QuickESign vs. Scala

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QuickESign
Score 9.0 out of 10
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$5
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Scala
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Scala in Malvern, PA offers their digital signage software which provides Designer for content design, Content Manager for content organization and control, and Player for content viewing. Notably the software supports a wide array of digital signage including touchscreen kiosks and service for direct customer engagement and interaction.N/A
Pricing
QuickESignScala
Editions & Modules
Light
$5
per month
Standard
$10
per month
Pro
$15
per month
Enterprise
$20
per month
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QuickESignScala
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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QuickESignScala
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QuickESign
Chose QuickESign
QuickESign is super easy and it's affordable to use. We selected this product because it has a lot of popularity among other companies and they have given us good feedback. Almost all our needs in regards to E-signage can be done using QuickESign. Also, the widgets are really …
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Zoom Rooms
Zoom Rooms
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
QuickESignScala
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
QuickESignScala
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a solution that is so simple and easy to use and if you don't need any fancy/complex layouts then QuickESign is the best application for you. We can create various texts on our TVs using this application so easily that it literally takes seconds to publish the same. Also, the application is super easy to install and use.
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If you are in the data science world, Scala is the best language to work with Spark, the defacto data science data store. I think that is really the main likely reason I would ever recommend Scala. Another reason is if you already have a team of programmers familiar with functional programming, e.g. they all have years of Haskell experience. In that case, I definitely think Scala is a superior and faster-growing language than Haskell and that picking up Scala after Haskell should be quick.
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Pros
  • Easy to create notices
  • Easy to make announcements via TV
  • Keep our employees informed about the latest news in the company
  • Provide an outline to the newcomers in the firm
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  • Compatibility with Java: if you are switching off of Java onto a new language, one reason to pick Scala is that it is about 99% compatible with Java, so any Java libraries or code you were using before can be called from Scala (not vice-versa though).
  • Great built-in features for managing concurrency (e.g. Futures, Actors, and Akka). Making the most of every single thread on the machines your Scala code is running on is much easier and safer than doing it with Java. Scala abstracts away thread pools and threads quite well with Futures. I wouldn't say Futures are easy to learn though....but they are definitely safer to use than pure threads.
  • Null-pointer safety: In Scala, null pointers are rare because most libraries pass around a class called Option when whatever you are referencing could possibly be null. Options are first-class and the functional nature of Scala combined with Options means you can almost always avoid referencing a null directly using Option.map or Option.flatMap (see here for what they do https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Option.html). That means you'll almost never encounter another null-pointer exception unless you do something quite stupid and avoidable. Java has Options for helping with this now, but it's not widely used and not nearly as powerful.
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Cons
  • It's really hard to create custom animations
  • Only a set of predefined themes can be used and we cannot create any new ones
  • Difficult to update the signage at some points of time
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  • The social media feed is not editable.
  • The social media feed cuts off link previews in posts, which can hurt posts that rely on visual context.
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Support Rating
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The Scala community is still pretty active and friendly. Martin Odersky, the creator Scala, and his team are sill quite passionate and gone above-and-beyond to fix bugs and address the need for more features. They also have a company called Lightbend that will help you integrate Scala into your engineering stack. I have heard mixed things about them but never worked with them myself so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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QuickESign is super easy and it's affordable to use. We selected this product because it has a lot of popularity among other companies and they have given us good feedback. Almost all our needs in regards to E-signage can be done using QuickESign. Also, the widgets are really cool and easy to set up on any screen we like.
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Return on Investment
  • We can now manage our employees and guests easily
  • Easy to pass information to the staff
  • There is no need for audio announcements
  • Shorter waiting time for staff appointments
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  • Scala has helped market accounts in-branch in a more visually engaging way than your garden-variety collateral.
  • Scala players have shut down on more than one occasion, and it can take time to order and receive a replacement.
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