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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kintone

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AKintone is a customizable digital workplace platform used to manage data, tasks, and communication. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom applications.

    $120

    per month for 5 users (minimum)

    Quickbase

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AQuickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.

    $700

    per month

    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Vaadin Platform presents a Java web application development framework supporting developers with a wide range of free and paid components and the Vaadin Flow web UI framework, as well as development consulting and access to the Vaadin development community. The commercial editions provide a wide range of UI layouts and interactivity, testing tools, training, and custom components that are not otherwise available.N/A
    Pricing
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Editions & Modules
    Professional Subscription
    $24
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Full Customizable
    per month/billed annually
    Business
    Starting at $2,200
    per month
    Team
    Started at $700
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMinimum requirement of 5 users. Kintone offers a free prototype to build with using existing process.Quickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.—
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    Community Pulse
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Considered Multiple Products
    Kintone
    Chose Kintone
    Kintone is the best value for the dollar amount. It is also based on JavaScript (as far as the more in-depth customizations go) so you don’t have to learn a new language. Quickbase was extremely expensive for what it offered and FileMaker Pro required learning their custom …
    Incentivized
    Chose Kintone
    The product is quick and easy to use and setup forms for specific purposes
    Incentivized
    Quickbase
    No answer on this topic
    Vaadin
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    56 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.3
    9 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management9.76 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management9.29 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management8.54 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management8.54 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)7.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management7.54 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management9.33 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Case management9.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Task management9.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting8.89 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.1
    8 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.34 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports8.08 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.9
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields9.211 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects9.09 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration8.65 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation8.52 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    9.3
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access9.36 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Kintone and Quickbase and Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Feature
    Kintone
    9.5
    10 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Vaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.510 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (58 ratings)
    7.5
    (521 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (16 ratings)
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (43 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KintoneQuickbaseVaadin Platform - Commercial Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kintone
    I recommend Kintone for companies that need the ability to customize standalone applications or to provide a 'hub' to employees as a jumping-off point. I also recommend Kintone for any company that is drowning in spreadsheets, or is using 10 apps for 10 different purposes - you can consolidate everything into one place. Kintone, I think, needs a larger team for customization as your company grows. If you are a small office of 20 people, using it out of the box will likely be just fine for your needs. If you're working with 200 people out of an office, it'd likely be good to have someone with a bit of CSS, Java, and API experience in order to maximize what you get out of it - though you won't need that if you're keeping it simple.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    Kintone
    • Flexibility. You can build apps (without coding) to serve a wide range of processes and projects.
    • Ease of use. The interface is intuitive.
    • Training. There are resources readily available to train new users. Even starting from scratch, I felt like I was up to speed in just a few hours.
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    Quickbase
    • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
    • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
    • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
    • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
    • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
    • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
    • Nice playground to test new ideas
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    Vaadin
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    Cons
    Kintone
    • Sometimes it's a little challenging to know which fields to enter and where. There is a little bit of a learning curve with creating your own apps.
    • More visuals would be great! I love seeing the data visually, and so does my board.
    • That's all I can think of - I really do enjoy the program.
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    Quickbase
    • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
    • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    Kintone
    We have been quite happy with our use of Kintone thus far. We looked at several options before choosing Kintone and believe it had the best value and best features, while allowing for complete customization, rather than being locked into preformatted apps that may not address exactly what we need or be more than what we need.
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    Quickbase
    For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kintone
    I love everything bout it. I love that if there is something I don't feel is working well enough, we are able to change it. The ONLY thing I would say is that if you were able to make it so every time I click on anything in the website/app it stayed in the same page, that would be great, but I don' think it is possible and I think this is due to using so many external APIs
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Kintone
    Never had an issue with this.
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    Quickbase
    Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Kintone
    Pages load quickly, no issues with response time
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kintone
    I am very happy with Kintone and support it fully. I think that it is a great place for any company that wants to create a platform for better management. It is easy to use and pretty affordable. It is straightforward and has many tools that can be used by anyone. There are many helpful tutorials available too to guide users
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Kintone
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Kintone
    The training was seamless and easy to follow
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    Quickbase
    Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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    Vaadin
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    Implementation Rating
    Kintone
    Everyone has their own tastes of things and way they want to work. Asking them to adapt to the changes with the new tools or apps is always difficult. We would want to start with a very small but best example within the organization, which in our case was that the employees will not be bothered by the bosses by being asked to find the documents, status of the progresses, or major things/requests/projects.
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    Quickbase
    I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Kintone
    Kintone is the easiest product to create from and the cost is the lowest I believe. In addition, reconfigurability and extendability are great. If you look for a low code tool, you can try Kintone. But as same as another low code tool, don't expect too much.
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    Quickbase
    Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Kintone
    Should be multiple pricing packages.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    No answers on this topic
    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Kintone
    I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Kintone
    We have nothing but positive things to say about the kintone professional services we utilized during the install and after we went live.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
    Incentivized
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    Vaadin
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    Return on Investment
    Kintone
    • It used to take us 15-20 minutes to create a quote for a client. It now takes less than 3.
    • It allows a few of our employees to work remotely, which was essentially impossible prior.
    • We can see raw data for success/failure rates, which we actively use in our employee review process.
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    Quickbase
    • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
    • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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    Vaadin
    No answers on this topic
    ScreenShots

    Kintone Screenshots

    Screenshot of a view of apps from the portalScreenshot of 4 ways to build an appScreenshot of the drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of business app viewsScreenshot of Kintone appearing across desktop, and mobile