GeneXus vs Jitterbit Vinyl comparison

GeneXus and Jitterbit are both solutions in the Low-Code Development Platforms category. GeneXus is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.5, while Jitterbit is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.0. GeneXus holds a 0.7% mindshare in LCDP, compared to Jitterbit’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GeneXus users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Jitterbit users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Jitterbit Vinyl and GeneXus compete in the software development platform market. Jitterbit Vinyl excels in features and customer service, while GeneXus stands out for deployment capabilities and return on investment.

Features: Jitterbit Vinyl is praised for its robust data integration, API management, and real-time analytics capabilities. GeneXus receives high marks for its comprehensive multi-platform development, automatic code generation, and support for a wide range of programming languages.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Jitterbit Vinyl could improve its scalability and reduce its complexity. GeneXus users highlight the need for better documentation and more frequent updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jitterbit Vinyl users appreciate its straightforward deployment process but note occasional challenges with customer service response times. GeneXus users benefit from a seamless deployment experience and responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Jitterbit Vinyl has higher initial setup costs but offers substantial long-term ROI. GeneXus has a more appealing initial price point and users feel the ROI justifies the investment due to its efficient development capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (5th)

Jitterbit Vinyl

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

22nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (23rd), No-Code Development Platforms (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Low-Code Development Platforms category, the mindshare of GeneXus is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jitterbit Vinyl is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ricardo Espinosa L.

D&A and Genexus Manager at KPMG

Fast, stable, and allows us to model a workflow before developing the screens

Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool. Design, or Unanimo, is an area that GeneXus needs to work on. It's not very smooth. I'd like to see a better chart flow. I use the chart flow quite a lot, but it's not as simple as I wish it to be.

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Larry Egan

VP Strategic Technologies at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc

Can connect to any data source so we don't need to replicate data into a data warehouse to do reporting analytics

Having been a customer of theirs for a long time, I think the UI needed improvements early on. But, they have done a remarkable job catching up in that regard. They have always been great at connecting to a variety of data sources. They are a leader in that space. They do a great job, from a business analyst perspective, helping you shape what the ultimate system is going to look like. There really aren't a lot of areas that need improvement. The areas that they have, they are keenly aware of and have made great strides in recent releases.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like that it's very compatible with other tools. The most important feature is getting the developer to focus on the project's business case. It's not about focusing on how I can command this or how I can develop a front end, or how I can work with the advantages. The developer should focus on the business case of the project. No need to focus on connecting the database to the server or connecting the server and the front end. The developer can concentrate on the views."

"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."

"GeneXus evolves with technology."

"The solution provides ease of programming and the speed of delivery of demands."

"It is fast in creating systems and connects to the database quickly."

"The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization"

"This solution works extremely quickly in terms of enabling an application in a production environment."

"I like the testing models, which allow me to create unit or interface tests of my programs. It helps us avoid missed deadlines because we can detect all the errors before deploying the new versions of the solution. And I also like the integration with coding managers like DevOps or Jenkins. It enables us to do versioning."

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"It's like breaking apart coding and development into an ultra-configuration tool... It really is flexible."

"Their integrations are terrific. We've had zero issues, a 100 percent success rate with integrations. In terms of Zudy's data source connectors and API integrations, we've been really pleased. We use some software that is very common in the media business, and then we also have some custom things that we built for a variety of different use cases within our company, and we've had zero integration issues, in terms of getting data into Zudy and getting data out of it. It's been great."

"It's made things seamless and it's more efficient, and there's an audit trail where it wasn't there before."

"You can unite data which lives in different sources without moving that data."

"The ease of moving around the platform cannot be understated."

"The product has reduced the time that it takes us to produce apps."

"When it comes to the speed of development of the applications with Zudy VINYL it has been the fastest and most powerful that I've been able to do. We've tried building things from scratch. It takes an enormous amount of time. We've cut that time by probably a fifth, with more power. I've been very happy with the speed of doing things in Zudy VINYL."

"This is an extremely scalable solution because it enables us to interface with all types of disparate information."

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Cons

"I told them to add something about Angular. They're already working on adding it."

"It's expensive for a company."

"Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus"

"There are issues in integrating it with other solutions."

"It would be helpful to have additional assisted processing with training."

"The graphical interface could be improved. I also notice some performance problems on hardware that should be more than adequate. GeneXus uses a lot of RAM and other computer resources."

"GeneXus is a wonderful tool for the backend. It's the best in the world, but for the frontend, GeneXus needs to improve. There should be easier steps for managing various aspects, such as alerts and messages to show to the end-users."

"The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool."

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"While some of the reporting functionality is adequate, reporting needs to continue to be worked on, given the fact that there are a lot of really good reporting tools out there."

"When designing the user interface, there are many built-in features; however, Vinyl could use some more extensive design elements that are used in marketing, such as Canva or Web design tools. These would allow for more extensive design elements to be added more easily."

"During the initial rollout, the text editor wasn't 100% what we were looking for, but we were able to get the job done. After some discussions and finding ways to use different plugins during the short term, Zudy actually came back a few months later and said that they have integrated a standard product into their text editing that checked all the boxes for us."

"The interface has had a lot of changes to it. It is better than it was before. However, with the subqueries in particular, this has been the most difficult part of the interface."

"Perhaps the UI could be improved."

"The features that I'd like to see in VINYL next would be the ability to have more control over, or have a rule-based control over column headings and column labels."

"I don't have a lot of negative things to say about the platform. One of the things we joke about, because it is very minor in detail, is that as with any platform, when you're hosting a live webinar on a GoToMeeting or a Zoom, everything slows down a little bit. So when you're doing a live demo internally with folks, the platform can go a step slower. That's not necessarily just a Zudy thing."

