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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition is that their software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. This, in turn, enables them to easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with…N/A
    Pricing
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    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 BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    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.—
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    Community Pulse
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Considered Both Products
    Quickbase
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Quickbase and SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.8
    41 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings7.535 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.137 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.840 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings7.336 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings8.140 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Quickbase and SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.3
    40 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.436 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.330 Ratings
    Multi-currency management00 Ratings6.928 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings6.930 Ratings
    Minority Ownership00 Ratings7.020 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings6.433 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Quickbase and SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.3
    40 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    Management Reporting00 Ratings7.240 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings7.539 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings6.430 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Quickbase and SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    5.6
    36 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings5.024 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings6.922 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings3.031 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings7.628 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings4.024 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Quickbase and SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    6.4
    39 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Flat file integration00 Ratings6.935 Ratings
    Excel data integration00 Ratings6.937 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings5.425 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Project Server
    Score5.1 out of 10
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview PPM Pro
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (521 ratings)
    7.4
    (41 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    6.7
    (39 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickbaseSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    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
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) overall is a good package and has helped improve our reporting a lot whilst also making it more efficient due to the reliability of data input / output. There are limitations like graphs being so limited in functionality and reports failing when too much data being processed however i would recommend to others.
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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
    • SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
    • SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
    • SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.
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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
    • SAP should focus on delivering one single product for planning, consolidation and budgeting needs rather than providing a large list of options to choose from.
    • The product is not very user-friendly compared to other cloud competitors. There is a heavy dependency on IT teams.
    • SAP BPC should come up a pure cloud option.
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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.
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    SAP
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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
    Unlike other SAP traditional products, SAP BPC was meant to be simple and familiar to financial users
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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
    We need a big support team with various skillset like BPC, ABAP, BW, HANA, FICO etc
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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
    SAP BPC training content and trainers are very good. The training is structured and provides a very good understanding of the product features and functionalities. I attended 6 separate training sessions of week-long or more. I had very good experience in all the sessions. The training is organized very well.
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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
    SAP Training contents are very good, informative and exhaustive.
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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
    The implementation was carried out in two phases spread over a period of 4 years with 2 upgrades in between. We also had multiple upgrades to HANA.
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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
    With Hyperion we struggled as it didn’t have integrated planning and consolidation, whereas BPC does have it. BPC is easier for reporting as it is Excel-based. Also BPC has prepackaged business process flows that helped a lot. Hyperion on the other hand has a faster response time for user queries or report generation.
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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
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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
    • When originally implemented (as the predecessor product Outlooksoft) BPC took ASU from trying to budget and forecast for a 2B enterprise out of spreadsheets and into a far more consolidated tool. It has saved us considerable time over the years and paid for itself several times over.
    • BPC also allows us to present our budget in multiple different views to support management, board and departmental reporting.
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