Compare Microsoft Azure App Service vs. Zudy VINYL
Microsoft Azure App Service is ranked 16th in Rapid Application Development Software with 4 reviews while Zudy VINYL is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 21 reviews. Microsoft Azure App Service is rated 8.0, while Zudy VINYL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure App Service writes "It saves us time and money and installation is really easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zudy VINYL writes "Lite Integration enables us to easily pull data together from several systems, without coding". Microsoft Azure App Service is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Adobe ColdFusion and Microsoft PowerApps, whereas Zudy VINYL is most compared with QuickBase, OutSystems and Mendix. See our Microsoft Azure App Service vs. Zudy VINYL report.
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Overall, all of the features are very good. The product is scalable. The program is stable and we've had no technical issues so far. It's very easy to use. That's one of the advantages for the business, that you don't need to struggle to configure your website and your app service. Microsoft made sure to make it stable and very easy to configure. | The product is super fast at getting things done. It's made things seamless and it's more efficient, and there's an audit trail where it wasn't there before. One of the most valuable features of the solution is how rapid we can implement it, going from a design to an operational concept in a very short period of time. 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. There are two most valuable features: one is the ability to pull data from a bunch of different places and put them together. And the second is the speed at which you can get a new app developed. So instead of waiting months for this new app to come out, if you have an internal team putting it together, you can roll it out in weeks. I've even seen days. It's incredible how fast you can make changes. VINYL has really helped us speed up application development at a reasonable cost. We have been able to leverage the platform to rapidly build custom solutions, and tailor-make them to our needs. 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. |
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I am new to the intervention and I find it difficult to find my way around the user interface. I have my own learning tool. However, it could be simpler for new users. The solution is quite expensive. If you need more features, you need to pay for them. I would like to see faster adoption and templates that we can use. Sometimes we face problems, but those are technical problems in Microsoft, bugs or something doesn't work as expected, but that's normal. | There are some acknowledged technical limitations. I was looking to do some metadata manipulation, which is very atypical. Zudy said that they will work on building me a workaround. If there is a weakness, that would be it. Right now it's very dependent on having an imagination to understand. 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. 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. Some new features I think I'd like to see is visibility into running jobs so that we can see what the status is, or it's not stuck in its process and doing its thing, or how much longer it's going to take. I'd also like to see a native calendaring function so we can put calendars into our apps with maybe even recurring tasks or appointments and that sort of thing. We'd also like to see multi-select lists. The users being able to pick multiple things to filter on and get a list and be able to export that list. The ease of use for individuals to self-serve could be improved. The solution is no-code, but there is still a decent learning curve associated with the product and some app design principles necessary before people can self-serve. 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. There are a lot of almost "hidden" features captured in these Edge Case settings... If you want a scroll bar at the bottom, instead of having it select rows to show, you have to select Disable Panel Location Service, which doesn't sound at all like what it's supposed to do. Naming conventions could be changed a little bit. |
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Azure doesn't cost as much as other services. | Compared to if I used traditional methods, such as hiring developers and setting up systems, VINYL is costing me less than half of what it would normally cost. The value for us for VINYL is that we've got one fee that we're paying per year and we can deploy and build as many apps and bring in as many users as we need. The licensing costs we pay are, I believe about 5,000 a month. That's every quarter. We've been doing it for about a year now, and the prices have remained steady. We feel it's a reasonable cost for what we're getting because it's unlimited users. So as big as you want to make it, you're not constrained by a per-user licensing cost or any of those other restrictions, so that's going to stifle your development. 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. The pricing is moderate. It's okay. Pricing and licensing are expensive. We have seen a 30 percent decrease in time for some of our workflows. I feel the product’s pricing is a good value. The licensing model is very straightforward. You license the platform and you can build however many solutions you want with it. |
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| Azure App Service | |
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Azure App Service Web Apps (or just Web Apps) is a service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends. You can develop in your favorite language, be it .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. Applications run and scale with ease on Windows-based environments. | Zudy is a visionary enterprise application development company with a breakthrough low-code platform known as VINYL. VINYL’s patented technology-agnostic development environment turns mobile and web into one, enabling enterprises to build highly configurable applications in just days rather than months or years. Using VINYL, enterprises can dramatically increase the number of new applications they can build from an average of three per year to more than 50. |
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Learn more about Microsoft Azure App Service | Create Enterprise Apps without Code Find out more about how Zudy VINYL's code-free platform can speed up your enterprise application development process. Contact Zudy to find out more. |
Sample Customers | |
| Real Madrid, Absolut, AccuWeather, Heineken, NBC News, Paramount | Brooks Brothers, Stericycle, DXL, Aetna, JCrew, Barstool Sports, iHeart Media, Cal-Maine Foods Inc, Collette Travel, Kraft Sports Group, Fresh Direct |
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No Data Available | Manufacturing Company16% Pharma/Biotech Company11% Non Tech Company11% Leisure / Travel Company11% Software R&D Company35% Manufacturing Company11% Retailer9% Pharma/Biotech Company5% |
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