"I'd like to see the next release of VINYL have more user interface solutions to it, so that it could be a more user-friendly product on the front end for the customers that are utilizing the tool. We didn't have a solution to help automate all of our reporting in the past which identified the need to make sure that we could tap into our data sources and automate all of our reporting, which is exactly why we needed the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is good."

"The solution is very expensive."

"The cost of a GeneXus license is extremely high. At the same time, one person using the solution can do the work of three Java or data developers. I think that's why they charge so much. It's too expensive, which is one reason it isn't widely used."

"People tend to work with GeneXus if it's cheap, but GeneXus does have licensing policies...Moreover, the cost of resourcing work in GeneXus may make it more expensive than other programming languages."

"The price is good."

"It's expensive. I'd rate it a four out of ten in terms of pricing."

"I don't know about the price because I am an employee, but I hear it's cheaper than other tools."

"I know that its licenses are generally per year, and in the past, the license for GeneXus was around $5,000, but I don't know what's the current price of the GeneXus license."

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"Pricing and licensing are on par with or better than what we were looking at and what we had. That was also one of the key factors for making the decision. We cut our costs in half by going over to the Zudy platform."

"You always look for the underlying cost, there's always underlying costs but the value is fine. I don't think it should cost any more. You pay for the software but you're also paying for their employees, when they work onsite for you."

"Our licensing costs are approximately 100K annually, and from my perspective, that really is quite the value with the flexibility and what we're getting from the product."

"We also pay for the managed services help that we get from them. But, to me, it is a very effective cost model. Licenses are relatively inexpensive, then you pay by the drink in terms of the managed services that you are going to need, which has been great. We figure out where we want to apply those services and try to be pretty diligent about managing the costs there."

"The pricing is moderate. It's okay."

"The key thing here is that the pricing is just one price. We can do as much or as little with the product as we want to which is very attractive. I don't have to worry about if I build a new app, I have to pay more. Or, if I put 20 more people logging into the app, I don't have to pay any extra for that either."

"The pricing and the licensing of Zudy are reasonable. Pricing is always a tricky thing. It could be a little simpler, but they're doing well. I'm happy with it."

"The pricing and licensing of Zudy are fair."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Legal Firm

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Consumer Goods Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GeneXus?

GeneXus evolves with technology.

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What needs improvement with GeneXus?

GeneXus needs to be more consistent in functionality without any errors. Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus, but in some cases, it saves time as well. Some errors will take too lo...

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

Our company uses the latest version of GeneXus. The solution is used in our company to develop various enterprise systems, and GeneXus is used as an integrator, which further facilitates low-cost d...

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What do you like most about Zudy VINYL?

The ZPM system enables us to organize projects and monitor their progress. The ease of logging into the VINYL app to test new features makes testing smoother, and we feel more involved in the crea...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zudy VINYL?

Payment processing has changed since Jitterbit acquired Zudy. We previously cut checks, but we are no longer allowed. This has made paying for the service more complicated, but the issue is being r...

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What needs improvement with Zudy VINYL?

Some aspects of VINYL are limiting from a B2C standpoint. For example, it would be nice to have more flexibility with what the VINYL parameters allow us to develop within the app. It is difficult t...

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Overview

What is GeneXus? GeneXus™ is the best Low-Code Platform that you don't know yet.

It's a Software Development Platform that simplifies and automates the tasks of creating and evolving enterprise applications and multi-channel user-experiences. Great Advantages:

- Higher productivity, with automatic maintenance & evolution
- Multi-Experience, we continuously create new code generators
- Agile, incremental approach, with fully functional prototypes
- Easier to learn, one single language to cover all technologies
- Future-proof, we've been around for 30 years, evolving for you

Key Differentiators against the competition:

- No runtime fees, we charge by developer
- Best theoretical framework, which allows us to evolve
- Best coverage in the market: Most technologies, most languages, most markets and industries
- We run on-premise or on the cloud
- Multiple starting points depending on the type of company you work in, with products for Students, Startups, ISVs, Corporate Development, and SAP technologies

GeneXus uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to create software, enabling truly incremental development of apps, providing a low-code, future-proof development platform for the leading execution platforms and languages, and the most popular DBMS.

Jitterbit's Vinyl (previously Zudy) is an enterprise low-code application platform that makes it easy to build scalable, end-to-end apps that are easily integrated with new and existing systems. Designed for large enterprises to solve complex business problems at scale, Vinyl empowers anyone to create fully integrated, bi-directional applications in weeks. Powerful enough for Full Stack Developers, intuitive enough for Citizen Developers/Business Technologists, Vinyl empowers you to create secure apps that run on any device, automate any business process, and integrate any data source without coding.

Create fully integrated, bi-directional applications
Utilize guided development and visual rule builders
Predictable pricing with no per-user fees
Integrate the entire ecosystem without impacting source data
Protect apps with enterprise-grade security
Integrate real-time data
Deploy apps via enterprise cloud, on-premise or hosted
Improve customer digital experience

For more information: www.jitterbit.com/product/viny

Sample Customers

Canal de Panamá, Gerdau, Coca-Cola, Mercado Libre, DHL, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, TECNISA, Mexican Polak Group, Ferrovalle, Canon, Azteca, KPMG, TURBUS, Santander, BBVA

Aetna, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., Alvarez and Marsal, Audacy, Barstool Sports, Brooks Brothers, Cal-Maine Foods Inc., CNH Financial, Collette Travel, Darn Tough Vermont, DXL, Fresh Direct, iHeartMedia, Intra-Cellular Therapies, JBS Foods, J.Crew, Kraft Sports Group, MEMIC, New England Patriots, PGT Trucking Inc., United Healthcare, Worley

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