Item: Quickbase
Rating: 8
Author: Mike Sebo

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Quick Base is currently being used to organize incoming projects from clients with the focus being on providing metrics on how the projects are being handled from start to finish. It is being utilized by 80% of the company daily. We have been able to consolidate many of our previous processes to one system, instead of the 4 systems we were using previously to track this information.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Reporting on ANY given information criteria.
Organizing of data in an effective way that streamlines our daily tasks.
Customization is as easy as right clicking a form field.

Cons

For us, and we are a very specialized company, I would like to see more mapping features natively supported by Quick Base. Currently limited to 100 entries, limits us on how we are creating reports for our project managers.
The app for mobile devices is good, but it needs more tools for the administration of our Quick Base apps.
Price: Quick Base is an expensive solution when being used by medium-size or larger companies that will require a lot of logins.

Alternatives Considered

Before Quick Base, we used a few different tools to try and maintain the information on our projects. Such tools were Workzone, Quickbooks Online, and Excel spreadsheets. We've been able to utilize Quick Base 100% for our needs thus far, letting other subscriptions be canceled, which helps the bottom line.

Likelihood to Recommend

Depending on the management pool trying to implement this solution, a roll out to a new company could fail pretty easily. We reached out to a known Quick Base architect to get us going. Once I saw how it all works, we've been able to customize and maintain our apps without any problem. Bottom line, it's a technical tool, the more you embrace it the more you will get out of it. It's a great tool for what we needed it for. Organizing 8000+ jobs annually has become much easier after creating the Quick Base app.

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