Caspio Reviews & Product Details - Page 7

Caspio is helpful for building my organization's applications without the need to write codes for them. It enables me to utilize its pre-configured blocks for creating enteprise-level applications. It replaces the coding experience of developers with simple action items which are more user-friendly, convenient and straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very simple to understand & use the existing code designs, and I can make use of its hassle-free drag and drop features instead of writing multi-line codes to establish my database applications. I don't find anything that I dislike about Caspio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most helpful aspect of Caspio is the friendly Customer Service Team, for me led by Ramil Borromeo, immediately or quickly followed by Ned Pajic's ***** 5-Star Training on Youtube, especially the Caspio Labs!!! And that would be the Biggest of all the upsides of using Caspio... as an insurance agent now learning Developer; it's the Tutorials, the Expert Support, and the Knowledge base of Tools and Resources that are Simply the Best available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly my least favorite thing about using Caspio is the Low-Code pitch as Yes it is technically true, because I knew little to almost no code until Ned Pajic (Caspio Trainings Technical Evangelist) taught me via Youtube. So yeah that's my least favorite thing, but I also love it because it allows me to stand out as being more highly qualified having gone through their more intense free training program on Youtube for just over a year now, so actually a success here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple interface and easy to use the platform, even for beginners with little to no coding experience. You can also easily import your own spreadsheets into Capsio with the click of a button, making data upload increadibly fast and simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While creating tables and datapages is very simple, developing your own "Styles" for designs seems more complex than it needs to be. Additionally, getting the full functionality of Caspio requires a relatively high-level plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is straightforward to use and personalize; you don't need coding experience to create forms and reports. It has helped us develop apps for over six different companies in half the time we had scheduled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think they could improve in the language section because if you want to have 1 form in 2 different languages, you need to create 2 forms, so it kind of takes time and resources, but other than that, it is pretty great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fees are fair, the system is clean and easy to use, support is fast and awesome. The relational database aspects was a challenge, but the Caspio team walked me through it so I could move all our data from QuickBase to Caspio.

They provide a lot of videos and written documentation for nearly every step. They also have fast, live chat help, as well. What more do you need? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like anything new, it takes a while to get up to speed, but the included expert sessions are really good. I wish their charts looked more professional, but they are as good as Google Charts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio genuinely cares about your project. The team utilizes a hands-on approach and includes the client in every aspect of the process. I feel valued as a client, more like a partner in development and deployment of my application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Location of business. I live in another state. If Caspio had an office in my state, in-person meetings would be possible and more prevalent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio designed the database for me; the design process was quick, with every opportunity to test the design throughout. The database was unusual as it involved the biological classification of fish parasites and the fish species affected. The database had to allow the incorporation of fish samples and their location in the UK, so a complex system.

Throughout the design and subsequently, the team at Caspio have resolved any issues speedily. Most of the issues were of my own making, and concerned my poor knowledge of database systems.

The search engines which have been incorporated into the design are brilliant, allowing a search for parasite species, the fish hosts, size of parasites, location. This is a fantastic tool, accessing data for research purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I have disliked about the Caspio build of my database, I'm very happy with the service I've been given. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio has a very intuitive user interface that makes building reports easy. I also like the different methods we can import data; FTP, Dropbox, and API. It's also nice I can use SQL commands and functions. If you like relational databases, you're going to love Caspio, extremely easy to pair multiple tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've noticed reliability issues with Caspio's API, especially under heavy usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio is super easy to use for a basic application and then when you go under the covers, you can do almost anything with it. We've done some highly complicated UX stuff with it - not as much complex DB stuff but it has all the expected SQL functionality. There is a REST API which we are just starting to use. Overall love the product. We were able to bring on inexperienced developers and get them up to speed very fast using the Caspio community forum, help documentation and online chat support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

3 things. 1) the pricing for the HIPAA compliant environment is a little high and may price smaller projects out of the market. 2) Their professional services stay in their lane and what I mean by that is they have some really cool stuff but they want you to buy their services instead of sharing their insights, if it were my company I'd offer that as an incentive to use the product. 3) Security is by 3rd party cookie (as is almost everyone else in this space) - they'll need to figure out a way to adopt that as Google Chrome moves away from supporting that. I think (hope) that Google continues to drag their feet. Apple already does this on Safari so to make use of native Caspio you have to instruct Safari uses to explicitly enable 3rd party cookies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio's platform is well designed and provides pretty much everything you need to quickly create database-centric apps. If you are not an SQL whiz they got you covered with powerful click & drag elements that allow to build pretty complex SQL commands. We have never had a problem with deployment on our sites and it provides fast DB access. Just be sure to normalize your database! The ability to embed JS and HTML within HTML BLOCKS has been a tremendous benefit for us as well. With these options there really is very little you can't accomplish within your datapages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio's trigger and task development environment can be challenging when you begin to develop beyond basic DB tasks. We have found that variables are not your friend in this environment as they tend to really "bog" down the performance of development. Caspio places limits on how many cascading "triggers" can occur within each script and this has caused us some headaches in working around this limitation. An update to the task and trigger environment last year improved performance tremendously but subsequently, there are quirks now in the interaction of the canvas. For instance - after working within the trigger or task canvas for a while a shadowy blur will begin to cover areas that you have worked on. While this does not prevent you from continuing it is very distracting. Regarding the overall management of your assets, you cannot create folders for any of your assets except for datapages. It would be beneficial to be able to organize all of your assets into folders as larger apps will encompass dozens of tables, views, localizations, styles, etc. You also cannot create dynamic global variables. They have to be static only. This means you cannot set a variable in one trigger and access it from another. This could be a limitation of SaaS development but for us, old school developers, it has been frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.