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Attribute Ratings
- Spectrio is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
Scala
64%
2 Ratings
9.5
Spectrio
95%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
8.7
Scala
87%
4 Ratings
Spectrio
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Scala
If you are in the data science world, Scala is the best language to work with Spark, the defacto data science data store. I think that is really the main likely reason I would ever recommend Scala. Another reason is if you already have a team of programmers familiar with functional programming, e.g. they all have years of Haskell experience. In that case, I definitely think Scala is a superior and faster-growing language than Haskell and that picking up Scala after Haskell should be quick.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesSpectrio
I like the fact that I can adjust how long each slide is displayed. Some slides don't need to show for very long, like the weather, while others require more reading and being able to adjust how long they show is very useful. The support they provide for any questions was easy to schedule.
Digital Marketing Manager
TelefonicaTelecommunications, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Scala
- Organizing different playlists.
- Coordinating content schedule and running time.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Banking Company, 51-200 employeesSpectrio
- Using templates for quick content creation.
- Managing all screens in real-time and from a single dashboard.
- Intuitive and cost effective.
Director/Client Engagement Leader- P&C Insurance (Digital Transformation)
TAPsDIGITalInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
Cons
Scala
- The built-in compiler, scalac, is sssssssssslllllooooowwwwww. I mean like, if you thought the Java compiler was slow, try Scala! The default compiler on my 12k line codebase takes 4 minutes to compile from scratch on my i7 quad-core machine. This can be mitigated through the paid solution of Hydra which compiles your code in parallel. Unfortunately, it's quite expensive and your legal department or finance department may not approve of it. But if they do, for me, it reduced my compile time down to 80 seconds, much more manageable.
- Scala is not going anywhere and support for it is slowly dying. This is the main reason I would not choose Scala for my next company or project. Important Scala libraries such as secure social (which is used for OAuth, a major requirement of every web app) are hardly maintained. Another library that suffers from lack of updates is Slick, the database mapper. There aren't enough engineers working on it to even provide support for the new features that came out in Postgres 9.0 (e.g. JSONb). There is simply not enough of a community to drive Scala forward and keep 3rd party libraries up to date as Java world does it.
- As a corollary of a stagnant community, hiring Scala developers is hard as well. Of the 30 backend engineers we've hired, only 3 came in already knowing Scala. And as I will mention below, this is a BIG problem because learning Scala is really tough.
- The learning curve for Scala is very, very steep. Anecdotally, I came into my current company with strong Java experience. Java is the closest language to Scala but it took me 6 months before I stopped needing to pair program on easy tickets. It doesn't help that Scala has some weird syntax like Map[A, +B] and that it forces you to do functional programming.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesSpectrio
- The equipment is excellent and the product is built to last and simple enough to use.
Digital Marketing Manager
TelefonicaTelecommunications, 501-1000 employees
Pricing Details
Scala
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Spectrio
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Support Rating
Scala
Scala 8.7
Based on 4 answers
The customer service team is very responsive and usually returns calls or emails within a couple of hours of placing a request or inquiry. Just about every rep I've spoken to has been very thorough and helpful, walking me through each problem and explaining the solutions in a way that's easy to understand.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Banking Company, 51-200 employeesSpectrio
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Scala
No answers on this topic
Spectrio
They provide templates that can be customized as needed based on your branding requirements. It also helps since we don't have an in-house marketing team to make things look fancy when creating from scratch. The software is intuitive and easy to use. It also offers the ability to collaborate on specific playlists for users both within and outside of the company.
Director/Client Engagement Leader- P&C Insurance (Digital Transformation)
TAPsDIGITalInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Scala
- Negative: slow engineer onboarding. As I mentioned before, it took me 6 months to get up-to-speed on Scala and didn't need to bother more senior Scala engineers anymore for help with every ticket. That's hundreds of hours I wasted of myself and other engineer's time.
- Positive: thread safety, no concurrency bug. The ROI on this one is really hard to calculate, but I do believe Scala has saved me hundreds of hours over the past few years by allowing me to never have to worry about deadlocks or race conditions. Scala is simply so safe we've never had race conditions within the JVM before.
- Negative: third-party libraries aren't maintained so we have to fork and update them ourselves. As I mentioned before, we use Securesocial but it stopped receiving updates and there is simply no alternative to it. So, we forked it and put an engineer on it for a month to get it back up-to-date. What a waste of his time!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesSpectrio
- Obviously, I am very satisfied with this solution. I would say the reason is a sum of factors, such as an easy to use dashboard, automatic content generation, a variety of different applications, which can cover almost any request from the client.
Digital Marketing Manager
TelefonicaTelecommunications, 501-1000 employees