Quickbase

We've adopted Quickbase as our collaborative project management and process adherence tool for the entire department of Technology Services. Quickbase will be our 'one-stop shop' for everything and anything relating to a project: project status, milestones, stakeholders, project schedule, etc. Currently, we use multiple platforms to house information pertaining to projects, Google Drive, SharePoint, emails, network shares etc.

We have achieved this with some challenges as the design and framework take quite a bit of time to plan and set up, as well as the table relationships. The growing pains of setting up the platform will be greatly outweighed by the benefits of this tool.

This would be quite difficult for someone who has no database experience or technical design experience, unless of course they're using a pre-built application. A business analyst can describe the flow but when it comes to the framework of table relationships, master keys, and fields someone with technical experience is very much required, especially when the fun features come into play where HTML coding is required.

We use it in the Process and Production Department in our company. The apps created help in scheduling jobs for the employees that are working in the company. We were initially finding it difficult to find an effective scheduling method and the apps created through QB help with that a lot.

QuickBase is designed to make building, deploying, and maintaining custom business applications faster and easier. My organization has definitely achieved this benefit by building, using, and managing applications quickly and easily. I was able to build and manage apps even though I don't have a lot of coding knowledge. Anyone can be trained to build apps through QB!

At our company Business Control Hub, we build up processes for other companies and implement them on Quickbase. Our core business is oriented to the processes optimization followed by the implementation using Quickbase along with some other tools, achieving a strong integration between different existing software. This data is presented as dashboards build directly in QuickBase as well as some other tools like Power BI.

As part of our core business, process implementation is essential and Quickbase has delivered on a timely basis the requirements according to our clients' expectations.

As for myself, I am part of the non-technical citizen developers, and it has been challenging in the beginning. Now, after 5 years I can say that it is a tool easy to use, that requires experience and study of the courses delivered by Quickbase. Anytime an issue appeared, the help team is ready to solve and assist.

We use Quickbase in our organization internally as well as externally. Here we use Quickbase as the integration of Quickbase with Quickbook online to fetch the data into Quickbase and create some useful analysis out of that data. We solve many business solutions as we track the data on a real-time basis like we create the different dashboards as our clients see it on regular basis based on the data of QBO (Quickbook online)

In Quickbase we have created a different custom application for our clients and also for our internal needs organization. We can create the application faster and easier as it doesn't require code for making simple applications compared with complex applications that required less code to create the application. While creating the different application as per client need our client is happy and still they using for tracking their business performance and KPIs too.

Quickbase is no code or low code application. With the help of Quickbase non-technical person also can create the application and use that application on daily basis. So here the nontechnical citizen can create the application without any code. We can easily set up the Quikbase application and are ready to go.

We use Quickbase to manage training and consulting data. Training data includes events, registrations, attendance, evaluations, and pre and post-tests. Our consulting/coaching data includes detailed action plans, outcomes, session records, and evaluations. Additionally, we use Quickbase to track agencies and their related contacts. We display data for project teams and cross-cutting core services in dashboards.

Quickbase makes building, deploying, and maintaining custom business applications faster and accessible with no code. It has allowed us to support many projects more quickly.

Citizen developers, or as Quickbase calls them Business Users / Business Builders, are the heart of Quickbase. I truly believe that anyone who wants to build applications in Quickbase can. The platform on its own is very intuitive, but even better Quickbase has a plethora of free accessible resources.
-Quickbase University is invaluable for video and practice-along courses to get builders up and running in no time.
-Community discussion boards contain answers and ideas for every challenge I've ever encountered.
-Quickbase's help guides are thorough.
-The customer service is prompt and helpful.
-Outside videos like Quickbase Junkie provide additional support.

It is used across departments. It solves distributed a data collection problem.

I think our organization has achieved this benefit. It is faster to build and kind of easy to maintain.
Upon request of our users, most applications are more complex than default features and functions. Therefore supporting and maintaining them is no longer that easy. Hope QuickBase will provide more tools for more advanced developers.

