Ninox

Avantages

Sert d'objet de saisie de données et l'intégration

Inconvénients

Le logiciel bouffe énormément en matière de forfait internet

Avantages

C'est la première fois que je dispose d'un système qui me permet de créer mes processus métier rapidement et facilement

Inconvénients

Le design est un peu démodé à mon goût mais rien de grave

Avantages

Il est hautement configurable, il y a de nombreuses fonctions. Des fonctions personnalisées simples sont possibles

Inconvénients

Peut être difficile au départ à comprendre et à mettre en œuvre des fonctionnalités plus avancées et puissantes

Avantages

All in one software
Working across different geographical locations
App with a modern, intuitive interface
Easy visualization
Get started with templates
No coding

Inconvénients

Beginners who have not worked with database management systems before may experience some difficulties at first

Alternatives envisagées 

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Logiciel antérieur 

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Avantages

Easy to use, understand and manipulate to what I want.

Inconvénients

I can't think of anything I don't like so far.

Avantages

Ninox links databases and is fast and easy to lookup. Password and contact managesment as well as critical equipment service reporting.

Inconvénients

Not easy to do create reports and you will need to create formula fields to do calculations

Avantages

The ease of use, you can start building a database from scratch with very little experience. There are many templates to choose from and the support you get from the Ninox team is beyond 1st class.

Ninox has saved me so much time and provided me with opportunities to develop more sales by using it.

Inconvénients

The English manual needs development, (I believe this is in hand) there is so much information in the head of the support team that needs to get into the manual. Layout needs improving, I don't like having to messing about with 'spaces' and line breaks, I would prefer that we can place an object in position and it sticks in place.

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Avantages

The friendly Support and easy way to make contact via Webinar and email.
The way the customer‘s needs and Ideas are integrated, and That Templates can be Chosen and modified without Restrictions

Inconvénients

Don‘t have any objections yet. I only Need it for a work catalogue, but I think the Design should be easier to Individualize, using fonts and colours, shapes and a wider Range of icons to choose from.

Avantages

Easy to use, and fast to implement in any aspect of Business Management and Workflow Management. Easy to follow instructions, ang great forum for novices.

Inconvénients

I would like to see the ability for better reports customization, and more video tutorials.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Ninox

Avantages

One off purchase rather than a subscription
Powerful
Does the job that I need it to - create and track invoices and expenses
Quick

Inconvénients

There are certain simple things - for example, auto-increments for invoice numbers that require 'programming-style' statements to set up.

Avantages

As I announced in my title of this short review I would point out the excellent support of users/customers: Short response time, friendly, useful and really giving help.

Inconvénients

At the first glance Ninox is very easy to handle but doesn't give you a good impression of the possibilities to customizing and working out individual solutions by its programming language "NX".

Avantages

I appreciate the high flexibility, the good support and the possibilities to implement requirements quickly. Great connectivity to other systems.

Inconvénients

There is nothing to complain about. If you want to be impatient: The development is never fast enough!

Avantages

Flexibility in setting up fields, functions and interconnections with external tools.

Inconvénients

User Interface, at least at the beginning. Now it evolved.

Avantages

The platform is very easy to use. While never say never, I do not see using spreadsheets to maintain various pockets of information any longer. While I am a thirty (30) plus year IT professional, within minutes I was up and running.. and within hours to days, I built a rather complex application to manage my Statements of Work (SOWs) with links to company resources, rate card, et all. A quick "create view", and I had a kanban view of SOWs expiring in 30, 60, 90 days. The platform is very flexible and the REST/API is a huge plus for me.

Ninox Technical support is over the top. Free webinars, email support with response usually within 24 hours.. and a user forum with helpful and active participants (DISCLAIMER.. I am a participant)..

Having used other desktop relational database applications on both Windows and Mac OS.. Ninox was the platform I have been searching for!

Inconvénients

Pretty much in order of discomfort..
1. As you can see from other reviews, the user documentation is lacking. At some points it is missing... and at other points it is just plain wrong. To mitigate this, the user forum is a great resource and several Ninox partners have published use case driven guides.

2. As a 30+ year IT professional, I had to adapt to the file based Ninox approach. While you do create "relations" between table objects, you have to rethink a bit of what you learned. Once you get the hang of it.. You are off to the races.

3. Even the local Mac App acts like "the web". Rows are committed on create.. then updated for each field update. This just takes some getting used to. On most of my applications, I add "buttons" to save/close the record so I can add data consistency logic (in global functions as must as possible). That logic is also repeated in "data verification" views so the user can scan for anomalies.

Avantages

I simply like that the databases are essentially ready to use. As a longtime user of FileMaker Pro, I did tire of the too-simplistic interface of a new database (I avoided modifying templates--often more work) that required building up of numerous forms to get going (I still have a lot of raw looking FMP databases meaning ugly as I was not willing to put the time into making it look good. With Ninox, the standard database looks good, and the other forms also are all ready and easy to build, which I appreciate. The focus is on the data, as the bulk of interface work is complete.

Also, FMP has a cost for the web interface and syncing across devices, and Ninox makes it all so easy--this is greatly appreciated.

I have nearly completed an FMP to Ninox switch for my databases; the clincher for me was yet another FMP update requiring great cost, and my old version was no longer cleanly workable with the new OSX update (constant crashing and loss of data entry or import), and Ninox seemed as has been a more efficient use of my dollars for a database.

