Compare Microsoft PowerApps vs. Zudy VINYL
Microsoft PowerApps is ranked 12th in Rapid Application Development Software with 5 reviews while Zudy VINYL is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 21 reviews. Microsoft PowerApps is rated 8.0, while Zudy VINYL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft PowerApps writes "Affordable, customizable, and easy to set up ". 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 PowerApps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), OutSystems and Mendix, whereas Zudy VINYL is most compared with QuickBase, OutSystems and Mendix. See our Microsoft PowerApps vs. Zudy VINYL report.
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The most valuable feature is the simple data connectivity components. The initial setup was very easy. There are a lot of different applications; you can connect PowerApps, or Flow, or Power BI to many different types of applications to interchange data. It's a very workable solution because it's an automated way of making applications. You have a template, you have the application know-how, I can have a SharePoint list and connect with users through PowerApps to present the information. | 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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Integration with databases and other tools needs to be improved. I have always felt that you need an IT background to use this solution. The solution is evolving very fast and every month new features are introduced. Sometimes it's difficult to catch up with all the evolution that's happening. I had to focus on Power BI for a while and left PowerApps at the side for a couple of months and when I came back, it had changed its interface and moved components around. The product could be improved by making it a production application and enabling the export of apps. The editor in the Web browser could be improved because it can be difficult to implement the commands in the buttons. | 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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Information Not Available | 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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| PowerApps | |
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| Microsoft | Zudy |
Overview | |
PowerApps enables a broad range of app scenarios to be created that infuse digital transformation into manual and outdated processes. Use both canvas and model-driven apps to build PowerApps that solve business problems for task and role-specific scenarios like inspections, field sales enablement, prospect to cash, and integrated marketing views. | 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 PowerApps | 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. |
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Information Not Available | 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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Software R&D Company37% Government10% Comms Service Provider9% Insurance Company5% | Manufacturing Company16% Leisure / Travel Company11% Healthcare Company11% Retailer11% Software R&D Company35% Manufacturing Company11% Retailer9% Pharma/Biotech Company5% |
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