It is really easy to build, but not that easy to build it right. For a large organization, functional and powerful applications require cross department design collaboration.

QuickBase is used in several departments. It allowed us to create a unique and efficient way to organize our work and projects. It allowed for a custom-tailored development without needing to involve IT, which was faster and cheaper to the departments.

We did. We were able to build a custom-tailored, complex project management and databank within a couple of weeks versus months with IT support. It has become the cornerstone of all the work we complete.

Was able to build a highly complex project management system with automations with zero experience in roughly a week that has become the cornerstone of all of our workflows. Handles project tracking, workload assignment, database collections, reporting out and more. Limited programming experience prior on software just a good understanding of process flows.

We are using Quickbase for master management of customers, agreements, employees, revenues projects, hours data, and operations as well as for reporting point of view.

Yes, it has now achieved the benefit.

I am not into developing side of it.

We use it for many reasons in my department from image release and tracking to Alumni engagement in our many networking event around the country.

I have built many apps and am a certified app builder. The apps can be built very simple or very complex. That being said, you don't have to have a lot of experience to create apps but with experience you can create just about anything.

This is fairly simple and only requires learning formulas in order to write them.

We use Quick Base for internal and external purposes. Internally, we use it to manage the details of the employee and all the billing-related activities. Externally, we use it for our clients, for operation-related solutions and smooth business process.

Yes. Quickbase help us in many ways in terms of internal and external clients too where we can manage the application fast and easily.

Quick Base is a low-code application, so it is easy to use for the nontechnical people. But sometimes, using the API there can be difficult.

In my department, there are three major functions that Quickbase is a solution for.
1) We log our systems checks on a daily basis.
2) We use it for shift turnover reports to notify staff of important events.
3) We use it for asset management to keep track of multiple sites where we have assets.
4) We keep track of pending work orders for vendors.

We have several different departments in my organization that create and maintain their own Quickbases. These are created very quickly and are easily modified if we find that we want to add or delete features. Usually, we can go back and collab on what will work best for all of the stakeholders.

I think most people are able to create apps without much IT help.

We use Quickbase at the company level and also help our external clients were to solve their business operational-related problems. Quickbase helps to solve various business problems like replacing spreadsheets, supply chain-related issues, and so on. We have implemented Quickbase in many of our clients and replaced it with the current application.

Yes, Quickbase has flexibility as well as a user-friendly interface so that we can easily customize the requirement of clients/users with the help of Quickbase.

One can easily create a simple application faster and it required no code for developing the application just with the help of the drag and drop feature we can easily create it. So I think for non-technical "citizen developers" it will be easy to create the application easy and fast.

In our company, Quickbase is used for a wide range of team management and trackers for employees. It is also used in data analysis and recruitment.

We have solved lots of problems/difficulties in our company and also for clients, like managing the task flow of the client so the client can easily monitor their work smoothly.

Bids are submitted from various clients for hundreds of sites. Instead of passing Excel sheets around, all the data is centralized. All departments involved can input their data. The Project Admin reviews & confirms all data & finally submits [it] back to the client to be awarded/contracted to fulfill the orders of the sites. By digitizing data, we have centralized the data for all departments making it easier to show analytics.

Yes, this is a great product for meeting immediate needs as well as turn[ing] them into long-term processes.

It is best to have some amount of database experience, but [it] can be done without that knowledge. Setting up reports is something that all users should learn to use to be able to be independent in putting together their needed reports.

Quickbase was used as a client and prospect management database. We housed all of our CMS, DNS, hosting, and other solution usernames and passwords for 200+ clients. We loosely used some tables for project tracking to know at a glance where all new projects were in the pipeline. In a similar fashion, we used a set of tables to keep track of open proposals and the last time a prospect was contacted. We also tracked the reason(s) a customer decided to leave us. All tables were linked to a client's "Company" record so we could always easily grab any data related to a specific customer whether they were still a customer or not.