Inconvénients

I wish there were constant or global fields allowed. As a college teacher, I import test results, and the first page is usually the answers, which I have to enter each result for the 25 questions and then "Update Multiple Records", and then "Assign Constant Value", but that is just a workaround fix, as the results are simply added to each record. If I have a student taking a late test (a regular occurrence), I have to then re-enter the answers and assign constant value again because it's not a global or constant field. If I am missing something, let me know.

Building calculations can be cumbersome with the many clicks across tabs to access the part you need; once I figure it out the pattern though I do switch to the text interface, and I'm glad that that's there.

Wishful thinking: I would love there to be a map interface (I use this for data from archaeological sites and location-specific data from interviews with indigenous elders and community members). Currently, I log UTM coordinates (Northing, Easting, Elevation) or Lat/Long, but I have to export those to see the distributions. A throw to a Google Maps screen or other interfaces would be quite neat and time-saving and useful for data analysis. I imagine others would like to see something similar for mapping locations using customer address fields or showing all customers throughout the country or something.

Avantages

It is an absolutely easy to use software for every kind of business, company, club or private use. With the powerful possibility given by the easy formula building blocks you can do almost everything with ninox. It rightly has customers like medical companies, industrial facilities, football clubs, photographers and a lot more. For my own business (wedding photographer) ninox do everything what I need. It saves all my customers, reminds me of important appointments, creates forms for all my correspondence, for my contracts, for the return of tax for the finance office, let me do my financial statement, gives me information about my year-end closing, scan barcodes, print labels, calculate the amount of customer orders, saves scans like model releases and bills and much more. Almost everything beneath the photography and image processing work is done with ninox.

With a really small amount of knowledge of "if then else" and general formula functionality you can find your own way to do whatever you like to. And if you get stuck, the ninox support is really fast, friendly and helpful. That makes ninox the perfect software for my whole small business.

Inconvénients

I really needed a long time to find something about ninox that is worth to criticize. The start screen is not a beauty at all, but that's the smallest amount you work with. The most work to do is done in the single charts. So, what can I say what do I not like...phew...the printing layout is a little bit elaborately to copy to other printing forms. But ninox works already on this case.

Avantages

The software itself is great, it's very easy to get going with your own database and set it up suited to your needs.

However the real value for me has been the customer service and support. Ninox seem aware that to get the most out of their software, users may have to delve into the more technical aspects of databasing which can be pretty obscure if you're not familiar with it.

Fortunately their staff was amazing at helping me implement exactly what I needed through online one on one support and webcasts, not only that my correspondence was mainly with one member of their team so it wasn't a different or random person each time - this is very much appreciated, and helps when you have to go over the specifics of your needs and business.

Inconvénients

There aren't really any "Cons" as such, as to be honest, I've had a near perfect experience. The only thing I would possible recommend is expanding the online documentation and reference to include useful or commonly used bits of code and formulas. It's worth noting that they already do this, as well as provide a number of templates for different kinds of databases, but it would be cool if there was a bit more in the way of examples and snippets.

I use the program Max/MSP by Cycling74 and their documentation of their code come as actual working patches which you can copy into your own patch, as well as there being a vibrant online community with people sharing their own patches etc. This way it's quite easy to get something working by piecing bits and pieces together before learning the entire syntax. I'd love to see some sort of central repository for commonly used formulas and ideas such as this for Ninox.

Avantages

The program was very easy to use and flexible. I searched several programs that did not give me the flexibility that Ninox did. I combined several databases into one, easy to use database and am able to run reports that are meaningful to my practice. It is also cloud based, so I can access it on my phone and on the iPad.

Inconvénients

The update took away the easy edit tool, so I can't figure out how to change my database anymore. Luckily, I don't think I need to make any major changes anymore. Initially, it took a while to get used to, but some of the updates have made it easier to navigate and get the information that I want in a report format that is easy to read.

Avantages

Completely open for customization., programming language with a great editor interface.

Inconvénients

Could have better templates and more functionality on the UX of the user interface

Avantages

The company was needing a solution to track the workflow and we found in Ninox a quick and cheap solution to deal with it. You can make mobile apps to fit your special needs in a matter of minutes. This is especially important if you have a dynamic/variable workflow with multiple teammates. Moreover, this software allows you to integrate with multiple databases. I would also mention the great customer support.

Inconvénients

It will be great if it would have a help section, especially with video tutorials. In the beginning, is tricky to be sure that all the steps to build the desired app are done correctly.

Alternatives envisagées 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

My own set up of database , everywhere accessible .
Without knowledge of programming fast in set up. Possibility to make own print lay out

Inconvénients

When you save 1 lay out for print, i cannot use it for other databases.
It is better that you can save own templates.

Avantages

The price,
the backup,
the distribution

Inconvénients

De NX language is complex in use. I am an experienced VBA programmer but in Ninox I have many problems.

Avantages

Ease of use and with the help of their partner company, Ninoxus, it is a great value and user friendly

Inconvénients

I did need a jump start on some minor issues but the helper company, Ninoxus, was extremely helpful.

Avantages

I really liked how easy and fast it is to build database-driven applications with this software. I really liked how easy and fast it is to build database-driven applications with this software.
Its GUI is very intuitive and helps you in designing tables and various properties.

Inconvénients

The support part has ample room for improvement: sometimes it is not immediately easy to retrieve the information needed to solve certain operations.

Avantages

You can organize your data and maintain actualized and all your team have the info.
The system its very stable you can trust in NINOX and your team. The Support is excellent.

Inconvénients

Nothing!!! You only need think in your needs and make your database. Its fantastic NO CONS you can trust.