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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Quickbase

    Score8.8 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

    SAP Business ByDesign

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's cloud ERP suite offering, launched in 2007, designed for the SMB market. The product includes a broad range of capabilities including financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain. Business ByDesign is a new platform, delivered entirely through a SaaS model, with functionality that overlaps somewhat with BusinessOne, which is also an SMB product, although not a true SaaS product.N/A
    Pricing
    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Editions & Modules
    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
    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsQuickbase 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.SAP Business ByDesign is available for a monthly software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription, based on a base package, user types, and number of users.
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    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Considered Both Products
    Quickbase
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
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    Features
    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.2
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.2
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.82 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.1
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Pricing00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Order Orchestration00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.2
    3 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Billing Management00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Period Close00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Project Costing00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Cost Capture00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Capital Project Management00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    29% above category average
    Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Procurement
    Comparison of Procurement features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Supplier Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Logistics
    Comparison of Logistics features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.2
    3 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Production Process Design00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Production Management00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Configuration Management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Work Execution00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of Quickbase and SAP Business ByDesign
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business ByDesign
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Inventory Planning00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    Zoho One
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Project Server
    Score5.1 out of 10
    Zoho One
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview PPM Pro
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Microsoft Dynamics AX (discontinued)
    Score4.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (521 ratings)
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickbaseSAP Business ByDesign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SAP
    Do you plan on going public at some point? If so, this may not be the best solution for you
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    Pros
    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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    SAP
    • I like the ease of use and the implementation methodology.
    • With SAP Business ByDesign you can integrate other systems with Web Services, and data technology to get information easy and fast.
    • SAP Business ByDesign includes an Analytics Module to create new reports in regards to your needs.
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    Cons
    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.
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    SAP
    • Time off request could be better. Right now, there is no option for sick time
    • It crashes often
    • Customization could be better
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    SAP
    SAP BYD work centers are consistent and easy to navigate once you understand one work center. The document flow tab that is in each window allows one to see all related transactions. Document flow is important because one is able to see the flow of transactions and can therefore reverse transactions by following the document flow in reverse. It is possible to group items in each overview screen to see what items are open. The system is working as hoped.
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    Usability
    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.
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    SAP
    Because SAP Business ByDesign allows us to improve our work, reduce the operational steps, implement audit controls, allows us found standard reports or it allows us to create new ones if you need more than the exists are enough for your work or your needs. Overall, SAP Business ByDesign allows us to standardize our operations, enhance our work, improve our skills, work over a web environment or mobile interface.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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.
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    SAP
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    Performance
    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.
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    SAP
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    Support Rating
    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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    SAP
    The Business ByDesign support is stablished since you contract the service with SAP. SAP resolves according to the service level agreement. Currently, we continue with the service and we are using the support channels available. We are receiving the support. The SAP support gets an incident and after that, they contact us to resolve the incident, if necessary, they set the meeting to understand it or we explain the incident
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    In-Person Training
    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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    SAP
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    Online Training
    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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    SAP
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    SAP
    I recommend implementing all workshops during the ERP selection that you need to know very well about the ERP software. It allows us to gather information to accurate the plan of the project implementation. Additionally, we must reach the high-level commitment to achieve the main goals, to define the RACI matrix and communicate to all project stakeholders.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    SAP
    ByDesign stacks up well against the competition. Companies that do multiple things are usually the best fit (manufacturing, distribution, and service). The more 'modules' used, the fewer competitors will be able to meet the company's needs. It is not inexpensive, but if the needs of the company have the complexity from either a global perspective and need localizations and foreign currency, or a volume perspective and need resources greater than what can be easily housed on-premise, ByDesign should be a top consideration.
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    Scalability
    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.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
    Incentivized
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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SAP
    • Positive - Access to the real-time reporting allowing for faster decision making especially when fixed price projects are heading into an over budget position.
    • Positive - Complex KPI can now be tracked and as a consequence intensive plans can be made to capitalise on this level of reporting. Staff also have clear visibility over their own performance.
    • Negative - We are a bit on the small side at 30 employees for a ByD solution so it was relatively expensive for us. It would be a much better value preposition above 50 employees.
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Business ByDesign Screenshots

    Screenshot of the embedded analytics of SAP Business ByDesign, which makes it possible for key users or end users to define dashboards that contain tailored reports and KPIs for their roleProduct screenshotScreenshot of some of the reports available with SAP Business ByDesign, that enable customers to create additional reports or KPIsScreenshot of the document flow, present in each business document in ByDesign, which shows a graphic of the predecessor and successor business documents as well as any associated accounting documents.Screenshot of SAP Business ByDesign's included Project Management module that is integrated with CRM to sell and bill projects, with HR to staff projects, and with SCM and SRM for procurement.Screenshot of the Financial Closing business scenario, used to perform financial period-end closing activities to ensure correct financial statements, such as Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. The Closing Cockpit helps to minimize the risk of missing important steps or incorrect timing.