Our organization didn't really use QuickBase to build an application. We mostly used it to create a customer database to store all of our specific customer login or other detailed information, as well as track prospects and new project statuses. Essentially a very very simple project management tool. We certainly achieved this goal, however, we eventually replaced QuickBase with a less expensive tool that was more suited to our needs.

We often had to train new users on how to build reports using the data they wanted. Many users would want to pull reports from multiple tables but lacked the understanding of how to determine which tables or columns were required. Once training was provided we left the users to their own tinkering and rarely had to have follow-up training.

In my organization, Quickbase was introduced as a helpdesk ticketing solution [in comparison with] another leading provider. My company wanted complete control over our system and Quickbase was the best option we found. Over the last 3 years, we've grown our use of Quickbase to manage the following: fleet system; complete facilities and tech projects; integrate online status forms with Microsoft Dynamics GP; collaborate [with the] Information Center; host new location pipeline/development summaries; store employee data; complete PCI compliance requirements; control inventory [in addition to other uses]. Quickbase allowed us to create a more user-friendly experience for our end-users while allowing us to create more insights [into] our business operations. The low-code platform is a perfect mix for users of all levels to get exactly what they need out of the Quichbase system.

My organization has been able to design, build, deploy and maintain custom business applications much faster and easier [with] Quickbase compared to having to build everything from scratch; think SQL reports and C# programs. We were able to test and roll out our help desk solution in under 3 months. [The process] would've been faster but we have extensive testing rituals. The other use cases that did not require non-IT users took 2 months at [the] most.

Honestly, you don't need to be technical to build applications on Quickbase. Any time that I've had any questions, [I can look either to] the help center or the Quichbase community where you can post [inquiries]. Both [these] options have [come to the] rescue quickly. I began my Quickbase journey as a low-level IT employee which quickly morphed into Quickbase admin. The Quickbase community has been my biggest asset, and I love to answer questions [so] I can help others.

We use Quickbase for a wide range from HR & Financial, to team management and trackers as well as data analysis and recruitment.

[It's] pretty easy once you have a set of people who have builder knowledge to get something out there. The real issue comes when a builder and management team also use real [end-user] feedback to make a product that is liked by the people who will be using it most. Unfortunately, builders are often a little too in the weeds for that. That is why we needed to implement an oversite/implementation team [that] can work with the builder.

[It's] hard for people to wrap their mind around table relationships. Which is the main barrier. It takes a decent chunk of time to maintain applications if the builder has left the organization and it isn't documented well which it usually isn't.

As a developing team we use Quickbase as an Agility platform which allows us to organize and plan future development and share thoughts for every sprint we get involved in, also it is a good app for real-time insights and automation and that makes development a lot easier for us.

Actually, the team has changed to other deployment and managing applications, Quickbase was useful at first but it becomes hard to use whenever we need a custom report and that gets us back to other applications and the search of new ones, but in general, a large organization can manage their development with this, if they are patient enough.

In my experience, Quickbase is not an intuitive application which makes it difficult to use sometimes, if you get an approach at first sight and for simple managing task the app responds really well but once you dive into some feature for customization Quickbase becomes a hard tool to use.

We use it to manage [the] workflows of many processes for our services team. This involves multiple ways to view and share data with others. We can also use it to assign tasks and to help project managers do their work more efficiently.

Yes, this application allows us to quickly develop workflows and project management applications faster and easier without having to involve IT.

We only allow citizen development for reporting. Reporting is easy to drag and drop. We need to control development because many of the data points are integrated for a variety of other processes and in the past, we have found that it can easily become the wild west if everything was opened up.

Quickbase is one of the central applications used at our company to handle multiple aspects of our company's operations. We use it for asset tracking, user management, user provisioning, user onboarding, billing, reporting, partner portal, and going forward, every other business workflow that we need to add, will likely end up being tracked within Quickbase.

