Quick Base - You need this.
Updated June 11, 2018
Quick Base - You need this.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base
We use QB to manage our projects at energy generating facilities. We use it from idea through approval through execution and completion of all generation projects. This helps us keep track of ideas and assign resources to project tasks. This also helps us in our budgeting and resource planning.
- Data consolidation - We no longer have to gather emails, scraps of paper, and notes to enter project ideas. No more lost ideas and notes as it is all in one place.
- The simplicity of QB makes it so that even the most novice computer user can quickly figure out how to enter useful data. Even if they don't understand databases, they can fill out forms to provide information to others.
- The reporting feature makes it easy to customize the information for the audience. For example, our VP doesn't need the same granular detail that a field supervisor needs. With the personalized reporting, we can provide the customer with the appropriate amount of data.
- We have had to go to an outside service provider for a useful Gantt chart function. This has been cumbersome and costly. This is an area for improvement.
- It would be nice to have an onboarding experience for someone who inherits apps when an administrator leaves. It would be great to have a workbook or training on the top things to do to get to know your app.
- A cheat sheet of some kind of formulas would be good. The formula helper is better, but I would like to see something like what is available in Excel.
Yes. Before QB, we were entering all the information on a clunky MS Access database. Only a few people were able to access it and when changes needed to be made, we had to write down notes and bring them back to our offices to make the changes. Now, we can make the changes live.
I took an HTML class in college when Al Gore was just inventing the internet. Since then, I have no coding experience. However, after a short lesson or two, I was able to build and customize my own app and make it useful for my customers.
- 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
One of our biggest challenges was communication between departments who must collaborate. By giving them QB access, we are able to avoid communication breakdowns.
I am new to my role, so have no experience with this.
Using Quick Base
325 - Engineering, Vegetation Management, Corporate Project Office, Drawing Control
5 - These are the super users of each part of our organization. We look for folks who know Quick Base and are able to teach it to others.
- Project Management
- Project Management
- Project Management
- Human Resources