Vinyl Reviews & Product Details

Vinyl's ability to easily connect to other data sources

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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.

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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.