What is your primary use case for Zudy VINYL?

We use VINYL to develop a mobile app for dog owners. This is not an enterprise app. It's a B2C model, and the app is marketed for public use. The goal is to create a resource for dog owners that enables them to live their best lives with their dogs. It offers health record storage, a live map of pet-friendly businesses, and a mobile marketplace where consumers can shop for dog products. We have integrated the app with our database of current PooPrints customers which will transfer their data from our internal database to the mobile dog app.

At our company, we use Zudy VINYL to track, manage, and process incredibly large amounts of data. Users are importing large excel files (hundreds of thousands of rows of data) throughout the day while data manipulation and logical processing are happening behind the scenes. Our users do all of their work in the system we have built (with help from Zudy) and it all has to be very precise and accurate in order to comply with banking and legal court standards (the sector we work in), which it is. Many advanced and complex reports are created in VINYL for us, and it all runs much quicker and smoother than the solutions we were using prior.

We needed to replace a legacy payments system with a more advanced cloud-based payments hub. Due to contract requirements, we had less than 90 days to launch a brand new product. Our payment hub facilitates millions of dollars of payments in the B2B space. Vinyl allowed us to launch in the cloud in less than 60 days. The solution allows us to provide payment services to banks and corporations utilizing a single sign-on to manage vendors, payment files, and customers, all in a highly secure cloud-based database. The solution needed to be able to support mass deployment to hundreds of companies with virtually no installation or training. With this goal, the product had to be very easy to use and very intuitive. So the User Interface was key. We also had to meet the data security requirements of the banking world. Vinyl allowed us to launch in an AWS S3 environment and utilize all of Amazon's security features.

We use VINYL quite a bit across the organization, such as creating apps for equity trade requests that everybody in the entire company uses if they want to get approval. We built an app and VINYL routes the approval to the person's manager. We also use it on the commercial side for CRM-related activities. We augment our business process quite a lot with it. It's in a private AWS environment at the moment that Zudy is hosting for us. We are going to move it to our own AWS environment shortly.

Our first use case for Zudy VINYL was actually to implement and automate workflows for some complex tasks with a lot of handoffs. One example was, as we onboarded a great number of employees at the late end of 2019 and early 2020, we had about 100 people who needed to be onboarded in a short timeframe. There were a lot of handoffs, people involved, and steps which could go off the rails if we didn't have some clear structure for how the handoffs would work. Using the Zudy VINYL platform, we were able to automate that workflow and make sure that everybody was on task and on point. We started to expand additional workflows from there, then we started getting into more custom applications for niche solutions and individual business problems that people were bringing to IT to solve.

We help residential general contractors take their quoting time from hours to just minutes. My use case for Zudy VINYL has been the full package for both my front-end, and my back-end systems. We're running all of our database information, all of our modeling, all of our calculations, as well as the front-end delivery for the customer, through Zudy .

We needed a custom solution for our events business. We had a bunch of software that we use for a variety of our financial planning and analysis tools. A lot of them, pieced together, were able to solve things for our business, but we needed a custom solution. After a national RFP that Zudy won, we were able to build a custom solution specifically for our events business.

We have a ton of little applications that we run across the whole entire organization that help various departments get things done better. In some cases we might have been using things in spreadsheets or manually typing up emails, and we've been using a lot of VINYL applications to help eliminate those. We host it on-prem right now. It has the ability for us to access the databases that we need to access, so it has been a good solution for us on-prem.

What we do is provide client management systems assistance to HUD-approved, non-profit housing counseling agencies across the country. The use case for Zudy is that we have HUD-approved, non-profit housing counseling agencies that have to report the work that they do, to HUD, in specific formats. In other words, the services that an individual in a community comes to a HUD-approved, housing counseling agency for, are reported out to HUD on a quarterly basis. That's [includes] everything from someone who needs assistance with purchasing a home, to rental services, to seeking shelter, mortgage modification, or homelessness assistance. All of that information is captured, per certain guidelines, and reported out to HUD. HUD takes that information and reports that to Congress on a regular basis. In return, Congress allocates funding to these HUD-approved agencies based on the information that they received from our client management system, mPact Pro. Our system is hosted on the cloud and supported on the backend with Zudy through Amazon Web Services.

