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Timothy Soares - PeerSpot reviewer
It's a good solution for those with limited coding experience
The visualization of the data pages could be improved. You have to a lot of tweaking to make the visualization stand out. It's basic, but there are a lot of options. So you really have to do a lot of customizing on that part. They could add some templates that are more attractive than the basic ones. It would be helpful if you could start with something that's already built rather than working on standard templates from scratch.
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Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective
The vendor does a really poor job of marketing this software because it should be more popular. This is something that I have pointed out to them. It's a super piece of software, but very few people are aware of it. I am an EX-IT director and I've worked in big systems, and I'm amazed this solution isn't more popular. The "native" integration with other products could be improved. The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you may have to use HTML and CSS to make it look more modern or to match a clients existing look. The documentation is amazing, although they don't do videos and their YouTube channel is very poor. They could create some training videos.
Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration
The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible. So basically, it's wonderful if you manage Microsoft clearly and if you manage Microsoft Azure, but if you need to consume external services and have a global overview of all your consumption, it's not the case. Google, for instance, has tools that help you manage multiple environments, which makes sense because Google is really the cloud provider. So that's why they need to be compliant with the others. But for sure, Microsoft's approach is different, and it's wonderful when you're one hundred percent on Azure. But if you'd like to have something more of a multi-cloud strategy, that's a bit of a gap where they could improve.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Caspio was user-friendly compared to other solutions. As someone who doesn't know a lot about coding, I found it easy to create a web application on this platform."
"The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"There are several products within Azure."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
 

Cons

"The visualization of the data pages could be improved. You have to a lot of tweaking to make the visualization stand out. It's basic, but there are a lot of options. So you really have to do a lot of customizing on that part. They could add some templates that are more attractive than the basic ones. It would be helpful if you could start with something that's already built rather than working on standard templates from scratch."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
"They are a bit closed on the customization side. If they open the customization then it will be very good."
"There is a need to be better on-premise solutions that are more helpful. However, I don't think that is the goal of Microsoft Azure. They want the solution to be secure cloud solutions with cloud applications. This is their main goal at the moment."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
"Maybe Azure could add an address code to create your analysis without SQL or Python because some business users don't want it to code. So it's good to have a service application that connects to the data lake to conduct analysis and simplify the business process."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
 

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"This product has really good value, as it doesn't have a per-user cost, there's a flat fee."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"As of now, there are no monthly or yearly subscription fees."
"Microsoft Azure is a cost-effective solution where you use it as per your requirement and pay for it."
"It is important to consider ROI when looking at the cost of a subscription."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. For an SME, spending roughly 5,000 euros per month becomes interesting, indicating a significant infrastructure setup in the cloud."
"The solution does not offer very many free services which can become expensive. We are on an annual license."
"Monthly billing convenience reduced cost overheads up to 70 percent."
"The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high. It is full of very interesting services, but I would still like it to be less expensive."
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University
15%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Real Estate/Law Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Educational Organization
44%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Sample Customers

Florida Department of Health, AdvanceKentucky, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), Philips, Comcast, Coca Cola, HP, Whirlpool, Verizon, Lenovo, Yale University
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