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Jitterbit Vinyl pros and cons

Vendor: Jitterbit
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PROS

Zudy Vinyl significantly accelerates development speed, reducing project completion time from months to weeks.
It offers highly effective integrations with a 100 percent success rate, enhancing connectivity and functionality with various data sources and applications.
Zudy Vinyl boosts the speed and power of application development, enabling tasks to be completed up to five times faster than traditional methods.
The integration feature streamlines business processes by allowing seamless communication between different systems, reducing the need for manual coordination.
Zudy Vinyl supports connections to nearly any data source with an API, providing flexibility and extensive third-party integration capabilities.

CONS

There are acknowledged technical limitations, specifically with metadata manipulation, but workarounds are being developed.
Upload time of documents was an issue that was resolved quickly.
Different types to view data need more variety.
Formatting can be tricky to get the desired front-end appearance for an app.
Documentation and user forum are not always as helpful as needed.
 

Jitterbit Vinyl Pros review quotes

NS
Jan 19, 2021
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.
LE
Jul 4, 2021
There are a lot of low-code development tools out there, but VINYL has the ability to connect to just about any data source out there, if an API exists for it and can be leveraged. We have even partnered with them at times to work with third-party vendors to develop APIs on our own, if there wasn't an API that exists for it.
JP
Dec 27, 2020
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.
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SD
Jan 18, 2021
Zudy has increased development speed. What would take us months to be able to complete, we're getting done in a matter of weeks. I have a number of projects that we were working on that I thought that we'd [only] be able to get completed by next year. We've already completed them and we're still in the year 2020.
ER
Jun 24, 2021
The integration is a huge accelerator into enabling new business processes. As a small company, we have a few different systems that otherwise couldn't talk to each other. We recognize, from an IT perspective, the value that data and change in status of certain data in one area could influence the ability to take action in another. With these integration points, we are able to essentially create that communication from one system to another, letting system B know that something has been completed or is ready in system A. That allows our users to know that they are ready to complete a task. Without that, we would be relying on a lot of manual communication. We would be relying on individuals sending emails, saying, "Hey, by the way, this is ready in system A." Now, we have the system recognizing it and shooting that email off automatically, with all the instructions necessary.
SH
Dec 17, 2020
The feature that I find most valuable with Zudy VINYL is how flexible it is. There are so many ways that you can connect data to it and there are so many features that are out-of-the-box that make the product very flexible and easy and easy to work with. It's got a great user interface which makes it a nice looking product that our employees are able to engage with quickly.
JP
Aug 16, 2018
The Lite Integration is really the key thing. You're able to attach the Vinyl software to a variety of different systems very easily and pull data together in a way that is really difficult to do using traditional technology... Also, the fact that it's a no-code platform also makes it easier for people to understand and deal with internally, to continue to build applications and modify existing applications.
DH
May 7, 2019
VINYL has given us the ability to really improve the speed with which we deploy releases and respond to the good ideas that our people have.
JF
Oct 2, 2018
It's customizable to whatever you see might use it for... It's very user-friendly, and the front-end is exactly what we need to see, very simple. It can get more complicated too, if those are the needs.
GeneralI067e - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 25, 2018
It's extremely easy to use in getting into the IDE and then back down to your applications, and getting from your applications to your pages, and navigating through all your tables. That's very simple and pretty intuitive.
 

Jitterbit Vinyl Cons review quotes

NS
Jan 19, 2021
Eventually, a nicer way to create certain features, like the way that we create PDFs, would help. Sometimes the way that it resizes when I have multiple windows up, could also be better. It's minor stuff though. It's edge-case stuff.
LE
Jul 4, 2021
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.
JP
Dec 27, 2020
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.
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SD
Jan 18, 2021
Upload time of documents that needed to be uploaded was a request that we were having an issue with. That issue got resolved in [near] real time, within probably 30 minutes.
ER
Jun 24, 2021
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.
SH
Dec 17, 2020
It might help if they put out different types that would provide different ways to view the data. I'd like to see more on that.
JP
Aug 16, 2018
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.
DH
May 7, 2019
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.
JF
Oct 2, 2018
I would love to have the home screen a little more customizable because, as we're building more and more reports, it would be nice to have more options in how they're organized on the screen.
GeneralI067e - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 25, 2018
When you are trying to delete certain columns or delete or drop tables, it will throw an error and it will force you to hunt down every location where those things are being referenced. You have to delete them from the very end and work your way backward... It would be easier, when you're deleting that table, if it would concatenate all the way down.