Item: Quickbase
Rating: 8
Author: Paul Agnew, CSM

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QuickBase is used across the company for departmental process automation requirements. Moving from spreadsheets to database.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Can spin up basic grid and forms
Database creation and creating relationships are fairly simple
User profile management, security, roles

Cons

No reporting tool worth a darn. Charting is rudimentary.
Need to dip into HTML code way too much. Hacking is required too often and will bite us at some point.
Automations can be hard to create and follow. Pipelines may help.
Sandboxing is rudimentary.
Form designer is not very flexible, requiring compromises in user experience.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Could not find Forms.com. Simpler to build and deploy. Better forms designer. Handles more common business scenarios.

Salesforce is too rigid and inflexible. It requires too much technical knowledge for citizen builders.

Likelihood to Recommend

If replacing a spreadsheet with simple business rules, roles, and permissions, then QuickBase is fine. For more complex requirements be sure you have a good partner and are prepared to do a lot of coding and hire someone to help build and maintain apps.

Quickbase Feature Ratings

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Quick Base can be quick to build but requires coding and hacking to get the desired UI/UX