Quick Base - When you need something more than a spreadsheet right away!
April 27, 2018
Quick Base - When you need something more than a spreadsheet right away!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base
We use Quick Base for that space between spreadsheets and enterprise applications. Anytime someone says that they are having people email spreadsheets that are then compiled into one, I think of Quick Base.
- Mobile. Quick Base works pretty well on mobile devices. For the most part, what you build to work on a computer will translate well when working on a mobile device.
- Data security. You have fairly flexible tools that allow you to pinpoint exactly what any given user should be able to see and or edit.
- All in one solution. Quick Base is a little easier than some of the other solutions because it is self contained. For new users, they don't have to learn several different tools.
- Unless you right custom HTML, every quick base app looks like a Quick Base app. There is very little custom branding that can be done.
- It could really use a signature capture field type. That currently is only available through 3rd party solutions.
- Reporting. There is no way to build a dashboard with multiple reports and then use filters that apply to all reports. In fact, filters are really only available when viewing a single report.
Once you get through the initial learning curve with Quick Base, it is possible to build and deploy apps very quickly. Like everything else, you have to be careful to make sure that what you deploy is a good product. It's easy to deploy a good product, but it is also very easy to deploy something terrible.
A citizen developer has to have some understanding of relational databases, data types, and formulas. I have found that people with experience in Microsoft Access or advanced Excel functionality are able to pick up quickly. They have recently developed the Quick Base University with training courses and those have been very helpful.
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- 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
We have achieved these outcomes. When someone comes to me with an enhancement request for an app I have built, I am sometimes able to make the changes as we speak. This is oftentimes surprising to the person making the request because they are used to waiting months for changes in other products.
Someone called me this week asking for a change to an application that was built by someone else and is no longer with our company. I was able to make the change quickly. The business stake holder was very happy with the quick turn around.