Vinyl Reviews & Product Details

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.