Item: Quickbase
Rating: 8
Author: Jesse Guardado

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We saw a global need for tracking projects and a large amount of data exchange between the different departments of our organization. With particular customers, there is a large data set of fields to track that can give us real-time feedback on our performance. We found our solution in Quick Base.

Pros and Cons

Cloud based
Customizable
User friendly

Integration with other platforms
Native java like features
Varying user pricing

Ease of Building Custom Applications

Quick Base is an extremely user-friendly tool and we have used 75% of its user development functionality. Furthermore, we are adapting it as business needs change in real time.There is no real tool in our industry that is both user-friendly and complex, quick base solves that dilemma.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Access and Microsoft Project

We enjoyed the cloud-based set up of Quick Base. Microsoft Access also required more detailed database knowledge. Microsoft Project required expensive user licensing. We also need a program that would run it easily on Apple iPads.

Citizen Developers Using Quickbase

To me, some computer knowledge is required for building apps in Quick Base. The complexity of your app in Quick Base is directly related to your understanding of logic and computer programming. A knowledge of Microsoft Excel and it’s included functions would help someone to be able to develop more complex apps.

Goals with Quickbase

Building and deploying business applications faster
Improving our ability to drive insights from our data
Improving collaboration across one or more teams
Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs

We have been able to foster the best communication I have seen in the administrative functions of our industry. We have been able to conquer specific business needs and achieve internal and customer-oriented goals quicker. This, in turn, has helped our overall customer satisfaction and have helped us become more efficient

Ease of Updating Applications

While tracking our work complete two final invoicing, we noticed there was a bottleneck at some point in our process. We were able to track three separate processes within our billing cycle to be able to identify the bottleneck and negate it

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for medium to large size organizations for database integration into current processes. For extremely small organizations, it may not be cost-effective.

Just what we needed!

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base