Quick Base to the rescue
April 30, 2018
Quick Base to the rescue
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base
Quick Base is being used throughout our organization, however primarily on the operations side of the business. It is being used to track all of our customers' project data, our vehicles, our IT assets, quoting parameters, equipment maintenance, knowledgebase and field linking between various software platforms. It has become a software platform that is critical to our business. Prior to developing and moving the data to Quick Base, this data was stored in various spreadsheets within multiple departments without a method to access it efficiently.
Pros
- The low/no code feature of Quick Base is critical to its success in our organization. The ability to design and modify as our actual needs are uncovered is a key feature. We can implement the basic model of moving the data from a spreadsheet and then begin to add features and additional tools as we have time and get feedback.
- Quick Base does a great job of making a lot of data visible in an efficient manner and then to be able to tie that data with other related data to create reports, summaries and charts has been very helpful as well, although that feature requires a bit more effort in design and configuration.
- Just having Quick Base as a resource for database development has opened new doors on process improvements that we would not have thought of without Quick Base. Once we had set up the first app and looked through the Quick Base app library, all kinds of other areas of the business became options to implement its features as well.
Cons
- Quick Base is a relational database, however creating those relationships and making them work as expected can be complex and frustrating. Once they are set up correctly, they work great, however it really pays to think through what you want to accomplish before attempting to set up all the pieces.
- Some of the connecting reporting between tables is not straight forward and requires some work around.
- The only types of relationships between table is many to one. There is no many to many relationships without adding a new table between the 2 tables.
- Moving fields around on a form is cumbersome and time consuming.
It was 3 years ago that we did our comparison with other options, however the flexibility and feature set of Quick Base and the price point, made Quick Base an easy decision. Also, the age and stability of the company.
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