Further, we also use the Quickbase API to link with our infrastructure to automate user provisioning and maintenance, while removing as much human error as possible from the process.

We have been using Quickbase since day 1, and we have been incrementally developing it and making it increasingly connected to our infrastructure and automation. It simultaneously connects our internal company's inventory/database/assets with our operational infrastructure and servers, and is used to onboard users and provide real-time reporting on our user status, as well as provide our partners and affiliate a real-time view of their status. We can achieve a full circle of information and reporting.

As we develop Quickbase, we are also using APIs to automate certain processes which have been limited to being performed by our engineers manually.

It is quite easy to build in Quickbase. All database concepts are translated into layman's terms within the Quickbase application. You certainly need to have a basic knowledge of how databases work, but at a very basic level. What is the most important is to know what is your end goal, and what you want to get out of your Quickbase application.

It is very useful to read some documentation first, and attend some of the Quickbase University classes, as it is important to design the application correctly. This is something that will be pretty hard to change if no planning was done prior to beginning the development.

We currently use Quick Base for customer bid creation, help desk ticket tracking, resource scheduling, and reviewing resource skills.

Many businesses still run using Access or Excel. Access has scalability issues and Excel should never be used to run a business. In a previous position, I built a custom solution to provide customer estimates based on an ordered product. It also provided labor estimates. The application ended up being used globally and helped increase margin.

Of course as your experience grows, you'll always find better ways to create applications. The only time you need a specific skill set in Quick Base is when you need to use Javascript or other languages to accomplish a task. Otherwise, Quick Base can accomplish most tasks natively. I always search for a native way before engaging a more experienced programmer.

I use QuickBase as a workflow management system and CRM. It's used across my department, and can be accessed across the whole organization! We use it both to manage and oversee operations, as well as to gain insight into our operations through reporting.

Yes, definitely! One of Quickbase's strengths is how quick and easy it is to build and deploy a solution. Apps are easy to create, and changes within apps are even easier to push forward, even without the help of an engineering team. Quickbase is also innovating and restructuring, which encourages internal innovation to best leverage their new features.

Quickbase is very easy to learn if you leverage their internal education resources, Quickbase University. Working with an account executive or consultant while starting with Quickbase is also a very valuable way to get up to speed quickly. It's definitely achievable for "citizen developers," but app builders with prior coding experience will flourish as well.

Quickbase is being used at my company in one location as a pilot for possible uses at multiple locations. Our particular use case is process monitoring on production lines. We will use the real time data to track efficiencies at an hourly level and have historical data to show performance.

Quickbase has allowed my company to have a fully customizable app to replace papers that could not be analyzed effectively or timely. With a few button clicks, Quickbase has turned analyzing data and visualization of the data into something that everyone can see and benefit from.

I was the builder of our application. I consider myself tech-savvy, but definitely not an IT professional or a coder. I do not possess Java, CSS, or any other programming knowledge and was able to build a fully functional app that less tech-savvy people have successfully used for months.

Quickbase is easy to build out tables and continues to improve UIs. This makes it easy to adapt to the ever-changing needs of a company. The support provided by the help desk is fantastic. They are quick to respond and are always helpful. The best part is that you don't need to have any experience. Also, having QuickBase university is an amazing resource for new users that will be building apps.

7 years ago we were doing all of our work on spreadsheets and word documents. This was a challenge as data was impossible to follow up on. Thanks to QB we now have a fully functioning ERP system that we are able to update as we continue to grow and make improvements.

Building apps, tables, and forms have been easy. I have been able to train people on building that have no experience. I have not had to have help from IT and as long as you take the time to map out what your doing it is easy to build out.

We use Quick Base in our entire organization. We have developed our own HRMS on the Quick base platform. Along with we have developed applications for our legal departments, IT departments and for our external customers too. It is very easy for someone who does not know how to code can build an app easily with the Quick Base. We have been automating most of the manual processes through Quick Base.