Item: Quickbase
Rating: 3
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's being used by our magazine to track website assets.

Pros and Cons

Easy to update
Multiple reports
Lets us customize to show workflows

I need to hire someone to program it, it's not intuitive
It's too expensive for the amount of use it gets
there's virtually no customer support

Ease of Building Custom Applications

It's not easy or fast. Period. I've seen a lot of other products that are faster and more intuitive. So we haven't been able to use Quickbase enough to justify the expense. We're using it for a very specific purpose, one that other platforms are better suited for.

Alternatives Considered

Quickbase isn't as easy to use, and it's expensive, so we won't be using QuickBase for much longer.

Citizen Developers Using Quickbase

We have to hire outside developers to program Quickbase, so the level of difficulty is an 8 or 9.

Goals with Quickbase

Improving collaboration across one or more teams
Solving a specific business challenge

Ease of Updating Applications

It's not easy.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that if our magazine were to change it's view of the production cycle and put each content item at the center instead of each editor or writer, we'd be a lot further along. But the difficulty involved in setting up a new application that does this is too high a bar.

Grumpy review

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase