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ZohoZoho Creator is must have in your Zoho toolbox2018-12-05T19:47:23.366ZZoho Creator is a wonderful app and a program we use to manage data heavy components of our business. Creator is a great complement to Zoho CRM, where we manage most of our customers. The ability for Zoho Creator to talk to or syn with the Zoho CRM is what makes this tool so valuable. Part of our business includes entering and storing a lot of data. Once entered we use this data to generate intuitive reports and dashboards to give us insights in to this part of our business.,The ease of creating data collecting forms. Anything from creating a form to import all your old excel documents to creating a mobile on-site application where you can input data directly into the app. For a company like us this can help to eliminate the pen and paper approach to recording data.
Reporting features are excellent. Slicing and dicing the data from your forms to create any report is possible. Think of it has filters on steroids. The ability to combine data from different forms is a huge plus.
Dashboards! Zoho Creator has so much depth to it that it's easy for one to get lost if they are not as familiar with Creator, for example an exuctive or decision making manager. This is where dashboards come in. Admins can build intuitive and smart dashboards that combine all the relevant KPI's that a manager needs to see.,Zoho Creator has their own scripting language, Deluge, which is the powerful engine behind what makes Zoho Creator so great. Problem is if you have no coding background it can be a bit difficult to learn, and use to it's full potential.
The new UI is awesome, except for parts of the homepage. I wish there was a bit more room for custimization and organization of all your stored apps.
The ability to create documents or what they once called record summaries from your stored data. This is our most requested feature for them to add, is an integration with a word processor such as Zoho Writer and the ability to create mail merge like documents within the app.,10,With using Zoho Creator we are able to build apps that we may otherwise pay a pretty penny for. We may risk some features we could get from a 3rd party app but the fact that the data we do collect can easily syn with our CRM and Accounting systems makes up for this.
Negatively speaking, it takes time to fine tune and really craft your application. I am not a coder, nor do I have a coding background, so patience is key as you design and build out your application.,TrackVia,Zoho CRM, Zoho Reports, StripeVerified UserZOHO Creator - Best decision ever!2018-07-16T20:12:00.251ZWe use Creator for the management of our College enrolment process. We have 2 users, myself as the app developer and my PA as the app user. We receive over 500 expressions of interest (EOI) per annum. We use the automation capabilities of ZOHO to manage the enrolment process - initiation (EOI) > applicant providing pre interview information > interview booking > Course selections > Report uploading > Special applications ( Scholarships etc). We have now extended the use of Creator for staff leave management and student course change tracking.,Workflow efficiencies: Automated emails triggered by a user response has saved our College a huge amount of time and our users are very impressed about confirmation emails and the immediacy of our 'replies'.
Scheduled csv report exports which are then incorporated into our network database, easily.
The ability to develop an app which meets the specific needs of any organisation is the clincher. We have spent far too much money on 'off the shelf' IT 'solutions' which always lack the capacity to be adjusted. Creator, true to it's name, enables us to do (nearly) anything that we want to do. The scripting language is intuitive and is easy to learn. (I'm 62 yo and the last time that I wrote script was over 40 years ago - I was a Maths teacher in the interim ),None, really. They have gone to a new interface which appears to be trying to be more user friendly. I'm not a fan because the power of ZOHO Creator is the ability to free script or (script builder) , which you can still do, but you need to navigate a dashboard designed for people who should probably look for off the shelf solutions.,10,Again, Creator has allowed the College to make significant savings in workflow practices, clerical administration, photocopying, postage - everything we now do is online. Our efficiencies have been recognised by our users/applicants who view us as a point of differentiation as to how we do business.
Negative impact - None!,Zoho Survey,Zoho Campaigns, Zoho Survey, EventbriteKeith MarleyCourse management on Zoho Creator2018-04-25T15:20:42.545ZWe use a Course Management app in Zoho Creator to track activity in our English language courses that we give onsite at our customers' place of business or homes. We have all schedules set up and classes can be cancelled and rescheduled on the app. In addition, we collect attendance and lesson plan information for each class. The information that is input creates reports and also creates invoices from teachers for the classes that they have taught.,Allows us to have an app for our exact needs. We had searched and searched for solutions and even tried some off-the-shelf, ready built apps but none of them were complete. With Zoho Creator we were able to create the app that we needed.
We have the ability to access our app across all devices.
We also have the ability to update and add functions to the app as we discover and identify other needs.,I think that Zoho Creator needs to have better training tools made for the non-developer user. The marketing information makes it sound like you can build an app with no real coding knowledge. From my experience, that is simply not true. There are things that are relatively simple to do, but other things definitely need more advanced coding.,8,We really have not tracked the savings in a dollar amount, but our overall ability to have a birds eye view of all of our courses and classes at any moment has been a great tool. And we save time when we need information about courses or classes because the reports are there and ready when needed.,,Zoho Books, Zoho CampaignsGeorge C. Thiess IIIAutomate that Workflow in the Cloud with Zoho Creator2015-10-07T16:47:24.925ZI have elevated and improved business and laboratory workflows to the cloud using Zoho Creator. For example, we had an inventory system siloed in three different departments. Now we have one system in Zoho Creator that drives the whole process . In another instance, we had an ill defined analytical request system without a transparent workflow. I created a well defined and totally transparent workflow using Zoho Creator so everybody knows where their requests stand in priority and when the results are available. Additionally, the app was duplicated and is now also used at our Chinese affiliate. Finally we had a need for tracking time on projects. I deployed a time tracking tool that is now used in 6 countries by over 70 users.,Prototype a form and database in under 5 minutes
Automation of business workflows
Easily import or export large databases
Create a dashboard of graphs and charts that update in realtime,Programmatic manipulations of large databases often run into usage limits for Deluge Statements
Limited GUI customizations but they are working on that
It's often hard to identify where some code is generating a bug
The Zoho team is constantly updating the platform capabilities: this may cause instability in current applications,10,Increased employee efficiency
Reduction of redundant inventory items
Better project management,Salesforce.com and ASP.NETJohn M. WhitneyZoho Creator, the most powerful easy to use database tool available!2015-06-25T20:43:17.174ZWe use Zoho Creator as a backend database and database tool set to help us automate real estate contracts.,Flexible.
Easy to program.
Does a lot of the work for you in database creation and manipulation.
Hosted already so you don't have to figure out your own hosting solution.
Control - Zoho allows you complete control and portability over your data.
Integration with other web services.,Design tools to control the look and feel could be improved. I believe they are working on this.
Ability to store very sensitive information, such as social security numbers/encrypted database.
Easier way to manage multiple access profiles available to web/customer users.,9,Very high ROI. The system provides the whole backend of our website.,KnackHQ,1Aaron Thornock
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