Vinyl Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

Speed of development, very database-driven with flexibility in how you display the data, secure platform, integration with React via a Vinyl widget

Limited interactivity that is typical of SaaS-based apps, not much usage analytics available, bringing the visual interface up to modern designs requires quite a bit of customization

Management of various innovation projects, progress reporting to innovation leadership, user roles & visibility, collaboration between different user personas, rapid development and deployment to help us build faster

Vinyl is a quick and less code development tool to create data forms, reports. dashboards etc

The internal queries that VInyl builds are sometimes heavy on data performance and slowness. More security and single sign on

We use the backend SQL stored proc compiled logic to better the tool's data performance issues. So the tool can get better by utilizing underlying database stored procedures so resolve performance issues

From deployment perspective , its fairly efficient, configuration and installation of Vinyl app is also easy.

The recent upgrade has some flaws, passwords are not encrypted, some of the pages do not show complete info on the screen like ... to deploy an LP, the screen is small, and the full path is not visible. When you click 'Install,' no indication that the system is performing a task, the previous version did have some indication.

From what I understand , provided proper sql queries are used its an ideal tool for reporting. As a member of dev ops team , its easy to spin up a new instance , integrate with AD.

It's very intuitive, even the first time user can figure out how & what to do

N/A - I haven't encountered any issues that I haven't been able to figure out

Assigning 150+ market access to users to update hundreds of on-air personality endorsements and monitoring of sponsorship tour

It is quick to get a request in to the TR to get a acceptance back

The categories for finding out if someone has a conflict are too broad

getting more endorsements on the air

I really like the accessibility it provides for me

Sometime it has its glitches or doesn't load

Helping my customers with their needs

It's very easy to click through the tabs and search for needed information.

It's very slow when loading some profiles and aspects.

It's quick and easy to search for things I need when building proposals

I like that there is a system that can house all endorsements rather than individual personal spreadsheets. Make it easier when orders are coming down very quickly and jocks need to be assigned to campaigns.

I think the system is very difficult to navigate and it's hard to search for things that ran/are currently running. Sometimes you will create a new search and nothing will populate even though the endorsement is in fact in the system.

Being able to hold people more accountable for things since everything needs to go through the system first. However, we have been experiencing orders being sent down without endorsements being submitted through the tool so sometimes it works backwards (not a system issue, more of a communication issue) I feel like there was no proper training on the tool so people are confused.

Rapid development and excellent develolpers/consultants

The options for UI controls are not as flexible but the developers are responsive in asking for improvements from the product team

We needed to build custom intensive order entry applications for different areas of the business; We built out the tools and are rolling them out to 130 retail locations.

Very versatile, easy to use and quick feedback loop

Harder to customize for specific desired outcomes

Helping us build an app without having to develop from scratch

Automation, flexibility and ability to build based on your needs.

We are building from scratch, so there can be a lot of bugs, and issues that we run into but overall, the team has been accommodating with everything that has come up.

We have three disparate systems that do not speak to each other and are very manual. Working with Vinyl has allowed us to connect all systems and build automation so we can scale our business better / faster.

I like how the new Vinyl 3.0 version will now cut navigation steps to create data connections, UI, and business logic.

I wish there were more descriptive resoning regarding why errors occur, ie different database types. What can be done to create a table for a database type that doesnt support it.

getting data from multiple sources

That I can send a request once and it goes to multiple managers for approval. I can see if a talent is available before I have to go to the program directors and managers for approval to present the talent. I can search in multiple markets without having to go through the market managers.

It is somewhat particular when searching. It will sometimes freeze up and doesn't tell you why. It could be that the talent has a conflict but you can't see that in the section. It can also be hard to tell when submission is complete. There is no verification that the request has been submitted. It just stays on the same page as your submission. And when you go back to say a campaign is sold everyone is notified again, creating some confusion. They think it is some change to the campaign or a new campaign entirely.

Since there are multiple approvals required before we can present a talent for an endorsement campaign, it became very convoluted and time consuming to make the request of all the necessary people. This makes the endorsement approval process more efficient. Need multiple approvals from separated department sfor an endorser to be approved to present.

Station details and information - all in one place

no complaints - It's easy to use but not used daily because we are such a small market. We have 5 stations and a total of 6 jocks it's just more convenient to ask them if they want to do an endorsement when we are practically sitting next to each other all day. I can see how this would be beneficial in a larger marketed or advertising in multi markets.

It saves time on scheduling meetings.

The possibilities it could provide. Its info all in one source.

That it is not used in a proper function so it adds to the work and doesn't replace our previous process.

It does help have 1 place to go to see if there are conflicts, check availability, get bio.

I like that all Talent bios are in one place and the categories are available to see to avoid conflict.

Not being able to closed old endorsements or help sales reps enter endorsements.

Sales reps are able to search for talent and see category conflict.

It has a good purpose. It can be used to see if their are any conflicting endorsements.

It has way to many clicks and the AEs get upset about how long it take to create a submission. Also, many times it says their is a category conflict, when their isn't. This creates confusion for both me ( the talent manager) and the AE.

Category conflicts. What the talent is open to endorse and what they are not.