Vinyl Reviews & Product Details

I am a software developer that is currently working with VINYL. Having worked with web frameworks (ROR, Django) in the past, VINYL is very quick to pick up, and you don't need any coding experience to make an app very quickly. That being said, having coding experience could prove helpful to better understand the relational logic and joins going on underneath the framework. Overall, Vinyl is an extremely accessible framework and the speed at which you can build apps is pretty amazing. We've been able to take enterprise-level applications from a wireframe to production in just a few days with the connectors Vinyl offers.

Nothing so far. Any problems I've encountered are generally addressed in the next release.

I have built and worked on multiple applications from the ground up using the software that are currently in production at the enterprise level. Having used frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails in the past, it makes it clearer just how fast and easy app development is when code is abstracted away. The way that VINYL interfaces with data also streamlines the process and makes using data from multiple sources very easy, which is something extremely difficult to do in different dev environments.

I like that everyone helps everyone and the company culture is set for personal and career growth.

There is nothing that I dislike at Zudy.

My team is providing efficient and smart solutions for the telecommunications industry, that optimizes the use of a resource pool and ensures callers' and customers' satisfaction.

To build a solution in the enterprise IT world, you often need the right tools, people, time, and money. Vinyl has eased the load across all of these areas. Compared to enterprise platforms of the past; it is versatile, easy to learn, and it requires fewer people to build more applications. Adoption rate is high by the business since we focus our Vinyl solutions around their needs. Their input is taken into account up front and they see results immediately. For a long time I follow the triangle law of designers and project managers that "Clients can only choose two options between Good, Fast, or Cheap but can never have it all". Vinyl has destroyed this "law". Better, faster, cheaper is the new reality. A specific example: One of our customers brought two groups together to give input and estimates on a solution involving creating a dashboard around an existing system. The group that owns the existing system gave a 7 week timeline. We estimated 24 hours of effort using Vinyl. Everyone thought it was an underestimation or even a joke at first but it was delivered in under 24 hours.... following this, the same scenario occurred two more times in the same year with the same customer.

It has spoiled our customers' business users. They expect their other tools, vendors, and even their own IT department to be just as flexible and fast.

We look across the business, find the inefficiencies. Apply a Vinyl solution. Save time. Save money. Repeat. We have solved problems around Finance, Inventory, PLM, HR, Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Event Management, Sales and Distribution, Asset Management.

I LOVe the flexibility to build apps the way I need them to operate to run my specific business.

It seems like issues pop up unexpectedly. I wish there was a way to guarantee a more consistent experience across the chain without the little glitches here and there. I'm no accustomed to dealing with random issues from most of my other business systems.

Reporting and analytics, communications, scheduling, clienteling, RSM store visits

Its agility and speed that allows developers to get the app to the business users hands, with the flexibility to have multiple iterations developed at rapid speeds.

Could have more native UI capabilities. Currently need to implement HTML and CSS through templates.

Replacing outdated, manual business processes like financial reporting in excel. Benefits realized are time saved in manually developing reports, which allows more time for business user to analyze the data, and reduction in human errors.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It allows my business to customize a platform for all users across our enterprise. The look and feel is also very appealing.

It has been great thus far and we are 4 years in!

Having a central location for all users to access our customer data.

ease of use, the creation of objects and instant preview

Changing name in any inner area updates the object name. That needs to be changed

our next gen payroll platform

Brandon and Dylan are really knowledgable and receptive to feedback when needed

It's just a long process in general, but these things take time

Building our CRM - my team works in the system constantly so the tool will allow for a lot more efficiency

Ease of creating the business applications in short timelines. Strong Integration capabilities. Excellent support team.

Not enough technical documentation is available on Vinyl Platform development topics.

Ease of creating business applications in a short time as per business requirements. Easy to manage changes as well as integrations with other non Vinyl Platforms.