Quickbase vs. Workato

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quickbase
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Quickbase 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
Workato
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Workato is a cloud or on-premise automation and integration platform with enterprise-grade capabilities and no coding required. Workato provides pre-built connectors to integrate with over 300 business applications and enables task automation across apps.N/A
Pricing
QuickbaseWorkato
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
QuickbaseWorkato
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
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
QuickbaseWorkato
Considered Both Products
Quickbase
Chose Quickbase
We selected Quickbase as it can help us to create the application faster and easier. Here Quickbase gives us both features like integration and development. With the feature called pipeline, the user can easily integrate the third-party application with Quickbase without using …
Chose Quickbase
Out of the box softwares come with out of the box assumptions that are difficult to mold your workflow to so companies generally adapt part of their workflow to how the software works and then when that fails revert to doing it outside of any system. Quickbase does the opposite …
Chose Quickbase
Their logging is a little bit more advanced than I would say the pipelines is, but as far as information storing and again, wide accessibility, Quickbase just blows it out of the park. As far as getting the same information spread along to a wide base of people, Quickbase is …
Chose Quickbase
In Power BI, we can only create a dashboard, but in Quick Base, we can create a dashboard and also input the data in the form.
Chose Quickbase
Quick Base is designed quite differently to PostgreSQL although its a database. Quick Base is a database with a front end on top. It has its limitations with capacity when compared to PostgreSQL.
But this isn't its primary function.
Chose Quickbase
QuickBase allows for rapid application development but you're left with out of the box functionality, sometimes making it difficult to customize applications to the level we'd prefer. We use QuickBase in certain instances when applications need timely and frequent updates. …
Workato
Chose Workato
I use Workato for the full view of my process. Both the console on errors and debugging as well as the unified view of each task I'm automating. In addition, I know that Workato has all the power necessary for enterprise integration.
Chose Workato
A market leader when it comes to an out of the box/do it yourself integration tool. It is very user-friendly with an excellent track record for new connectors and reliability.
Chose Workato
Workato is much simpler to learn and configure than Dell Boomi. While powerful, I struggled with Boomi's interface. I know Boomi is powerful and trusted by many enterprises, but it seems a little inaccessible to me - the learning curve is a little too steep and I don't have the …
Features
QuickbaseWorkato
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Workato
8.0
38 Ratings
0% below category average
Pre-built connectors00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
Connector modification00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings5.034 Ratings
Data quality services00 Ratings6.031 Ratings
Data security features00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
Monitoring console00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
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User Ratings
QuickbaseWorkato
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(521 ratings)
9.0
(38 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(54 ratings)
1.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(40 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.4
(44 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.8
(22 ratings)
3.0
(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
QuickbaseWorkato
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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Workato
Workato is brilliant to make separate applications work together without much effort or specialists being needed. When specific events on software A should trigger actions on B (or more) and you want that to happen without any development or big budgets, that's where Workato comes into play. It's a great help if you want tasks automated, communications flowing and data synced between different applications.
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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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Workato
  • The Workato product interface is brilliantly thought through and designed. The learning curve for first timers is easy enough to get started and build useful things, and Workato really shines in their ability to handle complex triggers and interactions. Workato allows people to build software apps so much faster than by coding each functionality.
  • Workato has fantastic documentation, making things accessible without any holes in the product. The product just works, never has any bugs, never lags, and just generally allows us to see and change exactly what we need to.
  • Workato has an absolutely amazing support team. We tried the free version for a while, then realized it was the single most important software tool we have, and we upgraded. The support at the paid tier is A+, seriously the best from any company we've worked with. Feels more like a good friend then a support rep.
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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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Workato
  • Customer support - responsive, but often not equipped to help efficiently identify root cause of issue. Need to improve escalation to technical resources and turnaround time
  • Recipe organization and sharing. Can be challenging to copy recipes, or grab recipes from publicly available site. There are often dependencies and errors that have vague descriptions.
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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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Workato
We need to develop Enterprise Application Integrations and Workato was not designed for this
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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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Workato
The sheer work Workato eliminates from people's daily jobs is simply a great contribution to people's productivity and a boost to capability. It actually strikes the balance between business and tech teams. It also reduces dependency on developers, and speeds up their delivery too. The only reason it's not a full 10/10 is for the price - it's a bit expensive for what we'd like, and their batch or high data volume processing can be improved.
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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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Workato
No answers on this topic
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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Workato
No answers on this topic
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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Workato
They employ an extremely knowledgeable team of problem solvers. I've never had a disappointing interaction or one that has left me still searching for answers. I know that when I ask for help, they'll partner with me until we find a solution together
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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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Workato
No answers on this topic
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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Workato
No answers on this topic
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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Workato
We discovered that we could not use Workato for our more complex, large enterprise integrations. It was useful for simple workflows that matched the prebuilt recipes.
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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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Workato
We already used Zapier, but since it doesn't support NetSuite we had to choose another automation platform. Now that we've been using Workato for a few months, we have plans to move the stuff we're going through Zapier to Workato. We set up a trial account with all the other platforms, and they were all more expensive and A LOT more complicated than Workato.
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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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Workato
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Quickbase
For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
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Workato
No answers on this topic
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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Workato
  • As business consultants, Workato has greatly improved our offerings to our clients as well as improved the time frame to implement automated workflows and integrations.
  • For our clients, the return on investment is almost immediate. Once a Workato recipe is up and running (which can be done very fast), data is integrating, duplicate data entry and user errors are eliminated, and cross-company KPI metrics are easier to report than ever.
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