Quickbase

Send out auto-email notifications

Allow for easily creating on the fly reports

Easy addition of records

Providing varying levels of access based on User/business need

The new interface makes filtering less efficient

Rapid Development

Easy Forms Building

Integration with other enterprise systems

Mobile (phone) development is not great and somewhat unusable outside the most basic use cases.

Sorting data into very useful reports.

Customizing and adding fields.

Connecting data across multiple tables.

User friendliness is a big issue, there is a big learning curve needed in order to accomplish many of the customized goals.

Home page and Dashboard options are bulky and outdated. More options for customizing the user experience would be great.

Color and font options are mostly not an option.

Integration with Salesforce, CSV files, QuickBooks, SFTP, Drop Box, Drive, and our Sage Intacct.

From simple to complex applications

Great community of users to share and find solutions

Email integration is available for Outlook and Exchange but it's not practical to store each users email in a separate table

The admin user should have better control over the UI as well as communication with end users

The best use case is taking those clunky Excel spreadsheets and building an app that enables a workflow to be built around the data and exponentially improving collaboration and reporting.

One of the areas that Quickbase could be better is on connectivity to other products. Quickbase is building out an integration platform called Pipelines, and does have an Open API, so the ability is there. It covers the major hitters, like Salesforce integration, Gmail, Google Docs, etc. But, the world is full of apps and there's people using thousands of different tools in their business. QuickBase can actually take some of those tools and build out the solution within its own platform, making some of those other apps obsolete. But as a business, I might have 10 different tools that my client or staff is using, and changing isn't in scope right now. Quickbase doesn't have a plug and play solution to integrate everything a client might be using. So being able to connect to more of the tools that everyday businesses are using would be an area of opportunity. But the list of capabilities IS growing every year.

Simple data entry

Low code

Reporting

More administration/ support functionality

Better graphics in reporting

Pipelines not as good as automations

The ease of development - it does this very well. It's very much just what do you want it to do? Ask a question if you're not sure there's an answer for everything that you have that you, the possibilities. Things that you come into roadblocks that it's not yet capable - there's a forum to be able to say "Hey, this is something that'd be nice." And then people can vote for that to be something new, for Quickbase to develop into there. And it comes to fruition pretty quickly.

One of the things that I have seen recently come up was the attachments and pipelines to be able to put pipelines in attach or attachments in your pipeline automations. That was something I was glad to finally see coming. The one that I'm looking forward to is for for data auditing. So seeing where we've changed forms, having a change log going for when we get audited, they want to see what was the previous version and where's log for that.

Definitely the flexibility is one of the best things about it. The, I was just talking to some people where it's, if. Come in there and you don't know anything, you can make something happen.

If you are, like, I always say, can my mother use it? Can she walk into this? Can she make something happen? And the answer for Quickbase is, yes, she can make something happen. She can make some process happen. However, most, it doesn't limit someone from learning more and solving more complex. And that's what I like about it.

Coming in as a person who will learn different programming languages, who will do different things, like your limitations are really on what you put on yourself in learning.

If you're looking for really good reporting, if you're looking for user ability, then that's, then I would say Quickbase is the one that you wanna go with.

They're always improving, which is good. I feel like they have gotten away sometimes from listening to their users.

So that can be challenging Sometimes. They've gotten into doing some things that are fancier, which sometimes slow down the system. But again, they're pretty good at listening to some extent and they try to improve. They're very enthusiastic. It's not always in the right direction, in my opinion. It usually course correct and all in all, I would say it's probably the best, most stable, most secure and flexible product out there.

There are other ones that are more robust.If you take something like a AWS, the learning curve on that is huge for what you can do in Quickbase, much quicker, much simpler with a lower learning curve. But you're not gonna get, say the, power or the same streamlines. So there's always give and takes with these things, but there is a place for Quickbase and and it's very robust for what it is. It does not dumb it down. But there are things, if you're looking for a powerhouse of data processing, I would say that's probably not the system you wanna go with.

The good things is that it's very user friendly. I came into this after someone had built the apps already, so I've been able to use it and had no problems. When there are problems arise, since I'm new, I'm able to talk to my predecessor regarding those, and we're usually able to get it all figured out.

If I do have a question and I'm not able to get ahold of that person I can always call quick. Or reach out to my account manager or something.

It's not really anything that I don't like.

It's just that because I'm new to it, I don't always know what I'm doing, . So it's just something that, I think it's just trial and error that it's gonna take a little bit for me to get used to it for the fact that it's a new medium to myself.

The best thing is the automated version. So if I go back and I have to create a new a task, it just automates that. So when we get new clients, I don't really have to go in through the jist of everything from A to Z, I just have to click on one button and it automates everything for me. It's a time saver. It's efficient. I love efficiency.

So far I haven't really come across anything that was difficult during our training session where we were taught how to use the platform and how we've managed to maintain using that.

It's been pretty easy so far.

Quickbase as a platform is easy to use. I came from a business management background with little to no coding experience. To be able to customize a whole application from scratch is really awesome and something I never thought I'd be able to do.

I don't necessarily need to be a developer to use this platform, thanks low-code, no-code.

The ability to easily integrate with other services such as Juiced Technologies!

The XML API do not include special characters such as something like the euro, that Euro symbol does not come up with the API call, so that's something that we totally love to see. Our international customers would really appreciate it.

UTF-8 encoding on copied existing apps is a problem. To be able to have those incorrect special characters identified or to make sure that those are issues are resolved prior to turning UTF-8 on for an application would be helpful.

I think the QuickBase API is probably one of my favorites. Things so natively Quickbase can accomplish a lot, but as you get to more complex problem solving the ability to integrate with other platforms within the ecosystem is really powerful.

