Quick Base.... A product designed the way you need it
July 22, 2021
Quick Base.... A product designed the way you need it
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase
We currently use Quick Base for customer bid creation, help desk ticket tracking, resource scheduling, and reviewing resource skills.
- Easily scalable
- Link various data sources in a single place
- Quick Base is extremely easy to learn
- Quick Base University for everyone, and [it's] free
- Visibility to Pipelines created by other users
- Transfer of Pipeline ownership
- Form UI needs updating
Do you think Quickbase delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Quickbase's feature set?
Yes
Did Quickbase live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Quickbase go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Quickbase again?
Yes
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.
Several times companies I have worked at attempted to get rid of Quick Base and move everything to Salesforce. Each time, they were unsuccessful. Salesforce.com is not low code and not very customizable. It was meant to implement processes the way it was designed. It doesn't allow customization based on a company's processes. So how can a company be unique if they have to do business how everyone else does it?
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- Improving our ability to drive insights from our data
- Improving collaboration across one or more teams
- Solving a specific business challenge
- Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
Every organization I worked in purchased Quick Base to keep development out of IT. IT has too much red tape to get work done and business users need rapid development. Instead of using spreadsheets and being unsure which is the most current, Quick Base allows concurrent users and real-time sharing of data.
Have a specific business need? Quick Base shapes around your processes. Not the other way around.
Have a specific business need? Quick Base shapes around your processes. Not the other way around.
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.
It all depends on the complexity of the application (# of fields, tables, etc.). Always get someone to walk you through the application to ensure you are not duplicating efforts already developed. Over the last 15 years, I usually inherit something someone else built and either found ways to improve it or it was already perfectly built and only required minor maintenance.