We quickly uncovered numerous bugs in the GUI and data retrieval objects. Although the company addressed these problems immediately upon notification, and frequent updates are planned that should alleviate problems over time, we had not figured on being the quality assurance testers and wondered about the overall viability of the product.
Vision constructs special-purpose utility applications in minutes, without coding or script writing.
All it takes is one administrator spending an hour or two to learn how to run the design tool, and then custom programs can be used, for example, to check derived trustee rights. Even more valuable, these custom utilities can be handed to deputies charged with maintaining user accounts, printers and so forth. Unlike ScheMax, Visual Click offers a development service called CreateMySolution that quickly responds to customer requests for new features, plus a Web site for user-contributed utilities. However, Visual Click must still overcome a few new-product jitters and deficiencies. For example, extra manual steps are required to print data, there is no alerting function and documentation is insufficient.