed in a relatively short time frame.

Was easy to learn to set up my stations, talent, and shows.

Sales not fully engaged yet, so many "pending" requests linger

comprehensive tracking of endorsement requests and campaigns to avoid conflicts

I like how incredibly easy it is to view different endorsements in Vinyl. The grid that shows all of the different endorsements for any given week on a list makes monitoring a jock's endorsement schedule a breeze. I also love how Vinyl will notify me when someone has entered in an endorsement that is waiting for my approval. I'm a very busy person, and having notifications letting me know that there is something new to review is extremely helpful.

I don't like how as someone not involved in sales, I cannot enter in or edit any of the fields for a campaign myself. It can be a challenge to get some AE's to actually use it in general. I'm the type of person who just likes to take charge and make sure things get done myself, so that aspect is a little bit frustrating. But otherwise, I love everything else about it.

iHeartMedia uses Vinyl to keep track of jock endorsements. It's all kept together in an easy to read calendar and list, and helps us to make sure that everything a jock is doing endorsement wise is kept track of and it readily available to everyone in our nationwide company. It's so easy to manage this with Vinyl because of all of the easy and user friendly calendar options for keeping track of this stuff.

Customizable, nice dashboard and charts.

Many iterations to get the data pulled correctly. But team is responsive.

Quick reporting on company spend data.

Front-end intuitive UI for users. Ease of app.

Lack of organization with new app projects. Zudy needs to invest in an online-collaboration tool for tracking items (i.e. basecamp, smartsheet etc). Items tracked manually today (i.e.notepaid) which ultimately leads to unnecessary delays and frustrations. Constant bugs in platform. Seems like a lot of development was done on the fly and not adequately reviewed. Leading to an embarrassing roll out with the end users.

Streamlining our annual sales budget forecast. Very manual process today.

Vinyl's secret sauce is its ability to connect to many different data connections and bring them into a single streamlined interface. Using one IDE for links to APIs, SFTP, Veeva, etc., has increased our speed and flexibility in delivering complex solutions. The Vinyl model of unlimited Apps/unlimited users has also been great. It has given us the capability to deliver many great projects in Vinyl.

Vinyl has a learning curve, but nothing is more extreme than any other platform. However, some features are not intuitive and are not always fully documented. In hotfixes and significant upgrades to the platform, there have been changes to features/controls in the IDE that weren't communicated.

We use Vinyl to fill in the white space in our Enterprise environment. Vinyl can often bridge the gap between two Apps that wouldn't normally communicate or augment an app to develop additional features that aren't available. With this approach, we have successful Vinyl apps in every business area.

As someone who isn't super tech savvy, VINYL is simple and straight forward to use. It made sense from the moment I logged in.

Sometimes the system almost seems too simple and basic, but that could be user error in the sense that I haven't learned all the features yet. So not a true negative until I use it more.

We had to build a CRM in a very short time frame due to other reasons. The system has accomplished that for us and allowed us to continue with our business development efforts.