We started out doing prototyping and moved that to a demonstration application. Now, we are moving into a trial version that we hope will convert over into our running application. It works well online and on my mobile. It is storing data in our Cloud Datastore, as well as theirs. We are on the most current VINYL release.

We use it for progressive apps, especially when workflows of the past, again, paper trail, can be replaced with electronic, which is what mine has done.

We use VINYL as a solution to eliminating management reports that are paper-based. We've automated all of those paper reports to be electronic web-based and on mobile applications.

Our company works with medical devices. We sell and service imaging equipment to hospitals and clinics in the territories we serve. NXC's primary use case for Zudy VINYL was to provide a mobile field service management application that our current ERP provider could not provide to us.

We actually have several significant use cases for VINYL. We replaced a few Legacy systems with Zudy and their platform, VINYL, and built from scratch a made to measure system for custom made garments designed in our stores and manufactured by our facilities. We built an alteration platform that allows us to have customers purchase garments off the rack and then record all of the alterations needed to get the perfect fit, and again, perform those duties elsewhere. Finally, we use VINYL to develop progressive apps by introducing new functions for our stores and giving them things that they didn't realize they needed. This really saves time and effort on their side so they can focus on what they really should be doing.

Our primary use case involves transitioning work that has traditionally been done on spreadsheets. We've used VINYL to connect different systems — especially pulling data from multiple places. Our primary system, as well as just some worksheets that are out there, we were able to pull that all in and view statistics about different things from different places all in one nice view.

We use VINYL for more purposes than I can count. If I were to distill it down to our guiding principles, Vinyl is utilized to fill in our gaps, whether it be from processes, systems, integration, or governance.

Our primary use case is for accessing data from a database.

I'm a back-end database developer. Our primary work is data migration. We're running between ten and 15 applications through VINYL.

We use VINYL when none of our other systems solves the business need that's being asked for. We've used it for a lot of different things. We've got an event management application, we have a compliance tracker, previously we used it for a work-request application. We use it for custom-reporting, and we've also been using it as a way to bring together a couple different systems which we call our "Customer 360," where we can go and get an idea of a customer and all their related entities.

We are using it for headcount, some dashboarding, and centralized reporting for various departments.

We are using it for workflow management and transportation.

We use it mainly for financial reporting. It helps us see our net margins in detail, net margin by customer, by category. It allows us to see our sales in more detail, and same-day versus a couple weeks after month-end closes, for example. But we mainly use it for financial purposes.

We're a tour company and we have a schedule of several hundred tour managers who are managing all the tours that we operate. All of their schedules for the year are put in here. We also manage all of their quality surveys. We ask for quality surveys and we get those back. They're not stored here, but they're reported out here. We also manage any guest comments in here. And the big one is reconciling all the tour funds. That's not active yet, but it's being tested right now, and that will go active and live in November. So, there's a lot that's happening with this.

This solution has touched many parts of the organization, everything from a dashboard for some of the store analytics, to custom applications for alterations, made-to-measure, clienteling, inventory management. It really covers the whole gamut.

We use it to build applications that help us facilitate moving data between different systems, and also for pulling together disparate data sources into one place where so that it is easy to look at.

I use it for business process automation across a variety of areas. I am in charge of commercial IT and we have used this technology to enhance some of the commercial business processes. In my current organization, we are using it in account planning, incentive compensation, field communications via SMS alerts, and onboarding of employees.

We use it for different applications. We're doing some dashboarding, some demo tracking, some commission. So far, those are the three applications that have been working for us, or are in the works.

Our primary use case is scheduling. We do a lot of scheduling and collecting of survey data.