Item: Zoho Creator
Rating: 9
Author: Aaron Thornock

Overall Satisfaction with Zoho Creator

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zoho Creator as a backend database and database tool set to help us automate real estate contracts.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Very high ROI. The system provides the whole backend of our website.

I've used Knack previously. It has better/easier controls over user authenticated access and a better/more fun to use UI. However it is less flexible than Zoho Creator. With Zoho I can pretty much do anything I can dream up. Knack is powerful, but more limited than Zoho Creator.

Likelihood to Recommend

Highly secure databases may not be a good fit, though I understand that Zoho is developing the ability to export the whole database and tools (Zoho Creator) to a user's server. This would eliminate this issue. It is useful for a highly customizable data base with minimal programming experience required.

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Zoho Creator, the most powerful easy to use database tool available!

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