QB does the job if you are looking for a simple, fast, low cost, but powerful solution to manage your processes.
Updated June 19, 2023
QB does the job if you are looking for a simple, fast, low cost, but powerful solution to manage your processes.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase
We use QuickBase in the following areas: 1. Non-conforming Material Management 2. Corrective Action Tracking 3. Customer Complaint Tracking 4. Quality Issues Tracking 5. Supplier Scorecard 6. Project Management 7. Change Management
- User Landing Page and User Dashboards can be customized depending on who the user is. Only relevant information and pertinent reports are visible streamlining what the user sees . Since access to QB is roles based, role clarity becomes inherent in a QB system - QB actually forces roles clarity within the process.
- It is very easy to develop a process workflow in QuickBase. The built in notifications and reminders are very powerful in maintaining and tracking progress across multiple interrelated systems involving different departments.
- QB is very intuitive and easy to use. It also helps that you can access the database anywhere in the world via internet.
- More chart type selection for reports - i.e. combination charts.
- API calls can be cumbersome especially when you deal with process loops (forces you to go non-native).
- Documentation & version control almost non-existent
- Management of pipelines need some improvement to make pipelines easier to manage
- Time savings especially converting a very manual excel based process to QuickBase
- Ability to acquire data in areas where it is awkward to use laptop or cell phone.
- Mobile enhancements also allowed data to be captured on time right at the production floor
Using a common workflow application across variety of areas allows for seamless exchange of data among different areas. Silos are broken once data across different areas are integrated
Mobile capabilities allow onsite and offsite data monitoring and data entry. For example, Workflows requiring approvals can be done remotely.
Project management app within QuickBase enabled us to manage projects from different department into a single unified application. This avoided redundant activities if projects were tracked in different applications. Project tracking has also become transparent and easier to do for all stakeholders.
[We selected QuickBase because it is] Simple to use, low cost, accessible anywhere.
Do you think Quickbase delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Quickbase's feature set?
Yes
Did Quickbase live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Quickbase go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Quickbase again?
Yes
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- Improving our ability to drive insights from our data
- Improving collaboration across one or more teams
- Solving a specific business challenge
- Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
Apps can be developed and deployed very quickly compared to traditional app dev platforms. Apps can be customized to the Users' exact needs. ROI can also be increased if you develop more apps allowed within your application limit.
QB has helped us simplified complex processes into manageable steps. Development time in QB is very minimal, allowing you to develop processes as the need arises. Since development is within your control, improvements and modifications are implemented right away at little or no cost.
New developers might need a little training or help from individuals who have experience developing QB applications. A very simple application can be developed in no time. However, it helps if the developer has a good understanding of relational databases and html programming.
There was a time when an application developed by another person got transferred to me. It did not take long for me figure out the functionalities and workflows by just looking at the tables, forms, and reports generated. It also helps that all the applications I developed in QB have revision histories so that if ownership transfer has to happen, the changes are tracked and reasons for the change are logged.