I think what I'd like to see more of is pipeline channels. So for some of your more well-known products, just as that ecosystem grows, I think that's where Quickbase has a lot of opportunity.

I like how everything connects to each other. So as soon as you make a change in one table or app, it automatically updates all the other apps. It's really fast.

It's very easy user interface as long as you build the app correctly.

It's really easy to make it easy for other team members to use. Our field-facing team members use it a lot for orders and look up purchase orders and stuff like shipping information and things.

They're working on expanding a lot to make it a little bit easier for the end users and also they're rolling out a lot of like formulas and behind-the-scenes stuff you can use and also the new dashboards that they have.

So you can, by role, you can really customize them to see how you can see how everything, all the data looks free for your role.

Ease of use of quickly prototyping something. It's really fast to prototype something Quickbase even if it ends up living somewhere else or if it's not the chosen solution where it's going to live in, it's really easy to prescribe something in a matter of hours or if not days.

And most frequently, we've seen solutions that end up being Quickbase because the users love it. The users also love to interact with it just because it's seamless and it's what the developer makes out of it.

And the second best thing I really like about the platform is the ability to code pages. So you can actually extend what you're doing. If the feature is not there, you could basically just use it as a table storage solution and then you could build a custom interface on top of it and do pretty much whatever you want there.

Just one thing that pops up. It's not especially with like heavy utilization - it's scalable where medium-level enterprises could use it, but especially for use cases where you dealing with millions of rows the table size literally taps out, and we've got applications where scalability has become an issue.

I like the data visualization options. I think those are nice. I think it's just very intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to pick up. It's probably the best attribute.

Right now it's meeting my needs, so I haven't had any specifics just yet.

I think the great thing about this product is the flexibility of the product. It's easy to make changes and build and continue to to develop the application. I come from an old school technology background where we would build solutions and it'd take months in years. With Quickbase, you can identify a problem, build a solution in a few months and then start to have the user use it, and then you can start to change it and and evolve the application so that it really meets the customer.

I think the, some of the areas that need improvement are really around specifically for the larger clients around enterprise governance.

One of the benefits is it's very easy to spin up the application. However, if you're managing 300 applications within your organization and someone spins up an application and it's not gone through a channel to ensure that it meets certain guidelines, what have you then a centralized it can't support it.

So there's a lot of issues around governance, understanding who's using what. Quickbase has moved to more of a use space model as opposed to a license based model per person. And aggregating data and understanding what people are doing so that you can then control, ensure that you're not using, overusing your storage amounts or overusing your number of reads, all of those things.

There's no real controls today to to, to govern that. So from an enterprise standpoint, if you're managing it centrally you are, you're chasing people to try and make sure that they're. Extending the the limits of your agreement and therefore you don't wanna get a bill at the end of the year for $20,000 or something.

I do love the fact that, yeah, we just make tickets and it's really traceable, easily traceable all the information. It's like customer files, so everything I need to know about one customer is gonna all be located on the same page, same platform.

So there's a lot of things I'm still trying to work on to add into our specific programming. So we still have a long way to go with developing things out. I'm working on setting up notifications and simple stuff even still, so I'm working on it.

Reporting

built in automation system is not versatile enough

pipelines builder is too rigid

pipelines do not run fast enough for our end users. Not as efficient as I want.

The fact that it's customizable.

If there's a problem, we can find a solution with it.

Everything about it is just great as far as I'm concerned.

So much easier to use than a spreadsheet.

Being able to create calculations based off different things is so much easier to do.

The reporting is amazing, being able to create amazing dashboards. For various different roles that we have in our company for myself, for my team, for the people that are doing their job daily can have different views per person.

There are some of the more cool features that you have to have a little bit of a learning curve to get to. If you're wanting to do something simple, like taking a spreadsheet and turning it into a form and the, the typical spreadsheet format, that's easy to do and anybody can pick that up and that's awesome about it.

Trying to do some of the more intricate functions takes a little bit more knowledge, and to get some of the cooler features you, you need to have some sort of additional background. That's the downside of it. However, the community is amazing, and if there's a question you have, there's somebody there to use them.

I like having all the information where I know it's going to be my role as project coordinator. I'm constantly pulling up projects, shipping, logistics, sending drawings back and forth.

I like having the information, keeping that record of documentation where it has a little clock, that's a really good feature that we like to use quite a bit. And having it there for historical purposes, because I know we go back to do repairs and maintenance and stuff like that.

Having all of our projects chronologically, and all the information in one place is very helpful.

I would say I sometimes have hard time with just figuring out the best way to do things. I don't have a developer background, so I got thrown into this kind of randomly. So especially, when I first started it, we built it from the ground up. And so now having three years experience okay, figuring out, do I need to rebuild this whole thing? Do I need to figure out how to chunk those pieces off and do a revamp without tearing the entire thing down. I would say that's like kind of what I'm trying to figure out right now.

Organization

Easy to navigate

Training incorporated

I have not found anything that would need improving as of yet.

Reporting

Workflows

Data Visualization.

Maturity of pipelines (documentation, channels, depth of channels).

UI - providing more modern elements (CSS or more HTML elements).

Mobile Platform - Needs a major upgrade. Its holding the platform back.

Tables

Data storage

Simple forms

Building apps for non programmer

Access to resources

1:1 resources

Tracks customer files so we can monitor repair services

Monitoring employee progress

Calculating monthly reports through Quickbase

Pipelines is particularly hard for me to use

Would like to be able to automate email notifications for non-users (customers)

Make it easier to understand the backend information for non-tech savvy people (i cant figure out how to set up pipelines or automations)

Creation of forms

Ease of presenting stats for reporting purposes

Set up of users

Would like to see a workflow authorization to be added

Use of ease when the drop downs have more than 20 options

Better How to Guides for Reporting of Data