Item: Quickbase
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Quickbase is utilized specifically within our business group. We gather information from users across North America about upcoming and ongoing projects. We use that information track projects through their lifecycle from sale to order entry. This helps identify spikes and valleys for manufacturing to flex workers and provides us a means of forecasting our queue.

Pros and Cons

Pros

There is tremendous power within the tool to not only capture but report the information
Depending on how it is built it can be very user friendly

Cons

Programming Quickbase to do what would be simple tasks in Excel seems way too arcane
We have a strong internet connection but users still feel it is slow when switching from screen to screen.
Search has become significantly slower since updating to the newer version

Alternatives Considered

Access

We used to track projects in an Access database but it became difficult to share outside of our location. The decision was made to develop a custom QuickBase application as it was a web based app all our members across North America, and some outside, would have access to. This was the main selling point of quickbase

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Quickbase can excel at helping employees manage their projects. There is a lot of power within the tool but it is not easy to access for those that are unfamiliar with the language of the program. There are third party apps but many do not fit the exact business and require tweaking. This tweaking usually requires money being paid out to others to customize.

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QuickBase-Great Program, Lots of Power. Can become quite expensive and you need an Expert.