Quick Base for Live Data
June 06, 2019

Quick Base for Live Data

Samantha Crandall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base

Quick Base is being used by our customers in order for them to share biology sample data with our company in a live manner.
  • Live updates - when our customers update the data, our company can see it right away.
  • Downloadable reports.
  • Easy access anywhere with a Wifi connection - just needs the URL.
  • Very customizable to the fields you need.
  • Not all of our customers have added a date sorting area so this may be unknown to them on how to use.
  • Visibility 'look' - lots of scrolling involved in the spreadsheet-like data.
  • Not intuitive to go to reports and charts in each tab to see pre-made reports.
Our organization has been able to build, deploy and maintain applications in Quick Base for many different customers, who can each use it to suit their individual needs.
The only other product I have used like Quick Base would be Excel with the ability to share spreadsheets through an application like DropBox or OneDrive. Quick Base is better suited for this function as it only requires an internet connection, meaning information can be pulled up on smartphones or tablets, not just computers with Microsoft Suite. There are also fewer steps involved since once you save the Quick Base link and passwords, you simply have to access the URL and you are immediately in the application.
Multiple of our customers have been able to build applications on QuickBase who do not have computer tech skills. I do not think they would have to get help from IT personnel, as long as they were not quite at beginning levels of computer savviness (using computers currently for at least 5 years). The time required to build applications has usually been less than 1 week.
  • Improving collaboration across one or more teams
  • Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
Our business has been able to use Quick Base to build and deploy multiple specific applications to improve collaboration between our company and our customers. We have not used Quick Base to drive insights from our data as we simply have not explored that option yet. However, considering our team is much more proficient in Excel than Quick Base, we would probably download data into Excel and then use that to drive insights from the data.
I have added in extra data fields into our Quick Base applications and it has been quite intuitive and fast.
Quick Base is great for live data reporting for multiple stakeholders to access. It is great for highly detailed data and for viewing that data in various formats. It is not as good for the presentation of the data. The charts and downloadable reports would need to be adjusted for live presentation to those not familiar with the data.

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